Entries Tagged as 'Clean Elections'

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

So, What Is That Crazy Mustached Man Up to?

Funny you should ask.
Earlier this week, Congressman Raúl Grijalva introduced the Clean Money, Clean Elections Act, which would in essence make Arizona’s Clean Elections System for state office holders the law for federal candidates as well. The bill has been assigned a number, HR 1614, and is also sponsored by Democrat John Tierney and Republican [...]

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

Legislative Roundup

A couple of things that our legislature was up to this week that you may have missed.
On Tuesday, the Committee on Counties, Municipalities and Military Affairs passed HB 2069, an attempt by the state legislature to insert itself in negotiations between Cox Cable and the City of Tucson. Local control is all fine and good [...]

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

What’s Up With That?

The funny thing with politics is, if enough people are wondering if a story is true, it doesn’t matter if it actually is true.  The fact that people are talking about it is a story all its own.
A few days ago I recieved an e-mail from a reader up in Phoenix who was asking me [...]

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Querard Rears His Head in Baja Arizona

Some of you political geeks out there probably know who Constantine Querard is. He is a political consultant up in Maricopa County who works to get ultra-conservative candidates elected to office. Many of the candidates he has worked for have run afoul of campaign finance laws. Most infamously, David Burnell Smith, who was thrown out [...]

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

Smith Update

This is the latest from the Clean Elections Commission on the case of Rep. David Burnell Smith, which I commented on yesterday:
The Citizens Clean Elections Commission has accepted the decision of Administrative Law Judge Daniel G. Martin in the matter of David Burnell Smith. Earlier this week, Martin upheld the Commission’s original March 25th order [...]

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

Victory for Clean Elections

In another victory for the Clean Elections system, an administrative law judge said that the Clean Elections Commission was right to remove Rep. David Burnell Smith from office for violating the terms of his Clean Elections contract.
The commission unanamously concluded a few months ago that Smith exceeded the limits set forth in the Clean Elections [...]

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

Arizona Republicans Versus Jim Pedersen

The Arizona Republican Party site is back up! So I can get back to posting about something real instead of being petty by complaining about the pettiness of other folks.
The always classy Matt Salmon issued a statement on Jim Pedersen’s resignation as Arizona Democratic Party chairman:
“This institutionalized disorganization within the Arizona Democrat Party is why [...]

Sunday, June 26th, 2005

What, Chip & Robbie, Nothing Happened This Week?

I was disappointed by this morning’s Political Insider column in the Arizona Republic. Yeah, most of the time, it is written too smugly (it is, after all, a “tounge-in-cheek look at Arizona politics”). This morning, the column consisted of one item, a short one too, about Rep. David Burnell Smith’s campaign finance woes. This is [...]

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