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Will redistrict for food
A murmur went through the gallery at the IRC's Feb. 24 meeting when O'Connor House President Lucia Howard told the panel the IRC has been appropriated only $500,000 in the current budget, while the inaugural commission spent about $9.5 million.
Time running out for plan to scrap term limits
A measure that would allow Arizona lawmakers to serve an unlimited number of terms in office appears dead in the Legislature, even though most lawmakers have said they want to repeal the term limits provision in the state's Constitution.
The politics and practicality of lieutenant governor
Sixteen years ago, Jan Brewer laid out a two-pronged argument for creating a lieutenant governor position in Arizona, memorializing the irony of her opposition to a system that later allowed her to become governor.
O’Connor House measures would reduce ballot initiative fraud
Andrew Chavez has made his living from initiative ballot campaigns for a decade, but he's never seen anything like the debacle of 2008. "For years now, we've been dealing with a system that wasn't broken, but definitely needed fixing," he said. "By far and away, (2008) was the worst year."
Ballot measure would ban ‘taxpayer money’ for political campaigns
The system that allows Arizona residents to use government money to campaign for political office is teetering after a federal judge ruled earlier this year that a major component of the scheme is unconstitutional. Many powerful special interest groups, nonetheless, are hoping to deliver the knockout blow at the ballot box this fall, rather than wait for it to collapse on its own.
O’Connor’s project: Usher in second century of statehood with new direction
Years ago, an old adobe house in Paradise Valley was known as a place where politicians and community leaders gathered for Mexican food, beer and cross-party solidarity.
