]> http://www.publicampaign.org/aotm/methodology Comments for "Methodology" en http://www.publicampaign.org/aotm/methodology <p><font size="+2" color="#990000">Clean Elections Small ($5) Donors<br /></font><br />Public Campaign collected data on Arizona’s $5 donors from a number of sources. Candidates have the option of filing this information with the Arizona Secretary of State’s office through either paper reports or electronically. </p> <ul> <li>Janet Napolitano 2002, Betsey Bayless (R) 2002, Alfredo Gutierrez (D) 2002, Richard Mahoney (I) 2002, Mark Osterloh (D) 2002, Carol Springer (R) 2002. The Arizona Clean Elections Institute provided us with these data, which it had previously collected for its 2004 report, “Reclaiming Democracy in Arizona: How Clean Elections has expanded the universe of campaign contributors.”<br /></li> <li>Don Goldwater 2006. We obtained Goldwater’s electronic filing of $5 donors from the Arizona Secretary of State’s office.<br /></li> <li>Janet Napolitano 2006 and Len Munsil 2006. Napolitano and Munsil filed paper reports of their $5 donors. We obtained these records from the Arizona Secretary of State’s office. We then contracted with the Institute on Money in State Politics (<a href="http://www.followthemoney.org">www.followthemoney.org</a>) to enter these records into a database.<br /><br /></li> </ul> <p><font size="+2" color="#990000">Donors to Privately Funded Campaigns<br /><br /></font></p> Tue, 27 May 2008 13:29:39 +0000