Urge H.E.L.P. Committee to vote no on Betsy DeVos for U.S. Education Secretary. Hearing starts today, January 17th at 5 p.m. Watch here.
Betsy DeVos represents pay to play at its worst. According to the Washington Post DeVos openly admits she is “buying influence:”
She( DeVos) has previously said that her family expects a return on investments in political candidates and causes, writing in Roll Call in 1997 that she had decided “to stop taking offense at the suggestion that we are buying influence. “Now I simply concede the point,” she wrote nearly 20 years ago. “They are right. We do expect some things in return.
Keep telling members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (H.E.L.P.) that Betsy DeVos is a hostile opponent of public schools and unqualified for confirmation as U.S. Secretary of Education.
Take action now. Call, tweet & write every member of the H.E.L.P. Committee. Use this phone list from Network for Public Education. Include local & national members of the press in your tweets!
SEVEN H.E.L.P Members who took cash from Betsy DeVos plus Twitter Handles & Emails. Call them out!
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R, TN – DeVos Cash $2,500: @SenAlexander www.alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Email
Sen. Richard Burr, R, NC – DeVos Cash $43,200: @SenatorBurr www.burr.senate.gov/contact/email
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R, LA – DeVos Cash $70,200: @BillCassidy www.cassidy.senate.gov/contact
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R, UT – D:eVos Cash $2,000: @SenOrrinHatch www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact?p=Email-Orrin
Sen. Lisa Murkowksi, R, AK – DeVos Cash $40,500: @LisaMurkowski www.murkowski.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact
Sen. Todd Young, R, IN – DeVos Cash $48,600: @SenToddYoung
Sen. Tim Scott, R, SC – DeVos Cash $49,200: @SenatorTimScott www.scott.senate.gov/contact/email-me
@PattyMurray (Sen. Patty Murray, D WA) www.murray.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contactme
@ SenatorEnzi (Sen. Michael B. Enzi, R WY) www.enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact?p=e-mail-sen…
@SenSanders (Sen. Bernie Sanders, D VT) www.sanders.senate.gov/contact/
@SenIsakson (Sen. Johnny Isakson, R GA) www.isakson.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-me
@SenBobCasey (Sen. Bob Casey, D PA) www.casey.senate.gov/contact/
@RandPaul (Sen. Rand Paul, R KY) www.paul.senate.gov/connect/email-rand
@SenFranken (Sen. Al Franken, D MN) www.franken.senate.gov/?p=contact
@alfranken
@SenatorCollins (Sen. Susan Collins, R ME) www.collins.senate.gov/contact
@SenBennetCO (Sen. Michael Bennett, D CO) www.bennet.senate.gov/?p=contact
@SenWhitehouse (Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D RI) www.whitehouse.senate.gov/contact/email-sheldon
@SenatorBaldwin (Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D WI) www.baldwin.senate.gov/feedback
@ChrisMurphyCT (Sen. Chris Murphy, D CT) www.murphy.senate.gov/contact
@SenWarren (Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D MA) www.warren.senate.gov/?p=email_senator
@PatRoberts (Sen. Pat Roberts R KS) www.roberts.senate.gov/public/?p=EmailPat
@TimKaine (Sen. Tim Kaine, D VA) www.kaine.senate.gov/contact
@SenatorHassan (Sen. Maggie Hassan, D NH)
@SenToddYoung (Sen. Todd Young, R IN)
Include political journalists with your tweets!
- Anderson Cooper, CNN
2.Rachel Maddow, MSNBC
3. Jake Tapper, CNN
4. George Stephanopoulos, ABC News
5. Christiane Amanpour, CNN
6. Ezra Klein, Vox
7. Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight
8. Mike Allen, POLITICO
9. Chuck Todd, NBC News
10. Brian Stelter, CNN
11. Ben Smith, BuzzFeed
12. Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post
13. Chris Hayes, MSNBC
14. Ann Curry, television journalist
15. Paul Krugman, The New York Times
16. Megyn Kelly, Fox News
17. Sean Hannity, Fox News
18. Wolf Blitzer, CNN
19. Chris Cillizza, The Washington Post
20. Fareed Zakaria, The Washington Post and CNN
21. Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
22. Joe Scarborough, MSNBC
23. Dave Weigel, Bloomberg Politics
24. Mark Knoller, CBS News Radio
25. Andrea Mitchell, NBC News
26. Michelle Malkin, Twitchy
27. Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC
28. Howard Kurtz, Fox News
29. Dana Perino, Fox News
30. Bret Baier, Fox News
31. Andrew Malcolm, Investor’s Business Daily
32. Glenn Beck, TheBlaze
33. Donna Brazile, CNN and ABC News
34. David Corn, Mother Jones - Mike Allen, POLITICO
36. Chuck Todd, NBC News
37. Ben Smith, BuzzFeed
39. Brian Stelter, CNN
40. Chris Cillizza, The Washington Post
41. Dave Weigel, Bloomberg Politics
42. Wolf Blitzer, CNN
43. Joe Scarborough, MSNBC
44. Mark Knoller, CBS News Radio
45. Andrea Mitchell, NBC News - 46.Howard Kurtz, Fox News
47. David Frum, The Atlantic
48. Jonathan Martin, The New York Times
49. Sam Stein, Huffington Post
50. Norah O’Donnell, CBS News
51. Mark Halperin, Bloomberg Politics
52. Maggie Haberman, The New York Times
53. David Leonhardt, The New York Times
54. Rick Klein, ABC News
55. Blake Hounshell, POLITICO
56. Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo
57. Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
58. Karen Tumulty, The Washington Post
59. Garance Franke-Ruta, Yahoo Politics
60. Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker
61. Mika Brzezinski, MSNBC
62. Marc Ambinder, The Week and The Atlantic
63. Willie Geist, NBC News
64. Jonathan Karl, ABC News
65. Dylan Byers, POLITICO
66.Molly Ball, The Atlantic
67. Josh Barro, The New York Times
68. Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times
69. Taegan Goddard, Political Wire
70. Mark Leibovich, The New York Times - Ezra Klein, Vox
72. Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post
73. Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight
74. George Stephanopoulos, ABC News
75. Christiane Amanpour, CNN
76. Paul Krugman, The New York Times
77. Chris Hayes, MSNBC
78. Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
79. Fareed Zakaria, The Washington Post and CNN
80. Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times
81. David Corn, Mother Jones
82. Robert Reich, commentator
83. Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
84.Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC
85. Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
86. Chris Matthews, MSNBC
87. Markos Moulitsas, Daily Kos
88. Chris Cuomo, CNN
89. Al Sharpton, MSNBC
90. Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish
91. Charles Blow, The New York Times
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