{"id":158,"date":"2004-04-03T19:50:41","date_gmt":"2004-04-03T19:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2004-04-03T19:50:41","modified_gmt":"2004-04-03T19:50:41","slug":"local_power_politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Local Power Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:gHFqTtlOxSwJ:www.cato.org\/campaignfinance\/images\/picture.jpg\"><br \/>\nIncumbent Seat 5 School Board Candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruthrobarts.com\">Ruth Robarts<\/a> forwarded me a note today that outlined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;ie=ISO-8859-1&#038;q=%22MTI+Voters%22&#038;btnG=Search\">MTI Voters<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madisonteachers.org\/\">Madison Teachers, Inc.<\/a> PAC) expenditures on behalf of her opponent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olsonforschoolboard.com\/\">Alix Olson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=ISO-8859-1&#038;q=madison%2C+wi+radio+stations&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">Radio<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>$3656.00\n<li>$2700\n<li>$150\n<li>$3390\n<li>$500<\/ul>\n<li>Newspaper Ads:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.badgerherald.com\/\">Badger Herald<\/a>: $192.00\n<li>Capital Newspapers  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/pdf\/042004\/lee2003-10k.pdf\">[286K 10-K PDF]<\/a>: $3,341\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycardinal.com\/\">Daily Cardinal<\/a>: $152\n<li>Latino Newspaper (did not get the title): $114<\/ul>\n<li>Flyers: $2,767<\/ul>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  This looks like a rather expensive election. Olson has raised nearly twice as much money as Robarts, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/election\/\">recent campaign finance disclosure filings<\/a>. MTI Voters had $47K on hand according to their March 25, 2004 campaign finance disclosure filing [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.madison.wi.us\/clerk\/CampFin\/2004\/MTI1.pdf\">116K PDF<\/a>].<br \/>\nThis campaign reminds me of Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold&#8217;s 1998 race vs. Mark Neumann.  The Republican&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/shields&#038;gigot\/october98\/sg_10-30.html\">spent millions in soft (PAC) money<\/a> in an effort to defeat Feingold (it should be noted that the Democrats planned to do the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/election98\/news\/spend.asp\">same but stopped after Feingold objected<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incumbent Seat 5 School Board Candidate Ruth Robarts forwarded me a note today that outlined MTI Voters (Madison Teachers, Inc. PAC) expenditures on behalf of her opponent, Alix Olson: Radio $3656.00 $2700 $150 $3390 $500 Newspaper Ads: Badger Herald: $192.00 Capital Newspapers [286K 10-K PDF]: $3,341 Daily Cardinal: $152 Latino Newspaper (did not get the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}