The public money that qualifying candidates use to mount their campaigns is raised through a surcharge tacked on to civil penalties and criminal fines.Candidates can opt out of the system and use their own money and outside donations, but most members now serving in the Arizona legislature, as many as 62 percent, decided to run using public funds.
\"When you run as a clean elections candidate,\" said Todd Lang, executive director of the state's Clean Elections Commission, \"you're basically taking the public's trust.\"
Officials who were around during the bad old days remember how it used to be.
Maricopa County Attorney Richard Romley, who prosecuted the corruption defendants back in 1991, says greed had overrun the state house.
\"I think what had happened was Arizona had not been minding the till very well,\" he told ABC News. \"There was this feeling, you know, that I can get away with it a little bit.\"
In a 1991 interview with ABC News, state representative Jim Hartdegen, who was convicted of taking three times the legal amount of campaign contributions from an undercover agent, described the allure of money.
\"Money is such an important thing to a campaign, especially to a person like myself who doesn't have that much wherewithal financially,\" he said.
That is no longer quite as true, said David Lujan, now a state representative, who was a legislative staffer during AzScam. \"They have done a pretty good job of restricting the amount of money special interests can spend down here,\" said Lujan.
One of the casualties, said Lujan, has been some of the free food and parties that are a staple of life in other state capitals. \"There was a lot more of lobbyist entertainment-type things that happened [then] as compared to now.\"
Arizona was not the first state to enact clean elections reforms. Maine voters approved a clean elections measure by referendum in 1996 and it has remained popular ever since. As in Arizona, candidates can opt in or out of the system, choosing to accept public funding if they decline corporate and other donations. According to the Maine Clean Elections Commission, 80 percent of the members of the state legislature ran for office under the public financing option.
Maine freshman representative Alex Cornell du Houx told ABC News clean elections helped him think about voters, not fundraising. \"It allows candidates and public officials to focus on better serving their community,\" said Cornell du Houx, \"as they do not have so much time finding funds.\"
Connecticut is the latest state to adopt Maine and Arizona-style clean elections reforms. The state was moved to act by the prosecution and conviction of Gov. John Rowland, who went to federal prison in 2005 for having free work done on his home. The election reforms were passed the same year, and implemented in time for the 2008 election. According to Cheri Quickmire of the advocacy group Common Cause Connecticut, about 80 percent of state legislators now serving chose the public financing option.
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\"People who ran under both systems say it was a sea change in the legislature,\" she said. None of the three states that have enacted clean elections reforms have seen a widespread corruption scandal among elected state officials in recent years.
But clean elections reforms have not been implemented without hiccups. New Jersey and Massachusetts, have implemented reforms only to roll them back. Voters in California rejected clean elections reforms, apparently recoiling at the idea of spending tax dollars on elections.
Critics have also attacked the clean elections law in court, and say the attempt at reform has merely created new ways to game the system.
A 2009 article in the Phoenix New Times weekly details how various politicians have abused the Arizona state system. Some would-be politicos have treated the public treasury as a private piggy bank, using public financing to pay for parties, frozen drink machines, and Segway ramps, while others have discovered that the public funding option can be used to double-team political foes at state expense.
In 2008, the Green Party was surprised to find an unfamiliar person running as a publicly funded Green candidate for a state seat. The candidate, apparently put forward by Republicans in order to undercut the incumbent Democratic candidate in a swing district, used public money to pay for conulsting and research from GOP firms, and drew enough votes to throw the election to the Republican.
The New Times article also details how the matching funds provision can be manipulated by allies running in multicandidate races. When a privately funded candidate outspends a publicly funded candidate, the publicly funded candidate is guaranteed enough money to keep pace. In 2008, in a race for a multi-seat state commission board, a Democrat spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of his money, knowing that a fellow Democrat would benefit by receiving matching funds.
The matching funds provision in the clean elections law has been successfully challenged in court. The provision has been knocked out of the Connecticut law, and is also under attack in Arizona. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule on matching funds this fall.
Lang of Arizona's Clean Elections Commission cautions that clean elections reforms are \"not a panacea.\"
According to Lang, the real benefit of clean elections reforms is the access they offer to a broader range of candidates. \"We have folks running without relying on those special interests,\" said Lang, \"and I think it makes a difference to the average voter.\"
\"They get to decide on your ideas, not your pocketbook.\"
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This is the final story in a week-long series of the Ross Investigative Unit's 2010 Carnegie Fellows, five student journalists who reported on the state of state legislatures for broadcast and web publication. This summer, the five reporters attended the annual convention of the National Conference of State Legislatures, which draws thousands of legislators, staffers and lobbyists.
On this week's episode of \"Brian Ross Investigates,\" a weekly 30-minute news magazine, watch extended interviews and never-before-seen footage of the convention in Louisville, Kentucky. Click here to watch party footage from the convention. and here for a report on a partying lawmaker groping and kissing a student reoprter. Frank Anechiarico, professor of government and law at Hamilton College, tells Brian Ross, \"It's really just the tip of the iceberg for the way that 50 legislatures work around the country.\"
Also this week on Brian Ross Investigates, watch a report on talks with the Taliban. \"Brian Ross Investigates\" airs every Friday on Hulu.com and ABC News Now, the network's 24-hour news channel available throughout the U.S. and Europe, at 1:36pm. Each show is also available on mobile devices, including the iPhone and iPad.
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