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Group promoting Idaho schools reform wants disclosure case moved to federal court

by The Associated Press

BOISE -- A group seeking to avoid being forced to reveal donors whose $200,000 financed TV ads promoting public schools chief Tom Luna's education overhaul filed a request Thursday to move the case to federal court. 

The effort by Education Voters of Idaho came just hours before a state judge in Boise is scheduled Friday to consider Secretary of State Ben Ysursa's demand that the group disclose its donors. 

Education Voters of Idaho, whose founders include Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter's campaign manager, Debbie Field, and former Gov. Dirk Kempthorne's chief of staff, Phil Reberger, contributed more than $200,350 to a related political action committee, Parents for Education Reform, for broadcast advertising meant to help save the 

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