Not Yet Out Foxed

By Kleinheider Posted on July 18, 2008 at 7:07 am

Amy Griffith reports that the big money being raised in the District 9 school board race is by no means a record - yet:

Alan Coverstone has raised more than $32,000, as of the end of June, according to publicly released figures. Lee Limbird has raised $23,000. Even Paul Brenner — who with about $8,000 comes in third in District 9 in terms of dollars raised — is working with significantly more than candidates for any other Nashville school board race this year.

Those aren’t necessarily record-setting figures, at least not yet. In 2006, for example, Hillsboro school board member David Fox, by his own account, raised about $63,000 in his campaign to unseat incumbent Kathleen Harkey.

Coverstone, for one, says his level of fund raising is a matter of wanting to operate a professional campaign. He referred to a conversation with former Board of Education chair Betsy Walkup, in which he says he was advised to run a campaign serious enough to reflect the importance of public education.

“Schools are every bit as important as Congress and every other level of government,” Coverstone said.

SEE ALSO: Extended WSMV interviews with the school board candidates.

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Tags: Alan Coverstone, David Fox, James Lech, Kathleen Harkey, Lee Limbird  

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