Two oil tycoons are spending millions to gut Texas public education, according to CNN report

[SharonClark]

Their long-term goal is to replace all public education with private Christian schools, according to former associates.

For years, two oil and fracking tycoons from West Texas have been funding some of the most radical conservative political candidates in Texas, in a push that former associates say is aimed at completely replacing public education with Christian-based private schooling, according to a new CNN report.

Over the last decade, Tim Dunn and his wife, Terri, have poured more than $18 million into far-right political action committees and political candidates for state and local positions across Texas, while Farris Wilks and his wife, Jo Ann, have given more than $11 million, according to CNN’s analysis of Texas Ethics Commission data.

The pair’s spending places them among the biggest political donors in the state, and has been focused on molding state and local policy to align with their far-right political goals. Reshaping education in Texas, former associates told CNN, has long been their top priority.

“The goal is to tear up, tear down public education to nothing and rebuild it,” Dororthy Burton, a former GOP activist who joined Wilks on a 2015 speaking tour, told CNN. “And rebuild it the way God intended education to be.”
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source: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Texas-Ted-Cruz-Tim-Nunn-Farris-Wilks-PAC-money-17327660.php

[dchill]

1. If there WAS a god, who would know what he intended?

The only correct answer is, no one. But that said, I doubt that the answer would come from a fucking shill for corporate Xtian oil tycoons.

They're wasting their money: their goal has already been achieved in Texas. Drill, Jesus, drill!

[Anti-tCON]

5. Do they want teachers at their church schools to carry...

...loaded AR-15s into their classrooms for "defense of students?"

Even cops with hand guns run from idiots shooting up schools with AR-15s.

Thanks to the RNC, too many Texans have become stoooopid!

Amazing to me that the DNC doesn't ask FOXAGANDA these ???!

[Anti-tCON]

7. When I was a kid we went to a Methodist church for a couple of years

And Sunday School 1 summer.

1 day I came home & told my mom that they said that "God created everything!"

Then I asked her, "If God created EVERYTHING, then who created God?" She told me that I'm not supposed to ask that. A few months later we quit going to church. (My dad didn't like going either.)

I was a WASP --- a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, but after that, I just became a "WAS" --- a White Anglo-Saxon.

EVERY DEMOCRAT BETTER RETURN A STRAIGHT DEMOCRAT BALLOT THIS FALL & GET RID OF ALL THIS RNC FOOLISHNESS! WE HAVE THE NUMBERS, WE JUST NEED THEM ALL TO VOTE!

[walkingman]

2. Perfect example of hillbillies with more money than brains. Throw the fuck up.

[PortTack]

3. Nailed it!

[Farmer-Rick]

4. That way atheist have no places to teach their children

And the poor get no education, unless some pedophiles get to tell them stories of magical sky daddies.

[erronis]

6. What's this thing they call "Far Right Educashun"? Another oxi-moran.

The "Far Right" folks that are trying to deny education don't care about politics or religion.

Their only concern is Capitalism - making money without hindrance from people that understand they are getting ripped off.

They think they remember the good old days when they were part of some autocracy and didn't have to answer to something like a government. Their ancestors probably told them they were descended from the Duke of Earl or something. (Like the DAR)

[sarcasmo]

8. The goal is to tear down public education, they will Not rebuild.

[crickets]

9. 👆👆

[Martin Eden]

10. Why should millionaires & billionaires have greater influence than other citizens?

This kind of money in politics is inherently corrupt and undemocratic. Is the United States a
representative democracy or an oligarchy?

Political donations should be limited to something like one week of pay pegged at the minimum wage.

When the courts rule that money equals free speech and elections and government officials are purchased by millionaires, the vast majority of citizens effectively do not have free speech.

[onethatcares]

11. when they start teaching according

to the words of the Christ it would be a better world but feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and yanking wood planks out of their eyes isn't really what they have in mind.