Commentary on Sarah Manski's Sudden School Board Candidacy Withdrawal

The Capital Times:

Sarah Manski did the right thing when she quit the race for an open Madison School Board seat just days after finishing first in the Feb. 19 primary. Manski's strong primary finish had positioned her as the front-runner in the general election April 2. But after she learned that her husband had been accepted for graduate school in California, she recognized that it is not appropriate to seek a term of office she could not complete.

Manski brought to the race big ideas and a commitment to build real coalitions to expand and improve upon Madison's support for public education. She was relentless, and right, in her unequivocal rejection of Gov. Scott Walker's cuts to school funding and assaults on local democracy. That's why she won more than 45 percent of the vote in the primary.

Much more on the 2013 Madison School Board elections, here.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 28, 2013 1:30 AM
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