Thread by @DavidPepper

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Husted Watch:

I see Ohio’s Lt. Gov came out of his hole to attack Kamala Harris again.

So, as promised, let me reveal a 3d detail about this career politician’s disastrous record

Not that long ago, our schools were ranked among the finest in the nation (top 5).

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https://twitter.com/jonhusted/status/1826755205792215109

But then Husted started pushing policies his donors wanted, even though they were disastrous for Ohio families, students and taxpayers.

One of those get-rich schemes were for-profit charter schools

A legislative agency that provided some oversight of these new “schools”…

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…warned Ohio politicians that they posed a huge risk.

And as Ohio Speaker of the House at the time, Husted reacted the only way that a politician owned by special interests knew to react….he got rid of that agency, and not the risky schools.

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That decision…to eliminate that oversight…was THE critical step that opened the floodgates of years of profit-making by shitty, scammy schools.

The most scammy of all those schools was called ECOT. An “online” for-profit school that turned out to be a complete…

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…. scam, growing to the size of a university, collecting thousands for every student who logged on and left a public school to do so, who of course saw their education scores tank.

But ECOT also soon emerged as the Ohio GOP’s largest donor. And Husted got a lot of those $

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Later, it turned out that ECOT also wasn’t really taking attendance, so they were bilking tax dollars for millions…for phantom students.

The state still has not gotten all those dollars back.

Add it up, and this is arguably the second largest scandal in Ohio history…

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…only behind the First Energy scandal (also a Husted creation).

But in this case, not only did it cost hundreds of millions. It undermined public schools & destroyed the education of 1000s of kids.

Ohio’s 5th place ranking in public education has plummeted to the mid-20s

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Now, you probably think I must be exaggerating when I say that Husted’s role was so pivotal in this scandal.

Well, if you don’t believe me, I have another source for that claim.

Someone who would know better than anybody.

ECOT itself.

You see, when ECOT handed out its first “honorary degree,” they gave it to none other than Husted.

Here’s the photo of that proud moment for Jon:

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And when they did, here’s what they said: “Without Speaker Husted…the [ECOT] revolution in e-learning in Ohio may have ended.”

And there he is waving to those words.

Folks, given the size of the scandal, that sentence alone should be disqualifying to his ever serving

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…in office again.

But Ohio is so awash in corruption, Husted just keeps moving on up.

That is, until now.

Make sure people know.

And Jon, we’re all eagerly looking forward to policy “truth” number 4. 👀

Will be happy to respond.

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