Our rights in trouble
Michelle Rhee
When she’s trying to preserve her credibility as anything but a mouthpiece of the Tea Party governors like John Kasich and billionaires like the Walmart heirs and Rupert Murdoch, Michelle Rhee claims she supports collective bargaining rights.
She claimed it while her StudentsFirst organization collaborated on Michigan bills limiting collective bargaining for teachers and lowering the standard for demoting teachers from requiring “reasonable and just cause” to allowing anything that’s not “arbitrary and capricious.”
She claimed it while StudentsFirst spent $70,000 defending a state representative who championed those bills from recall, even though he was also a horrendous gay-baiter. Now, StudentsFirst’s PAC has contributed $500,000 to oppose the Michigan ballot measure that would put collective bargaining rights in the state’s constitution.
That’s an awfully big financial investment in opposing something you claim to support. It’s a financial investment Rhee and StudentsFirst wouldn’t be in a position to make without the support of people like the Waltons and Rupert Murdoch.
by Laura Clawson, The Daily Kos, October 27, 2012
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