RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Now that she is the Secretary of Education, Let's Give Betsy DeVoss a chance.

Tuesday, February 07, 2017

Now that she is the Secretary of Education, Let's Give Betsy DeVoss a chance.

So I get a real kick out of everybody who is complaining about Betsy DeVos being the new secretary of education.

Let's go back in history to the mid-1980s and what happened during the Reagan administration

In his first press conference as secretary in 1985, new Department of Education Secretary Bill Bennett set the tone for his administration of the department by calling college students "beach bums" who "ought to give up their stereos to pay tuition instead of expecting government aid."

Later, Bennett called some universities "rip-offs" that "graduate almost any warm body" and referred to the Chicago school system as "the blob." (Thanks LA Times for the quick reminder about what took place 30 years ago).

I think we all need to give Betsy DeVos a chance...

what the heck ...

the sky was falling back in the 70s and 80s and I think we all turned out pretty amazing....

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You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”