UN Report Supports Allegations of Arms Trafficking by Erik Prince to Libya, Prompting Indictment In a significant development, Erik Prince, the prominent
    • GuyDudeman@beehaw.org
      15·
      2 years 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
        2·
        2 years 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

  • debounced@kbin.run
    2·
    2 years ago

    old black water, keep on rollin’. mississippi moon, won’t you keep on shinin’ on me? (but seriously, this guy can fuck right off)