Arizona Taxpayer Action Committee is political committees that support candidates who believe in low taxes. Pressured by the Act, Arizona Taxpayers Action Committee specifically engaged in self-censorship in 2006 when it chose not to speak in opposition to a publicly financed candidate in a primary race to avoid matching funds.
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The Dirty Truth about Arizona’s “Clean Elections” Act: U.S. Supreme Court Asked to Strike Down Program that Discourages Free Speech, Puts Thumb on Scales for Government-Funded Political Candidates
In 2008, the Institute for Justice and the Goldwater Institute teamed up to challenge Arizona’s punitive system of funding campaigns with taxpayer money. The consolidated challenges to the “matching funds” provision of Arizona’s so-called “Clean Elections” Act eventually made their way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which on March 28, 2011, heard argument in Arizona…
