Bush Foundation Continues to Spin and Evade Questions on Impropriety
Foundation for Excellence in Education CEO Patricia Levesque has been busy writing letters to the editor as a method of responding to In the Public Interest’s report which focused on her foundation’s emails with state officials. Just two days after a shrill response to a college professor’s letter, Levesque was back at it, calling last Sunday’s Tampa Bay Tribune report from William March “innuendo in search of non-existent impropriety.” After the predictable defense of the foundations work with cherry-picked data, Levesque wrote this:
We are quite open about our efforts to promote reform in states. Read our website. In all the emails the Tribune refers to, there is not one example of a foundation donor receiving special treatment in any state. We don’t lobby for any group or corporation. We simply promote reforms that have been proven to produce results. Our contributors come and go, but our agenda doesn’t change.
If having corporate sponsors for annual gatherings is a crime, then every organization in America is