It's clear that a lot of the school board campaign money is being given along party lines.
As noted in today's article, supporters of current board policies are getting a lot of backing from Democrats. Critics of current board policies are getting a lot of money from Republicans.
"I thought that maintaining diversity is very important for the county" said Wake County Commissioner Stan Norwalk on why he gave money to Rita Rakestraw and Lois Nixon.
Norwalk said it made sense for he and other Democrats to get involved once the Wake County Republican Party made the school board race such an important issue.
Norwalk isn't the only commissioner to step into the fray. Lindy Brown, Paul Coble and Tony Gurley also chose sides when they made campaign donations.
Allison Backhouse, a leader of the Wake Schools Community Alliance, considered it a marriage of convenience that so many Republicans gave money to the group and to the candidates it has endorsed.
BTW, I know there have been some comments about Rakestraw getting donations from the Washington D.C. area. The campaign's explanation for that is that Rakestraw's parents, Howard and Anne Romaine, are fairly well-known civil rights activists so the people who gave money were family friends.
