Corporations and business interests are digging deep to fund a drive to defeat a Nevada ballot measure that would tax commerce to fund education in a state near the bottom nationwide in per-pupil spending.Â
A Center for Public Integrity analysis made public Thursday finds opponents of Question 3, the Education Initiative, have spent more than $1.2 million on television ads.Â
That's more than four times the $314,000 spent so far by backers of the measure.Â
A group supporting Question 1, to establish an intermediate court to handle some appeals cases for the busy Nevada Supreme Court, have used about half the $200,000-plus they've raised from law firms and casinos to buy TV time.
The center's analysis didn't find TV spending for or against Question 2, a Nevada mining tax initiative.
(AP)
