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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKansas Sen. Pat Roberts could vote against Betsy DeVos for education secretary but he owes her
http://www.pitch.com/news/blog/20851197/kansas-sen-pat-roberts-could-vote-against-betsy-devos-for-education-secretary-but-he-owes-her"DeVos has money lots of it by way of her husbands family. Her father-in-law, Richard DeVos Sr., founded Amway and bought the Orlando Magic basketball team. He is a longtime supporter of right-wing causes, so Betsy fit right in when she married Richard DeVos Jr.
Members of the DeVos clan give plenty of money to individual candidates. Theyve given Blunt more than $35,000.
A political action committee associated with Amway and the DeVos family gave Roberts $1,000 in 2008, according to records. That comes across as underwhelming, but in fact it represents only a sliver of the help that Roberts has received from the DeVos family.
Between 2014 and 2016, the DeVos family contributed $2 million to the Freedom Partners Action Fund. Records show the fund spent $17,507 to support Roberts when he was in an unexpectedly tough race against independent candidate Greg Orman in 2014. And thats not all. The fund spent a whopping $3 million to directly oppose Orman. So if the Freedom Partners Action Fund owes the DeVos family big time, so does Roberts. Perhaps that is why he says he is confident she [ DeVos ] is the right person for the job, and voted to approve her nomination as a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee."
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Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts could vote against Betsy DeVos for education secretary but he owes her (Original Post)
pstokely
Feb 2017
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deminks
(11,006 posts)1. I suspect the DeVos family has written a lot of checks in the last few weeks.
and Roberts is a pig, IMHO.
avebury
(10,946 posts)2. The Republicans should be flooded with Open Records requests.
The people deserve to know the going rate for purchasing a Cabinet Office.
Those who deserve one are appointed based upon their merits. Those who don't, buy the office.
Vinca
(50,170 posts)3. Senators need to post their price on their web sites.
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)4. LOL...and the sun will RISE out of the West..............
I live in Kansas,that SOB will never cross party lines. He doesn't even live here,has a rental home that he's able to use as a Kansas address so he can run as Senator. That old FART came close to getting his ass beat last election.