...Karen Compton, a coordinator for Trust the People, an initiative group organizing the Senate vacancy and campaign finance initiatives. "But I hesitate to say that we're done." Both initiatives are sponsored by House Democrats Eric Croft...

...sponsors include Reps. Harry Crawford, an Anchorage Democrat, and David Guttenberg, a Fairbanks Democrat. The campaign finance initiative also incorporates limits on so-called "soft money" donations to parties that were upheld in August by the...

A ballot initiative proposing to tighten campaign finance laws and regulation of lobbyists has been challenged in an Anchorage court by the Alaska Libertarian Party and an Anchorage attorney.