Match Game: Judge Rules Against Portion of Clean Elections Program

Opponents of Arizona’s Clean Elections system won a big round in court last week when federal Judge Roslyn Silver said that the campaign-finance program’s matching-funds provision could be unconstitutional.
In a case brought by the Goldwater Institute on behalf of various GOP candidates, Silver didn’t rule against the Clean Elections system itself, which provides qualifying candidates [...]

Scramblewatch Q&A: Republican Doug Sposito on Higher Ed

Doug Sposito is one of four Republican candidates running for a seat in Legislative District 30 House of Representatives. We asked him some questions on education policy.

Should the state provide more funding for universities?

Yes.

Should the Board of Regents increase tuition for in-state students?

Not for in-state tuition.

Should the Board of Regents increase tuition for out-of-state students?

I [...]

ScrambleWatch Q&A: Doug Sposito on Crime

Doug Sposito is one of the four Republican candidates running for a seat in Legislative District 30 House of Representatives. We asked him some questions of crime policy.

Should we increase state funding for prison construction?

Yes.

Should we have more contracts with private prisons?

I think that the privatization of prisons can also work.

Should we [...]

Frank Talk: Antenori’s Response to GOP Activist Pete Davis

Republican Frank Antenori, who is seeking a seat in Legislative District 30, asked that we post his full letter responding to GOP activist Pete Davis’ denouncement of him following our report on fundraising in Legislative District 30.
I certainly miss spoke in some of my comments to the Tucson Weekly. Between the contorted public funding mechanisms [...]

Following the Money in Antenori/Sposito/Collins/Gowan LD30 Four-Way

A few weeks back, we mentioned that Republican Frank Antenori went on a bit of a rampage against his fellow GOP candidates in Legislative District 30.
Antenori was angry that fellow Republican Doug Sposito and his supporters were spending so much money that the Clean Elections candidates in the race—Sharon Collins and David Gowan—were getting a [...]

ScrambleWatch Q&A: Republican Doug Sposito on the Environment

Doug Sposito is one of the four Republican candidates running for the open seat in Legislative District 30 House of Representatives. We asked him some questions about environmental policy.

Do you support allowing some state trust land to be set aside for conservation without payment to the trust?

No, because it’s in the state constitution that the [...]

Scranblewatch Q&A with Doug Sposito on the Budget

Doug Sposito is one of four Republican candidates running for a seat in Legislative District 30 House of Representatives. We asked him if state spending is too high, too low, or just right in the following areas:

Education:

Too low.

English Language Learning Programs:

Too high.

Emergency preparedness:

Too low.
Environment:

Too low.

Health care:

Too low.
Law enforcement:

Too low.

Transportation and highway infrastructure:

Too low.
Welfare:

Too high.

Universities:

Too low.

Follow the Money: Cash Drop in Antenori/Sposito/ Gowan/Collins Four-Way GOP Primary

Republican Doug Sposito has triggered a flow of campaign funding in Legislative District 30, where four Republicans are competing for two House seats in the Sept. 2 primary.
Sposito, who is one of four Republicans running for the two House seat in Legislative District 30 that are being vacated by Reps. Marian McClure and Jonathan Paton, [...]

Today’s Political Action: Candidates Square Off in Debates!

Two big events for those of you who are not going to out to Tucson Electric Park for the very last buck-beer night, seeing as how we’ve lost our Triple-A Sidewinders to Reno after this season.
The Democratic candidates in Legislative District 27—Reps. Phil Lopes and Olivia Cajero Bedford and challenger John Kromko—will meet on KUAT-TV’s [...]

Spotlight on Republican Doug Sposito: House, LD30

Republican candidate Doug Sposito wants to bring the GOP back to its business roots.
A homebuilder and fourth-generation Arizonan who lives on his family ranch in Sonoita, Sposito says Arizona’s budget crisis prompted him to run for the open House of Representatives seats in Legislative District 30, where both incumbents are moving on. Rep. Jonathan [...]