Stand for Children did everything they could to buy a school board. They called in an airstrike of money from their national office, putting more money into some races through an independent expenditure committee than the candidates even raised themselves. They hired canvassers and sent them as “volunteers” to campaign headquarters, maybe in violation of state law. And they may have even attempted to coordinate PAC activity with candidates during the last days of the campaign, a definite no-no. (WSMV caught it on camera.) Alas, all that money went down the drain when Nashville voters rejected each of Stand’s candidates for the board, including Jackson Miller, the opponent of Stand’s most vociferous critic, Will Pinkston. The Registry of Election Finance is investigating. Maybe there’s hope for the electoral process yet in a post-Citizens United world. STEVE CAVENDISH
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