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Manski Drops Out of Madison School Board Race

Kinda stinks for the person bumped off the ballot in the primary.

The top vote-getter in Tuesday’s Madison School Board primary said Friday she ran for the seat knowing she might not be able to serve out her term because her husband was applying for graduate school in other states.

Sarah Manski, who dropped out of the race Thursday, said she mentioned those concerns to School Board member Marj Passman, who Manski said encouraged her to run. Passman told her it wouldn’t be a problem if she had to resign her seat because the board would “appoint somebody good,” Manski said.

Passman vigorously denied encouraging Manski to run or ever knowing about her husband’s graduate school applications. After learning about Manski’s statement from the State Journal, Passman sent an email to other School Board members saying “I had no such conversation with her.”

“It’s sad to believe that this kind of a person came close to being elected to one of the most important offices in our city,” Passman wrote in the email, which she also forwarded to the State Journal.

Frankly, Manski’d story sounds believable and Passman’s denial sounds a bit too hysterical.

BTW, this is why she dropped out.

Manski said her husband, prominent national Green Party activist Ben Manski, had been accepted for a graduate program at the University of California at Santa Barbara and was still waiting to hear back from UC-Berkeley.

I’ve debated Ban Manski several times on WPR.

Posted by Owen at 1356 hrs
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