Finance & disclaimers
Who is paying for this, and what the rules actually say
Most campaign sites put one line in the footer and stop. This page shows the working, because the rules are more specific than the footer suggests and volunteers deserve to know which of them apply to a graphic they are about to post.
The disclaimer
Paid for by the campaign to elect Suresh Vuyyuru for Mountain House City Council 2026. Committee name pending treasurer confirmation.
This is a campaign website. It is not an official City of Mountain House website.
The committee's registered name and FPPC identification number replace the interim wording the moment the treasurer confirms them. They must match the filed Form 410 character for character, so we are not guessing at them here.
What California requires, and where
A candidate-controlled committee's own campaign website is not required to carry a “Paid for by” disclaimer. Government Code § 84502 covers committees generally but reaches candidate-controlled committees only for independent expenditures, ballot-measure communications, radio and television, and text messages. FPPC Campaign Disclosure Manual 2, Chapter 7 states it directly: “The Act does not require a specific disclaimer on electronic media ads, including websites, Internet ads, and mobile ads paid for by a candidate's committee for his or her own election.” The FPPC's 2025 disclosure chart for candidate committees calls it “recommended but not legally required.”
We carry it anyway, on every page, at 14px in a contrasting colour — comfortably above the 8-point standard that applies to regulated electronic media.
Where disclosure genuinely is mandatory
| Medium | Required text | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Mass email (over 200 similar messages in a month) | Paid for by [committee name] | At least the same size as the majority of the email text |
| Social media advertising | Ad paid for by [committee name] | At least 10-point, contrasting colour — on the profile header or on each ad post |
| Mass mailing (print) | Paid for by [committee name] plus address | At least 6-point, contrasting, adjacent to the name and address |
| Yard signs and billboards | Paid for by [committee name] | Text height at least 5% of the height of the sign |
| Mass text messages | Paid for by [committee name] | Readable, contrasting — first message in the sequence |
| This website | Not required | Carried voluntarily on every page |
Summarised from the FPPC's 2025 advertisement disclaimer charts and Campaign Disclosure Manual 2. Note that SB 900, effective in 2026, changed formatting and ordering rules for print disclaimers and permits shortened committee names on signs and billboards — verify against the current chart before printing anything. FPPC advertising requirements. This is a description of public rules, not legal advice; the treasurer signs off on all of it.
Why the toolkit burns the disclaimer into every image
The single most common way a small campaign gets an FPPC complaint is a volunteer making a graphic in Canva at eleven at night without the line on it. Every share card generated in the volunteer toolkit has the disclaimer rendered into the image itself, at 10-point equivalent or larger, in a contrasting colour. It cannot be cropped off by accident and it cannot be forgotten.
Public filings
California campaign finance filings are public. Once the committee's Form 410 is processed, its filings appear on the Secretary of State's Cal-Access system and with the City Clerk of Mountain House. This page will link both directly. Until the identification number exists, linking a guess would be worse than linking nothing.