More than 130 Clean Elections candidates this year
More than 130 political candidates are using Arizona's Clean Elections public campaign finance system during this election season.
Special interests seek end run to gut Clean Elections
It’s been a dozen years since Arizona voters passed the landmark Citizens Clean Elections Act, allowing candidates to seek office without depending on corporate brass, labor unions and deep-pocketed special interests. Clean Elections has given community leaders, teachers and small business folk the chance to run for office and govern answerable not to Big Money, but to Arizona’s voters.