The campaigns for and against Idaho’s Propositions 1, 2, 3 have brought in a lot of money, a lot of it from out-of-state. All told, the two sides have received donations totaling $4.88 million, according to campaign disclosure forms filed with the Idaho Secretary of State’s Office. The data show 953 people or entities have donated to the campaigns. Seventy-seven percent of those contributions went to the repeal effort. Click around the map (follow link) to see the top 100 donors who want repeal (vote no) the laws, and the top 100 donors who want to keep them in place (vote yes)/Emilie Ritter Saunders & Molly Messick, StateImpact. More here.
Question: Anything jump out to you re: spending for and against Idaho education reform propositions?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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