State superintendent candidate Lowell Holtz gave bleachers to a private school his children attended while working as superintendent of Whitnall School District.
The Whitnall district board at the time said Holtz should have first gone through them, according to records obtained by WisPolitics.com.
But Holtz said in an interview the move saved the district thousands of dollars by ensuring Luther Prep in Watertown, where his kids attended, paid for the removal of the bleachers.
"It never occurred to me that anybody would be offended that we saved money," he said.
The board in February 2012 crit...
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