Get a load of this hogwash pile of shit lies that I received in email from whitehouse.gov (AKA Pence)!!
Friends,
Today, I cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education: Betsy DeVos.
The vote the President asked me to cast wasn’t just for Betsy – it was also for America’s future.
Our nation’s success depends on the education of our students. In Betsy DeVos, we have one of America’s foremost advocates for educational opportunity and excellence.
For nearly three decades she has devoted her time, her talent, and her treasure to ensure that every child in America has the best shot at a better life. Countless students have benefitted from her efforts to promote an educational marketplace defined by innovation, opportunity, and real, meaningful choice.
The President and I agree that our children’s futures should not be determined by their zip code. Students should not be trapped in a system that puts the status quo ahead of a child’s success.
Betsy DeVos will have great impact as Secretary of Education. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a public school, a private school, a parochial school, a charter school, or any other kind of school – she will help ensure that every student has access to a good school.
We are grateful to Senate Majority Leader McConnell and all the Republican Senators who stood with us on this important vote.
The President is fully committed to this mission. Today’s vote was the first of its kind in our nation’s history, but the real history will be made through our unwavering dedication to America’s children – and to America’s future.
Thank you for all your help and support.
Sincerely,
Michael R. Pence
Vice President of the United States
Emphasis mine.
Pence, you are a fucking LIAR. Betsy DeVos knows absolutely nothing about education and has spent her entire career trying to put an end to public schools!
She and her family’s millions BOUGHT this fucking seat and we all damn well know it, so put a sock in your fucking lies!!
And let’s not forget that not only did DeVos not attend public school, none of her kids did either. She knows nothing about public schools except that she wants to END them!
From Washington Post we have this gem:
In Brightmoor, the only high school left is Detroit Community Schools, a charter boasting more than a decade of abysmal test scores and, until recently, a superintendent who earned $130,000 a year despite a dearth of educational experience or credentials.
On the west side, another charter school, Hope Academy, has been serving the community around Grand River and Livernois for 20 years. Its test scores have been among the lowest in the state throughout those two decades; in 2013 the school ranked in the first percentile, the absolute bottom for academic performance. Two years later, its charter was renewed.
Yep, that’s right, thanks to DeVos children attending DeVos’s charter schools are suffering with almost abysmal education!
An 8th grader could watch her confirmation hearings and know how supremely unqualified she is! But you know nothing Republicans don’t have the brain of a walnut and you have the hearts of Freddy Krueger!!
Pence, you POS — you just betrayed every single child in America with your right wing vote — so go to HELL!!
Be on notice right now, we will fight your and your Republican cretins every single step of the fucking way! We will NOT let you take over our country!!