Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

I posted about this previously, Arizona's Neo-Confederate dead-enders and secession:

Remember the "Checks and Balances in Government" citizens initiative aka the "nullification" initiative from a nutty Scottsdale millionaire businessman, Jack Biltis, that failed to qualify for the ballot due to an insufficient number of signatures last year? Businessman spends $1.2 million to put nullification measure on ballot.

Biltis has decided to bypass the expense of another initiati...

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Back in 2010, then Sen. Jonathan "Payday" Paton had a purposefully deceptive plot to kill Citizens Clean Elections by technically leaving the Citizens Clean Elections Act approved by voters in 1998 in place, but leaving no money in the fund for candidates in the 2012 election. Public financing of elections all but dead | The Sierra Vista Herald:

Sen. Jonathan Paton, R-Tucson, a foe of public financing, conceded that he fears the public, confronted with a measure that asks...