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Wake County school board candidate Venita Peyton only raised $1,645 in unsuccessful run

Submitted by KeungHui on 02/02/2012 - 10:00
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Wake County school board candidate Venita Peyton raised less than $1,700 in her underfunded and unsuccessful campaign bid last year.

Her last campaign report filed Monday makes it hard to tell what she got. But if you combine it with this prior one, it shows Peyton raised $1.645 and spent $1.529.96. Democratic school board member Keith Sutton raised $33,327 and spent $32,484.31 to win the seat he was first appointed to in 2009.

Peyton, who received 19 percent of the vote, was the only one of the five Republican-backed school board candidates who didn't get a donation from Art Pope or Bob Luddy. Both men gave donations to the other four GOP-backed candidates, who also lost last fall.

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I think it shameful

Sat, 02/04/2012 - 07:30 — VillageMentality

They didn't support her

BARRY WHITE...

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 20:46 — ClearThinker

...is dead...like your humor!

Sounds like...

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 11:12 — bpuli9999

the most bang for the buck! Wonder why the big republican donors did not donate to her campaign?

Because they'd rather have Barry White

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 14:53 — FSandYOU

and his scarf collection, instead of someone who really wants to improve the situation.

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T. Keung Hui covers Wake schools.
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