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Horne sues group running critical ads
Horne on Friday filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court against the Arizona Public Integrity Alliance, a 501(c)(4) that is running ads on cable television lambasting Horne for the campaign finance allegations against him. Bennett spokesman Matt Roberts said Horne’s attorney, Sandra Slaton, also filed a complaint against the ad with the secretary of state’s office.
Elephants on parade
The Republican Governors Association will hold its annual conference at The Phoenician Resort on Wednesday and Thursday.
Define victory, please
While the prevailing sentiment is that APS spectacularly failed in their campaign to reduce a key solar incentive, a closer scrutiny yields a more measured victory for solar rooftop firms, and perhaps even a partial win for APS.
Can’t we all just get along?
After forcefully resisting the idea of altering the current net metering scheme, the rooftop solar industry today surprised commissioners by joining with RUCO to make a compromise offer.
Under the big top
The net metering debate is reaching its crescendo, as the Corp Comm hunkered down today to formally sift through the arguments from both sides and take public comment on the issue.
Guess who’s running for governor?
Bennett formally kicked off his campaign for governor today with a three-city tour across the state, starting in Tucson, working his way up to Phoenix and ending in Prescott.
Navigating the non-profit daisy chain
With the California investigation into the actions of two Phoenix-based non-profits over, details are emerging about how they came to be involved in a pair of Golden State ballot measures.
Hell no, she won’t go
The Republic reported this morning that Kyl and Bitter Smith met with Reagan last month and tried to talk her out of the secretary of state’s race, telling her that she would be an ideal candidate for the Corporation Commission.
After 30 months of exploring, Bennett taking the plunge
Bennett is set to formally announce his candidacy for governor on Tuesday, according to emails sent yesterday to members of the Arizona Correctional Peace Officers Association.
Report: Utilities gave $115K to AZ biz coalition
he Republic this morning reported on APS’s involvement in the Arizona Business Coalition, and the non-profit’s contribution to an independent expenditure campaign last year that supported the three GOP Corp Comm candidates in the general election.
APS parent launches, then kills, ‘Thank You’ sites
Pinnacle West purchased five domain names and created websites that were aimed at getting the public to pressure all five Corp Comm members to side with its solar net metering proposal, and then took them down after only a couple of days.
Regulated utilities played in 2012 Corp Comm race
Bitter Smith, R Burns, and Stump all received help from IE groups when they defeated Democrats Paul Newman and Sandra Kennedy in the Corp Comm race last year, but now one of the outside groups is under renewed scrutiny for its ties to companies that are regulated by the Corp Comm.