Voucher Hounds

   Those senators on the education committee who voted NO vouchers for corporate and private schools were those who want to protect our public schools from the voucher vultures (Betsy DeVos and her American Federation for Children... vouchers). They were mostly rural conservative republicans such as Tom Dugger (R), Dewayne Pemberton (R), Jason Smalley (R), Anthony Sykes (R), Roger Thompson (R), and Ron Sharp (R).
   Those senators on the education committee who voted Yes, more public money for corporate and private schools, were Mark Allen (R), Michael Bergstrom (R) Eddie Fields (R), Kyle Loveless (R), Paul Scott (R), Gary Stanislawski (R), Greg Treat (R), and a surprise neo-liberal - Anastasia Pittman (D). It's probably a pretty safe bet that several of these yes voters were recipients of the pro-voucher group AFC. Those that weren't need to be cut in on the action, since they did vote yes. Most of these "yes" senators are also urban, not rural, so they really don't care about funding our rural schools. However, a couple ARE rural, so voted against their constituents.
   The vote on SB 560 on the full senate floor could be as early as tomorrow. We'll soon know how many other senators are only self-proclaimed conservative, and really a voucher wolf in sheep's clothing. I'll blog the results after the vote, and if SB 560 passes the senate - we'll soon know which House members are "Voucher Hounds".