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Read More »Campaign finance changes’ unintended consequences 
Hoping to raise more cash, lawmakers instead face new limits
An oversight during the legislative session has made Arizona’s new campaign finance system much more complicated than anyone intended, leaving incumbent legislators and potential candidates scrambling to grasp its implications and comply with its provisions. Already, the law’s author is calling these unintended consequences “a nightmare.” Read More »Lawmaker: Criminal penalties for illegal campaign coordination
When Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery accused Attorney General Tom Horne of illegally coordinating his campaign with a supposedly independent expenditure group, state law restricted him to seeking civil penalties.
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