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VIDEO: Superlobbyist Trent Lott Fumbles To Explain Why He’s Shilling For Scam Schools
http://www.republicreport.org/2012/video-superlobbyist-trent-lott-fumbles-to-explain-why-hes-shilling-for-scam-schools/
VIDEO: Superlobbyist Trent Lott Fumbles To Explain Why He’s Shilling For Scam Schools
Zaid Jilani 3.16.2012 at 9:00 AM
Two weeks ago, America’s subprime schools — the for-profit college industry, many of whose members rip students off and demand that Uncle Sam pick up the tab for their shoddy education — held a conference in Washington, D.C. We were there.
The association for these schools, America’s Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU), brought in elite Democratic and Republican Party operatives to teach them how to intimidate candidates for federal office into supporting them. They also blamed the students themselves for mounting student debt.
At one point during the conference, former Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott — now a major lobbyist for APSCU — explained how he won over senators one by one to the cause of these scam schools.
After Lott’s presentation was over, I decided to confront him. I asked him to agree to a definition of conservatism where the ideology meant conservatives were for a smaller and more efficient government. He agreed.