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Guns, Rick Santorum, the Koch brothers, Islamophobia and Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee | The Political Carnival

Guns, Rick Santorum, the Koch brothers, Islamophobia and Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee | The Political Carnival:


Guns, Rick Santorum, the Koch brothers, Islamophobia and Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee

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Here is Rhee happily posing with Foster Friess, the MC of that night’s event. Photo via.
Remember Michelle Rhee? She has stripped Tennessee teachers of their collective bargaining rights. She likes to pretend that she’s a moderate, but, her record proves otherwise. She played a role in passing an anti-union bill and even co-authored an op-edwith Former Republican Senate Leader Bill Frist.
She is the former Chancellor of DC Public Schools whose record has been debunked by a major cheating scandal. She left DC and opened StudentsFirst with major donations from Wall Street tycoons, including Rupert Murdoch. She now travels around the country and works mainly with conservative Republicans like Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley to (as I mentioned above) limit collective bargaining for teachers,