Financing Voucher Fight

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Pro-voucher ads urge voters not to let a national teachers union tell them how to vote next Tuesday, yet the pro-voucher movement itself is receiving three-fourths of its funds from one man -- Park City millionaire Patrick Byrne.

"I don't know if this would even be a fair fight" in Utah "if it were not for (Byrne's cash) put into this game," said state Rep. Greg Hughes, R-Draper, a founder of one pro-voucher group, called the Informed Voter Project, created by the Utah Legislature's GOP leadership.

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Financing Voucher Fight

Between the Parents For Choice in Education political issue committee, run by pro-voucher advocates, and Hughes' IVP, Byrne (along with his family and a foundation he helps to direct) has donated more than $3 million to the pro-voucher movement, new fin...

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