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Arizona Bat Im Star TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2014 PAGE A2 Editor: Hipolito R. Corella 520-573-4101 metroazstarnet.com Lawmaker seeks repeal of Clean Elections Proposes to redirect from campaign financing to education By Howard Fischer CAPITOL MEDIASERVICES PHOENIX Some Republican lawmakers want to ask voters to repeal the Citizens Clean Elections system, but in a way that supporters contend is misleading. The proposal by Rep. Paul Boy-er, R-Phoenix, would void a 1998 voter -approved law, which gives statewide and legislative candidates public funding if they agree "Why shouldn't we try and find more funding for it? That's what I'm doing." But Hoffman said voters will see through what Boyer is trying to do. "I do think that a lot of times the public resents what they perceive as legislative trickery," he said.

"They might well just simply vote down measures that have that kind of feel to them." Boyer, however, said it was supporters of the public -financing scheme who deceived voters in the first place in choosing a name for the program. "We all want clean air, clean water, clean schools" he said. "So, of course, we want clean elections. But that's not turned out tobe the Boyer managed to get an identical plan out of the House last session but it faltered in the Senate. He even lost the votes of some of his Republican colleagues who chided his methodology.

Rep. Doris Goodale, R-King-man, said at that time if lawmakers want to scrap the system they should ask voters that exact question, and not force them to choose That alternative remains an See ELECTIONS, A6 money from the popular Clean Elections program and use it for the worthy goal of improving education in this state, which is woefully underfunded as a result of the Legislature." Boyer acknowledged funding for education took a hit in the last few years as lawmakers sought to cope with sharply reduced tax revenues. He said legislators did everything they could to keep those cuts to a minimum. In any event, Boyer said, voters deserve to make the choice. Say, hypothetically, we cut too much education funding," he said.

to not take private money, by asking voters in November to divert that $8.9 million to education. Money for public funding comes largely from a surcharge on civil, criminal and traffic fines. The idea is drawing opposition from supporters of the public funding system and not just because of the idea of putting the question to voters. Louis Hoffman, a member of the Clean Elections Commission, said it's the way Boyer is going about it. He said the proposal tries to force voters to make "a false choice," asking them to "take Downtown route recalls Stevens, fancy-hotel owner, Congress delegate WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Hiram S.

Stevens first came to Tucson in 1856. BEN JIE SANDERS ARIZONA DAILY STAR Ross Zimmerman, left, Bill Badger and Patricia Maisch are interviewed after Monday's ceremony downtown at the Old Pima County Courthouse, where U.S. Rep. Ron Barber, other survivors of the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting spree and others gathered to remember the tragedy in which 13 people were wounded and six killed.

Downtown courthouse is selected as official home of Jan. 8 memorial 9th St. By David Leighton ARIZONA DAILY STAR Hiram S. Stevens, a successful businessman and politician, came to Tucson in 1856 after a stint fighting Indians in the New Mexico territory. He was born in Weston, in 1832 and received a limited education.

In 1851, at the age of 19, he enlisted in the Army and was dispatched to New Mexico with the First United States Dragoons. After he was discharged in 1856, he came to live on a ranch near Sentinel Peak Mountain). While there, he provided the military posts withbeef and hay, and in the process made a substantial amount of money, some of which he spent on gambling in town. Also in 1856, he met Petra Santa Cruz, whose parents, Juan and Manuela Santa Cruz, had died. When they met, Petra was living with her younger sister, Atana-cia, and aunt, Guadalupe, in an adobe house on a dirt road known as Calle del Correo (Mail Street).

Stevens courted Petra for three years and although her aunt initially opposed the marriage, at least in part due to race and religion the two wed in 1859. In 1861, the couple moved to Vermont, where they lived for three years before returning to Tucson. In 1865, Stevens was in a successful business with his brother-in-law, Sam Hughes, filling government contracts. In 1865, the Stevenses JAN. 8 EVENTS Wednesday Public remembrance event at 10 a.m.

Wednesday at the Nanini Branch Library, 7300 N. Shannon Road. Gather at the flagpole. There will be a bell-ringing and flag-raising ceremony. The lobby of the library will open at 9.30 a.m.

to allow visitors to see a collection of tribute items and offerings brought to makeshift memorial sites at the Safeway where the shooting occurred. Jan. 8 anniversary service St. Philip's in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave.

Special interfaith service sponsored by Prevention of Gun Violence. Patricia Maisch, who took the gun away from shooter Jared Lee Loughner, will speak. 7-8 p.m. Jan. 8.

Free. 299-6421. Saturday, Jan. 11 A series of events sponsored by the group Beyond will be held throughout the Tucson area on Saturday. The main event, "Together We Move," will begin at noon at Armory Park and the Children's Museum Tucson with to walks, hikes and other activities.

See the website at www.beyond-tucson.org for a full list of events. Sunday, Jan. 12 Community Conversation: Moving Forward from Jan. 8 St. Philip's in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N.

Campbell Ave. In a "community conversation" format, the dialogue about how to prevent gun violence and how it relates to mental illness will continue. It's sponsored by St. Philip's Committee for the Prevention of Gun Violence and St. Philip's Mental Illness Ministry.

a.m. Jan. 12. Free. 299-6421.

in the attack outside a grocery store on the northwest side. Six people were killed. While other sites, such as the Safeway store where the shooting spree occurred and former U. S. Rep.

Gabrielle Giffords' office, were considered for a permanent memorial, the old courthouse was selected because it's the epicenter of local government, said Stephen Brigham, president of Tucson's Jan. 8 Memorial Foundation. "Jan. 8, 2011, was about Congress on Your Corner, an act of local democracy horrifically interrupted. We not only wanted a magical space like this, but we wanted a space that could connect so many things downtown," he said.

Now that an official site is selected, Brigham said the foundation can ramp up fundraising efforts and select a design team. So far, the nonprofit has raised more than $100,000 in private donations, Brigham said. See MEMORIAL, A6 By Darren DaRonco ARIZONA DAILY STAR The plan to house a permanent memorial to Jan. 8 victims and survivors at the Old Pima County Courthouse downtown was made official Monday morning. Dozens of elected officials, Jan.

8 Memorial Foundation members and others gathered outside the courthouse to make the announcement in the effort to establish a permanent home for mementos of caring and kindness that swept across Tucson in the days after the 2011 shooting spree. "This memorial will remind the world of what happened here," U.S. Rep. Ron Barber said during a morning news conference. "But more importantly what happened afterwards: the kindness, the caring and love that came forward.

And you will see that when you look at the archives, it represents Tucson at its very, very best." Barber, a Democrat, was one of 13 people wounded 5 Broadway 1714 ARIZONA DAILY STAR purchased land on what is now North Main Avenue and built a home. The house is now part of the Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block at Alameda Street and Main Avenue. Stevens also was in the hotel business for about 20 years, as owner of one See STREET, A6 Give us your input to make Star better Successors to state Sen. Lopez lining up Monday has created a ticking clock for supervisors, who are expected to appoint her replacement later this month. Lopez confirmed last month years of service, and Lopez had to wait until January to resign to qualify for her last year of service.

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