...collecting signatures for ballot initiatives for campaign finance reform and filling Senate vacancies. The campaign finance reform initiative would limit the amount individuals, political parties and political action committees can donate to candidates...

Due to a reporter's error, a story in Tuesday's Empire inaccurately said a campaign finance reform initiative would limit donations from political parties to $1,000, compared to the $4,000 now allowed. The initiative would reduce...

...Senate vacancy initiative, another proposal by Trust the People is not doing so well. Petitioners for the campaign finance reform initiative have collected just over 10,000 signatures - more than 13,000 short of the goal. Compton said while...

...to candidates. However, Frank called it a weakening of the law. ``One of the key objectives of the campaign finance reform initiative was getting corporate, union, professional lobbyists and other kinds of entities' money out of the system...

...clear their name. Though the Alaska Public Interest Research Group was successful is helping to pass the campaign finance reform initiative in August, there is still an enormous amount of money influencing Alaska's political system. Professional...

...drive and has not decided how broad the initiative question will be. "Either way, we are going to do a campaign finance reform initiative to roll it back to the former limits, I can guarantee that as much as I am standing here," Crawford said...

...the petition effort. Finkelstein is a former Anchorage state representative who was a leader in the 1995 campaign finance reform initiative that resulted in tighter limits on campaign contributions. It was those limits that the Legislature rolled...

...to candidates. Contribution levels were doubled by the Legislature in 2003 from those established by a campaign finance reform initiative in 1996. "The purpose of this initiative is to try to take the power of the Legislature back from powerful...

...citizens our left out of the process. The Campaign Finance Reform Initiative will: Decrease the amounts individuals...When over 31,000 Alaskans signed the 1996 Campaign Finance Reform initiative, it inspired the Legislature to take actions...

...signatures, Geldhof, who worked on the 1996 campaign finance reform initiative, said there is about a 25 percent to 50...week attracted about 15 volunteers for the campaign finance reform initiative. Certified by Leman on Sept. 19, the...