Is There a Slate Running for Seattle School Board?
Update: I am hearing that not only do Clark, Mizrahi, and Song seem to be a slate but joining them is Carol Rava, one of two candidates in D7. Word is that the Four are showing up at events together and they appear to be the only Seattle School Board candidates invited. More details in my next post on my visit to the Public Disclosure Commission to check donations and who is supporting whom. end of update Way back in 2002, there was a Seattle School Board election with the majority of seats (4) up. That majority was made up of business-types who had overseen the death of John Stanford and then, the financial scandal of his CFO who became superintendent after Stanford. That would be one Joe Olchefske. Voters were urged to stay the course with that Board majority. Four strong but completely different women ran against them. Somehow, along the way, those four women became a slate and that slate overturned that majority. It was a pretty thrilling election and it was...