by Evan Wyloge | Nov 4, 2016 | Elections
UPDATED (11/5/16 9:40 a.m.): The United States Supreme Court issued a stay Saturday morning to the injunction against Arizona’s “ballot harvesting” ban, which was issued Friday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The last-minute court action...
by Evan Wyloge | Sep 7, 2016 | Elections, Government
PHOENIX — Of the $1.9 million spent this cycle by “outside groups” to affect Arizona elections, $565,000 – or about 30 percent – comes with no disclosure of the source of the money. Such “dark money” groups report only expenditures intended to help elect or defeat...
by Evan Wyloge | Aug 23, 2016 | Elections, Government
PHOENIX – With just one week until Arizona’s primary election, political spending to affect legislative races paid for by outside groups that don’t disclose the source of the money amounts to almost half a million dollars. The $478,000 in “dark money” was spent in the...
by AZCIR Staff | Aug 1, 2016 | Announcements, Elections
An explosion of “dark money” spending dominated Arizona’s 2014 election cycle, when groups that don’t disclose their donors spent millions, mostly to help elect now-Gov. Doug Ducey, two utility regulators and a handful of lawmakers. A new law...
by Evan Wyloge | Jun 27, 2016 | Elections, Government
PHOENIX – This fall, Arizona voters will choose three utility regulators, and while one might expect that each of the main parties would run a full slate of candidates, Democrats are only running two. The strategy of running two Democrats instead of three for the...
by Evan Wyloge | May 6, 2016 | Elections, Government
PHOENIX — Arizona is already poised to relax rules regarding so-called “dark money” groups starting next year, but a last-minute amendment proposed on the Senate floor could make the changes go into effect in less than a month. The proposal to accelerate the dark...
