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Dan Chang’s dark money SuperPAC now switches to funding Marshall Tuck

August 15, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

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“We have our cake, and are eating it too.” — Eli Broad

Dan Chang’s SuperPAC, formed to support erstwhile LAUSD candidate Alex “ALEC” Johnson, is now funding a new astroturf group to get his fellow Broad Urban Residency alum, Marshall Tuck, elected to the California State Superintendent of Public Instruction seat. Using the wonderful astroturf name “Parents for Marshall Tuck”, we can be sure that no authentic parents are running the Independent Expenditure (IE) funded by Chang’s Great Public Schools Los Angeles PAC. The new astroturf group’s twitter is https://twitter.com/parentsfortuck, you can access their website from there.

  • For background on Dan Chang
  • For background on Marshall Tuck
Corporatists Dan Chang and Marshall Tuck

Broad Urban Residency graduates Dan Chang and Marshall Tuck combined have zero hours experience teaching in a public school classroom.

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Filed Under: Elections Tagged With: Astroturf, Broad Urban Residency, California, Dan Chang, Election, Eli Broad, Marshall Tuck, rdsathene, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, SuperPAC

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