Superman lands in Illinois with bags of Gates cash.

I ran an earlier post on Stand for Children, an Oregon based Reformy organization run by Jonah Edelman.

They bounded into Illinois just prior to the election and handed out $600,000 in campaign funds to nine legislative contests.

They have a clear anti-teacher union cred.

But, where do their bags of money come from?

The funding for Stand is not clear, but billionaire Bill Gates and other wealthy technology leaders are thought to be among the backers of the group, which spent $3 million to operate last year.

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