{"id":12580,"date":"2012-10-31T15:48:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T21:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=12580"},"modified":"2012-11-01T17:59:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T23:59:20","slug":"bloomberg-albertsons-heir-donated-to-pro-props-1-2-3-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/10\/31\/bloomberg-albertsons-heir-donated-to-pro-props-1-2-3-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC&#8217;s Mayor Bloomberg, Albertsons&#8217; Heir Donate To Pro-Props 1, 2, 3 Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12586\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 594px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"According to documents released today, Mike Bloomberg donated $200,000 in support of the Students Come First laws, which will be put to a vote next Tuesday.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/10-31-Mike-Bloomberg1.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12586\" title=\"10-31 Bloomberg\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/10-31-Mike-Bloomberg1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/10-31-Mike-Bloomberg1.jpg 594w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/10-31-Mike-Bloomberg1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Bruce Bennett \/ Getty Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">According to documents released today, Mike Bloomberg donated $200,000 in support of the Students Come First laws, which will be put to a vote next Tuesday.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>We originally reported that Foster Friess donated $50,000 to Education Voters of Idaho.\u00a0 He gave $25,000.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Right now, the question in the mind of every Idaho journalist is: Why did New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg give $200,000 to a campaign supporting Idaho&#8217;s controversial <a title=\"What Idaho Voters Need To Know About Propositions 1, 2, And 3\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/propositions-1-2-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Students Come First laws<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg is among the donors listed on Education Voters of Idaho&#8217;s disclosure form, which was filed with the Secretary of State&#8217;s office today.\u00a0 Also on the list are<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/blogs\/boise\/2011\/feb\/19\/albertsons-heir-made-millions-k12-inc-promotes-it-idaho-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Albertsons&#8217; heir and online education investor Joseph B. Scott<\/a>, who contributed $250,000, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/09\/us\/politics\/foster-friess-a-deep-pocketed-santorum-super-pac-backer.html\" target=\"_blank\">Foster Friess, a prominent donor to conservative causes and candidates<\/a>.\u00a0 Friess donated $25,000.<\/p>\n<p>Education Voters of Idaho released its donor list today, after Idaho Secretary of State Ben Ysursa filed a suit to force disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of donors is <a href=\"http:\/\/sos.idaho.gov\/elect\/Finance\/2012\/Oct10\/PAC\/EducationVotersID.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We originally reported that Foster Friess donated $50,000 to Education Voters of Idaho.\u00a0 He gave $25,000. Right now, the question in the mind of every Idaho journalist is: Why did New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg give $200,000 to a campaign supporting Idaho&#8217;s controversial Students Come First laws? Bloomberg is among the donors listed on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":12586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[138,24,206],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12585,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580\/revisions\/12585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}