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mnhtnbb

(32,059 posts)
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 11:54 AM Oct 2015

Another disastrous result of Republicans taking control of NC: former advisor to GWB and currently

president of his library has been named the new President of the UNC System.

Spellings’ career has been closely tied to Bush. She was U.S. education secretary from 2005 to 2009 in Bush’s second term. Previously, she was his domestic policy adviser and his education adviser when he was governor of Texas. She is now president of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/education/article41183529.html#storylink=cpy

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Another disastrous result of Republicans taking control of NC: former advisor to GWB and currently (Original Post) mnhtnbb Oct 2015 OP
awful: read former NC Congressman Brad Miller's takedown of Spellings in 2006 here zazen Oct 2015 #1
Every state that had stellar university systems is being targeted by GOP fascists blm Oct 2015 #2
My husband and I were talking about this at dinner tonight... mnhtnbb Oct 2015 #3
I just discovered from a Huffington Post article that she's sold herself to for-profit Boards mnhtnbb Oct 2015 #4
on twitter she's following Tunkamerica Oct 2015 #5
Barf. No surprise there. mnhtnbb Oct 2015 #6
....South Carolina.... NCarolinawoman Dec 2015 #7

blm

(113,817 posts)
2. Every state that had stellar university systems is being targeted by GOP fascists
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 12:19 PM
Oct 2015

who gained control of the legislatures.

Wisconsin and NC systems that supported research and creativity are being ripped apart.

mnhtnbb

(32,059 posts)
3. My husband and I were talking about this at dinner tonight...
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:49 PM
Oct 2015

and how these lying a$$hole Republicans who demanded Tom Ross' resignation last
January claimed it wasn't "political". Do these people actually think that people
buy their lies? They are so transparent.

This makes me sick. We live in Chapel Hill. My youngest son graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill
in 2012. I sure am glad he's already in grad school elsewhere.

We watched Ronnie take on the UC system and start working to destroy it way back in the 60's
when we lived in California. That's when these attacks on major public university systems started
and it's just disgusting to see this still happening 50 years later.

mnhtnbb

(32,059 posts)
4. I just discovered from a Huffington Post article that she's sold herself to for-profit Boards
Sat Oct 24, 2015, 11:41 AM
Oct 2015

since leaving the Bushie administration. And she also has long ties to Rove. Great skills, indeed. Maybe come
next spring during tornado season someone will drop a house on her.


Spellings' ties to Bush and his political strategist, Karl Rove, date back over a quarter-century, when she was a lobbyist for the Texas school boards association and Bush was considering a run for governor. Bush made Spellings political director of his 1994 gubernatorial campaign, then his education policy adviser.

Since leaving Washington, Spellings has served on corporate boards for Apollo Education Group, the parent company of the for-profit University of Phoenix; ClubCorp, which owns and manages golf and sports clubs; and student-loan collector Ceannate Corp.

"I have skills that are different from theirs," she said. "I am not an academic."




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/margaret-spellings-unc-president_562a622fe4b0ec0a38944016

mnhtnbb

(32,059 posts)
6. Barf. No surprise there.
Mon Oct 26, 2015, 07:51 AM
Oct 2015

It's becoming very difficult to hold any respect at all for these Republicans that have set out
to destroy North Carolina and turn it into another Mississippi or Alabama or Georgia or...

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