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Hilary Rosen, Michelle Rhee and Barack Obama’s AFT – NEA Support | Scathing Purple Musings

Hilary Rosen, Michelle Rhee and Barack Obama’s AFT – NEA Support | Scathing Purple Musings:


Hilary Rosen, Michelle Rhee and Barack Obama’s AFT – NEA Support

While the American Left rose to the defense of Hilary Rosen’s smear of Ann Romney, the lobbying firm who pays Rosen’s salary was cashing in on her contacts with the Obama White House. According to Lee Fang of The Nation, among Rosen’s clients is Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst:
SKDKnickerbocker represents consulting for Students First, a lobbying group aimed at destroying collective bargaining, and replacing public education with a mix of charters, private schools, and online learning companies. According to documents revealed the blog At The Chalk Face, Students First helped craft bills in Michigan to break teachers unions by severely limiting collective bargaining. 
Fang writes why Rosen’s access to the White House will prove troubling to Rhee’s detractors whom are