Here is Rhee happily posing with Foster Friess, the MC of that night’s event. Photo via.

Remember Michelle Rhee? She has stripped Tennessee teachers of their collective bargaining rights. She likes to pretend that she’s a moderate, but, her record proves otherwise. She played a role in passing an anti-union bill and even co-authored an op-ed with Former Republican Senate Leader Bill Frist.

She is the former Chancellor of DC Public Schools whose record has been debunked by a major cheating scandal. She left DC and opened StudentsFirst with major donations from Wall Street tycoons, including Rupert Murdoch. She now travels around the country and works mainly with conservative Republicans like Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley to (as I mentioned above) limit collective bargaining for teachers, institute private charter schools and promote private for-profit cyber schools.

Rhee recently attended a ceremony MC’d by Foster Friess, who just happens to be the bag of cash man bankrolling the Rick Santorum SuperPAC. She and her husband accepted an award at the Joe Foss Institute, an organization that has very close ties to the NRA and some other lovely right wing groups.

Yes, there she is, with a Cheshire Cat grin, posing with the Koch-loving, Islam-hating, Santorum-backing, Tea Party Patriot MC Foster Friess.

Let’s spice this up with a Friess quote:

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 “The Kochs are a national treasure. They’re true patriots.”

And just for bad measure, here’s Foster Friess doing his best to scare us silly with his introduction of the Islamophobic video, Obsession:

This is the club of which Michelle Rhee is an honored member, and from which Santorum benefits, because this is how he manages to stay in the GOP primary. Some crowd.