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What I find creepy about this is not big money donating - par for the course - but why Pete? Big money has always followed those who already have power but when an unknown like Pete shows up backed by MASSIVE networks of organized money, it seems more sinister.
With Bernie & Warren coming out hard against charter schools, which have suffering defeats around country, significant Pete is getting all that charter money. (Failure of Booker's campaign to take off may explain Pete becoming their default choice.)

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Charter issue is sometimes treated as a sideshow - but for venture capital firms, privatizing education is potentially $500 billion market.

So significant that for-profit health care & for-profit education billionaires are lined up behind Pete.

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Promotion of charters is also a way to bust teachers unions- so fact Pete is backed by teacher-union hating bundlers of campaign donations add to sense he is stalking horse for the for-profit charter school profiteers.

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From US v. Cruikshank (1875)

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