Campaign notebook -- Beach

On Nov. 4, Virginia Beach voters will choose their mayor, four council members, and school board members. The candidates have their signs up. Civic leagues around the city are holding forums. Virginia Beach reporter Deirdre Fernandes is providing a behind-the-scenes view of these campaigns. This blog will feed you quotes, notes and interesting asides that she couldn’t fit in the newspaper. Check back often, because she plans to update frequently.

Category: Politics

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Oct 08

6:00 PM

School Board candidate Patrick Salyer is getting a campaign push from the highest-ranking Republican in the state tomorrow night.

Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling will be headlining a 6:30 p.m. fundraiser for Salyer at the Westin Hotel in Virginia Beach's Town Center. Tickets are $75 a pop.

Salyer, a Navy veteran whose wife, Cecilia, teaches Spanish at Tallwood High School, is running for one of two seats in the At Large race.

He proposes that Beach schools spend at least 65 percent of their budget in the classroom, including teacher salaries. "It's a goal we can achieve with incremental pay raises," he said. According to statistics from Bolling's office, Salyer said the Beach spends a smaller proportion of its budget in the classroom than most other school divisions in the state.

Salyer said he's known Bolling for "quite a while" through Republican Party functions and from when Bolling spoke at Regent University's Executive Leadership Series.

-- Lauren Roth

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