'Voters in Wake County, N.C. headed to the polls yesterday in high numbers to reject a slate of conservative Republican Board of Education candidates who opposed a longstanding diversity policy aimed at avoiding high-poverty and racially-isolated schools'.
'The big win for Democrats and desegregation represents a big loss for conservative benefactor Art Pope, who served as the architect of the 2009 school board election that saw an anti-diversity Republican majority win control of the officially nonpartisan body, and who along with his political network backed yesterday's losing candidates'.
'Pope is one of the most influential money men in North Carolina politics and is a close national ally of the billionaire Koch brothers'.
From : http://www.southernstudies.org/2011/10/nc-voters-reject-pope-backed-candidates-in-local-school-board-battle-over-resegregation.html
Maybe we CAN make a difference.
It doesn't HAVE to be about the money.
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