To find out what political interests are supporting (or opposing) the ballot measures we’ll be voting on in November all you have to do is to is to check out the big bucks contributors.

This is not hard to do because the Arizona Secretary of State has a nifty web site listing the major ballot measure committees and who their contributors are. The web site is here. Bookmark it for future reference.

Don’t know the ballot measures? Read about them here.

You can bet your bottom dollar that those big contributors are not simply disinterested philanthropists. You can learn a great deal about the consequences of any ballot measure by seeing who’s paying big money to support (or defeat) it.

A classic illustration is a committee called “Arizonans For Health Care Freedom” which is supporting ballot measure 106. The committee has received over $607,000 in donations, which it can spend promoting ballot measure 106… that the Republican legislature hopes will kill a key measure of the health care reform package.

The supporters are those who would profit from wholly privatizing health care. “Freedom” is your freedom to buy  more expensive private health insurance.

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