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IthinkThereforeIAM

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14. Yep, Pat Robertson had a PAC that gave money to local school board candidates...

Tue Nov 2, 2021, 02:47 PM

Nov 2021

... so they could afford advertising and therefore name recognition on the ballots. Of course, the campaign money only went to those with his ideology/political leanings. It doesn't take much money to run a, "big", campaign in local school board elections.

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