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Louis Hoffman, chief author of the Clean Elections Act Ten years before 76 percent of 2006 statewide and legislative candidates declared their intention to campaign with public funding, a small group of people met in 1996 for the first time ...

The Citizens Clean Elections Commission in January voted to confirm that enforcement actions would not been pursued against publicly funded candidates using officeholder expense accounts should they be discontinued or deemed illegal. The accounts, meant to cover specific expenses of ...

‘A tremendous benefit of Clean Elections is allowing more people to run for office’

The Citizens Clean Elections Commission has approved a Spanish media outreach program to educate the Arizona’s Hispanic population about the state’s voter approved system of using public money to fund election campaigns for legislative and statewide offices. The panel agreed ...

Four national campaign finance reform advocacy groups have banded together to promote Arizona-style public financing for federal elections. Common Cause, Public Campaign, Public Citizen and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group recently urged congressional 2006 candidates to sign a pledge ...

July 18, 2006 Candidates for Secretary of State Time: 6:00:00 PM – 7:00:00 PM Location: Horizon/KAET Party: Republican Sponsor: ASU Office of Public Affairs July 18, 2006 House of Representatives District 23 Time: 6:00:00 PM – 8:00:00 PM Location: Emergency ...

Eric Ehst A former congressional and state Senate candidate is the executive director for the Clean Elections Institute, a privately funded nonprofit that supports the idea of publicly funded elections. Eric Ehst was named to head the institute after Barbara ...