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How quickly we forget. For all the spending on this year’s School Board races — which have already hit a record $3.8 million in outside expenditures — spending on the 2007 race was even higher at this point.
Six years ago — the last time there was a showdown between UTLA and allies of Mayor Villaraigosa over control of the School Board — a whopping $7 million was spent by March (see LA City Ethics records here).