• GuyDudeman@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Just so everyone remembers: Betsy DeVos -

    • Main goal while in office was to eradicate public schools altogether

    • In a 1997 op-ed, defended unlimited donations of “soft money” in political spending. DeVos compared government limits to Big Brother of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

    • Betsy was a founding board member of the James Madison Center for Free Speech which the DeVos family funded and whose “sole goal was to end all legal restrictions on money in politics.”

    • “My family is the largest single contributor of soft money to the national Republican Party. I have decided to stop taking offense at the suggestion that we are buying influence,” she wrote. “Now I simply concede the point. They are right.”

    • Married to former Amway CEO Dick DeVos. Amway is an American multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme that sells health, beauty, and home care products. In 2012, Forbes magazine listed his father as the No. 351 richest person in the world, with a net worth of approximately US$5.4 billion.

    • Mackinac Public Policy Center, which had played a major role in the passage of right-to-work (anti-union legislation) in Michigan, was funded mainly by the Charles G. Koch Foundation and the Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation.

    • Sami@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      Here’s a long interview where he gets thouroughly exposed for a lot of what he’s done. Pretty sure he got in some trouble for what he admitted to at some point here later on too.

      https://youtu.be/KOB4V-ukpBI