Clark: position on school vouchers?

[dean4america]

On Crossfire, either Novak or the other Repub. was going on about Clark's positions --one's I already knew-- but then he said "and he's for school vouchers.

Is this true? Is Clark in favor of school vouchers?

(I don't want to get into a debate about school vouchers, I just want a yes/no answer).

[TakebackAmerica]

1. NO!!!!

Another lie by Mr. NOvak

[dsc]

6. It isn't a lie

He is in favor of them sometimes and hasn't defined when.

[Wonk]

2. It was Mike Pence, R-Indiana, who said it.

I don't know if it's true or not.

on edit: link to the GD thread on this.

[RageAgainstTheirMachine]

3. The Truth

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22452-2003Sep17.html

On school vouchers: "We've got to protect public education," but "there may be times and circumstances on an exceptional basis where vouchering makes sense."


He's very moderate on the issue ...

[renie408]

5. Great

So he is for school vouchers...sometimes. Way to take a stand.

[For PaisAn]

4. on the issues

Here's his official campaign website which doesn't yet detail where he stands on the issues, it's a new site.
http://www.americansforclark.com/index.php

Here are the 2 main draft site's issues pages which do show where he stands on many of the issues. I didn't see anything about school vouchers.
http://www.draftwesleyclark.com/on_the_issues.htm
http://www.draftclark2004.com/issues.asp

[dean4america]

7. thanks

thanks to those who responded in trying to clear this issue up - though it seems that Clark is for vouchers in some case, but generally against them. I wonder how he would have voted on DC vouchers? Wasn't the case made that it was special circumstance there?

while this wouldn't cause me not to vote for Clark in the general election or anything, I'm totally opposed to vouchers. He needs to clear up his position and explain what "sometimes" means.