Gov. Lee Gets Vouchers Help From Porn-Addict Who Made Wife Watch Sex With Prostitutes
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Weāve already seen Bill Lee and his team of school privatizers use desperate measures in order to win votes for their āeducational savings accountā voucher scheme, but the latest effort reaches a new low. Team Lee turned to conservative mega-donor Lee Beaman (who gave Leeās gubernatorial campaign $8000 in 2018) to pen an article in defense of school vouchers.
While the opposition to school vouchers includes resolutions from 44 school boards around the state, groups of parents, teachers, charitable foundations, civil rights groups, and even a former Senate sponsor of voucher legislation, the support appears to come from a small group of big money backers.
The public face chosen for this group? A guy with a porn addiction who taped himself having sex with prostitutes in order to teach his wife how to better please him. You might say heās certainly a fan of choice.
Beaman and Lee have been working together for years to bring school privatization to Tennessee. Both Bill Lee and Lee Beaman have been consistent supporters of the Tennessee affiliate of Betsy DeVosās American Federation for Children, a group that works to undermine public education and advance school vouchers.
Itās no surprise, then, that after bringing Betsy DeVos to Nashville, Bill Lee would turn to his other voucher buddy, Lee Beaman, to advance his privatization agenda.
In fact, as I wrote in December, it shouldnāt surprise anyone that Bill Lee is taking our state down this dangerous road:
Even though as early as 2016, Bill Lee was extolling the virtues of school voucher schemes and even though heās a long-time supporter of Betsy DeVosās pro-voucher Tennessee Federation for Children and even though he has appointed not one, but two voucher vultures to high level posts in his Administration, it is somehow treated as ānewsā that Bill Lee plans to move forward with a voucher scheme agenda in 2019.
Now, weāve got Lee Beaman as the face and voice of vouchers ahead of a week when the privatization scheme known as ESAs will face key votes in the House and Senate.

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