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elleng

(136,185 posts)
Mon Feb 20, 2017, 06:23 PM Feb 2017

Senator Mark Chelgren Aims To Purge Democrats From Iowa Universities.

'The party affiliation on your voter registration card could block you from employment at Iowa’s state universities were a newly proposed bill by Senator Mark Chelgren became law. Senate File 288, proposed by the Ottumwa legislator, could bring about a Soviet-style purge of liberal-leaning college staff in Iowa. Chelgren wants to impose an ideological litmus test in order to create a “partisan balance,” based on how Iowa has voted in past elections.

The legislation proposes that a “person shall not be hired as a professor or instructor member of the faculty at such an institution if the person’s political party affiliation on the date of hire would cause the percentage of faculty belonging to one political party to exceed by ten percent the percentage of faculty belonging to the other political party.”

The Secretary of State’s office would be directed to provide voter registration lists to the colleges so that new job applicants’ party affiliation could be checked before the hiring process gets underway. Graciously, Chelgren allows for people registered as No Party to slip through the process without facing the litmus test.'>>>

http://iowastartingline.com/2017/02/20/senator-chelgren-aims-purge-democrats-iowa-universities/

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Senator Mark Chelgren Aims To Purge Democrats From Iowa Universities. (Original Post) elleng Feb 2017 OP
The hell?! shenmue Feb 2017 #1
All part of the republican fascism coup. liberal N proud Feb 2017 #2
Bad, bad English FiveGoodMen Feb 2017 #3
That's what hapens if your rely only on Republican professors... Thor_MN Feb 2017 #8
that haas to be unconstitutional vlyons Feb 2017 #4
OMG!! uga uga! riversedge Feb 2017 #5
He must have a portrait of Joe McCarthy hanging on his wall. madaboutharry Feb 2017 #6
Wow progressoid Feb 2017 #7
Start w/reading this guy's Wikipedia entry and then Google some from there. Complete bozo. CurtEastPoint Feb 2017 #9
Fucking stooge 47of74 Feb 2017 #10
Ewww! FiveGoodMen Feb 2017 #11

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
3. Bad, bad English
Mon Feb 20, 2017, 06:30 PM
Feb 2017

"were a newly proposed bill by Senator Mark Chelgren became law"

I see that you've copied the text from the article correctly, but just look at it!

"where a newly proposed bill ... became law" would suggest it already is law.

"were a newly proposed bill ... to become law" would have a different meaning.

Maybe they don't know how to form sentences in Iowa.

(Or how to spell words -- either would suggest that it's already right-wingers who occupy the academic posts there.

madaboutharry

(41,362 posts)
6. He must have a portrait of Joe McCarthy hanging on his wall.
Mon Feb 20, 2017, 07:05 PM
Feb 2017

One good thing about the Trump era is that we are finding out who the fascists are.

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