On May 6, some potential future candidates filed a lawsuit in Arizona state court, seeking to block a scheduled 2012 vote of the people on whether to shut off financing for public funding of candidates. See this story. The lawsuit includes some plaintiffs who want to seek public funding in Tucson city elections in the future. Apparently the proposed constitutional amendment that will be before the voters not only affects the state program for public funding for candidates for state office, but does the same to Tucson’s program for candidates in city elections.

The case is Arizona Advocacy Network Foundation v Bennett, Maricopa County Superior Court, cv2011-009646.