Subject: Mike Gardner

• Butt Out

  Campaign reform head, tobacco lobbyist at odds over alleged contribution

  June 4, 1998

• What a Tangled Web Site They Weave

  Are Arizona candidates out to deceive?

  July 30, 1998

• The Serene Clean Elections Machine

  For all that's at stake, the state's most influential lobbyists and businesses are strangely silent on Proposition 200, which would remove them as the primary financiers of election campaigns

  October 29, 1998

• Moral Absurdity

  The Arizona Legislature should start caring more about children than zygotes

  April 14, 2005

• Scenes From a (Near) Shutdown; Lawmakers Work After Midnight, Unsure if Gov Will Sign Budget Bill

    The State Legislature was abuzz with lawmakers, lobbyists, curious onlookers and students as a government shutdown at midnight loomed. The place was busier than a typical weekday afternoon. Most of the students and onlookers are gone now, but the show is still going on. Folks like lobbyist Mike Gardner and Tucson lawmaker Vic Williams say they believe Governor Brewer will sign the budget bill now being considered and avert the shutdown. "The Governor's painted herself in

  July 1, 2009