DeVos and Co. playing in a Democratic primary?
An interesting development coming out of the Ann Arbor area – the Dick DeVos-backed Great Lakes Education Project is sending out mailings supporting a Senate candidate...in the Democratic primary.
GLEP has funded at least three mailings to Washtenaw County residents supporting state Rep. Pam Byrnes in her race against state Rep. Rebekah Warren for the empty 18th state Senate seat.
But why is GLEP, a pro-voucher, anti-public school organization founded by a right-wing billionaire, doing mailings in a Democratic primary?
The answer is pretty clear – they must believe that Warren’s commitment to public schools, public school employees and public school students runs counter to their organization’s long-standing attacks on these institutions.
And that’s exactly why Warren has MEA’s full support as we approach the primary next Tuesday, Aug. 3.
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Mainstream media picking this up
Thanks in large part to a release by Progress Michigan, the mainstream media is picking up this story.
Yesterday, annarbor.com, the daily news web site for the area, posted a story about GLEP's involvement in the race.
A couple particularly sickening highlights:
- The latest attack piece on Warren takes her to task for missing 54 out of the thousands of votes held during her term in office. The reason for her missing most of those votes -- her honeymoon. That's pretty low.
- Her opponent, Pam Byrnes, has actually missed more votes in this most recent term than Warren! Warren has only missed three votes out of 1,209, while Byrnes has missed 20!