After Mr. Estes lost a local school board election the twice-a-week Pecos Independent and Enterprise began digging into his dealings, and its revelations were the beginning of Mr. Estes's downfall.
In the school board election last June Mr Riordan drew on his own money and that of his circle of wealthy friends to back four candidates, one an existing board-member and the other three newcomers, with the aim of getting a majority who shared his impatience with the state of the schools.
As easy and fun as it is to talk about morning TV ratings as a middle school student council election, how viewers feel toward Guthrie vs.
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"The people of Bridgeport were robbed of their opportunity to vote on their locally elected school board in an election set only months after the takeover, " said Josephine Miller, a lawyer who represented four of the plaintiffs.
The changes have been in the pipeline since the launch of the free-school programme after the general election of 2010.
And with the election to the school board, which they also helped to finance, they have taken to intervening in parish-pump politics.
Many students who volunteered their time to keep the massive event from devolving into chaos Wednesday quietly expressed hope that a trend was developing, and that the Atlantic Coast Conference school would become a regular election-year stopping point for presidential hopefuls.
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Labour has selected Lindsay Roy, the 59-year-old rector of Kirkcaldy High School, as its by-election candidate.
Professor RICK HASEN (Election Expert, Loyola Law School): I fear that this opinion is a green light for legislators to try and gain an electoral advantage.
The first test will be next--the election next year for the school board and challengers are already mounting campaigns against four conservative board members who are running.
Anam Mansuri, one voter there, said that election officials at Neelumm Public School near the upscale Zamzama market inked peoples' fingers Saturday morning, a precaution to prevent double voting.
Milwaukee also suggests vouchers can be a competitive spur: in April, supporters of the city's voucher programme, led by Mr Gardner, won a bitter election to seats on the school board.
The head teacher said that it had soon become apparent that the visit would be used to launch the general election - and that the school had been willing to be used "for a speech to the nation".
The ruling puts a school system already in flux into an even bigger state of uncertainty, calling for the reinstatement of five of the nine ousted school board members and for a special election to fill the four seats that were up for re-election in November 2011.
There are no qualifications for election, not even a primary school diploma.
Campaigning Tuesday in New Hampshire for next week's primary, he told students at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton that the stakes in the election are too high to spend time and money on such attacks.
That may be what some members of the old school of Thai politics want, hoping that the election commission will be discredited.
Election expert Rick Hasen of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles filed a brief in the case and was disappointed at the outcome.
She also urged all parties to sign up to a 10-year school sports plan, stretching beyond the next general election, to ensure stability.
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At the last general election Labour made pledges on cutting primary school class sizes, introducing legislation for a Welsh Assembly in the first year, cutting NHS waiting lists by an extra 100, 000, getting 250, 000 under-25s off benefit and into work (around 13, 000 in Wales), and setting tough rules for government spending and borrowing.
The law in Florida seems clear and unclear at the same time, according to Terence Anderson, an expert in election law at the University of Miami Law School.
"It is likely that the government will go into the next election having presided over an increase in secondary school class sizes during a period when the government's top priority has been education, " said the general secretary, John Dunford.
Republicans, faced with an opponent who stood for long-term fiscal rectitude, decreased gas prices and the Lee Marvin school of foreign policy, would be dumbstruck and forfeit the next election.
Tsang Yok Sing, who heads the main pro-Beijing political group, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), announced last week that he was quitting his job as a school principal to devote full time to readying his party for the election.
Conservative leader Michael Howard said the government had taken on his party's election priorities, such as immigration controls, cleaner hospitals, school discipline and policing.
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At the recent election the Tory leader, Michael Howard, pledged priority to cleaner hospitals, school discipline, more police on the beat and lower local taxes.
This school of thought believes that a debt restructuring is therefore inevitable no matter who wins the election, and no matter how hard the new president tries to stick with conservative economic policies.
Mr Russell was forced to make a statement to parliament after being accused of interfering in school closure plans in Argyll and Bute, the constituency he hopes to represent after the next election.
Over at the Gawker properties, lady blog Jezebel came up with a creative post-election social media story: Tracie Egan Morrissey decided to make members of the high school set accountable for racist tweets that they sent out after Barack Obama was re-elected.
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