The Senate just confirmed one
of the least qualified of Donald Trump’s cabinet picks… and that’s really saying
something. Betsy DeVos, a billionaire Republican donor and consistent enemy of
public schools, is now our Secretary of Education.
Hundreds of thousands of
people called their senators to urge a “no” vote, but she still passed Senate
confirmation. How did that happen? It’s pretty simple. As much as Republican
senators care about their constituents’ concerns, they care a lot more about
their big campaign donors. And the DeVos family has donated $200 million
to elect Republicans. (Whoa!)
When only two Senate
Republicans can bring themselves to oppose such a clear violation of the public
trust and an attack on our public schools, you know we’re slipping into
oligarchic territory. That’s why we need a 50 state solution to rebuild the
Democratic Party into a people's’ party and replace all of the establishment
senators on both sides of the aisle.
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