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August 17, 2003

Trio is in hot water over meaning of political 'party'

Arizona's Clean Elections law: Trio is in hot water over meaning of political 'party'

Commission orders the Dist. 17 candidates to repay $104,237 they spent on booze, food.

DAVID PITTMAN
Tucson Citizen

Thursday, July 31, 2003

A trio of defeated Phoenix-area legislative candidates spent thousands of dollars on alcohol, food, rental cars and entertainment expenses at trendy Scottsdale nightspots - and used Clean Elections money to do it.

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Yuri Downing, the son of state Rep. Ted Downing, D-Tucson, said the trio is guilty of only one thing: attempting to run an unorthodox campaign to attract youthful voters.

District 17 includes south Scottsdale and most of Tempe. It takes in all of the Arizona State University campus and most of the students attending the university.

"We are Libertarian candidates, we knew going into the campaign that the odds of us winning were very small," said Yuri Downing. "The only hope we had was to go after the younger demographic, get them registered and to the polls. Those people aren't in church on Sunday morning. So we targeted the places where they do go."

What the three Libertarian candidates did was campaign at sporting events and at campus-area parties and popular watering holes. Yuri Downing said there is nothing wrong with that, accusing the commission of trying to "micro-manage" the trio's campaign.

"Are they saying I didn't run the campaign the way they would have run it?" he asked. "They have no right, either legally or morally, to make that decision."

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