The state's top Republican lawmakers say Proposition 211 infringes on the constitutional right of the Arizona Legislature to make laws.
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — With efforts by one set of foes already rebuffed, the state’s top Republican lawmakers are making their own bid to quash a new state law designed to shine a light on “dark money.”
This new effort advances a different legal argument: whether voters, in approving the measure, gave too much power to Secretary of State Adrian Fontes who is charged with gathering information on donors and the Citizens Clean Elections Commission which enforces the law. That’s what happened in 2014 when several groups, including the Free Enterprise Club, put $10.7 million into successful efforts to elect Republicans Tom Forese and Doug Little to the Arizona Corporation Commission, the panel that regulates utility rates.
Instead, they focus on the fact that the Citizens Clean Elections Commission, originally created in 1998 as part of a voluntary system of public financing of statewide and legislative campaigns, is empowered to make its own rules for how some of the terms of Proposition 211 will be enforced.
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