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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Bush Foundation “staff acted to promote their corporate funders’ priorities” | Scathing Purple Musings

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Bush Foundation “staff acted to promote their corporate funders’ priorities”

Florida’s mainstream media have been poking around the embers of the relationship between Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education and it’s corporate sponsors. Orlando Sentinel  reporter Leslie Postal reports that a government watchdog group will releasing emails which “paint a graphic picture of corporate money distorting democracy.”
The group In the Public Interest plans to detail tomorrow how former Gov. Jeb Bush’s influential educational foundation is “writing state education laws and regulations in ways that could benefit its corporate funders.”
The group is to detail its findings to reporters Wednesday, with two Orlando mothers from the group Fund Education Now taking part in the press call. A Louisiana parent from the national group