Miriam, Frank and All,
In my family, Simple Working Class Folk, we call much of what we are
witnessing between the Senate confirmation hearings and the Trump
Nominees, as Contempt.
Contempt toward not only the Senators, but toward all Americans
represented by these Senators.
We are watching a parade of nominees who are skilled in the infighting
that has enabled them to claw their way to the top of the Empire heap.
Of course their responses to the Senators are evasive and circumflex.
The fact is, the Republican majority in Congress will confirm them
all, and they know it. Exposing their lies and misbehavior is, "all
in a days work" to them.
Well folks, the American voters brought change into their lives.
Rather than the slow destruction of our once prosperous Working
Class/Middle Class that has gone on since the 80's, we have opened the
Pandora's Box. To learn what is coming our way, google Pandora's Box.
It's not going to be fun.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/21/17, M Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> Scahill writes: "The idea that her own mother's foundation would
> accidentally list her as a vice president for years as result of a clerical
> error is just not believable. The Democrats should go to town on this
> obvious attempt to mislead the Senate."
>
> Betsy DeVos, Trump's pick to head the Department of Education. (photo:
> Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty)
>
>
> Trump Education Nominee Betsy DeVos Lied to the Senate
> By Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept
> 19 January 17
>
> There are many reasons Betsy DeVos's nomination to serve as Donald Trump's
> education secretary could be justifiably quashed by the U.S. Senate. Her
> long public record indicates she is a religious Christian zealot who does
> not believe in the actual separation of church and state, wants public
> monies funneled into religious schools, and has contributed through family
> foundations to bigoted groups with a militant anti-gay agenda. During her
> confirmation hearing she gave disturbing answers to questions about her
> views of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, standardized
> tests, and school vouchers. She also suggested guns have a place in
> American
> schools, though her claim that they were necessary to defend students from
> grizzly bear attacks was not very compelling.
> DeVos is married to Richard DeVos, the heir to the Amway Corporation
> fortune. She is also the sister of Blackwater founder Erik Prince, who is
> secretly advising the Trump team on intelligence matters, as The Intercept
> reported Tuesday. The Prince and DeVos families' merger through marriage
> was
> reminiscent of the monarchies of old Europe, and since the 1980s they have
> funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into Republican campaign coffers
> and the war chests of far-right religious organizations, at least one of
> which - the Family Research Council - has been designated an anti-LGBTQ
> hate
> group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
> As Mother Jones pointed out:
> The Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation gave $275,000 to Focus on the
> Family from 1999 to 2001 but hasn't donated since; it gave an additional
> $35,760 to the group's Michigan and D.C. affiliates from 2001 to 2010. The
> Prince Foundation donated $5.2 million to Focus on the Family and $275,000
> to its Michigan affiliate from 2001 to 2014. (It also gave $6.1 million to
> the Family Research Council, which has fought against same-sex marriage and
> anti-bullying programs - and is listed as an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the
> Southern Poverty Law Center. The FRC used to be a division of Focus on the
> Family before it became an independent nonprofit, with Dobson serving on
> its
> board, in 1992.)
> During Tuesday's hearing, the Democratic senators protested Republican
> chair
> Lamar Alexander's unprecedented ruling that senators would only be
> permitted
> one round of questioning. Nonetheless, several senators pressed DeVos on
> the
> contributions made by her and other family members through their
> foundations. DeVos, clearly prepared for such questions, assured the
> committee that she has nothing to do with the contributions made by her
> mother's foundation, the Prince Foundation (formerly known as the Edgar and
> Elsa Prince Foundation). DeVos said that her immediate family - presumably
> meaning her husband and children - had nothing to do with the financing of
> anti-gay causes and groups and that she has never supported "conversion
> therapy" for gay people.
> Newly elected Democratic Sen. Margaret Hassan pressed DeVos on these
> claims.
> She asked DeVos directly if she was on the board of her mother's foundation
> during the period in which large donations were made to Focus on the
> Family.
> DeVos said that she was not on the foundation's board.
> When I heard that, I pulled up the 990 tax documents of the Prince
> Foundation, which I investigated for my book "Blackwater." Betsy DeVos was
> clearly listed as a vice president of the foundation's board, along with
> her
> brother Erik, for many years, at least until 2014. DeVos was a vice
> president during the precise period Hassan was referring to. I then began a
> tweet storm about this lie:
> At the very end of the hearing, Sen. Patty Murray, the ranking Democrat on
> the committee, allocated the small time she had left to Hassan, who
> proceeded to reference the 990 tax forms. DeVos then made an astonishing
> claim. These government tax forms, filed by her own mother's foundation,
> were incorrect. For years. Many years. "That was a clerical error. I can
> assure you I have never made decisions on my mother's behalf on her
> foundation's board."
> The idea that her own mother's foundation would accidentally list her as a
> vice president for years as result of a clerical error is just not
> believable. The Democrats should go to town on this obvious attempt to
> mislead the Senate. This alone should disqualify DeVos, though there is a
> vast ocean of other reasons they could fish from.
> Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. Error! Hyperlink reference not
> valid.
>
> Betsy DeVos, Trump's pick to head the Department of Education. (photo:
> Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty)
> https://theintercept.com/2017/01/18/trump-education-nominee-betsy-devos-lied
> -to-the-senatehttps://theintercept.com/2017/01/18/trump-education-nominee-be
> tsy-devos-lied-to-the-senate
> Trump Education Nominee Betsy DeVos Lied to the Senate
> By Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept
> 19 January 17
> here are many reasons Betsy DeVos's nomination to serve as Donald Trump's
> education secretary could be justifiably quashed by the U.S. Senate. Her
> long public record indicates she is a religious Christian zealot who does
> not believe in the actual separation of church and state, wants public
> monies funneled into religious schools, and has contributed through family
> foundations to bigoted groups with a militant anti-gay agenda. During her
> confirmation hearing she gave disturbing answers to questions about her
> views of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, standardized
> tests, and school vouchers. She also suggested guns have a place in
> American
> schools, though her claim that they were necessary to defend students from
> grizzly bear attacks was not very compelling.
> DeVos is married to Richard DeVos, the heir to the Amway Corporation
> fortune. She is also the sister of Blackwater founder Erik Prince, who is
> secretly advising the Trump team on intelligence matters, as The Intercept
> reported Tuesday. The Prince and DeVos families' merger through marriage
> was
> reminiscent of the monarchies of old Europe, and since the 1980s they have
> funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into Republican campaign coffers
> and the war chests of far-right religious organizations, at least one of
> which - the Family Research Council - has been designated an anti-LGBTQ
> hate
> group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
> As Mother Jones pointed out:
> The Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation gave $275,000 to Focus on the
> Family from 1999 to 2001 but hasn't donated since; it gave an additional
> $35,760 to the group's Michigan and D.C. affiliates from 2001 to 2010. The
> Prince Foundation donated $5.2 million to Focus on the Family and $275,000
> to its Michigan affiliate from 2001 to 2014. (It also gave $6.1 million to
> the Family Research Council, which has fought against same-sex marriage and
> anti-bullying programs - and is listed as an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the
> Southern Poverty Law Center. The FRC used to be a division of Focus on the
> Family before it became an independent nonprofit, with Dobson serving on
> its
> board, in 1992.)
> During Tuesday's hearing, the Democratic senators protested Republican
> chair
> Lamar Alexander's unprecedented ruling that senators would only be
> permitted
> one round of questioning. Nonetheless, several senators pressed DeVos on
> the
> contributions made by her and other family members through their
> foundations. DeVos, clearly prepared for such questions, assured the
> committee that she has nothing to do with the contributions made by her
> mother's foundation, the Prince Foundation (formerly known as the Edgar and
> Elsa Prince Foundation). DeVos said that her immediate family - presumably
> meaning her husband and children - had nothing to do with the financing of
> anti-gay causes and groups and that she has never supported "conversion
> therapy" for gay people.
> Newly elected Democratic Sen. Margaret Hassan pressed DeVos on these
> claims.
> She asked DeVos directly if she was on the board of her mother's foundation
> during the period in which large donations were made to Focus on the
> Family.
> DeVos said that she was not on the foundation's board.
> When I heard that, I pulled up the 990 tax documents of the Prince
> Foundation, which I investigated for my book "Blackwater." Betsy DeVos was
> clearly listed as a vice president of the foundation's board, along with
> her
> brother Erik, for many years, at least until 2014. DeVos was a vice
> president during the precise period Hassan was referring to. I then began a
> tweet storm about this lie:
> At the very end of the hearing, Sen. Patty Murray, the ranking Democrat on
> the committee, allocated the small time she had left to Hassan, who
> proceeded to reference the 990 tax forms. DeVos then made an astonishing
> claim. These government tax forms, filed by her own mother's foundation,
> were incorrect. For years. Many years. "That was a clerical error. I can
> assure you I have never made decisions on my mother's behalf on her
> foundation's board."
> The idea that her own mother's foundation would accidentally list her as a
> vice president for years as result of a clerical error is just not
> believable. The Democrats should go to town on this obvious attempt to
> mislead the Senate. This alone should disqualify DeVos, though there is a
> vast ocean of other reasons they could fish from.
> http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
> http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
>
>
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