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AZ Citizens Clean Election Commission Exe. Director Tom Collins at DGT Salon

by Carolyn Classen, blogger “Thomas Collins is the Executive Director of Arizona’s Clean Elections, responsible for our state’s unique public campaign financing system for state candidates. As executive director he is responsible for day-to-day operations for the Commission, a five-member board that administrates and enforces Arizona’s Citizens Clean Elections Act, including its education and campaign … Read more

Man, Tom Horne has a friend in Doug MacEachern

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Cranky old AZ Republic columnist Doug MacEachern started off his Monday column with some tantalizing clickbait for the crowd that hates Clean Elections and blames it for everything wrong in the state.

Seen our state Legislature lately? Somewhere, a Democratic political strategist is wincing. But he was hardly alone. Promoters of publicly financed campaigns both in Arizona and nationally sincerely believed it would make elections more egalitarian, more open to regular citizens.

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