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A record $1.02 million spent on state superintendent race, 80% of it by liberal groups. By Wisconsin Democracy Campaign - Apr 13th, 2021 03:34 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Jill Underly. Photo courtesy of Underly for Wisconsin.
Outside election spending by special interest groups in this spring’s race for state school superintendent topped $1 million – a record, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign preliminary review found.
Pecatonica Area School Superintendent
Jill Underly, who was backed by Democratic-leaning groups and contributors in the nonpartisan April 6 race, defeated
Deborah Kerr, a retired Brown Deer School District superintendent, who was backed by GOP-leaning groups and contributors.
Eight outside groups spent $1.02 million in the race, which sharply surpassed the previous record of $693,722 in the 2009 contest for state school superintendent.
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Most of special interest spending for spring election is for state school superintendent race. By Wisconsin Democracy Campaign - Mar 17th, 2021 09:47 am //end headline wrapper ?>Cash. (CC0 Creative Commons).
Seven special interest groups have spent more than $800,000 as of Monday morning on outside electioneering activities in the state school superintendent race and in two special legislative elections.
The regular spring and special elections are three weeks away, on April 6.
In the so-called “nonpartisan” race for state school superintendent, Pecatonica Area School Superintendent
Deborah Kerr, a retired Brown Deer schools superintendent.
A Better Wisconsin Together and the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC), two groups which back Democrats in partisan legislative and statewide elections, have dropped $481,165 to support Underly or oppose Kerr.