Posted on 02/07/2017 8:22:40 AM PST by GonzoII
Collins and Murkowski are UNION funded Dem hacks!!
Thank God for our VP stepping up to this historical plate.
Enough is enough with these Dems disguised as RINO’s.
All these mentions of smelling/ drinking democrat tears. Why would anyone want to have anything to do with democrat fluids? Sounds disgusting.
Will they just vote or do “some” of them need more time to prance around and blab?
DeVos is a religious conservative who has pushed for years to breach the wall between church and state on education, among other issues.* (The Washington Post reports that Betsy DeVos has been an elder at Mars Hill, in Grand Rapids.) Betsy, who served as the chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party in the late nineties and again in the early aughts, spent more than two million dollars of the family’s money on a failed school-vouchers referendum in 2000, which would have allowed Michigan residents to use public funds to pay for tuition at religious schools. The family then spent thirty-five million dollars, in 2006, on Dick DeVos’s unsuccessful campaign to unseat Jennifer Granholm, then the Democratic governor of the state. After that campaign, the DeVos family doubled down on political contributions and support for conservative Christian causes. Members of the family, including Betsy and Dick DeVos, have spent heavily in opposition to same-sex-marriage laws in several states. According to the Michigan L.G.B.T. publication PrideSource.com, DeVos and her husband led the successful campaign to pass an anti-gay-marriage ballot referendum in the state in 2004, contributing more than two hundred thousand dollars to the effort. Dick DeVos reportedly gave a hundred thousand dollars, in 2008, to an amendment that banned same-sex marriage in Florida. That year, Elsa Prince Broekhuizen, Betsy DeVos’s mother, was a major contributor to the effort to pass Proposition 8, which made same-sex marriage illegal in California.
Trump may have run against big money in politics, but his choice for Education Secretary has made no apologies about her family’s political spending. Betsy DeVos has been a major financial backer of legal efforts to overturn campaign-spending limits. In 1997, she brashly explained her opposition to campaign-finance-reform measures that were aimed at cleaning up so-called “soft money,” a predecessor to today’s unlimited “dark money” election spending. “My family is the biggest contributor of soft money to the Republican National Committee,” she wrote in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. “I have decided to stop taking offense,” she wrote, “at the suggestion that we are buying influence. Now I simply concede the point. They are right. We do expect something in return. We expect to foster a conservative governing philosophy consisting of limited government and respect for traditional American virtues. We expect a return on our investment.”
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/betsy-devos-trumps-big-donor-education-secretary
Damn right, because that translates into even fewer votes for the Democrat plantation.
Kill the union beast!
Perfect thank you.
Just in time for Prayer!
Debate closed, vote forthcoming :)
Murk and Collins need to keep in mind that Trump won Alaska and would’ve won, or at least tied, Maine....if not for Dem spoiler Gary Johnson.
I hope they get paid back, at their next election.
Amen!!
Yes!!
Liberals hate this country. Why do you have liberal friends?
Any public figure, especially a wealthy one, who sends their child to a public school (with a few exceptions in prime locations) is putting them at risk of assault, kidnapping or worse. So I grant most of them a pass on that score.
Winning!
Why would the Democrats lose hope over this? Because it threatens their “churches” - the public schools.
“As far as the teachers unions and Dems are concerned, it’s about money and influence and to hell with the children.”
Absolutely correct.
They admit so themselves :
“It’s hard to forget former National Education Association (NEA) General Counsel Bob Chanin’s farewell address during the 2009 NEA national convention. “It is not because we care about children; and it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child,” Chanin boasted. “The NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power.”
“Sadly, the education unions’ foremost concern is not the needs of children. As former American Federation of Teachers president Al Shanker infamously quipped: “When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children.”
Well, I'd say the abortion clinics are their churches. The public schools are their kennels.
It’s always a good day when Democrats lose hope.
If you have access it’s on CSPAN 2 now.
It is funny. In all other issues I see them post or comment they sound conservative. Except for a few which even if I cringe I need to kind of see what they think. I don’t follow the most vocal extreme types. But several of these who are so against DeVos are not liberal. They are whipped up into a frenzy by their reps. Same thing happened to my sister before she retired and started watching conservative TV news regularly.
One concern I have is that charter schools or other voucher schools be solid and not flaky money grubbing schemes. I don’t know much about this except for that complaint.
DeVos is a member of the Republican Party known for her advocacy of school choice, voucher programs, and ties to the Reformed Christian community. She was Republican National Committeewoman for Michigan from 1992 to 1997 and served as chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party from 1996 to 2000, with reelection to the post in 2003. DeVos has been an advocate of the Detroit charter school system and she is a member of the board of the Foundation for Excellence in Education. She has served as chairwoman of the board of Alliance for School Choice and Acton Institute and heads the All Children Matter PAC.
In essence, she doesn't kow tow to the public school unions and wants parents to be in charge of their childrens' education.
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