Capo election spending soars, topping $374,000
October 30, 2010 Filed in:
Elections
Scott Martindale, The Orange County
Register Capistrano
Unified's teachers union has poured $261,863 into the district's
school board election to date, including $67,040 this week alone,
while its chief political rival, the Committee to Reform CUSD, has
continued to lag behind, reporting no spending over $1,000 in the
past two weeks. With spending by the union's ally – the Capistrano
Unified Children First group – factored in, overall spending by
these groups is outpacing the Reform Committee's spending by more
than a 16 to 1 margin. Total spending by the two sides has reached
$374,674, with the teachers union responsible for spending about 70
cents of every dollar...