The Citizens Clean Elections Commission has approved a proposed settlement with three candidates for the Arizona Corporation Commission.

For the first time since Arizona’s Clean Elections system went into effect more than a decade ago, participating candidates this year know if they get outspent by their privately funded opponent, they will not get additional money to make up the difference.

On April 3, the Arizona State Senate approved a compromise that will keep the Clean Elections system alive. Todd Lang, executive director of the Citizens Clean Elections Commission, talks about the future of Clean Elections.

A compromise plan that would keep the state’s system of publicly-funded political campaigns in place, but with some changes, is headed to the Arizona House. The state senate approved the plan Tuesday. From Phoenix, KJZZ’s Mark Brodie reports.

The Arizona Senate this afternoon is scheduled to debate a compromise proposal that would change the state’s system of publicly funded political campaigns, in exchange for not asking voters to gut it. From Phoenix, KJZZ’s Mark Brodie reports.

The Goldwater Institute wants the Clean Elections Commission to stop an advertising campaign it claims is illegal self promotion. 

Monday, the United States Supreme Court struck down the matching funds provision of Arizona's Clean Elections law--a law that was supposed to reduce the influence of special interests in state campaigns. The matching funds provision, struck down 5-4, gives Clean Elections candidates matching funds if traditionally-funded candidates spend above a preset amount, or if a third party spends money on a race.

( Phoenix, AZ ) The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 against a key component of Arizona's public campaign finance system called Clean Elections. Justices  found a matching funds provision burdens privately financed candidates and third party groups. KJZZ's Dennis Lambert spoke with one of the plaintiffs in the case, former State Treasurer Dean Martin.