My first, and fortunately, only time I heard Mr. Nonini speak was during a meeting with a group of teachers. He was promoting Mr. Luna’s ideas about crushing teachers’ associations. I was blown away by Nonini’s rudeness, arrogance, and obvious hatred for teachers rights to negotiate. For a elected servant to talk so harshly and with so much venom to the public was the first example of years of him disrespecting and attacking public education in Idaho.

His plan to take taxpayers’ money from public schools and channel it to religious schools has already been deemed unconstitutional. Even though he knows this is illegal he is planning another attempt to further de-fund public schools by siphoning taxpayer funds away to religious schools, under the guise of a voucher system. Mr. Nonini apparently feels his schemes are above the Idaho Constitution. My question is why would anyone vote for someone that is planning to ignore the constitution of our state in order to put a financial hurt on public schools and students? Please, vote for anyone but Nonini.

RUSS BOHN

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