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Candidate for AZ governor

I met Buz Mills at the annual NRA meeting. It's not often you see a serious gubernatorial candidate who owns Gunsite Academy -- I don't suppose that leaves much room for doubt on his Second Amendment views.

What reminded me of this was word that he's filing an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case involving Arizona's publicly-funded elections statutes. Those allow a person to run in the usual way, with donations, or to opt for public funding (sorry to say no politician ever offered to fund my job searches), but also has a provision that if someone funds his or her own election, a matching amount of public money will go to their opponent. Mills is pointing out that his opponents are drawing millions of public money for their campaigns, while they just had a referendum to increase the sales tax because otherwise the State would allegedly go insolvent.

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