By Elizabeth Van Denburgh, a member of the Santa Monica Transparency Project. 

Election season is upon us and the piles of campaign literature will follow. While all campaign literature is paid advertising, there is a difference between literature issued by the candidate committee or the ballot measure committee and what is called a slate mailer or card.

Candidates, office holders and ballot measures pay varying fees to be placed on the slate mailers/cards.

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