Complaint filed over PAC actions in school board race |

On Wednesday morning, attorney Gerard Stranch announced he was filing a complaint on behalf of Tennessee Citizen Action and Chelle Baldwin calling for an investigation into Stand for Children's actions in four Metro Nashville school board campaigns.

The complaint, which will be formally filed late this afternoon or Thursday morning, is asking the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance and Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk's office to examine whether the pro-charter organization illegally coordinated campaign actions with candidates Miranda Christy, Thom Druffel, Jane Meneely and Jackson Miller. The action comes after a Tennessean story showing emails between SFC head Dan O'Donnell and the non-profit Martha O'Bryan Center encouraging the latter's staff to canvass for the four candidates, and after a WSMV report last Friday that O'Donnell and Druffel had met during the blackout period.

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