All Children Matter

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</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;">All Children Matter (ACM) was founded by Amway founder and far-right philantrhopist <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_DeVos" title="Richard DeVos" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Richard DeVos</a> and his wife, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Betsy_DeVos" title="Betsy DeVos" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Betsy DeVos</a>. The organization became the pet project of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Walmart" title="Walmart" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Walmart</a> heir <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_T.Walton" title="John T. Walton" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Walton</a>, who put more than $4.1M into the organization in 2006 before he was killed in a plane crash.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a>
<div id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#Fines_for_illegal_election_activity" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 Fines for illegal election activity</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#Mission" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Mission</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#Organization" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Organization</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#Officers" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Officers</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#Executive_Director" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.1 Executive Director</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#Directors" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.2 Directors</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#Key_Staff" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5 Key Staff</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#Funding" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6 Funding</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#2005_to_2007_Donations" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6.1 2005 to 2007 Donations</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#Contact_Information" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7 Contact Information</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#Website" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8 Website</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#External_References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">9 External References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">10 References</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Fines for illegal election activity</h2>In 2008, All Children Matter was fined $5.2 million by the Ohio Elections Commission for pumping millions of dollars into helping get pro-school voucher candidates elected in Ohio, Wisconsin and other states. Three years after the Commission imposed the record-breaking fine, the group had not yet paid it, according to the state attorney general. In 2008, the Elections Commission ruled unanimously that All Children Matter, then headed by former Michigan Republican Chairwoman Betsy DeVos, had illegally funneled $870,000 in contributions from its Virginia political action committee to its affiliate in Ohio. The payment violated a $10,000 cap on what Ohio-based, political-action committees could accept from any single entity. All Children Matter was also fined $500 in Wisconsin for providing media support for candidates without registering as a PAC.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#cite_note-2" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Mission</h2>ACM was started in the spring of 2003 with the mission of training and funding candidates who promote school vouchers nationwide.<h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Organization</h2>ACM Inc is a federal "527" organization, which can donate money directly to other PACS and can set up guerrilla <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Super_PAC" title="Super PAC" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Super PACs</a> that campaign on behalf of political candidates without any direct coordination by the candidate's organization, in theory.Its base of wealthy funders includes most of the Dead Billionaires Club (DBC)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a>, including the DeVos family, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_brothers" title="Koch brothers" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Koch brothers</a> and ability to stealthily intervene in local, state and federal political races, the ACM network is an effective tool for the movement to privatize public education.<h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Officers</h2><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;">Executive Director</h3><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Greg_Brock&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Greg Brock (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Greg Brock</a><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;">Directors</h3><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Betsy_DeVos" title="Betsy DeVos" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Betsy DeVos</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Sharp" title="Richard Sharp" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Richard Sharp</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Greg_Brock&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Greg Brock (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Greg Brock</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Key Staff</h2><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lisa_Lisker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lisa Lisker (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lisa Lisker</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Keith_Davis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Keith Davis (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Keith Davis</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Funding</h2>ACM takes in massive amounts of money from a Who's Who list of radical right wing wealthy patrons.<h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6;">2005 to 2007 Donations</h3>According to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Virginia_Public_Access_Project&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Virginia Public Access Project (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Virginia Public Access Project</a> (VPAP)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a>:<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_T.Walton" title="John T. Walton" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Walton</a></td><td>Bentonville, AR</td><td>$4,151,750</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Advocates_for_School_Choice&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Advocates for School Choice (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Advocates for School Choice</a></td><td>Phoenix, AZ</td><td>$500,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bruce_Kovner" title="Bruce Kovner" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bruce Kovner</a></td><td>New York, NY</td><td>$500,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bill_Oberndorf&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bill Oberndorf (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bill Oberndorf</a></td><td>Mill Valley, CA</td><td>$500,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Julian_H_Robertson,Jr&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Julian H Robertson, Jr (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Julian H Robertson, Jr</a></td><td>New York, NY</td><td>$500,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Virgina_Manheimer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Virgina Manheimer (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Virgina Manheimer</a></td><td>Lambertville, NJ</td><td>$350,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Betsy_DeVos" title="Betsy DeVos" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Betsy DeVos</a></td><td>Grand Rapids, MI</td><td>$260,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Kern&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Kern (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Robert Kern</a></td><td>Waukesha, WI</td><td>$250,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_L_Sharp&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard L Sharp (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rick Sharp</a></td><td>Henrico</td><td>$250,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Brennan" title="David Brennan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">David Brennan</a></td><td>Akron, OH</td><td>$150,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dino_Cortopassi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dino Cortopassi (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Dino Cortopassi</a></td><td>Stockton, CA</td><td>$150,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Fisher" title="John Fisher" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Fisher</a></td><td>San Francisco, CA</td><td>$135,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peter_Flanigan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter Flanigan (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Peter Flanigan</a></td><td>New York, NY</td><td>$125,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bruce_D_Benson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bruce D Benson (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bruce D Benson</a></td><td>Denver, CO</td><td>$100,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Foster_Friess" title="Foster Friess" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Foster Friess</a></td><td>Jackson, WY</td><td>$100,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Riverstone_Group" title="Riverstone Group" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Riverstone Group</a> LLC</td><td>Richmond</td><td>$100,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alliance_for_School_Choices_in_Education&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alliance for School Choices in Education (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Alliance for School Choices in Education</a></td><td>Milwaukee, WI</td><td>$92,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Bryan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Bryan (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Bryan</a></td><td>Lake Oswego, OR</td><td>$75,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Industries" title="Koch Industries" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Koch Industries</a> Inc</td><td>Wichita, KS</td><td>$75,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roger_Hertog" title="Roger Hertog" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Roger Hertog</a></td><td>New York, NY</td><td>$70,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Gilder" title="Richard Gilder" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Richard Gilder</a></td><td>New York, NY</td><td>$50,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Marcia_Kern_Peterson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marcia Kern Peterson (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Marcia Kern Peterson</a></td><td /><td>$50,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joseph_E_Robert,Jr&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joseph E Robert, Jr (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Joseph E Robert, Jr</a></td><td>Mc Lean</td><td>$50,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lovett_Peters&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lovett Peters (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lovett Peters</a></td><td>Chestnut Hill, MA</td><td>$30,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Helen_DeVos" title="Helen DeVos" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Helen DeVos</a></td><td>Lake Worth, FL</td><td>$25,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/J.C.Huizenga" title="J.C. Huizenga" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">J.C. Huizenga</a></td><td>Grand Rapids, MI</td><td>$25,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lawrence_J_DeGeorge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lawrence J DeGeorge (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lawrence J DeGeorge</a></td><td>Jupiter, FL</td><td>$20,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ted_Forstmann" title="Ted Forstmann" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ted Forstmann</a></td><td>New York, NY</td><td>$15,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dick_DeVos" title="Dick DeVos" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Richard Devos, Jr</a></td><td>Grand Rapids, MI</td><td>$12,500</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_DeVos" title="Richard DeVos" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Richard DeVos</a></td><td>Lake Worth, FL</td><td>$12,500</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frank_Baxter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frank Baxter (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Frank Baxter</a></td><td>Los Angeles, CA</td><td>$10,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_J_Hume&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William J Hume (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">William J Hume</a></td><td>San Francisco, CA</td><td>$10,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_Simon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Simon (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">William Simon</a></td><td>Pacific Palisades, CA</td><td>$10,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Henkels&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Henkels (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Paul Henkels</a></td><td>Blue Bell, PA</td><td>$9,500</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Blew&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jim Blew (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jim Blew</a></td><td>Valencia, CA</td><td>$5,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_State_Leadership_Committee" title="Republican State Leadership Committee" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican State Leadership Committee</a></td><td>Alexandria</td><td>$5,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lewis_M_Eisenberg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lewis M Eisenberg (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lewis M Eisenberg</a></td><td>Rumson, NJ</td><td>$2,500</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Evelyn_Holtzman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Evelyn Holtzman (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Evelyn Holtzman</a></td><td>Palm Beach, FL</td><td>$2,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Chase_Investment_Council_Corp&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chase Investment Council Corp (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Chase Investment Council Corp</a></td><td>Charlottesville</td><td>$1,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thomas_N_Chewning&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas N Chewning (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Thomas N Chewning</a></td><td>Richmond</td><td>$1,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kevin_L_Gentry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kevin L Gentry (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kevin L Gentry</a></td><td>Fairfax</td><td>$1,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Whitney_Tilson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Whitney Tilson (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Whitney Tilson</a></td><td>New York, NY</td><td>$500</td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Contact Information</h2>229 S. 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background: none;">People for the American Way</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">References</h2><ol class="references" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Rachel Tabachnik <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/4/24/22559/1547/Front_Page/Pro_Voucher_Astroturfing_Campaigns_Across_Nation_Coordinated_by_DeVos_Funded_by_a_Few_Mega_Donors" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Pro-Voucher Astroturfing: Campaigns Across Nation Coordinated by DeVos, Funded by a Few Mega-Donors</a>, Talk to Action (Talk2Action.org)(blog/reporting site), April 24, 2011</li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Associated Press/The (Wheeling, West Virginia) Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/133747/School-choice-expanding-as-record-fine-languishes-.html?isap=1&nav=536" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">School choice expanding as record fine languishes</a>, published article/newspaper article, March 29, 2011</li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Brian Ross <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://truth-2-power.com/2011/12/13/the-dead-billionaires-club-the-dead-cant-vote-but-should-they-give/" style="text-decoration: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">The Dead Billionaires Club: The Dead Can't Vote, but Should They Give?</a> Truth-2-Power, December 13, 2011</li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/All_Children_Matter#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; 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</div><div><div class="mce-content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">d Trump announced that Betsy DeVos, a Michigan Republican operative who has been called <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/150868/the_devos_family:meet_the_super-wealthy_right-wingers_working_with_the_religious_right_to_kill_public_education" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">“the four-star general of the voucher movement,”</a> is his choice to be secretary of education, a <a href="http://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2016/11/22/what-a-betsy-devos-appointment-would-tell-us-about-donald-trumps-education-plans/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">fox-guarding-the-chicken-coop appointment</a> if ever there were one. DeVos has been a major proponent of school vouchers and other tax schemes that divert dollars away from public education and into religious schools, private schools, and profitable but ineffective online charter schools. In addition, organizations that she has helped run have been major players in state politics, <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/predatory-privatization-exploiting-financial-hardship-enriching-1-percent-undermining-d" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">pouring money into both state legislative campaigns and state lobbying</a>.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">The DeVos family’s wealth comes from the direct marketing company Amway, which made Richard DeVos and his wife Helen <a href="http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/3/1/school-choice-but-much-more-making-sense-of-devos-family-phi.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">among the wealthiest people in the United States</a>. In <a href="http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/3/1/school-choice-but-much-more-making-sense-of-devos-family-phi.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">a profile published in March</a>, Inside Philanthropy credits the expansion of voucher programs since 2000 largely to the DeVos family, “which operates three philanthropic foundations and has a remarkable talent for moving money by the truckload into socially conservative causes to shift voters’ and lawmakers’ mindsets in a rightward direction.” The <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/school-choice-just-part-of-devos-familys-far-right-agenda/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">DeVos family</a> has <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/devos-family-foundations-heritage-americans-prosperity-blackwater" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">funded major right-wing institutions</a> pushing conservative policies, including the Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, Council for National Policy, the Acton Institute, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, and more.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Betsy, former chair of the Michigan Republican Party, is married to Richard’s son Dick, who ran unsuccessfully for governor in Michigan in 2006. She has been a board member of Advocates for School Choice and headed All Children Matter, which <a href="http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/3/1/school-choice-but-much-more-making-sense-of-devos-family-phi.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">“has pumped contributions into state elections since its inception in 2003.”</a>  She played a central role in All Children Matter, its successor the American Federation for Children and AFC-affiliated state political action committees, like one that raised more than $6 million for the 2010 election cycle in Pennsylvania alone. The American Federation for Children also <a href="https://millermps.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/who-is-the-right-wing-american-federation-for-children-2/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">spent heavily helping Wisconsin Republicans who faced recall elections.</a> AFC is affiliated with the Alliance for School Choice.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Researcher Rachel Tabachnik noted in <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/150868/the_devos_family:meet_the_super-wealthy_right-wingers_working_with_the_religious_right_to_kill_public_education" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">a 2011 Alternet profile of the DeVos family’s school privatization efforts</a>  that after voucher initiatives were consistently defeated by voters, the DeVos family shifted their strategy to a legislative one, and began spending millions on both campaign contributions and lobbying.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Like many privatization advocates, DeVos has resisted efforts to hold charter schools and non-public schools to the same standards reformers apply to private schools. <a href="http://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2016/11/22/what-a-betsy-devos-appointment-would-tell-us-about-donald-trumps-education-plans/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">As Chalkbeat notes</a>, since she and her husband helped get Michigan’s charter school law past, they have “worked to protect charters from additional regulation.” That may be why there has been little action in the state to improve or close low-performing charter schools.<blockquote style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; hyphens: none; padding: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0.75em 2em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5;">When Michigan lawmakers this year were considering a measure that would have added oversight for charter schools in Detroit, members of the DeVos family poured $1.45 million into legislators’ campaign coffers — an average of <a href="http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/stephen-henderson/2016/09/03/charter-devos-money-michigan/89774760/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">$25,000 a day</a> for seven weeks. Oversight was not included in the final legislation.</blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">The DeVos attacks on public education are part of a broader push by right-wing DeVos-funded groups to attack public employee unions. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/29/us/politics/29teaparty.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">The New York Times reported</a> in 2011 that FreedomWorks was “pushing anti-union legislation in several states, and saw the school choice legislation as part of that larger battle.” A <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/devos-michigan-labor-politics-gop" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">2014 Mother Jones story</a> detailed the DeVos clan’s anti-union agenda and the hardball it played with its political money to jam through right-to-work legislation. “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.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">DeVos is a board member of Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education, which supports Common Core standards – <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/06/16/donald-trump-transcript-our-country-needs-a-truly-great-leader/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">trashed by Trump on the campaign trail</a> – as well as “school choice.” Betsy has also <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/150868/the_devos_family:meet_the_super-wealthy_right-wingers_working_with_the_religious_right_to_kill_public_education" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">served on the board</a> of the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/school-choice-just-part-of-devos-familys-far-right-agenda/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">Acton Institute</a>, which promotes right-wing economics as undergirded by conservative theology.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">The Religious Right DeVos family also <a href="http://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2016/11/22/what-a-betsy-devos-appointment-would-tell-us-about-donald-trumps-education-plans/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">“gave heavily to efforts to ban same-sex marriage in Michigan”</a> and <a href="http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/3/1/school-choice-but-much-more-making-sense-of-devos-family-phi.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">“helped turn Michigan into a ‘right-wing work’ state</a>. Betsy’s brother Erik Prince, founder of the controversial military contracting company formerly known as Blackwater, is also a right-wing funder; <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/devos-michigan-labor-politics-gop" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">her industrialist father helped found the Family Research Council</a>.</div></div><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; border-top: 5px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); margin-bottom: 2em; padding-top: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Tags: <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/betsy-devos/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">Betsy DeVos</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/dick-devos/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">Dick DeVos</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/donald-trump/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">Donald Trump</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/richard-devos/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">Richard DeVos</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/acton-institute/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">Acton Institute</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/all-children-matter/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">All Children Matter</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/alliance-for-school-choice/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">Alliance for School Choice</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/american-enterprise-institute/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">American Enterprise Institute</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/american-federation-for-children/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">American Federation for Children</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/council-for-national-policy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">Council for National Policy</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/heritage-foundation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">Heritage Foundation</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/mackinac-center-for-public-policy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration: none;">Mackinac Center for Public Policy</a></div></div></div><div></div>