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Who's funding your School Board?

An independent, non-sponsored look at who is backing each Lee County School Board candidate, their donors, the special interests behind them, and where the money overlaps. Built entirely from public campaign-finance records. Click any candidate to see their donors.

The Operative Behind the Slate

How one political consultant's clients, committees, and donor network connect across the 2026 School Board races — from public filings and news reporting.

Four candidates, Sam Fisher, Jada Langford-Fleming, Armor Persons, and challenger Tony Beougher, form the DeSantis / Moms-for-Liberty-aligned conservative bloc that swept in in 2022, sharing the operatives Terry Miller (consultant, now a Ballard Partners lobbyist whose firm holds a $180K contract with the district) and Noreen Fenner (treasurer). Their opponents, Jenn McDaigle, Debbie Jordan, Carline Saintilus, and India Palencia, run reform-aligned campaigns funded far more by small in-state donors than by PACs. Whether the four slate candidates (Fisher, Langford-Fleming, Persons, and Beougher) are formally coordinated is probable, but not proven by any single public document.

The connected committees