Re: Fw: Mark Tucker feeding on the pork barrel

["GERALD BRACEY" <gbracey1@verizon.net>]

It was a Rep from MA, not Kennedy.  Blocking on the name at the moment.

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> Has anyone uncovered the lawmaker who sponsored the Tucker earmark?
>
> While Tucker has ties to Democrats, some of the school districts that have
> tapped his "talents" (??) have been led by school superintendents who were
> trained and annointed by the Broad Foundation, founded by a Democrat who 
> runs
> with the California Republican elite and Silicon Valley tycoons who  want 
> to
> privatize public education.
>
> In Duval County, FL, (Jacksonville) the two former school supts were Broad
> trained as was the entire school board.  And the newest supt.(the third in
> three years) is singing praises of Broad policies.  John Fryer  left as 
> supt. to
> work for Tucker after millions were spent in the county using  Tucker's
> America's Choice program, which had no significant impact on test  scores 
> or the
> county's status relative to other urban districts.
>
> It's almost as if he sets up districts for failure--which sets the stage 
> for
> an eventual takeover by the private sector.  Maybe this is his payoff  for
> playing the game.
>
> --Billee Bussard
>
> In a message dated 12/20/2007 9:37:01 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> gbracey1@verizon.net writes:
>
> MessageYou might want to contact your congressman.
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 10:32 PM
> Subject: Mark  Tucker feeding on the pork barrel
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> ANY ONE KNOW WHICH CONGRESSMAN  AUTHORED THIS  EARMARK?
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> From:  Jeffrey Strohl [mailto:JeffreyStrohl@westat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December  18, 2007 9:32 AM
> Subject: Mark Tucker feeding on the pork  barrel
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> Editorial
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> Congress oinks its way to a  spending bill
>
> The Washington DC Examiner  Newspaper
> 2007-12-18 08:00:00.0
> Current rank: # 5 of 10,447
>
> WASHINGTON -
>
> If character is what we do when we think nobody  is looking, then
> congressional leaders responsible for the 3,500-plus-page  Consolidated 
> Appropriations
> Act of 2008 have a lot of explaining to do. They  should start by telling 
> us why
> they posted their "omnibus spending bill" on  the Internet only hours 
> before
> voting on it and in a format that made  searching the text laborious, at 
> best.
> The bill combines 11 regular  appropriations bills funding government's
> day-to-day operations that should  have been passed in October, along with 
> money
> for U.S. troops in Iraq and  Afghanistan. The rush to passage is because 
> the
> government has been operating  on a temporary continuing resolution for 
> nearly
> two months, the Pentagon says  it will soon have to furlough thousands of 
> civil
> servants and Congress wants  to go home before Christmas.
>
> Congressional leaders  should explain why they included nearly 700 pages 
> of
> earmarks in a bill nobody  was able to read too closely before passage 
> since
> it's so big. They shouldn't  be surprised by suspicions they smelled a 
> chance
> for a Christmas feast at the  pork barrel trough without having to worry 
> about
> uninvited guests - taxpayers,  bloggers and journalists - showing up to 
> spoil
> the party. What they failed to  consider is that the Internet empowered 
> people
> like the Porkbusters, who are  eager to shine the light of public
> accountability on Congress. Within hours of  the bill's posting, 
> eagle-eyed readers were
> uncovering gems like the $2.6  million noncompetitive award for unstated
> purposes to the National Center on  Education and the Economy, with the 
> money
> required to be delivered within 30  days. A couple of quick Internet 
> searches
> revealed that NCEE is a 501 C(3)  tax-exempt educational foundation 
> devoted to
> providing "strategic assistance"  to local, state and federal 
> policy-makers on work
> force development programs  in education.
>
> Marc Tucker is NCEE's most highly  compensated officer, receiving more 
> than
> $800,000 in salary and benefits,  according to the organization's most 
> recent
> 990 tax return. Tucker is a  long-time donor to Sen. Hillary Clinton, 
> D-N.Y.,
> including giving the maximum  individual contribution of $4,600 to her
> presidential campaign, according to  OpenSecrets.org. Over the years, he 
> has
> contributed to other major Democratic  leaders like 2004 presidential 
> nominee John
> Kerry, Sen. Edward Kennedy,  D-Mass., and former Senate Majority Leader 
> Tom
> Daschle, D-S.D. Tucker is free  to support the candidates of his choice, 
> of course.
> But NCEE's tax return  showed more than $30 million on hand at the end of 
> the
> 2006 tax period and the  group claims to receive support from many of the
> nation's richest private  foundations, so why does Tucker's group need a
> sweetheart deal paid by the  taxpayers for $2.6 million and why the rush? 
> Since the
> NCEE award is just one  paragraph taken from nearly 700 pages of pork 
> barrel in
> the omnibus spending  measure, President Bush should get that veto pen 
> ready.
>
> Examiner
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