By Laurie Roberts, columnist | azcentral.com
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Justin Pierce, the state legislator who wants to oversee Arizona’s elections, is coming out of the closet, so to speak, to support those who are hiding back there behind the winter coats.
Why, you ask, would he be supporting dark-money campaigns? I, for one, am Absolutely Positively Stumped.
While his fellow Republican opponents for secretary of state, Michele Reagan and Wil Cardon, are calling for more transparency, Pierce said during a debate this week that there are legitimate reasons to allow anonymously funded campaign ads.