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Douglas County School Board race neared $1 million in spending
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This story has been updated and corrected. Due to an error in the TRACER reporting system, an expenditure was listed incorrectly with contributions. The Douglas Schools for Douglas Kids independent expenditure committee did report spending $131,000 on campaign expenses in the weeks leading to the Nov. 8 election. __ Final campaign finance reports for the 2017…
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Cold, fog, sense of urgency accompany Douglas County voters to the polls
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PARKER – Mainstreet in Parker is busy with traffic this cold, foggy Tuesday Election Day in November. Kids out of school for the day are hanging out at the the McDonald’s just a block away. No one is waving signs or honking horns for the candidates. There isn’t a political sign to be seen for…
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Voter suppression complaints hitting both sides in Douglas County
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It must be Election Day because complaints about harassment and voter suppression in one of the nation’s most-watched school board elections have begun to surface. The campaign manager for a slate of conservative education reformers known as Elevate Douglas County charged that an independent expenditure committee, Douglas Schools for Douglas Kids, has been sending out…
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Elevate Douglas County slate insists it is not pro-voucher
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For the past three months, a slate of four candidates, known as Elevate Douglas County, has championed the issue of “school choice” as they prepare for Tuesday’s election. The term “school choice,” according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, is just one way to describe vouchers, which is the biggest issue for voters to…
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Gloves come off in DougCo’s hotly contested school board race
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Douglas County Republicans have come out swinging following news this week that a national teachers union has contributed $300,000 to an independent expenditure committee supporting a union-friendly slate of school board candidates in the upcoming election. The cash windfall comes from the American Federation of Teachers, whose local affiliate Douglas County Federation of Teachers lost…
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Fundraising for school board candidates show lopsided differences in Jeffco, DPS
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JEFFERSON COUNTY In Jeffco, school board candidate fundraising appears to be a tale of the haves and have nots. Two of the three incumbents on the school district’s board of education have out-raised their opponents by margins of at least 15 to 1. The third incumbent, board chair Ron Mitchell, raised almost $33,000 through last Friday,…
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Dollars starting to pour in for hotly contested Colorado school board races
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In the battle for two of the hottest school board races in Colorado, dollars are starting to flow in, just a little more than three weeks before Election Day. In Douglas County, an independent expenditure committee for the Colorado Republican Party has put in more than $20,000 into two advertising buys supporting the conservative education…
