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Teamster Jeff

(1,598 posts)
Sat Oct 27, 2012, 02:15 PM Oct 2012

Michelle Rhee Gives $500,000 to beat Unions in Michigan

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Michelle Rhee continues as the front group for corporations, right wing millionaires and billionaires who want to bust unions. She is
joined in her opposition to Michigan’s Prop 2 by the deceptively named Democrats for Education Reform, the group founded by Wall
Street hedge fund managers to advance privatization.
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The political action committee of StudentsFirst is pumping $500,000 into a campaign against Michigan's Proposal 2, a ballot measure
that would protect collective bargaining by enshrining it in the state's constitution

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Michelle Rhee Gives $500,000 to beat Unions in Michigan (Original Post) Teamster Jeff Oct 2012 OP
What is wrong with these bitter roody Oct 2012 #1
I hate these assholes so much, I can't even tell you. Starry Messenger Oct 2012 #2
Finding DEM pols who are willing to take these people on directly is nearly.... Smarmie Doofus Oct 2012 #3
+100 mjrr_595 Oct 2012 #4

roody

(10,849 posts)
1. What is wrong with these bitter
Sat Oct 27, 2012, 04:39 PM
Oct 2012

failed teachers? She could not manage children, so those who can must suffer?!

Starry Messenger

(32,342 posts)
2. I hate these assholes so much, I can't even tell you.
Sat Oct 27, 2012, 08:01 PM
Oct 2012

I would scrape out what little extra money I have to donate to any Democratic politician who would call her ass out. DFER too.

 

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
3. Finding DEM pols who are willing to take these people on directly is nearly....
Sat Oct 27, 2012, 08:21 PM
Oct 2012

.... impossible.

You might find some local Dems in cities where unions are still strong who will speak openly against the anti-union corporate DERF-types but there are damned few at the national or even statewide level.

This is going to be a key issue for a lot of us after this election. Just what kind of a Democratic Party are we talking about?

It's possible that lot of these DERF people are in the wrong place. Or else I am.

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