Billionaire Betsy’s Political Contributions

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1. Yvonne Siu-Runyan says:

   January 5, 2017 at 6:09 pm

   OMG! That’s GROSS! DeVos represents Corporate interests .. BAD!

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2. LeftCoastTeacher says:

   January 5, 2017 at 6:32 pm

   Sheesh, how many yacht clubs and country clubs can one person join at one time? Yachts clubs. Yuck.

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   • Linda says:

     January 6, 2017 at 9:44 am

     She appears to belong to 7 golf and yacht clubs.

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3. Jean Frank says:

   January 5, 2017 at 7:09 pm

   A snapshot of how the 1% live.

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4. Laura H. Chapman says:

   January 5, 2017 at 7:16 pm

   Amazing list, also says a lot about how to buy access to politicians.

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5. GregB says:

   January 5, 2017 at 7:43 pm

   What a chamber of horrors of contributions.

   Here are some things that stuck out: she contributed $26,000 to four of the members of the committee who will vote on her nomination (Richard Burr $5,400, Bill Cassidy $7,800, Lisa Murkowski $5,400, Tim Scott $7,400). If ethics existed, they would recuse themselves. We should all take note of the super softball questions (gushing praise) she will get from them. I’m sure she’ll get what she paid for.

   She also contributed $2,600 to Mitch McConnell. In 2012 she gave $5,000 to Mitt Romney. For the 2016 presidential campaign she gave $2,600 to Bobby Jindal and then $2,700 to Marco Rubio (plus $5,400 toward his Senate campaign).

   Still have to go through see which members of the Senate and House appropriations committee members plus which House Education Committee members she has time-shares with.

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   • GregB says:

     January 6, 2017 at 9:23 pm

     Story on Bill Cassidy’s conflict of interest. Reminded me that Betsy’s statement does not cover contributions by the rest of the clan. Together they contributed more than $70,000 to Cassidy: http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/01/bill_cassidy_no_plans_for_recu.html#incart_river_home

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6. Ron Eugene says:

   January 5, 2017 at 8:51 pm

   Is anyone surprised at this?
   The major issue is her philosophy on public schools and how they should be
   gradually replaced by charter/for profit schools. Democracy takes another hit.

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7. Ed Johnson says:

   January 5, 2017 at 9:42 pm

   I made and put a searchable copy of it here…

   https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/ab4340a6-dba8-40aa-b8dc-b573ba8c64e5

   Then searching for “US Senate,” these hits:

   Dr. Monica Wehby for US Senate 2,600 2014
   John Kennedy for US Senate 2,700 2016
   Lisa Murkowski for US Senate 5,400 2015
   Marco Rubio for US Senate 5,400 2016
   Sullivan for US Senate 2,600 2014

   Then searching for “McCain,” this single hit:

   John McCain for Senate 1,000 2016

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8. drext727 says:

   January 6, 2017 at 7:29 am

   Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education.

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9. Karen Hoffman says:

   January 6, 2017 at 7:33 am

   I googled American Federation for Children and this is came up
   “The American Federation for Children (AFC) is a conservative 501(c)(4) dark money group that promotes the school privatization agenda via the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and other avenues. … AFC was founded in 1998 in Milwaukee as the American Education Reform Foundation.Sep 6, 2016

   I have been a public school teacher for 35 years and this is so much more than “SAD”

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10. Linda says:

    January 6, 2017 at 9:59 am

    It appears DeVos spends money to influence politics in lots of states, where she doesn’t reside, her kids don’t go to school and where she may not pay taxes, Louisiana, Ark., Ky., N.C., Nev., Alaska, Ohio, Ala., Fla., Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, N.H., Missouri, Wis.
    Funny thing – while politicians take her, out-of-state, out-of-district money, the ones who have federal government office e-mail addresses, won’t allow comments from out-of-state citizens.
    Further proof that the U.S. is an oligarchy.

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