In March, Ann-Eve Pedersen, president of the Arizona Education Network, signed the forms launching an initiative drive to make permanent the additional one-cent hike on the state sales tax set to expire the middle of next year. (Capitol Media Services file photo)
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samkat posted at 5:24 pm on Fri, Nov 2, 2012.
Ducy, as an elected public official should not be involved in the first place.
Just think how much good the special interest money would do if it was channeled into the "Sandy" relief fund.
Rich posted at 7:14 pm on Fri, Nov 2, 2012.
The only special interest involved here is a bureaucracy hungry for more money.
downtownresident posted at 7:18 pm on Fri, Nov 2, 2012.
Slime balls like Adams and Pearce are behind this too, I'd say.
Ducy should be impeached.
What scum will do for money makes me sick.
d4az posted at 8:02 pm on Fri, Nov 2, 2012.
Pedersen lied “We’re trying to win an election just by talking with people.”
So the fact that the National Education Association gave them close to a half-million dollars equates to " trying to win just by talking with people"?
Rich posted at 11:04 pm on Fri, Nov 2, 2012.
Doing a little censorship for votes? Who really owns the EVT?
LordOftheLies posted at 12:23 am on Sat, Nov 3, 2012.
So tired of the self-righteous indignation of the left...and what another sloppy news story while we're at it.
1) Why is the same level of scrutiny not being held to the Yes on 204 side? Look at the donations in the box above. "We Build Arizona" - "NEA" - "AEA..." Those groups aren't disclosing their donors, yet no questions posed to Pedersen by the reporter?
This is nothing more than sour grapes on the Yes side.
2) If you don't want Ducey to be involved, then maybe they shouldn't have written a proposition that involves him (the State Treasurer's Office) more than 10 times in the prop....
Can't wait for this flaming pile o crappola to go down hard. Maybe the Yes side will learn a valuable lesson that voters aren't as dumb and emotional as they hoped we would be when they took advantage of voters' good will and the desire to do the right thing when we passed Prop 100. Permanent? Are you kidding me? They should have extended the tax for another 6 to 8 years, and maybe then - MAYBE - I would have considered voting for it.
downtownresident posted at 10:25 am on Sat, Nov 3, 2012.
d4az ; LordOftheLies ,
So, you'd rather have slime balls like Pearce and Adams dictating the future of education??? How choice is that?
I guess you'd rather have for profit charter schools sucking up all the tax money???
Sounds like Mormon lockstep, to me. That's what's dumb and emotional!
fez posted at 8:37 am on Mon, Nov 5, 2012.
It's a shame that the author of this propaganda piece isn't fired for lying to her newspaper/editor... oh yeah, the editor read and approved it. Haven't you learned from Washington/Obama that spending more on guvmnt ain't an answer!
We are no longer buying the crud you're trying to sell us. Learn the truth and vote.
chuckles3 posted at 10:54 am on Mon, Nov 5, 2012.
Vote for 204- a permanent slush fund for the Unions. Err, I mean "for the children"