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September 24, 2008

"Let's You and Him Fight over School Vouchers"

Political Insider:

David Poythress called. The only announced Democratic candidate for governor wanted to pick a fight with Eric Johnson over school vouchers.

"To re-direct public money from public education into unregulated private entities with the magical expectation that somehow the private sector was going to remedy all the education problems in the state -- that's just wrong. It's not going to happen," Poythress said.

Johnson, currently the Senate president pro tem, has seized on the voucher issue as a likely ticket to the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in 2010.

To set the stage:

Posted by Jim Zellmer at September 24, 2008 3:22 AM
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