All Children Matter
All Children Matter (ACM) was founded by Amway founder and far-right philantrhopist Richard DeVos and his wife, Betsy DeVos. The organization became the pet project of Walmart heir John Walton, who put more than $4.1M into the organization in 2006 before he was killed in a plane crash.[1]
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Fines for illegal election activity
In 2008, All Children Matter was fined $5.2 million by the Ohio Elections Commission for pumping millions of dollars into helping get pro-school voucher candidates elected in Ohio, Wisconsin and other states. Three years after the Commission imposed the record-breaking fine, the group had not yet paid it, according to the state attorney general. In 2008, the Elections Commission ruled unanimously that All Children Matter, then headed by former Michigan Republican Chairwoman Betsy DeVos, had illegally funneled $870,000 in contributions from its Virginia political action committee to its affiliate in Ohio. The payment violated a $10,000 cap on what Ohio-based, political-action committees could accept from any single entity. All Children Matter was also fined $500 in Wisconsin for providing media support for candidates without registering as a PAC.[2]
Mission
ACM was started in the spring of 2003 with the mission of training and funding candidates who promote school vouchers nationwide.
Organization
ACM Inc is a federal "527" organization, which can donate money directly to other PACS and can set up guerrilla Super PACs that campaign on behalf of political candidates without any direct coordination by the candidate's organization, in theory.
Its base of wealthy funders includes most of the Dead Billionaires Club (DBC)[3], including the DeVos family, the Koch brothers and ability to stealthily intervene in local, state and federal political races, the ACM network is an effective tool for the movement to privatize public education.
Officers
Executive Director
Directors
Key Staff
Funding
ACM takes in massive amounts of money from a Who's Who list of radical right wing wealthy patrons.
2005 to 2007 Donations
According to the Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP)[4]:
| John Walton | Bentonville, AR | $4,151,750 |
| Advocates for School Choice | Phoenix, AZ | $500,000 |
| Bruce Kovner | New York, NY | $500,000 |
| Bill Oberndorf | Mill Valley, CA | $500,000 |
| Julian H Robertson, Jr | New York, NY | $500,000 |
| Virgina Manheimer | Lambertville, NJ | $350,000 |
| Betsy DeVos | Grand Rapids, MI | $260,000 |
| Robert Kern | Waukesha, WI | $250,000 |
| Rick Sharp | Henrico | $250,000 |
| David Brennan | Akron, OH | $150,000 |
| Dino Cortopassi | Stockton, CA | $150,000 |
| John Fisher | San Francisco, CA | $135,000 |
| Peter Flanigan | New York, NY | $125,000 |
| Bruce D Benson | Denver, CO | $100,000 |
| Foster Friess | Jackson, WY | $100,000 |
| Riverstone Group LLC | Richmond | $100,000 |
| Alliance for School Choices in Education | Milwaukee, WI | $92,000 |
| John Bryan | Lake Oswego, OR | $75,000 |
| Koch Industries Inc | Wichita, KS | $75,000 |
| Roger Hertog | New York, NY | $70,000 |
| Richard Gilder | New York, NY | $50,000 |
| Marcia Kern Peterson | $50,000 | |
| Joseph E Robert, Jr | Mc Lean | $50,000 |
| Lovett Peters | Chestnut Hill, MA | $30,000 |
| Helen DeVos | Lake Worth, FL | $25,000 |
| J.C. Huizenga | Grand Rapids, MI | $25,000 |
| Lawrence J DeGeorge | Jupiter, FL | $20,000 |
| Ted Forstmann | New York, NY | $15,000 |
| Richard Devos, Jr | Grand Rapids, MI | $12,500 |
| Richard DeVos | Lake Worth, FL | $12,500 |
| Frank Baxter | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 |
| William J Hume | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 |
| William Simon | Pacific Palisades, CA | $10,000 |
| Paul Henkels | Blue Bell, PA | $9,500 |
| Jim Blew | Valencia, CA | $5,000 |
| Republican State Leadership Committee | Alexandria | $5,000 |
| Lewis M Eisenberg | Rumson, NJ | $2,500 |
| Evelyn Holtzman | Palm Beach, FL | $2,000 |
| Chase Investment Council Corp | Charlottesville | $1,000 |
| Thomas N Chewning | Richmond | $1,000 |
| Kevin L Gentry | Fairfax | $1,000 |
| Whitney Tilson | New York, NY | $500 |
Contact Information
229 S. Washington Street - Suite 115 Alexandria VA 22314
Website
External References
- All Children Matter - Right Wing Watch - People for the American Way
References
- ↑ Rachel Tabachnik Pro-Voucher Astroturfing: Campaigns Across Nation Coordinated by DeVos, Funded by a Few Mega-Donors, Talk to Action (Talk2Action.org)(blog/reporting site), April 24, 2011
- ↑ Associated Press/The (Wheeling, West Virginia) Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register School choice expanding as record fine languishes, published article/newspaper article, March 29, 2011
- ↑ Brian Ross The Dead Billionaires Club: The Dead Can't Vote, but Should They Give? Truth-2-Power, December 13, 2011
- ↑ All Children Matter - Money In - 2005-2007
