UT Republicans say Money for Roads Before Education

In the Trib article "Transportation Tops GOP Priorities," legislators have explicitly stated that they want Utah's budget surplus to be spent on transportation projects first:

House Republicans have placed transportation at the front of the line for this year's hefty budget surplus - ahead of education and staff salaries.
And at a caucus meeting Thursday, their lead budget architect, Rep. Ron Bigelow, R-West Valley City, cautioned lawmakers to scrutinize every spending proposal not related to road construction.
"This is going to be a transportation year," Rep. Brad Dee, R-Washington Terrace, told the caucus.

Utah has the lowest per-student spending on kindergarten to Grade 12 education among the 50 states. The state also is facing an increase of more than 100,000 students over the next decade.
[Utah Education Association President Pat] Rusk points to numerous opinion polls, including a recent Tribune survey, that show taxpayers want most of the surplus to go to education, not transportation. In the Tribune survey, transportation came in fourth.

Whose priorities are out of line with their constituents? Rural Utahns don't need more roads - our transportation needs are covered. We do, however, need more teachers, higher pay for the teachers we have, and discretionary funds for district-specific projects (like, for instance, supplemental lunch program funds).

Will Huntsman stick to his pledge to allocate funds to teachers?