Mea culpa, Goldwater.

Yesterday — in good blogosphere form — I went off on the Goldwater Institute’s silence about the Arizona Commerce Authority’s abuse of the gift clause.

Did I make a mistake.

Today, I received a nice email from one of the big shots at the Goldwater, Clint Bolick, informing me that, in fact, just a month or so ago Goldwater got ACA head Don Cardon to retract a series of $5,000 stipends (you can read about it here) to the unsuccessful applicants of the ACA’s “innovative challenge” program.

Oops.

Score one for Goldwater.  And us.

But I do wonder this:   If the ACA is in essence a glorified “slush fund” that contradicts the boundaries  of the gift clause, will the Goldwater Institute go after its very authority?