Protect our Kids

Just days before voters head to the polls for the June 3 primary, an independent expenditure is hitting the television airwaves with an advertisement slamming state Senate candidate Mark Leno on the issue of education.

“San Francisco Assemblyman Mark Leno Claims that he's for better schools,” an announcer says in the 30-second spot. “Yet in 2004, it was Leno who joined Republicans, and with one vote to spare, cut $3.1 billion from California schools. San Francisco and the North Bay lost $75 million in school funding. Leno's explanation: ‘Cutting the schools' money was the best deal we could get and I didn't lose my committee chairmanship.’ Mark Leno: Not exactly a profile in courage.”