Eric Turner's Corporate School Handouts

by Doug Martin

Nursing home crusader and Cicero, Indiana’s Republican Eric Turner loves the corporate school crowd in Indiana.  Here are a few of his funders.

LILLY

To add to the $1000 it gave him in 2013 (page 9), the $1000 (page 13) in 2011, the $500 in 2010 (page 6), and the $1,000 in 2009 (page 8), recently the corporate school pushers at Eli Lilly handed Turner $1,000.

WALMART/DEVOS

Then, on April 21, 2014, Walmart and DeVos’ Hoosiers for Economic Growth PAC, better known as the “13 Filthy Rich Who Bought Indiana Public Education,” wrote a $5000 check for Turner’s campaign.  In 2013, the Hoosiers for Economic Growth PAC threw $500 into Turner’s campaign pocket (page 12).

Walmart’s own WAL PAC emptied out its couch-change in 2011 and handed Turner $3,500 (page 17) and added another $1,000 in 2013 (page 17). In December 2009, WAL PAC also handed Turner $1,000. (page 13).  Quite nicely, this amount covered the $1000 he had to “contribute” to ALEC in that year (page 18).

MARK MILES

In 2013, Mind Trust board member and Hulman and Company CEO Mark Miles handed Turner $500 (page 3).

HEWLETT PACKARD

Hewlett Packard, also involved in the national school buyout with billionaires (Teach for America's board includes Packard's Meg Whitman and Bill Clinton's deregulator Larry Summers), tossed Turner $250 on Sept. 27, 2013, too (page 5). The year before, the corporation gave him $200 (page 3).  In 2011, Hewlett   Package slid Turner $200 (page 4).  In 2009, the corporation gave Turner $250 (page 16).

CHAMBER

The Chamber’s Indiana Business for Responsive Government gifted Turner $500 (page 14) in 2013. The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, in 2012, handed out $1,000 to Turner (page 4).

TODD HUSTON

In October 2011, Tony Bennett’s Cisco College Board buddy Todd Huston gave Turner $250 (page 2).

Sure wish I could have gotten Turner into Hoosier School Heist, but don't worry, there's plenty in that book to keep you well occupied.