Clean Elections funding update
Nearly half of all Clean Elections participating candidates have now received funding for their primary races, bringing the total amount doled out by the CCEC this cycle to $813,940. The roster of candidates gained four and lost two participants since late June and 35 of the 73 participants have received funding.
The other fight we’ll (probably) never get to see
Tobin’s attempt to give voters the option of discarding the IRC’s maps in favor of lines that he and a House staffer drew in secret is on life support, but he said today that he’s not giving up on his push for a special election.
Christian Palmer talks about what the matching funds ruling means
Yellow Sheet Report associate editor Christian Palmer talks about the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on matching funds and what it will mean for politics in Arizona.
That must have been one bad case of the yips
Five months of retirement was apparently enough for Burns, who yesterday filed paperwork to run for one of the three Corp Comm seats that will go before voters next year.
First in the pool to replace Flake is Gray
Chuck Gray will be announcing his candidacy for Congress tomorrow afternoon at a Capitol press conference.
Teachers’ Union backs Prop. 100
AEA President John Wright said the association has pledged its support to the "Yes on 100" campaign. The teachers union had wavered between hostility and hesitancy on the tax hike, which Brewer has touted as necessary to preserve K-12 funding.
Scarpinato to take helm of Yellow Sheet
On September 1, Daniel Scarpinato, the Capitol correspondent for the Arizona Daily Star, will become editor of the Yellow Sheet Report, a subscription, Web-based, daily newsletter covering politics and government.