Packed Pacs: how billionaires in the US are bankrolling Republicans at the state level

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : The DeVos family is known for promoting "school-choice policies", specifically the expansion of charter schools.
60% : State legislative chambers, once regarded as sleepy backwaters, have become partisan battlegrounds in recent years as they have a huge impact on issues ranging from book banks to transgender rights to voting laws.
58% : He told Philadelphia Magazine last year that it would be a "good thing" if public schools "shut down", adding: "There is no possible way a government monopoly could be a better approach to schools than market competition.
47% : For the sake of our democracy we must overturn the disastrous Citizens United supreme court decision and move toward public funding of elections."
44% : The Bridge Michigan news site reported "no individual has shaped school policy as much as Betsy DeVos", contributing to Michigan having "some of the nation's highest concentrations of charter schools run by for-profit companies".

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