- TheOneCurly ( @TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page ) 19•2 years ago
Just so everyone remembers: Erik Prince, brother of former US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
- GuyDudeman ( @GuyDudeman@beehaw.org ) 18•2 years ago
Just so everyone remembers: Betsy DeVos -
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Main goal while in office was to eradicate public schools altogether
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In a 1997 op-ed, defended unlimited donations of “soft money” in political spending. DeVos compared government limits to Big Brother of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Betsy was a founding board member of the James Madison Center for Free Speech which the DeVos family funded and whose “sole goal was to end all legal restrictions on money in politics.”
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“My family is the largest single contributor of soft money to the national Republican Party. I have decided to stop taking offense at the suggestion that we are buying influence,” she wrote. “Now I simply concede the point. They are right.”
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Married to former Amway CEO Dick DeVos. Amway is an American multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme that sells health, beauty, and home care products. In 2012, Forbes magazine listed his father as the No. 351 richest person in the world, with a net worth of approximately US$5.4 billion.
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Mackinac Public Policy Center, which had played a major role in the passage of right-to-work (anti-union legislation) in Michigan, was funded mainly by the Charles G. Koch Foundation and the Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation.
- Sami ( @Sami@lemmy.zip ) 5•2 years ago
Here’s a long interview where he gets thouroughly exposed for a lot of what he’s done. Pretty sure he got in some trouble for what he admitted to at some point here later on too.
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- SnowboardBum ( @SnowboardBum@kbin.social ) 12•2 years ago
Good. Fuck this dude.
- darkmugglet ( @darkmugglet@lemm.ee ) 2•2 years ago
Take my up vote, I came here to say this.
- grus ( @grus@kbin.social ) 4•2 years ago
Yes, please.
- debounced ( @debounced@kbin.run ) 4•2 years ago
old black water, keep on rollin’. mississippi moon, won’t you keep on shinin’ on me? (but seriously, this guy can fuck right off)
- werewolf_nr ( @werewolf_nr@fig.systems ) English2•2 years ago
If that is what puts him where he belongs… I can live with it
- WhiteOakBayou ( @WhiteOakBayou@kbin.social ) 1•2 years ago
Up to 5 years. Maybe Austria can rehabilitate him.