From Deseret News archives:
Vouchers or not, families will be fine
Utah families seem to be in real trouble, if you believe the TV ads.
Actually, most Utah families are doing just fine. And they will continue to do just fine, with or without vouchers.
The pro-voucher side, mainly through Parents for Choice in Education, its PAC and PIC, so far has the hardest-hitting ads, especially the one with Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, and San Francisco's U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (in the radio ad version) and MoveOn.org.
A second pro-voucher TV ad talks about the "liberal" National Education Association.
Both ads say don't let these "liberal" people or institutions take away choice from Utah families.
Of course, Kennedy, Pelosi and MoveOn.org have nothing to do with the Utah voucher act, passed by the 2007 Legislature.
The NEA actually does have something to do with the November election, because it is funneling millions of dollars into the anti-voucher campaign.
But at least we know that the NEA is doing this, and we have a pretty good idea where its PAC money is coming from public school teachers across the nation who pay PAC dues into the national education group through their local teacher union chapters.
We don't know where all of the money that Parents for Choice in Education is coming from. As reported in last Sunday's Deseret Morning News, the PCE's own PIC and PAC get some funds from the same group's corporation and nonprofit foundation.
We do know, from years gone by, that PCE has gotten a lot of out-of-state money (just like the Utah Education Association has gotten a lot of out-of-state money from the NEA) from individuals and groups that back private-school vouchers.
Meanwhile, the anti-voucher side's hands are not very clean, either.
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