Supporters in Arizona celebrated beating back another in a series of challenges to the state's popular Clean Elections law, this time defeating a legislative challenge to change the law's name -- a move considered a first step in dismantling the system which has functioned successfully for three election cycles. The bill would have changed the name of the system from Clean Elections to Publicly Funded Elections Act. Todd Lang, executive director of the Citizens Clean Elections Commission, spoke on the real intentions behind the attempted name change: "Our most recent polling showed that 83 percent of folks support Clean Elections," Lang said. He said foes "want to change the name because they think it will be easier to repeal the law when you call it 'publicly funded elections.' " "The idea is to remove or reduce the influence of special interests," said Lang. "And that's separate from publicly funding."