Who Are The Out-of-Town Billionaires Trying To Defeat Steve Zimmer?

Some of America’s most powerful corporate plutocrats want to take over the Los Angeles school system but Steve Zimmer, a former teacher and feisty school board member, is in their way. So they’ve hired Nick Melvoin to get rid of him. No, he’s not a hired assassin like the kind on “The Sopranos.” He’s a lawyer who the billionaires picked to defeat Zimmer. The so-called “Independent” campaign for Melvoin -- funded by big oil, big tobacco, Walmart, Enron, and other out-of-town...