Betsy 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
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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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