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The Citizens Clean Elections Commission will hold a special meeting on Friday to discuss a proposal to reduce the number of $5 contributions needed to qualify for public campaign funding to compensate candidates who whose fundraising was hindered while an online portal was inoperative for 10 days.

The Federal Election Commission levied nearly a quarter-million dollars’ worth of fines against three dark money groups for failing to report contributions from an organization run by Sean Noble after the Arizona political operative inadvertently disclosed the alleged violations in a 2014 interview.

A years-long battle between organized labor and health care companies in California has spilled over into Arizona in the form of a proposed ballot measure that would severely restrict how much hospitals can pay their executives.

Arizona GOP Chairman Robert Graham has removed a delegate to the Republican National Convention after she informed him that she won’t vote for presumptive nominee Donald Trump and withdrew a pledge she signed that she would cast her first ballot for him.

U.S. Sen. John McCain and Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick both announced strong fundraising hauls for the second quarter of 2016, raising nearly $2 million apiece.

The power of the executive branch, a force to be reckoned with under any gubernatorial administration, has become noticeably more pronounced since Doug Ducey moved into the Governor’s Office.

A campaign that proposed a citizen initiative to cap tuition rates at Arizona’s universities has long given up on 2016, but hopes to make it onto the ballot in two years.

Several months after attributing the defeat of a key piece of legislation to “special interests,” Gov. Doug Ducey ordered the termination of state entities’ contracts with outside lobbyists, a move that was both praised as a good-government reform and criticized ...

A campaign for a proposed citizen initiative that would have dramatically expanded Arizona’s Clean Elections system for publicly funding political campaigns called it quits, saying it couldn’t collect enough signatures before the upcoming July 7 deadline because of “dirty tricks” by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce.

Gov. Doug Ducey ordered the unilateral termination of state agencies’ contracts with outside lobbyists, calling the practice a system of cronyism that benefits lobbyists and special interests at the expense of citizens.