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Big-money Interests Hope to Neuter Clean Elections Act

Submitted by Monica Rober on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 14:27

The president of the Arizona League of Women Voters and the former leader of the Arizona House of Representatives have an op-ed in the Arizona Daily Star on the importance of saving the state's Clean Elections Act."Turning back the clock would rob Arizonans of the right to have their voice heard on Election Day and in the halls of power. That's why SCR 1009, the resolution that would put Clean Elections on the 2010 ballot under a different, contorted name, must fail, either by legislative vote or on November 2nd at the polls.Before Clean Elections, statewide and legislative candidates begged for campaign cash from a small pool of power players: CEOs, union heads, lobbyists, residents of the state's priciest ZIP codes, and out-of-state operatives. If officeholders proved insufficiently loyal to their agendas, away went the money. In came new candidates all too happy to bend to the will of these interests." Click here to read the full op-ed.

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