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KDP: ICYMI School Voucher Groups Come in To Try To Save Daniel Cameron's Struggling Campaign

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KENTUCKY DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Frankfort, Ky. - Over the last few weeks, special interest groups promoting a school voucher scheme to take taxpayer dollars away from public schools to give to unaccountable private schools have swooped into the Kentucky governor’s race in an attempt to prop up Daniel Cameron’s struggling campaign. This comes after Cameron expressed his support for private school vouchers more than a dozen times on the campaign trail and, as attorney general, defended an unconstitutional voucher scheme to the Kentucky Supreme Court—losing 7-0. 

 Read more here about the special interest school voucher groups swooping into save Cameron’s campaign:

Lexington Herald-Leader: Rand Paul-linked group steps in to support Cameron with ads on JCPS bus problems

Key Points:

  • “A spokesperson for Protect Freedom PAC said the group was working with School Freedom Fund on a ‘combined $5 million’ digital, television, mail and get out the vote program.”
  • “School Freedom Fund is a group supporting pro-school choice candidates across the country. The school choice debate has grown heated in Kentucky with the passage of a bill that would have set up a tax credit scholarship fund through the state allowing kids go to schools other than their local public schools. That bill was found unconstitutional by the Kentucky Supreme Court.”
  • “One digital ad from Protect Freedom PAC reads ‘Kentucky needs school choice, not Governor Andy Beshear’s failed leadership’.”
  • “‘Daniel Cameron’s allies are running an ad admitting that the centerpiece of his education plan is a voucher scheme that would take tax dollars out of public schools and send them to unaccountable private ones. Cameron’s not offering any real solutions, just a retread of old ideas that would defund and hurt our public schools,’ Floyd said in a statement.”
  • “‘Despite his long track record supporting school voucher schemes, Daniel Cameron purposely left them out of his education plan because he knows how wildly unpopular they are. Kentuckians don’t want to see taxpayer dollars taken out of public schools and given to unaccountable private schools,’ KDP spokesperson Anna Breedlove said.”