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Ed group discloses donors, including Bloomberg

JOHN MILLER, Associated Press, TODD DVORAK, Associated Press

Published 4:45 p.m., Wednesday, October 31, 2012

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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho nonprofit group forced to disclose the identity of its donors on Wednesday reported collecting more than $640,000 from a short list of contributors that includes New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Albertson's supermarket heir Joe Scott, according to documents filed with the state.

Bloomberg and Scott are easily the two biggest contributors spelled out in disclosure forms filed by Education Voters of Idaho. Bloomberg gave $200,000 and Scott ponied up $250,000.

EVI had fought to keep its financial supporters secret after the group gave more than $200,000 to pay for campaign ads promoting Propositions 1,2 and 3 — the new education laws that are subject to a voter referendum on Nov. 6.

But Secretary of State Ben Ysursa bristled at the group's activities, and filed a lawsuit in state court seeking to have the donors disclosed in keeping with Idaho's 1974 Sunshine

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