San Diego

Contribution limits for San Diego city elections should stay at $250 per person but prohibitions against corporate giving should be lifted.

Those were among the major recommendations made Monday at the last meeting of city campaign review task force. The 18-member task force has studied contribution limits and enforcement since January, 1985.

The group suggested corporations be able to give up to $250 per candidate per race, but it recommended against allowing any contributions by political action committees. It also recommended that the district attorney’s office, with its power to bring criminal charges, enforce campaign laws, a responsibility that has been shared between the D.A. and the city attorney’s office.

The group also called for an “advertising accountability” clause in the election laws that would require every candidate to sign a “statement of dissemination” before broadcasting television commercials or mailing campaign material to potential voters. This way, the task force reasoned, the candidate could be held personally responsible for any misstatements about an opponent, rather than blaming questionable statements on his campaign consultants.