Voucher group counting victories
Parents for Choice in Education, the pro-voucher group that has retooled as a "school reform" organization since getting whipped at the ballot box is declaring victory in a number of contested legislative races where pro-voucher lawmakers were challenged.
In this election update PCE gives a roll-call list of the results and says "every school reform legislator with challengers (has) received 60% of the vote, except two."
Of the long list (11) of "pro-reform" incumbents who so far 60-percented their opponents at convention, some of the most impressive were voucher bill sponsoring Rep. Steve Urquhart, running for the state Senate, who beat a former PTA president and referendum proponent by drawing more than 70 percent of the delegate vote; and Reps. Curt Oda, Steve Sandstrom and Keith Grover, all of whom were said to be targeted by strong anti-voucher Republicans.
On the other hand, Rep. Aaron Tilton of Springville was defeated at convention and Rep. Glenn Donnelson was forced into a primary.
Not mentioned, though, by PCE were all those anti-voucher Republican lawmakers who faced no intra-party challengers.
Two prominent ones who have perennially drawn GOP rivals in the past but were allowed to skate this year are Reps. Sheryl Allen and Kory Holdaway. Other GOP legislators voting against vouchers and facing no in-party challenge are Reps. Douglas Aagard, Mel Brown, Jim Dunnigan, Ben Ferry, Julie Fisher, Fred Hunsaker, John Mathis and K. McIff, Ronda Menlove and Paul Ray.
Some of the bloodiest voucher-fallout races will occur in upcoming county and state conventions and -- of course -- the general election.
-- Dan Harrie
6:25 PM
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5 Comments:
PTA and UEA supporters talked about cleaning house. They got spanked in Utah Co. and Urquhart clobbered the chosen one. Beautiful!
Hey Danny Boy, no oppononents for a few educrat apologists is old news. The real deal is that the UEA/NEA/PTA got trounced, even after you, Rolly, and the rest of the anti-republican, anti-voucher sltrib group campaigned hard for them. And you call yourselves journalists. How much are you, McKitrick and Gerhke being paid for your campaign work?
Elections are until November, and there are still a lot of good candidates who decided to by-pass the republican manipulation in their caucuses and filed to run as Democrats, especially in Utah county.
Democrats will get trounced in Utah County. It will be a repeat of 2000 when the Democrats were "energized" and looking to kick some butt.
Anonymous #2 is correct, and his observations demonstrate why campaign finance "reform" is merely a scheme to give folks like the Salt Lake Tribune more influence in the outcome of elections.
Under campaign finance "reform", there would naturally be no restrictions on what and how often the Tribune "journalists" would spout off on Republicans, vouchers, and so on. This puts conservatives at a disadvantage, which is the main motivation for campaign finance "reform".
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