[Nextrush]

Big Business is in bed with Public Education the Chambers of Commerce are the real forces in Republican political ranks.

[Robert DeLong]

while your point is valid, they couldn't get their way, if there were no GOPe stooges in key slots. From the article:

Speaker Albert Sommers, a Republican, refused to let the bill come to the floor for a vote, saying in late February that “I am not going to bring that bill out from the Senate that’s identical to the one that already failed in my Education Committee.”