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July 04, 2008

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Policy Reports

Articles: 4

"Campaign Promises: A Six-year Review of Arizona’s Experiment with Taxpayer-financed Campaigns"
Allison Hayward, Goldwater Institute Policy Report #209, March 28, 2006

"Goldwater Institute Amicus Brief in Randall v. Sorrell"
Goldwater Institute Amicus Brief, December 14, 2005

"Goldwater Institute Amicus Brief in Wisconsin Right to Life v. Federal Election Commission"
Goldwater Institute Amicus Brief, November 14, 2005

"Is Cleanliness Political Godliness?: Arizona's Clean Elections Law after Its First Year"
Robert J. Franciosi, Arizona Issue Analysis #168, November 30, 2001

Goldwater Institute Daily E-mail

Articles: 23

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"Arizona Clean Elections Looks Constitutionally Questionable "
Nick Dranias, Goldwater Institute Daily Email, July 01, 2008

"Three Cheers for Obama’s Rejection of Government Money for Campaign"
Nick Dranias, Goldwater Institute Daily Email, June 24, 2008

"Clean Elections--Or Incumbent Protection?"
Clint Bolick, Goldwater Institute Daily Email, May 08, 2008

"Facts Please, Just the Facts"
Clint Bolick, Goldwater Institute Daily Email, March 27, 2008

"Face Off"
Clint Bolick, Goldwater Institute Daily Email, January 22, 2008

"Regulation for Regulation’s Sake"
William Maurer, Goldwater Institute Daily Email, October 02, 2007

"Pressing Issue"
Benjamin Barr, Goldwater Institute Today's News, August 07, 2006

"Requiem for Vermont's Act 64"
Benjamin Barr, Goldwater Institute Today's News, June 29, 2006

"So Dark the Con of Clean Elections"
Benjamin Barr, Goldwater Institute Today's News, June 05, 2006

"The Real Bad Guys"
Bradley Smith, Goldwater Institute Today's News, April 21, 2006

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Op-Eds

Articles: 7

"'Clean Elections' Chill Free Speech"
Benjamin Barr, Albuquerque Journal, September 18, 2005

"Arizona's campaign subsidy program on the line: The 'Clean Elections' contest"
Mark Brnovich, East Valley Tribune, July 09, 2004

"Somebody Get a Mop"
Darcy Olsen, Arizona Republic, September 07, 2003

"'Clean Elections' are an Upside-Down Fairy Tale"
Andrea Woodmansee, Arizona Republic, February 24, 2003

"Even When the Money's Clean, Election Can Still Get Mighty Dirty"
Robert J. Franciosi, Arizona Republic, November 11, 2002

"Clean Elections Law Not Doing Job"
Robert J. Franciosi, Arizona Republic, August 31, 2002

"Whither Clean Elections?"
Robert J. Franciosi, East Valley Tribune, November 17, 2001

News Releases

Articles: 4

"Down and Dirty"
Goldwater Institute News Release, March 30, 2006

"Goldwater Scholar Expresses Support for Lawsuit Challenging Clean Elections, Calls Campaign Subsidies an Attack on Free Speech"
Goldwater Institute Media Advisory, January 29, 2004

"Goldwater Institute Applauds Clean Elections Decision"
Goldwater Institute Press Release, June 18, 2002

"Clean Elections, or Taking Democracy to the Cleaners?"
Goldwater Institute Press Release, February 15, 2002

Goldwater in the News

Articles: 14

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"Town tells blogger he needs to register"
Lourdes Medrano, Arizona Daily Star, January 16, 2008

"KAET's Horizon report on Goldwater Institute Clean Elections forum"
Horizon, KAET, April 06, 2006

"Benjamin Barr on The Kojo Nnamdi Show"
Benjamin Barr, WAMU 88.5 FM, March 16, 2006

"Campaign Cash Reform Championed"
Judy O'Rourke, Los Angeles Daily News, February 13, 2006

"A false promise: 'Clean Elections' law substitutes bureaucrats' judgment for yours"
William & Colette Altaffer, East Valley Tribune, July 09, 2004

"Refusing Public Money Perhaps Sank Salmon"
David Pittman, Tucson Citizen, July 30, 2003

"McCain in Dark on Campaign Reform, FEC Official Says"
Jon Kamman, Arizona Republic, March 01, 2003

"Fundraising Arizona"
Clint Bolick, Weekly Standard, December 02, 2002

"Salmon 'Singled Out,' Campaign Claims"
David Pittman, Tucson Citizen, September 07, 2002

"Clean Elections Law Spawning a Muddy Mess"
Tucson Citizen, September 06, 2002

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