Big-time, outside money has spread across Kansas elections for years but it hasn’t, until now, attempted to influence the most grassroots and least national-issue driven of all elections — the vote to choose who sits on a local schoolboard.
In Kansas, candidates do not run as the nominee of a political party, but as local citizens. All schoolboard elections are nonpartisan. So, it is surprising that a national Political Action Committee is taking an interest in who will sit on our schoolboards come November.
The 1776 Project PAC is backing as many…
