This thread discusses the Content article: Tell public how state selection committee voted

One of your statements is very misleading. Remember "The Truth, the WHOLE truth..."

"The other six are supposed to represent education sectors, such as teachers and local school boards."

"Supposed to" may be technically accurate, but not necessarily. You neglected to state that one of those six is to represent charter schools. That sounds fair. They should be represented. However the majority of charter proponents are charter proponents only because they can't get tax dollars for their own private school (i.e. voucher supporters with no affinity to regular public schools).

With six "business" representatives, who can easily be selected because of being voucher supporters, and six "education" representatives, one of which is very likely to oppose regular public schools, it is VERY probable that the only candidates that will be nominated to the governor will be voucher supporters (most of whom are ANTI-public education).

That in fact happened in the north Utah County board member race when the sitting board member was not nominated at all and only voucher supporters were.

Chuck,

While it might not be the openness that you claim you desire, it does give the voucher people at least a toe hold on the overbearing and very agressive special interest group, the UEA.

In most groups, one would logically suspect that unless they have an underlying and unifying reason, that their would be some division amongst them in their positions.

ANY group, powerful enough politically to override the properly elected legislature, which is supposed to represent the will of the people no less, probably has one of these fairly strong unifying reasons, wouldn't you say? I think so!

So, what is that unifying reason? Could it be control of an essentially monopolized industry? Again, I suspect so. One where competition is not the name of the game, but where longevity and control are.

I for one, am sick and tired of being manipulated by UEA and their selfish and self centered interests. In this case, they should have been declared a conflict of interest, accepted the will of the people through our legislature and let the voucher issue happen. But, they didn't.

If you think that the recent past actions of the UEA have garnered any support from the general public, you are soooo misguided!

From: One angry "general population" person.

To: One angry "general population" person,

What a stretch of logic (or lack thereof). You guys don't get it, do you. You think UEA defeated it. It was defeated because it was a bad bill and not in the interests of Utah. The PEOPLE defeated it. If UEA were that powerful, why can't they defeat these legislators too? The PEOPLE want Republicans (as I do) but NOT vouchers!

If you consider it unbiasedly, vouchers is contrary to true conservative thought. We spend taxes to provide AN (one) education system that all MAY take advantage of (rather than a subsidy for individual students). To take additional taxes to subsidize a private school, which will also bring them under government control, is NOT REPUBLICAN philosophy!