Attorney General Rejects Sinquefield's Money and Pro-Voucher Agenda
JEFFERSON CITY, MO -- Attorney General Jay Nixon today applauded the Missouri Education Roundtable for calling on all candidates to reject contributions from pro-voucher advocate and millionaire Rex Sinquefield or any of his 100 Political Action Committees. Attorney General Nixon has never accepted money from Mr. Sinquefield or his PACs and today pledged never to do so in the future.
Last month, the Education Roundtable issued a press release calling on candidates to reject contributions from Rex Sinquefield's Political Action Committee. Read the Education Roundtable release here.
In a letter sent today to the Education Roundtable, Attorney General Nixon wrote:
"I am proud to respond to your courageous call on all candidates for Missouri public office to reject contributions from millionaire Rex Sinquefield. I have never accepted money from Mr. Sinquefield or any of his Political Action Committees, and I certainly never will. Mr. Sinquefield's pro-voucher agenda undermines our public school system and as a product of Missouri's public schools, I believe we must strengthen our school system, not weaken it."Not only do I strongly oppose Mr. Sinquefield's anti-public school agenda, I also oppose the manner in which he's chosen to advance that agenda. Instead of competing with the merits of his ideas, Mr. Sinquefeld has chosen to circumvent the spirit of the campaign finance system by establishing 100 PACs that all have the same objective: funneling contributions to candidates who support a pro-voucher agenda." |
