Big Money, Bad Media, Secret Agendas: Welcome to America's Wildest School Board Race

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http://www.nationofchange.org/big-money-bad-media-secret-agendas-welcome-america-s-wildest-school-board-race-1319290076

School board elec­tions are sup­posed to be quin­tes­sen­tial Amer­ica con­tests. Moms and Main Street small-busi­ness own­ers and re­tired teach­ers cam­paign by knock­ing on doors, writ­ing let­ters to the ed­i­tor and de­bat­ing at el­e­men­tary schools. Then friends and neigh­bors troop to the polls and make their choices.

But what hap­pens when all the patholo­gies of na­tional pol­i­tics—over-the-top spend­ing by wealthy elites and cor­po­rate in­ter­ests, par­ti­san con­sul­tants jet­ting in to shape big-lie mes­sag­ing, media out­lets that cover spin rather than sub­stance—are vis­ited on a local school board con­test?

Emily Sirota is find­ing out.

The mom of 10-month-old Isaac, Sirota’s a so­cial worker and com­mu­nity or­ga­nizer with a de­gree from the Uni­ver­sity of Den­ver and a his­tory of work­ing in the com­mu­nity. She’s run­ning for a seat rep­re­sent­ing south­east Den­ver on the city’s school board in one of three school board con­tests that the city’s vot­ers will de­cide No­vem­ber 1.

If Sirota wins, her elec­tion would in all like­li­hood shift con­trol of the non­par­ti­san board, which is cur­rently split 4–3 in favor of so-called “re­form­ers,” who crit­ics de­scribe as “the forces try­ing to char­ter-ize, voucher-ize and pri­va­tize pub­lic schools.”

[Scuba]

1. Fighting back at the grass roots. n/t

[annabanana]

2. My Sister is in this district.. Emily is getting buried in RW $$

And much of the electorate is paying about as much attention to the facts of the matter in Denver as they are all around the Country..

i.e.: NOT ENOUGH