By Will B. Greene
Full Disclosure: The author was Paul Newman’s 2012 Campaign Manager for Arizona Corporation Commissioner.
Special interests won the day in the race for the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) in 2012, while the Arizona public got legally swindled.
On Tuesday it was revealed the Arizona and National Association of Realtors spent $186,000 supporting Republican ACC candidates, Bob Stump, Susan Bitter-Smith and Bob Burns, who beat Democrats Paul Newman, Sandra Kennedy, and Marcia Busching on November 6th. The realtors, and Chicago based utility-giant Exelon (who contributed $10,000 for good measure) made their purchase under the political committee moniker “Taxpayers’ Voice Fund”, with the money funding two mailers targeting swing voters just days before election day.
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