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Monday, April 14, 2014

Strangulation of Local Control


PLUTOCTOPUS REX!
First we saw that American Majority, a national group funded by the Koch Bros was training Tea Party candidates for the Burlington School Board.

Then we saw that the fascist American Legislative Exchange Council (fALEC), also a Koch supported group is also going to insert itself into local elected officials across the country.

And now we see that the national group Americans for Plutocracy, also funded by the Koch Bros has injected itself into the Kenosha Unified school board race, because the existing board had not used Gubnah Walker's divide & conquer "Tools" to sufficiently punish the public school teachers.

Just connecting the dots . . . or should I say suction pads?

Americans for Plutocracy, fALEC and Merican Majority, all tentacles of the Koch Bros Plutoctopus and all worming their way to strangle your local control and shroud your democracy in an inky cloud. Because Republicons no longer believe in local control. They only believe in CONTROL! 
Posted by Sean Cranley at 2:08 PM

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