DeVos urges career staff to 'be the resistance' as Biden takes over

[Demovictory9]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/15/betsy-devos-biden-education-department-445900

DeVos urges career staff to ‘be the resistance’ as Biden takes over
The secretary's remarks come after nearly four years of frequently sparring with the career employees of her department.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos urged career employees at the Education Department on Tuesday to “be the resistance” when the Biden administration comes into power next month, according to a recording of her remarks obtained by POLITICO.

During a department-wide virtual meeting to discuss the shift to the new administration, DeVos acknowledged that most of the agency’s thousands of career employees “will be here through the coming transition and beyond.”


“Let me leave you with this plea: Resist,” DeVos said. “Be the resistance against forces that will derail you from doing what’s right for students. In everything you do, please put students first — always.”


An Education Department spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment on the remarks. The department also would not say whether DeVos plans to stay in office until Jan. 20.

[OnDoutside]

1. I'm sure they'll all miss her mightily......

[Solly Mack]

2. Crazy as a Betsy bug.

[Thekaspervote]

3. F..k off!

[BGBD]

4. Does she think they like her?

Cause they don't.

Professional staff are professionals and generally understand that they aren't the people there to form policy but to execute it. They are used to things like changes in goals and power and will work toward the directive until it isn't the directive anymore. Either that or quit and go do something else.

[Roland99]

5. Her words were duly noted and summarily ignored

[mitch96]

10. Placed it the waste bin of time.. eat shit and die betzy.... and your brother too!!! just say'n nt

[whistler162]

6. The ASPCA has announced a major investigation

into the Department of Education due to reports of extensive avian flipping!

[Tanuki]

7. So, she's trying to sabotage her successor and get people fired for insubordination

while she retreats to her multiple mansions, yacht, and other trappings of her billionaire lifestyle? She was only ever driven by her sick, unrealistic ideology never had any interest at all in the children and adults served by the education system. Good riddance to Betsy Prince DeVos. I hope we never have to hear of her again, and I hope her brother Erik gets what's coming to him.

[Hortensis]

8. As clueless about what employees are thinking as party boy Pompeo. nt

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

9. Anyone sympathetic to DeVos/Trump should be fired if possible.

If it is not possible to fire them, then their duties should be rearranged so that they are quarantined from any power within the system.

Actions have consequences. Those who supported Trump's attempted overthrow of our democracy and our government cannot be trusted to hold any position of power, anywhere.

No quarter for traitors.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. As you may know, that's not legal. NT

[ancianita]

11. More bullshit mountain victim talk. She's the very education defunding elite they should resist!