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Money controls Republican Candidate for State Superintendent in what was supposed to be a nonpartisan race.
Former candidate John Humphries said the two (Lowell Holtz) met after speaking to “business leaders,” who Humphries declined to identify. Holtz said,”It’s true that a number of business people asked us to get together and discuss options for working together” Holtz proposed a guaranteed, three-year, $150,000 job with the Department of Public Instruction should one of them (win).
After a freedom of information request, One Wisconsin Now turned over a few revealing emails from Holtz:
AP: State superintendent candidate Lowell Holtz sent an email detailing his support among Republicans and soliciting campaign advice using his Whitnall Public School account during a school day, an apparent violation of Wisconsin law.
This interesting big money business references was in one of the illegal emails:
Using the subject line of “What do you think? I have her e-mail address” Holtz sent the draft of a message he addressed to someone named Diane. Holtz does not identify her by last name and he did not respond to an email asking if the person he was referring to was billionaire Republican donor Diane Hendricks, of Beloit. Her spokeswoman also did not respond to an email asking whether she received such a message from Holtz.
Holtz also wrote that former Republican Rep. Don Pridemore put him in touch with Matt Batzel, who trains conservative activists through the national group American Majority … Holtz wrote that Batzel suggested that he contact Diane to “share some of your expertise and advice with our committee.”
In the email, Holtz describes being supported conservative Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Republican state Rep. Jim Ott. Holtz's wife wrote back and suggested not mentioning Vos: “Fitzgerald seems to be more well liked in the republican camp,” she said.
But Holtz's support from Don Pridemore, a former candidate himself for the state superintendent job, should be a warning to voters everywhere. I wrote this in a previous post…
Pridemore: “So if you were any other country in the world, wouldn't you want to maybe knock America down a few pegs or two…to me, that's what's going on here, and we need to be aware of it…”Neumann: “Where is this coming from though, in terms of you feeling like it is something that, I don't know if you want to call it a plot against America, where do you get that information?”
Pridemore: “Well it's coming from the UN. The UN I would argue has never been really a friend of America…you look at some of the left's ideas, even Bill Ayers has weighed in on education being one of the major factors in changing a country. If we can get the kids early and often with a change of ideas, America was founded on freedom, and all this detracts, ah, from that freedom.”
A former liberal radio talk host who likes to ask the “follow-up question” at Democurmudgeon.blogspot.com
Source: http://democurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2017/02/money-controls-republican-candidate-for.html
