The Move To Clean Government Raises Some Dirty Constitutional Questions.
By Emil Franzi Sean Zapata
LAST NOVEMBER, Arizona voters narrowly passed Proposition
200, the so-called Clean Elections Proposal, over surprisingly
minimal opposition. Ironically, while publicly attacking dirty
money, Prop 200 supporters were funded by almost a million
dollars worth of out-of-state cash. Apparently one person s special
interest is someone else s noble cause. For the record,
The Weekly vociferously opposed Prop 200.
We saw it as a classic case of making a bad situation current
campaign finance law even worse with a scheme that trades the
perceived tyranny of lobbyists checkbooks for the even scarier
tyranny of the academic mandarin.