So Rob Portman voted to confirm Betsy DeVos

[BmorePat87]

(02-09-2017, 10:38 AM)McC Wrote: Still waiting on that list of qualifications.  Lots of sound, no fury whatsoever.  Typical.

(02-09-2017, 10:41 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Looking at the duties of the department and the past secretaries, a candidate should have one or more of the following:

-Experience running a school system or university.
-Executive experience overseeing education
-Experience enforcing education laws
-Experience drafting and passing education policy at the federal level
-Experience overseeing billion dollar or more loan programs


And just so we're clear, the Federation for Children is just a school choice lobbying group. So her experience, as many have repeated, is that she has spent money to convince lawmakers that public schools do not work, despite having no experience attending, working in, or running a public school.

If I was born into money and then married into more money and decided to spend my money telling politicians that national parks suck, despite having never visited one or worked at one, does that make me qualified to be Secretary of the Interior? Maybe if I was well educated and was an American citizen. 

I got you.