Comments on: Arizona Taxpayer Action Committee Watching Legislative Votes http://sonoranalliance.com/2009/11/23/arizona-taxpayer-action-committee-watching-legislative-votes/ Sonoran Alliance: Arizona Politics, News, Commentary and Information with a Blatantly Conservative Worldview Presented by an Alliance of Writers, Activists, Consultants and Government Insiders. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:34:14 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Snickers http://sonoranalliance.com/2009/11/23/arizona-taxpayer-action-committee-watching-legislative-votes/comment-page-1/#comment-212716 Snickers Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:23:09 +0000 http://sonoranalliance.com/?p=6197#comment-212716 If you read the Cap Times article, it's clear that the legislative committees will increase party discipline, as Lucy Mason notes. ATAC may be effective, but without a direct hand and six-figure budgets to spread around the state, they will be a fairly minor player. And if you'll recall, there is a tradition that the next US senator up for election was given great deference in the fundraising structure of the party and its leadership structure. That means with McCain up Pullen would be replaced by a pro-McCain fundraiser. Is this tradition breaking, and if so, are these separate funds an indicator of that? If you read the Cap Times article, it’s clear that the legislative committees will increase party discipline, as Lucy Mason notes. ATAC may be effective, but without a direct hand and six-figure budgets to spread around the state, they will be a fairly minor player.

And if you’ll recall, there is a tradition that the next US senator up for election was given great deference in the fundraising structure of the party and its leadership structure. That means with McCain up Pullen would be replaced by a pro-McCain fundraiser. Is this tradition breaking, and if so, are these separate funds an indicator of that?

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