NEWS RELEASE
JUST THE FAX, MEDIA: #1
When will the NEA's $350,000 in
campaign funds be disclosed?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 10, 2000; four weeks before the election
Contact: Barbara Anderson (508-384-0100) or
Chip Ford (781-631-6842)
Campaign finance records released Thursday show that
groups backing Cellucci's tax cut have raised $350,000 in the past two weeks alone... Add that to the money
already in the rollback warchest, and you have enough for a television blitz in the weeks just before the
vote.... They are likely to be the only political ads you'll see.
MetroWest Daily News - Oct. 8, 2000
Question 4: Cuts state income tax rate to 5 percent
over three years:
A Promise to Keep 5% (supports question): $42,943
Tax Rollback Committee (supports question): $657,271
Yes on Four, No on Five (supports question): $174,000
Campaign for Massachusetts' Future (opposes question): $972,880
Associated Press - Oct. 9, 2000
Flush with cash from its newly imposed $5 national
dues increase, the National Education Association began spreading the wealth around ...
$350,000 to the Massachusetts Teachers Association to defeat two measures, Question 4 and Question
6.
Education Intelligence Agency - Oct. 2, 2000
We do not know what possessed the MetroWest reporter to look
at the finance records of only one side of the ballot campaign, but that daily today carried the AP story which listed all
reported contributions of both sides. AP reported that the three "Yes on 4" Committees have
raised $874,214 to the "No on 4" Committee's $972,880, so you can expect TV ads from
both sides. "No on 4" has apparently not yet reported the $350,000 coming in from the
National Education Association; we wonder when it will.