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Republican candidates for the Arizona Corporation Commission are facing a second complaint that they have broken finance rules, this time dealing with how they reported paying for signatures.

The Republicans, Tom Forese and Doug Little, face Democrats Sandra Kennedy and Jim Holway in a race for two seats on the five-member Arizona Corporation Commission in the Nov. 4 election. The commission regulates utilities such as Arizona Public Service Co.

All four candidates are campaigning with public funds from the Citizens Clean Election Commission, which the Democrats are petitioning for an investigation.

The new complaint made Friday by the Arizona Democratic Party suggests that Forese and Little paid someone to collect signatures to qualify for the ballot, but didn't report such an expense in their campaign finance reports, or in the case of Little, reported too little to have actually covered the price of his signatures.

It also questions whether the signatures were gathered before they were paid for.

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Little and Forese said Tuesday in a meeting with The Arizona Republic that they did pay for their signatures but did not break any rules. At the time the Democrats had not yet filed their complaint, but questions were being raised about the signatures.

Forese said that he paid a campaign organization that keeps signature collectors on retainer, properly reported it, and that the complaints are meritless.

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By Matt Schudel September 20 at 1:52 PM

Vincent F. Callahan Jr., an influential Republican legislator who represented Fairfax County in the Virginia House of Delegates for 40 years and was a leading proponent of the interests of Northern Virginia in the state capitol, died Sept. 20 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington. He was 82.

The cause was meningitis and paralysis caused by the West Nile virus, according to a statement released by his wife, Virginia Weight Callahan.

Mr. Callahans long tenure in Richmond spanned two very different eras in the commonwealths political history. When he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1967, he was one of only 14 Republicans among the 100 delegates.

By the time he retired in 2008, the Republicans were in the majority in Richmond, and Mr. Callahan had been chairman of the Appropriations Committee for almost a decade. He was the first Republican in modern history to lead the powerful committee.

After joining the Appropriations Committee in 1972, Mr. Callahan worked with members of both parties to steer funding toward Northern Virginia, helping promote the growth of George Mason University and the commercial development of the Dulles corridor.

A lot of what you see in Northern Virginia today is there because of Vince, J. Kenneth Klinge, a GOP lobbyist who had known Mr. Callahan since 1965, said Saturday in an interview. I would call him a problem-solver. In order to solve problems, you have to work with people across the aisle.

Except for an unsuccessful run for Congress in 1976, Mr. Callahan seemed content to spend his entire political career in the lower house of the Virginia General Assembly. He made the 224-mile round trip from his home in McLean to Richmond hundreds of times.

Leaders of both political parties, including Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, U.S. senators Mark R. Warner and Timothy M. Kaine (both former Democratic governors) and Virginia House of Delegates Speaker William J. Howell (R-Stafford), praised Mr. Callahans legislative acumen.

When Mr. Callahan entered the House of Delegates, Northern Virginia was a fast-growing region that was woefully underrepresented in a legislature dominated by Democrats from rural parts of the commonwealth. Nonetheless, he was able to engineer funding to support the building of Metro lines in Northern Virginia, Northern Virginia Community College, George Mason and the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts.

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