Growth Club launches the Texas Campaign to Strengthen the Choice of School – The Dallas Morning News

Austin – the conservative advocacy group growth club launches a campaign for television, printing houses and digital advertising on Thursday to put pressure on lawmakers in the Texas House to support the school choice bill that will put dollars on taxpayers to private education at school.

Thehe Texas Senate accepted its version of the legislationSenate was 2, Wednesday night.

“Now, the ONUS is falling to the State House of Texas to adopt this legislation without compromise,” said David Makintosh, a Club president for growth. “Home legislators must be united to pass SB 2 without compromising or reducing its universal nature. School freedom should be for every student in Texas, not just for some. “

The growth club declined to reveal how much it spends on the campaign, calling it six -digit efforts that can exceed $ 1 million, depending on its impact.

The campaign began on Thursday with an entire page ad in Austin American State Encourage voters to tell state legislators to support the Greg Abbot School selection plan. Additional ads will be held on Friday and Sunday, said a growth club.

Television commercials will start broadcasting during the national political talk show on Sundays in the markets in Dallas, Austin, Houston, San Antonio and Wako.

The 30-second place begins with a narrator who praises Texas as # 1 in oil and gas production, job creation and innovation. Then?

“Texas must be # 1 in the education of our children,” says Abbot in a clip taken by his state address on Sunday. “Parents should be empowered to choose the school that is best for their child.”

Advertising ends with Abbott, saying, “We have to go into the school choice of this session,” as the text seems to encourage viewers to call their legislators.

The sb 2 switched on Wednesday, creating a $ 1 billion voucher program in Texas, noted the sixth time when the Senate accepted a school choice bill just to see the efforts to fail in the House of opposition to Democrats and Rural Republicans.

All 11 democratic senators voted against SB 2, stating that this could endanger the cost of public schools and is not fair to rural communities that do not have access to private schools.

Lieutenant Dan Patrick, who chaired the Senate, swore on Wednesday Senators, “will pass a school selection again and again until the house passes this bill.”

The digital campaign of the growth club will include efforts to mobilize voters in the districts of 29 Republican representatives of the state.

Growth Action Club – Super Pac of the Organization – and its ally the Freedom Fund for the Super Pac School School spent nearly $ 8.5 million in last year’s primers to refer to home republicans who opposed the choice of school.

Makintosh said that political action committees are ready to spend more on future primers.

“If any Republican opposes governor Abbot and spins to their constituents,” he writes in a Texas Scorecard Op-ED“The Fund for Action of the Growth and School Freedom Club are ready to engage.”