<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">This, in my opinion, is simply a delay tactic to delay the decision until after November 6th when its impact is virtually nullified and the matter is swept under the proverbial rug with the rest of the ever-increasing pile of legislative crap.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of KHQ at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/9otdavy">http://tinyurl.com/9otdavy</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------</div><div><p orgfontsize="12px" style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "></p><h3 class="" orgfontsize="16px" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both; "><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Courts mull bid to move Idaho disclosure lawsuit</span></font></h3><p></p><p orgfontsize="12px" style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho judicial officials are assessing demands by a group promoting public school chief Tom Luna's education overhaul to shift the legal fight over its donors' identities to federal court from state court.</span></p><p orgfontsize="12px" style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mid-Friday morning, a 1:30 p.m. hearing at Boise's Ada County Courthouse was still possible - but court officials said that could change quickly.</span></p><p orgfontsize="12px" style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Late Thursday, Christ Troupis, the lawyer for Education Voters of Idaho, filed paperwork to move Secretary of State Ben Ysursa's lawsuit to U.S. District Court, from 4th District Court in Boise.</span></p><p orgfontsize="12px" style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ysursa has demanded that EVI disclose the identities of donors of more than $200,000 to broadcast ads promoting public schools chief Tom Luna's education reforms.</span></p><p orgfontsize="12px" style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Troupis argues federal court is the appropriate venue to handle his client's constitutional claims that Ysursa's disclosure demands violate their free-speech rights.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><img src="cid:B738844E-693F-479A-AF6B-7F38B82777FF" alt="image.jpeg" id="B738844E-693F-479A-AF6B-7F38B82777FF" width="330" height="222"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div>Seeya at the polls, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."</div><div><br></div><div>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>