KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – School officials say do your homework before voting next month.
While some candidates are spending millions on ads, most local candidates, the ones who may have the biggest impact locally, are getting little or no media exposure.
Voters may be familiar with the positions of the Gubernatorial candidates, but they will also be filling county board seats, judgeships and school boards among others, and that sharp divisions in national politics have seeped into some of those races too.
And now there is reportedly a slate of school board candidates in Portage funded and trained by an ultra right wing PAC. Kalamazoo parent Sheri Weber told the Kalamazoo Public School Board of Education last week that’s very close to home.
Kalamazoo Public Schools Board of Education candidate Karla Murphy says there are also candidates in other districts running with political agendas.
School Trustee Ken Greschak says there may be more at stake than usual this time at the polls.
They say it’s not just important that voters turn out, but that they know where the candidates stand. It may take some research and work, but they say being informed will prevent votes from being wasted, or worse, work against interests.
(reporting by John McNeill)
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