March 18, 2022. These bills are officially dead.
Update: Feb 25: Hold the Happy Dance.
In two days, radio talker and part time conservative Erick Erickson has flipped from condemning the Federation for Children for sending the below mentioned flyer attacking Republicans who opposed the “school choice” HB 999 to doing exactly that himself. He is now urging voters to call TReps to revive the bill that does not exclude illegal alien students or illegal aliens parents from participating in the $6 k a yr K-12 scholarship. Neither is he telling listeners that it was the Federation for Children who supplied the model language for Cantrell’s bills.
Happy Dance here!
With special “thanks for the help!”” to Christy Riggins and Cory DeAngelis
More tomorrow. But HB 999 is dead and so is HB 60. To see our educational work on these bills use the search box and bill numbers on this website. An even more extensive list of groups that lobbied for these bills and cosponsors coming soon as well.
Related: More on Rep Wes Cantrell’s HB 60 & HB 999 – his secret verification system will not work
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An “educational” lobbying group killed their own legislation through direct mail, according to the AJC.
“A national advocacy group promoting school vouchers bombarded conservative Georgia voters with glossy mailers tying their Republican state legislator to Stacey Abrams and other “radical left” figures. It backfired in spectacular fashion.
Just days after the American Federation for Children financed the mailers in about 16 Republican-controlled legislative districts, House Speaker David Ralston told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the voucher proposal the group sought to pass is dead for the year.”
