Purchasing Democracy and a cabinet position. Great lesson for students about how America really works. Betsy DeVos is married to Dick DeVos, worth around 5 billion. Dick was the 2006 GOP nominee for Michigan governor. Dick's dad co-founded Amway and is former president of the NBA's Orlando Magic. Hard work marrying a man who inherited a fortune from his father.
Her brother, Erik, founded Blackwater, the security firm involved in the controversial Nusoor Square shooting in Iraq in 2007. She is the daughter of Elsa Prince Broekhuizen, who donated $450,000 to a 2008 campaign that opposed same-sex marriages in California.
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