Illinois Families for Public Schools is up against some of the biggest oligarchs in the country, who are firing off tweets against this grassroots group.
On Tuesday our Twitter account urged people to start paying attention to the upcoming 2023 school board elections across the state. Something about “bad actors who espouse ugly agendas” got the attention of one of the worst actors in the state, the Illinois Policy Institute. This organization, funded by millions of dollars from right-wing oligarchs like the Koch Family, Dick Uihlein, and Bruce Rauner, has a history of spreading lies about progressive policies.
IPI’s twitter account went on the attack, sending dozens of tweets attacking us. Some tweets were attempts to tar us with our support of an elected school board and opting out of standardized tests (guilty as charged!), while others were outright lies.
As you may know, we’re a very small, volunteer-led organization with only part-time staff, while IPI has a budget at least 100 times our own, and dozens of employees ready to attack at any moment—for something as minor as urging people to look up who’s running for their school boards.
Can you please make a donation to help us keep standing up to the pro-privatization billionaires and their radical supporters?
Thanks for continuing to help us fight the good fight!
–-Team IL-FPS
PS On Twitter? Retweet some of our debunkings of IPI’s disinformation, here and here!
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What’s the one major difference and major similarity between US extreme-right billionaires that pour millions/billions of dark money into local, state, and federal elections across the United States compared to Russia’s Putin, North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and similar brutal, autocratic tyrants?
The major difference between US extreme-right billionaires and Putin, Kim, and Khamenei is that our mostly Koch/ALEC style libertarian billionaires in the US do not totally control our country… yet.
The similarity is that they are all vermin and malignant viruses, fungus, and bacteria.
Rats, mice, cockroaches, along with pests to farmers and the animals they raise, like coyotes and weasels, are vermin. Annoying people who cause problems are also sometimes called vermin, like the vermin who bully others.
And these vermin are definite malignant infections to our country similar to the damage caused to our bodies by bacteria, fungi, and viruses.
Dan Proft, former IL/Chicago area conservative talk show radio host, is involved in a lot of funding for this, & interference in the Il elections. LOTS of $$$$ from a PAC he’d founded, “People Who Play by the Rules” (NOT!).
He lives in Naples, FL, w/his fiend, er, friend billionaire Ken Griffin. (I believe former IL guv Bruce Rauner, the only guv who couldn’t get a balanced budget…for the entirety of his one term, also lives in Naples.*) So—why can’t he leave IL ALONE?
*Naples is one of the wealthiest U.S. cities: 6th highest per capita income in America, & 2nd highest proportion of millionaires per capita in the U.S.