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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have other people seen the document circulating about Rhonda Henderson's campaign contributions, which are substantial?  Some locals in Ward 4 have been passing out the info.  An enormous amount of money is being poured into her campaign from CONSTRUCTION and DEVELOPERS!  Thousands of Dollars!  She is even being given money from LIQUOR companies.  And she is taking dark money from PACs and DFER.  Am I crazy that I didn't know that even in a super-local school board election there could be this type of corporate money flooding a candidate.  This woman is in the pocket of rich developers fighting for the contracts to build new charter schools.

The document, which I can't attach on here, explains that many of the maxed out individual contributors come from construction owners, outside developers, charter school executives, and even Brandon Todd's staff.  Just takes some googling.  Her report for election finance is below:

https://efiling.ocf.dc.gov/ReportSummaries/Download/16840/Donor/PCCSD4187087_October10thReport_2018_Amendment1_Contributions_Donor.pdf[/quote]

I've noticed this up and down the ballot, from ANC races to Council. The story of 2018 is that Bowser tried to institute "machine" style politics, she raised millions of dollars and basically had nowhere to spend it. So she instructed her big donors to help out her hand-picked candidates down the ballot.

I doubt that the construction industry or liquor lobbyists care who's on the School Board. But they do have substantial business before the city and need to maintain good relations with the Mayor. [/quote]

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