{"id":12670,"date":"2016-09-04T16:06:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T20:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12670"},"modified":"2016-09-04T16:09:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T20:09:28","slug":"the-devoses-buy-themselves-a-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12670","title":{"rendered":"The DeVos family buy themselves a legislature&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;are you as damned tired of the DeVos family buying themselves laws here in Michigan as I am? Their latest interference in the basic operation of Michigan&#8217;s government came during the reform of the Detroit Public Schools that was working it&#8217;s way through the legislature in the spring, and included reform of the charter school laws that let basically any idiot start a school with no oversight. But, no, making the schools better by holding them responsible for outcomes is not part of these idiots ultra right wing, free market delusions&#8230;so, they did what they always do&#8230;they spread almost 2 million dollars around to the repubs through their charter school lobbying firm and poof, that pesky oversight was gone from the law&#8230;basically guaranteeing that the 50% of kids in Detroit who are enrolled in charter schools will get substandard educations&#8230;but, do they care? Hell no, as long as their cronies who run these for-profit schools get their cut of the tax money that supports them. Just another example where the repubs think that government is a tool to be used to push their agendas or to transfer more money from the taxpayers to the 1%&#8230;..I just hate the rich these days&#8230;they won&#8217;t even allow us to TRY to make things better for the majority&#8230;.they can all go to hell&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;are you as damned tired of the DeVos family buying themselves laws here in Michigan as I am? Their latest interference in the basic operation of Michigan&#8217;s government came during the reform of the Detroit Public Schools that was working it&#8217;s way through the legislature in the spring, and included reform of the charter school &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=12670\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The DeVos family buy themselves a legislature&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1448,1449,1075],"class_list":["post-12670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-devos-family","tag-dps","tag-michigan-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12672,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12670\/revisions\/12672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}