There was once a time when a school board election involved a couple of yard signs and some handshaking at PTA meetings. Tuesday's election shows that those kinds of campaigns are a thing of the past in Colorado Springs School District 11 and Lewis-Palmer School District 38. Instead of individuals representing and financing themselves, those races were polarized with opposing slates of candidates funded primarily by outside committees that contributed well beyond what the candidates could raise on their own. These kinds of races aren't unique, experts say. "That dynamic is happening all over the place," said Luis Toro, director of Colorado Ethics Watch. Read more on Colorado Springs Gazette...
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