Good evening. Im belva davis, and welcome to this week in northern california. Joining us is lisa krueger, science reporter. And regional political reporter. And cory cook, political scientist. Cory, lets start with you. You teach this stuff, you study this stuff. Tell us, what are we seeing that is so new this year . I think the sheer amount of money were talking about is new. You had in september alone both mitt romney and president obama raised the most money individually than the two candidates spent in 2004 combined. On the president ial level, were talking about 2 or 3 billion spent for a local election, magnitudes increase over previous years. Give us the roots. A lot comes from outside groups. Our new Campaign Finance system encourages groups to spend money despite the campaigns. American crossroads is an organization started by car carl rove which allows them to runny tv commercials they want, but they also have a group gps, a nonprofit dedicated to social welfare, which means
Good evening. Im belva davis, and welcome to this week in northern california. Joining us is lisa krueger, science reporter. And regional political reporter. And cory cook, political scientist. Cory, lets start with you. You teach this stuff, you study this stuff. Tell us, what are we seeing that is so new this year . I think the sheer amount of money were talking about is new. You had in september alone both mitt romney and president obama raised the most money individually than the two candidates spent in 2004 combined. On the president ial level, were talking about 2 or 3 billion spent for a local election, magnitudes increase over previous years. Give us the roots. A lot comes from outside groups. Our new Campaign Finance system encourages groups to spend money despite the campaigns. American crossroads is an organization started by car carl rove which allows them to runny tv commercials they want, but they also have a group gps, a nonprofit dedicated to social welfare, which means
NEWFANE — An interim superintendent of Newfane Central School District has been appointed while the search for a new, permanent superintendent gets underway.