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Negotiations between Clean Elections, House leadership fell short
Disagreements over the Citizens Clean Elections Commission’s authority over nonparticipating candidates and independent expenditure committees derailed a possible last-minute deal with House Republican leadership over the future of Arizona’s system of public funding for political campaigns.
House committee OKs bill for voters to kill Clean Elections
A House committee has passed a measure asking voters to eliminate the Citizens Clean Elections Commission.
No longer doing it for the children
Opponents of SCR1001 (Clean Elections repeal; education funding), which would ask voters in 2016 to repeal Clean Elections and sweep its annual funding of about $9 million into the Dept of Education, have accused advocates of forcing voters into an unfair choice between a popular public campaign funding program and K-12 education.
It’s hard to say ‘no’ to the governor
CCEC Executive Director Tom Collins didn’t anticipate Pierce’s SCR1001 (Clean Elections repeal; education funding) to stay dead forever, and he was right.
Senate passes Clean Elections repeal on reconsideration
The Citizens Clean Elections Commission’s victory in the Senate turned out to be short-lived as two Republicans changed their votes on a measure asking voters to repeal the public campaign funding system, giving it enough votes to send it to the 2016 ballot.
Senate panel approves Clean Elections repeal measure
Republican critics of Clean Elections have renewed their long-term goal of convincing voters to repeal Arizona’s system of public campaign funding and are hoping that some extra money for K-12 education will help sweeten the deal.
