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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBetsy DeVos, a huge advocate for school privatization, admitting her family buys influence with camp
Getting to know Ms DeVos-via a few tweets
Neera Tanden ?@neeratanden 37m37 minutes ago
Handing over national policy on the education of our children to elite GOP billionaire megadonors is not draining the swamp.
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Betsy DeVos, a huge advocate for school privatization, admitting her family buys influence with campaign donations
https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/801495776467689472
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Jesse Ferguson ?@JesseFFerguson 28m28 minutes ago
Jesse Ferguson Retweeted Alex Kotch
#DrainTheSwamp
Alex Kotch
?@alexkotch
Our future Sec. of Education, her husband & in-laws spent $5.6 MILLION on politics, almost all for GOP, per @OpenSecretsDC
Alex Kotch ?@alexkotch 49m49 minutes ago
@OpenSecretsDC Betsy DeVos & husband donated $1.6 million to outside political groups including $750K to #Koch brothers' Freedom Partners.
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Alex Kotch ?@alexkotch 46m46 minutes ago
@OpenSecretsDC Interestingly, they gave to Conservative Solutions PAC, which spent $4M against Trump in primary. (Rubio group)
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Alex Kotch ?@alexkotch 32m32 minutes ago
@OpenSecretsDC And let me clarify, all figures in this thread are for the 2016 election cycle only.
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Alex Kotch ?@alexkotch 30m30 minutes ago
@OpenSecretsDC And here's a question: how will center-left & neoliberal charter school proponents (Gates, Zuckerberg, etc.) react?
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Bloomberg ?@business 1h1 hour ago
Betsy DeVos offered Trump's education secretary position, source says http://bloom.bg/2g4gTa0
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Lee Fang ?@lhfang 30m30 minutes ago
DeVos, a Christian right activist, funded ads against Jewish pol, calling him "against Jewish education" for opposing her school agenda pic.twitter.com/Vuj5jyxvma
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Betsy DeVos, a huge advocate for school privatization, admitting her family buys influence with camp (Original Post)
riversedge
Nov 2016
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Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)1. Jesus H Chrysler.
riversedge
(70,310 posts)2. Betsy DeVos's brother is the infamous Blackwater founder (and aspiring Bond villain) Erik Prince
umm. indeed--creatures lurking in the swamp
Occupy Wall Street ?@OccupyWallStNYC 3m3 minutes ago
Fun fact: Betsy DeVos's brother is the infamous Blackwater founder (and aspiring Bond villain) Erik Prince! http://ow.ly/aUTY306t2K4
longship
(40,416 posts)3. I believe he's a brother-in-law.
Hence, Prince, not DeVos.
riversedge
(70,310 posts)4. Wikepedia says her maiden name was Prince...
also that Eric is her brother.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_DeVos
longship
(40,416 posts)5. I get it now.
The DeVos clan is evil incarnate. And they own Grand Rapids, MI.