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TIL that #RossPerot was more than just the dude who used charts & graphs to run for president and let the Clentons into office. He also forced #Texas to dismantle the method of maintaining strict class segregation (school funding being 100% local property taxes) for a while.
Jul 10, 2019 at 11:11pmWeb
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"Property taxes + public school spending in the suburbs are the nexus of #grift and #fraud in vast amounts of fly-over territory in the US, and no one to my knowledge outside of Texas has ever challenged any of it."

https://old.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/cbghvs/wall_of_text_on_the_death_of_ross_perot_and_the/

Wall of text on the death of Ross Perot, and the real intersection of boomer capital / race politics.

Ross Perot died this week, and those who are old enough or have studied past elections will know him as the billionaire third party candidate that...