PHOENIX — Backers of an initiative to reform the state’s universal voucher program want a judge to rule that Republican lawmakers are illegally trying to give voters a biased view of what their measure would do.
In a new lawsuit, lawyers for the committee pushing the Protect Education Act say Arizona law requires the lawmakers on the Legislative Council to craft an “impartial analysis” of any proposal being sent to voters. That they said, is a synopsis written in clear and concise terms, not tinged with partisan coloring, and free from misleading verbiage whether by adding things not in the measure or leaving out material facts.
But attorney Bo Dul said what was approved earlier this month on a party-line vote by the Republican members of the council — all of whom oppose the initiative — falls short.
