Education Week reports that Betsy DeVos’ Brother Erik Prince May run for Senate Against the incumbent GOP Senator John Barrasso. If he runs, Prince would have the blessing of Steve Bannon, who has threatened to run a challenger against any Republican incumbent who does not share his extremist views and his nativism.
Bannon’s first foray into ousting Republicans was his intervention in the Alabama Senate Race, where he is supporting the eccentric Roy Moore. Moore has been removed from the bench twice for defying the laws. He has also been accused by several women of sexual assault when he was in his 30s.
“In recent weeks, DeVos’ younger brother, has reportedly shown interest in running for the Wyoming U.S. Senate seat in 2018 that’s currently held by GOP Sen. John Barrasso. Prince is the founder of Blackwater, a private security firm that drew attention and controversy during the Iraq War, and now runs Frontier Services Group, an aviation, logistics, and security firm. Barrasso was first elected in 2006 and reelected in 2012, although CNN reported last month that Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, put Barrasso on a list of Republicans he wants to defeat in the primary process. Bannon has supposedly supported Prince’s interest in a Senate run…
“Prince’s views on education aren’t clear. He attended Hillsdale College, a private college in Michigan whose president, Larry Arnn, was briefly mentioned as a possible Trump nominee for education secretary before DeVos got picked. According to a Grand Rapids Press story cited by Business Insider and Newsweek, Prince said he became disillusioned with Washington while working as a White House intern under President George H.W. Bush because he saw “homosexual groups being invited in.”
The DeVos family has given millions to anti-gay groups including the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family.

Good grief, Barrasso is already a far right wing libertarian GOPer spouting all this limited government, personal responsibility, lower taxes garbage. He’s not right wing enough for Wyoming?! Now they will have a chance to elect a crypto-fascist war monger, Erik Prince. Please choose between a crocodile or a hyena. That’s where we are in the US?
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Another Republican International War Criminal escaping justice and history and his security-state estate in Middleburg, VA to both bastardize and purchase election to
high public office. Dick Cheney’s WYOMING territory is perfect, as Florida and a
unconstitutional, corrupt U.S. Supreme Court selected George W. Bush U.S. Co-President with Dick Cheney. This post-WWII ‘March of Folly’ IS interminable!!!
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I don’t see the problem. One extremist far right nut job vs. another extremist far right nut job.
The question is, what are the Democrats going to do about it? Are they going to seize the opportunity to run a reasonably progressive candidate who actually has a vision that can improve the lives of the people of Wyoming? Or are they going to run yet another status quo neoliberal “at least I’m not Trump” candidate?
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Democrats will offer “a better deal.” Such a lame slogan! It sounds like an advertisement for the early bird special.
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Back in college the “early bird special” before 8:00 in the morning in the commons grill was two eggs, hash browns and two pieces of toast for 99 cents. Certainly a better deal than the Dim’s deal, eh!
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Duane E Swacker
No, just about the same as the Dems . No Bacon
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No, Democrats will not seize the opportunity. There are plenty of neoliberals in the pipeline. Think Booker.
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Erik Prince is terrifying… if Blackwater means nothing to you [dear reader], please read Jeremy Scahill’s coverage of him (just Google: Jeremy Scahill Erik Prince).
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Also, new Betsy DeVos story just published on Chalkbeat… “alternative facts”??? eye roll
To back up claim that schools must change, DeVos cites made-up statistic about the future of work
http://www.chalkbeat.com/posts/us/2017/11/21/to-back-up-claim-that-schools-must-change-devos-cites-made-up-statistic-about-the-future-of-work/
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Erik Prince figured prominently in the spread of the Pizzagate scandal, according to this report on the anatomy of a viral fake news story.
Reveal podcast from the Center for Investigative Reporting:
Pizzagate: A slice of fake news
His role gets discussed in the latter part of the podcast.
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Personally, I wish that more rich people would get into politics. They are immune from bribery.
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But Trump proves that rich people are not immune to flattery. That is a form of bribery too.
Is that why he loves Putin so much?
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Too bad they are not immune to arrogance.
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Rich people are less likely to relate to “the masses.” Personally, I think Trump disdains us “little people.”
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