MI needs HELP!!!! DeVos a repub candidate for governor

[bobbieinok]

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/1/28/35052/2347



Michael Moore: Michigan Needs You To Fight the Religious Right
By cyncooper Sat Jan 28, 2006 at 03:50:52 AM EST

Michael Moore - are you listening?

You know what a great job you do using your home state of Michigan to explain the ills of America. Well, can you head to the Great Lakes ... soon? Don't know if you've seen, but my eyes almost popped out when I read on Emily's List and Daily Kos about the announced Republican candidate for governor. You see it? 'Cause surely you know that if Richard ("Dick") DeVos wins, Michigan will have fallen prey to religious right fervor in the worst case scenario. You wouldn't know from the Michigan media, but the DeVos family, and Dick DeVos lock-step with them, are among the most prominent funders and fans of the religious right.

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Richard and Helen DeVos (parents of candidate Dick DeVos) through a Foundation that bears their name, fund Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, Coral Ridge Ministries, Foundation for Traditional Values, Traditional Values Coalition, Free Congress Foundation, Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, State Policy Network, Council for National Policy, Mackinaw Center for Policy Research, as well as to the Republican Party. And we're not talking pocket change -- they are top, major funders.

Son and candidate Dick is married to Betsy DeVos, former head of the Michigan Republican Party. Dick and Betsy DeVos, too, have a foundation, described here, which bears their name and invests heavily in the same theocratic causes, supporting, in particular, school vouchers and religious educational training. They are particularly fond of supporting stateside projects.


The Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation provides funding to many of the same organizations as the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundatio.
In addition to their contributions to the Council for National Policy, the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, the Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation also funds the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the National Center for Policy Analysis.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is "dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government."It prides itself not only on researching regulatory issues (e.g., environmental policies and antitrust legislation) but also on publicizing and advocating its analyses and ideas to the general public, policymakers and judges. Thus, as the organization is "engaged in many phases of the public policy debate," it plays an important role in influencing policy at the national level.

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In the comments, there is a lot of info on the Assemblies of God, dominionist theories and groups that push the theory, and Amway as a vehicle for brainwashing for RW and dominionist theology.

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