With Election Day looming, there’s another political action committee focused on education in town.
The Horizon PAC, the group behind the Facebook page “Saveourpublicschools,” has been launching attacks on UnifiEd, a local education advocacy group with its own political action committee, for weeks.
In the past month, Horizon has spent more than $22,000 on advertising – in the Times Free Press and with Strategic Media 21. The group has also paid for several ads on Facebook, denouncing UnifiEd and endorsing Hamilton County school board candidate Joe Smith and Joseph Graham for the Hamilton County Commission District 6 seat.
Though Horizon has publicly endorsed several school board, county commission and a mayoral candidate in newspaper advertisements, some of those who have been endorsed said they had no conversation with the group about an endorsement.
Smith, incumbent school board candidate in District 3, has gained support of the group but said he “hadn’t received any money from them” and “hadn’t sought their endorsement.”