Erin Heers-McArdle caught a lot of flak for spending more than $9,000 during her first campaign for the Anoka-Hennepin school board. But the longtime disability rights activist knew she’d need a healthy war chest if she wanted to win in 2019.
“I was unseating a 20-year incumbent,” Heers-McArdle said.
All told, more than $16,000 poured into the election that would determine half of the board overseeing Minnesota’s largest school district that year. Fast forward to the next spate of races in 2021, and that sum more than tripled.
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