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Apparent Victory Rings Hollow for Group Opposing School Choice

September 23, 2022 Rings, Hollow, victory, choice, apparent, group, school, Opposing0 comment

The effort to block a massive expansion of education choice in Arizona appears to be running out of steam. Beth Lewis, executive director of the anti-school choice group Save Our Schools Arizona, or SOS, put on her best game face Friday afternoon as she announced that her group has gathered enough signatures to put the recent expansion of Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program on the ballot for voters to decide. But it wasn’t hard to detect Lewis’ disappointment. Earlier this summer, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, signed a bill…

Meadows Says He Rage Dialed Fox News Editor After Network Called Biden’s Arizona Victory

December 13, 2021 Biden's, rage, News, Dialed, after, victory, says, Arizona, Network, Editor, called, Meadows0 comment

<p>In his newly released book about his time serving in the Trump administration, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows wrote that he was so infuriated when Fox News first called Joe Biden’s electoral win in Arizona on election night that he proceeded to angrily dial an editor at the network to contest Trump’s projected loss, according to <a href=”https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-meadows-dialed-fox-editor-bill-sammon-arizona-call-biden-2021-12?op=1&scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4″>Insider</a>.</p> Talking Points Memo

Schools Aren’t the Republicans’ Ticket to Victory

November 26, 2021 aren't, Republicans, victory, Ticket, Schools0 comment

Schools may not be the ticket to victory that a lot of Republicans hope they will be, despite what the top-line results of last night’s election seem to suggest. For the past several months, Glenn Youngkin has blanketed Virginia cable networks, mailboxes, and radio airwaves with advertisements about dysfunction in the state’s public schools. His Democratic opponent, Terry McAuliffe, did not believe parents should have any say in what their children learned, Youngkin would declare. Meanwhile, he argued that Virginia students were being indoctrinated by what he and other Republicans…