By M. Scott Carter
The Journal Record
Posted: 07:55 PM Monday, October 25, 2010
OKLAHOMA CITY – A campaign for a state question – designed to change the way Oklahoma allocates school funding – is rapidly becoming one of the most expensive issue campaigns in state history, documents from the National Institute for Money in State Politics show.
A total of $27 million for all political campaigns has been spent in the state for the 2010 campaign cycle; the fight over State Question 744 promises to be historically expensive.
Designed to tie per-pupil funding levels to a regional average, SQ 744 was placed on the 2010 ballot after the Oklahoma Education Association collected more than 238,000 signatures in 2008.
Documents from Followthemoney.org and from the state Ethics Commission show that $1.292 million has been raised by the One Oklahoma Coalition in opposition to the measure, while the organization supporting the proposal, Yes on 744, has generated a total of $3.865 million in campaign funds.
Documents show most of the opponent’s funding has come from for-profit hospitals, business groups and chambers of commerce. A large part of the donations to the pro-744 group were made by local and national teachers unions... FULL ARTICLE
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