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Santa Clara County weighs raising campaign donation limits

Santa Clara County supervisors could relax restrictions on how much they can raise for their reelection campaigns. The issue sparked a 30-minute debate at the Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday about whether a higher ceiling for candidate fundraising would help or hurt poorer people’s chances of winning elected county office. For 30 years, county supervisor candidates have been barred from accepting more than $500 in direct donations from a single person – or $1,000 if they agree to cap their campaign spending at $250,000. Candidates for district attorney, sheriff and assessor have to cap their spending at $500,000 to be…

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