Meet the Powerful Billionaire Family Hell Bent on Imposing Their Right-Wing Agenda

[damnedifIknow]

And Defunding The Left:

The DeVoses sit alongside the Kochs, the Bradleys, and the Coorses as founding families of the modern conservative movement. Since 1970, DeVos family members have invested at least $200 million in a host of right-wing causes—think tanks, media outlets, political committees, evangelical outfits, and a string of advocacy groups. They have helped fund nearly every prominent Republican running for national office and underwritten a laundry list of conservative campaigns on issues ranging from charter schools and vouchers to anti-gay-marriage and anti-tax ballot measures. "There's not a Republican president or presidential candidate in the last 50 years who hasn't known the DeVoses," says Saul Anuzis, a former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party.

Nowhere has the family made its presence felt as it has in Michigan, where it has given more than $44 million to the state party, GOP legislative committees, and Republican candidates since 1997. "It's been a generational commitment," Anuzis notes. "I can't start to even think of who would've filled the void without the DeVoses there."

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[Laelth]

1. Lovely. (sarcasm) n/t

-Laelth

[damnedifIknow]

2. Deranged people scare me

but deranged people with money scare me even more.

[warrant46]

3. The Best Fascist government Money can buy

$$$$$

[MrScorpio]

4. I'm living in their hell right now

It ain't fun at all.

[LibertyLover]

5. Years ago, a friend of mine got caught up in the Amway

just-this-close-to-a scam and for my Christmas present that year she bought me the basic dealer package. I never did much with it aside from ordering a few cleaning products for the house but for a while she was very into it. She'd send me tapes and stuff from the DeVoses about how to grow your business. And a few times I went with her to a convention, which were very bizarre. At one, Dick DeVos was the main speaker and even all these years later I can remember how much I disliked his oily, smarmy brand of Christianity and right-wing politics. I dropped out right after that, much to my friend's dismay. But later she gave it up too.

[jsr]

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