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FormerOstrich

(2,703 posts)
Thu Feb 26, 2015, 02:56 AM Feb 2015

Can you be more obvious? Gotta get ROI...governorships are expensive!

I love Arizona but hate AZ politics. Ducey wants to gut public schools. He was installed to gut public schools. Superintendents of some districts sent calls encouraging parents to engage and contact the representatives. The owners back their man.

'Dark Money' robocalls push Ducey's education agenda

When Steve Ramos checked his voice mail Saturday, he was surprised to hear something that sounded a lot like a political attack ad from last year's race for governor. Except instead of advocating for a candidate, the message criticized his local school superintendent and instructed Ramos to tell him to support Gov. Doug Ducey's K-12 budget.

Also similar to the gubernatorial campaign: The message was funded by one of the "dark money" nonprofit groups that spent record amounts to help elect Ducey.

A retired Mesa teacher, Ramos was incredulous that American Encore, the political non-profit behind the ad, would,continue to push Ducey's positions now that he's in office. To Ramos, the call was a political "cheap shot" because the group shields its financial backers and the assertions against the superintendent seemed inaccurate.

Read more if you can stomach it: [link:http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/politics/2015/02/24/robocalls-signal-new-era-political-advocacy/23921981/|

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Can you be more obvious? Gotta get ROI...governorships are expensive! (Original Post) FormerOstrich Feb 2015 OP
I'm kicking because I think this is important...... FormerOstrich Feb 2015 #1
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