Bell-Metereau, Jennings beneficiaries of ongoing grassroots fundraising wildfire, fueled by discontent of current SBOE
Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Rebecca's Blog, State Board of Education
(Austin) Fueled in large part by months-long messy attempts by the current State Board of Education to ignore the advice of teachers and experts, instead opting for ideology- and partisan-based attacks on quality public education, in the last 48 hours the Democrats running for two SBOE seats have gotten a big financial boost from those upset with the current Board.
The infusion of campaign funding this week helps continue the already-existing trend of the two Democrats’ fundraising advantage over their Republican opponents.
In fact, small-dollar contributions raised online for the two Democrats over the past 48 hours alone have exceeded the total ...