Mike Pence Loves ALEC and Keeps Pushing School Privatization, Despite Lousy Record With Charters
Mike Pence is a hardcore right-winger playing the long game, especially when it comes to privatizing public schools.
It's not just that the Republican vice-presidential nominee and Indiana governor told a roomful of deregulation-obsessed executives and lobbyists in Indianapolis, "You are the model for Washington, DC, after this election. You really are."
The nation is "at a fork in the road," Pence said at the American Legislative Exchange Council's annual meeting, referring not only to who would be president for the next four years but who would control the Supreme Court for the "next 40 years."
The choice is "whether we will have justices appointed to the Supreme Court, as my partner in this endeavor is committed to doing, that reflect the brilliance and the greatness and the principles of the late justice Antonin Scalia," he said. "So I would say to all of you, for the sake of the rule of law, for the sake of the sanctity of life, for the sake of our Second Amendment and all of our God-given liberties, we must ensure that the next president making appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States of America is President Donald Trump."
Pence was no stranger to the stage of ALEC, a corporate-funded behemoth that drafts bills and finds right-wing lawmakers to carry them.
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moral of laissez-faire economics. He's not alone, either. Lots of his sort of good authoritarian followers have been "finding" their way into positions of political power. Pence was also likely being tossed out of office by fellow Indianans who'd voted for a "moderate" con and got an econo-religious extremist; we'll never know now.
