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Reports show Arpaio spent $12.6 million in re-election bid
The final campaign finance reports from the Maricopa County sheriff's election show that Republican Joe Arpaio spent a total of $12.6 million in his unsuccessful bid for a seventh term in office.
Candidates got away with ignoring big-dollar disclosure requirement
Statewide and legislative candidates widely ignored a requirement to disclose big-dollar contributions during the final days of their campaign, and election officials are in no mood to go after them.
Once a warrior against dark money, Secretary of State Reagan does an about-face
Back when she was a lawmaker and chair of the Senate Elections Committee, Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan made it her top priority to hold political campaigns accountable and shine a light on dark money.
APS offers deal that still shrouds its 2014 spending
APS has made an offer to settle its ongoing dispute with Commissioner Burns: Drop your inquest into our 2014 political spending and we’ll support a commission rule to make sure election spending by any entity (both regulated and unregulated) with business before the commission is disclosed in the future.
Reagan sends illegal coordination case to Brnovich
Reagan sends illegal coordination case to Brnovich
Arizonans reluctant to open wallets for Trump, Clinton campaigns
Arizonans headed to the polls on November 8 to cast actual ballots for president, but if they were voting with their pocketbooks the results wouldn’t have been pretty for either of the major parties’ nominees.
APS parent company launches $1M campaign to support Corp Comm Republicans
The parent company of the state’s largest electric utility entered the Arizona Corporation Commission race, funding an outside group to support three Republican candidates for the regulatory body.
Dark money group says appeal should go forward
A dark money group urged the Arizona Court of Appeals to allow it to challenge the Citizens Clean Elections Commission’s authority to levy a $96,000 fine against it after a judge ruled that it missed the deadline for filing an appeal, a case that could settle the long-running dispute over the extent of the commission’s jurisdiction.
Realtors group spending on GOP Corp Comm candidates
The Arizona Corporation Commission election is shaping up to be a battle of outside spending after another group threw its money into the race in the past week.
Anti-marijuana forces build $2 million war chest
Foes of legalized recreational marijuana are building up a war chest in an apparent bid to kill Proposition 205 with a last-minute barrage of media.
IE spending is coming, whether you like it or not
IE spending is coming, whether you like it or not
