BERKELEY | The committee that backed a hotly contested ballot measure — known as the sit/lie ordinance, or Measure S — in last year’s Berkeley elections is facing a fine from the city’s ethics commission for failing to report more than fifty cash payments to campaign workers in violation of local election law. The campaign violations also have stirred controversy in Berkeley because some of the payments handed out on Election Day allegedly went to homeless people who were paid to distribute fliers in favor of an ordinance that would have made it illegal to sit on city sidewalks. Opponents of Measure S say that homeless workers were duped into thinking that they were campaigning for President Obama’s reelection…
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