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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. ....