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Been a laboratory because there's a lot of devos money there, he she has a high degree of influence, particularly in detroit. your assessment of her record there. >> you have to understand betsy devos. the family is worth over $5 billion according to "forbes" so they have a lot of money to spend. she and her family have given a lot of money to the legislature and she basically runs the state when it comes to education. they do what she wants. in the year 2000, she and her husband sponsored a referendum to change the state constitution to permit public noun go to religious schools and the voter...

Called on devos to release her tax returns. >> shepard: every indication is that betsy devos has growing republican support. >> yeah. people like jeb bush, senator orrin hatcher. 20 gop governors have endorsed her, incding rick snyder from michigan. he said she and her husband, dick devos, wants children no matter their race, income or zip code to have access to great schools and great teachers that prepare them for success in the work force. betsy devos has made no bones about saying she believes public education is a monopoly and would work better with more competition and the devos family h...

What should democrats do to message against it? >> i think they should message against the privatization, the stuff that we call the commons, the stuff that is for all of us. right now the president-elect is putting together a cabinet that basically contains four different kinds of people. people who are really inexperienced, billionaires, people with czy ideas and billionaires who have crazy ideas and are inexperienced and betsy devos is right at the top. >> not only that, her family has roots in the right-wing causes that have been at the fore for decades. richard devos, her father-in-law, i...

Putting this through in a lame duck, and using a parliamentary technique in order to prevent a referendum. this just makes people angry. it makes them outraged. and i believe this is an absolutely outrageous action by the governor, and there will be a price to be paid. >> cindy, what about the outside groups that have poured money into the state to try to make this a right-to-work state? how much of an influence have they had in this? >> you know, i don't think they're going to have the influence that they want to have. they put $2 million just in the last few days into the state of militia, t...

And they're not going to be successful in beating back workers. we're going to show that it's actually energizing our base. and people are saying that they're angry about it. >> what was the name you put out? what was his name? dick what? >> dick devos. >> that's the amway guy. >> yep, that's right. >> and governor snyder seems to have -- seems to pay more attention to him than he does the citizens of the state. and that's very unfortunate. >> moving forward here, the only option you have here is 2014. congressman, in some way could this really solidify democrats going into a midterm where the...