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ARIZONA CAPITOL TIMES CONTRIBUTING ARTICLE

BY JEREMY DUDA

K-12 Settlement Campaign Could Raise Millions

Anyone wondering how the special election campaign for who will serve as the Prop. 123 campaign manager, said $3
Proposition 123, the agreement to settle the long-running million to
K-12 funding lawsuit, will shape up should look to 2010 for $4 million is a “reasonable target” for the campaign’s
guidance. fundraising efforts.
That year, voters went to the polls in a special election “It’s going to be well-funded, well-organized. It’s going
to approve Proposition 100, a temporary 1-cent sales tax to be made up of not just leaders in the business community
increase pushed by then-Gov. Jan Brewer to bridge the and in the education community, but you’re going to see
devastating fiscal crisis facing Arizona at the time. The teachers and parents and grandparents, everybody who
Brewer-led campaign raised more than $2.4 million in has an interest in putting more money into education,
trouncing the poorly funded opposition campaign, which everybody who has an interest what happens in the
raised a paltry $995, including in-kind contributions, and classroom. Everybody’s going to be involved,” Twist said.
garnered only about one-third of the vote. “I think you’re going to see a campaign that is very large in
Now, many of the business and education groups that
contributed to the success of Prop. 100 are expected to line CONTINUED ON PAGE 38
up behind Prop. 123. J.P. Twist, an aide to Gov. Doug Ducey

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