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February 04, 2008 06:26 AM UTC
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At the Heart Association…..
Huttner and Progress Now have done a lot for the Democratic Party. Mike Huttner probably did a lot of good for the Heart Association too.
Set us back 10 years
Can I expect Trailheadesque Robocalls shaking me down for donations?
Carlisle was elected from the congressional district that includes Boulder and is a CU-Boulder graduate herself, so I suppose it’s no surprise that she is interested in preserving the independence of the chancellor on that campus. The board of regents, however, is a statewide body that is supposed to serve all of the campuses-which includes Colorado Springs, Denver, and the Health Sciences Center. It’s too bad that she isn’t concerned about the independence of the other chancellors-but then again it’s fairly typical of the regents’ Boulder-centric world view.
well i guess my alma mater at least isn’t a cheap date
is that he has already threatened at least 1 board member that he will be funding 527’s to get him out. That is, that he will be working to change his bosses. That ALONE should disqualify the man.
Certainly Hank Brown came from a partisan political background but he had the ability to serve as CU President as a leader and a statesman, not a party hack. There is no way that Bruce Benson can be viewed as a leader and a statesman. He shares responsibility for an organization with a track record of clearly dirty politics. He is tainted. Can’t people see beyond the $$$$$? Rather pathetic that only two people on the Board of Regents of my alma mater voted no. There is no way in the world that a qualified search committee could find no one else in the world to be a finalist. Hey, maybe President Benson will hire Ward Churchill to be his assistant and it’ll all be okay. . .
Anticipating another loss Rollie Heath is grasping any issue that he can.
It is a fake issue. Democrats are not going to vote against funding for CU that they have been advocating in favor of for years because Benson is the President?
What will happen is that there will be bi-partisan support for CU that has been lacking.
In August Carlisle will beat Heath 60% to 40%.
What about Cindy’s nomination of, and vote for, one of the most poisonous political partisans in the history of Colorado politics? Something is not right here, and her attempted justifications don’t hold water.
I would be inclined to give Cindy the benefit of the doubt if it wasn’t for the odd backtracking on her support of Benson.
Something’s fishy here. And on a completely separate note, Benson is not the kind of guy we should invite in for any role in a university setting, except perhaps as a public speaker.
From the Daily Camera today:
CU’s Bruce Benson portrait vandalized over weekend
10:20 a.m. The portrait of University of Colorado presidential finalist Bruce Benson that hangs in the campus building bearing his name was vandalized over the weekend.
Somebody scrawled a message – “I’ve given CU enough $ for an individual right-wing nut like me to be CU’s president” – on the oil painting in the Benson Earth Sciences Building. It was discovered just hours before Benson is due to visit the Boulder campus
… and I will say it again.
I have doubts that any academic would participate in a search if they would be named as anything else other than a single finalist.
The whole point of a process like this is that the search committee vets the applicants and presents the best candidate for an up-or-down vote. This preserves the confidentiality of the applicants (would you want your boss to know you’ve been applying for other jobs that you didn’t get?). So the complaining about there being only one finalist seem off-base to me.
Now, as to WHO that finalist is… one wonders how the 17-member committee settled on such a partisan choice. All the stuff I just wrote about protecting academics doesn’t really matter if they are just going to pick the wealthiest fundraiser.
this process is too secretive and and we need new regents, ones that are committed to transparency.
this should never of happened.
Political hacks should not be considered, especially ones that aren’t even qualified.
Being elected CU Regent seems to be the perfect political office. They don’t seem to do anything that anybody cares about (now that Ward Churchill is gone). Given the outrageous behavior that’s NOT created political fallout in the past, I’m not sure the football team could do ANYTHING that would be considered a political liability for a CU Regent.
Political job for life. No responsibility.
Do they get paid?
They only seem to run every 6 years or so.
Coroner may be the 2d best elected office as everyone the coroner deals with is dead. Nobody really wants the job and if you offend your constituency (the dead) it won’t haunt you at election time.
Regents do the job for free; not exactly the best perks.
As to Coroner, it’s not so fun – you have to deal with the loved ones of the deceased, too.
Surprise, surprise…the crowd was decidedly against Benson…but it went pretty well.
Having met him before, it wasn’t a surprise to me that he was his usual open and honest self. During the Q&A, he fully answered the questions he thought he could answer and openly said “he didn’t know” when he didn’t know. He knows his what his role would be as President and isn’t going to let partisan hackery get in the way.
I suspect opponents are going to have a tough time villifying him further once realizing the he indeed doesn’t have horns or carry a pitch-fork. He’s an old white guy with a bunch of money who’s good at raising cash…not so scarry…
On another note, it was funny to see Regent Carlisle and Rollie Heath carefully avoid each other when they realized they were about 10ft away from each other.
when asked questions about his founding and funding of the Trailhead Group? How about when questioned about his threat to a Regent to primary him if the Regent opposed him?
He was asked about Trailhead and basically said that what they did was politics. Part of his response was “we ran tough stuff…so did they.” He didn’t try to avoid the question, rather, he explained that 527’s and negative ads are a part of politics…a part he financially supported but would stop now that he’s the sole finalist and likely next president.
He wasn’t asked about what he said to Paul Schauer during the forum. The “threat” came well before there was even discussion of Benson being a finalist for prez. Plenty of repubs are rubbed the wrong way by Schauer which is exactly why he has a primary opponent…
Hank Brown was a mediocre hack who while pleasant was wholly owned by Bill Armstrong. In the Senate Brown was a nice guy but a rabid right winger. Hank Brown got approved unanimously.
Benson has a first rate intellect and a proven commitment to public education. Neither of which anyone ever accused Hank Brown of having.
The distinction between Brown on one hand and Benson on the other is nonensical. CU never should have hired the first hack as President but having done so what is wrong with hiring another? Brown while out of office took the previously well managed Daniels Fund and turned it into a voice of right wingers such as Alex Cranberg and the aforementioned Bill Armstrong. His tenure at UNC was mediocre. Bruce Benson is not a nice man but a leader.
I think most of us have been pretty happy w/ the way things have gone w/ Brown as president. Benson is pretty likely to follow a similar path to what Brown has done, so, while comparing them as leaders may be “nonsensical,” comparing their vision for the future seems worthy.
If Bruce Benson offers a plan for the future that most can support than confirm him.
Don’t try to say however that Hank Brown came with anything ideologically different than Benson. Brown does have the smile, less money and more success in getting elected but was every bit as conservative in word and deed as Benson when he was appointed CU Prez
He can raise money, Gov. Ritter loves him (now), and he can work with Hickenlooper. Benson also has tons of credintials for helping higher ed over the last 20years.
It sucks guys like Mike Hutner have to attack the guy just so they can line their pockets. It’s not the first time Mike H. has done this won’t be the last.