The Little Brown Reader

The five-member commission, the state agency that administers public campaign funds, must approve the proposal on a majority vote for the settlement to become final. The commission is scheduled to meet at 9:30 a.m. Oct. 21 in the first-floor boardroom at 1616 W. Adams St.

Mr. Clevenger is one of three Libertarian candidates for the Legislature from District 17 whom the Clean Elections Commission decided had failed to properly document their campaign expenditures for the 2002 election as required under the state Clean Elections Act and rules of the commission.

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The Clean Elections Commission has had no settlement talks with the third District 17 Libertarian, Senate candidate Yuri Downing, who was found to have failed to properly document his expenses.

Mr. Downing has appealed the commission's decision to demand a return of the $41,155.53 in public campaign funds he received. The hearing was continuing on Oct. 2.

Mr. Downing maintains that although he and the other Libertarians ran an unorthodox campaign to register and attract voters at bars and restaurants in the East Valley, the tabs from those events were legitimate campaign expenses.