Maurice Cunningham wrote in the Tampa Bay Tribune about “Moms for Liberty.” It seems to be a Dark Money front for some familiar billionaires.
Is it Koch? DeVos? Waltons? Or another billionaire?
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Who is behind Moms for Liberty?
Dad’s for Fascism
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yup
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Word Press needs a like button
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Funded in part by right-wing FL Conservatives For Good Government. Top Dollar Megyn Kelly Fundraisers. GOPee/DeSantis funds. Step Up America Foundation. Multiple Super Pacs.
Council For National Policy. Parents Defending Education. Heritage Foundation.
Leonard Leo. No Left Turn In Education. Liberty Justice Center. Pacific Legal Foundation
Dick Uihlein/Uline & Schlitz Brewing Heir.
Just the tip of their iceberg.
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Leonard Leo- thanks, Kathy. He reportedly has close ties to Koch. Heritage is Koch’s organization. Paul Weyrich was a co-founder of
Heritage, ALEC and the religious right.
CNP is a secretive religious organization.
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Leonard Leo is head of the Federalist Society, a billionaire-funded, right-wing conduit for Republican judicial nominees.
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Eleanor and Kathy-
Please read my comment in the thread that follows Diane’s post (July 14) about the court case involving the coach’s public school prayer.
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Don’t JUST say gay.
There, Governor DeSantis. Fixed.
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Thanks to Nan Mikel for that one.
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Thank you.
Two important Florida laws.
Don’t Just Say Gay
And
Wake up
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lol
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Most of these billionaires want government destroyed (except for what serves them). So this seems like an incremental step in destroying public schools.
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