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August 02, 2005 08:00 AM UTC

Big, Bad Hank Brown

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  • by: Colorado Pols

We dare you to call this guy a ‘little Eichmann.’

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In his first act after replacing Betsy Hoffman, Brown announced that he will eliminate 10 jobs in the CU System Administration office – including those of two $150,000-per-year spokesmen.

“It’s a question of where we set our priorities and our priorities are in the classroom,” Brown told reporters, as he took a break between meeting with school administrators and Board of Regents Chairman Paul Schauer.

“I think it’s important that Coloradans understand that we are concerned about how their money is spent,” he added.

Hank’s wide popularity should go a long way toward restoring CU’s tarnished reputationnot to mention the bite he’ll take out of Jon Caldara’s “that’s just a bunch of government waste” campaign against Referenda C&D, in which CU’s recent scandals have figured prominently.

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25 thoughts on “Big, Bad Hank Brown”

  4. Way to go Hank!  Its about time someone had the courage to do what everyone knew had to be done!  Welcome to the private sector Hesse!  Sink or swim buddy!  Isn’t karma a beautiful thing.

  5. Colorado Pols:

    Or did Hank make Caldara’s case…that there is plenty of fat still to be cut in the higher ed as well as other budgets within state government?  That was my reaction when I saw the headlines.  It wasn’t like he spent weeks poring over numbers with the bean-counters trying to figure out where he could save a nickel here and a dime there.

  6. Why would the ACLU or PFLAG care if Hesse got fired? He’s a white, straight, former chief of staff to a GOP congressman (Scott McInnis).

  7. He also made it so alcohol spending cannot be from government money.  Most departments, after the CU football & stripper incident came up, stopped paying for alcohol beverages for any reason.  Even when recriuting grad students, the grad and prospective students had to pay for a beer, while the food was paid for.

    I don’t understand with budgets commonly available on the web how Caldera cannot find all of this bloat and save our TABOR refund that is mostly shunted into special interests anyway.

  8. I tried to get an itemized budget from CU-Boulder this year, at the request of a state senator that I work for. It is not commonly available. It is not available at request – I had to ask every individual department for it, and ended up not getting anything approaching a full budget detailing how the dollars are spent.

    Go look online, at the state website. The closest thing you can get to a budget that can be used to atually account for spending are through the comptroller’s office and through the occasional report from the auditor. I dare you to find a document that is useful for the kind of oversight Caldara is trying.

  9. In two days, Brown’s shown why we don’t need C&D to save higher education. He’s bringing new ways of doing business to higher education that can be replicated across the system, and he’s just getting started. Give him a year, and he’ll do more for CU than C&D ever would.

  10. Yeah, idiot, that’s why he’s at the top of the list of C&D supporters.

    Cart your propaganda over to where people don’t read the papers…

  11. The problem isn’t just next year’s budget; it’s the continuing shortfall being beneath the fiscal target does when you’re limited by TABOR.  Just as the anti-C&D folks say the $3.1b is a “forever tax increase”, not passing C&D results in a spiraling shortfall.  C&D is an attempt to stay within the bounds of TABOR while fixing a budgetary drop.

    Brown knows this, and knows that cutting 10 staffers or even whole departments won’t fix a $3000m+ budget shortfall next year, nevermind even more severe budget cuts in the future.

  12. Amen!  Look for Hank Brown to be out front for C & D.  He knows that the state has moral and economic interests in successful higher education.  During the recession, CU had a cut of $75 million in state funding over three years.  If C & D fail, CU faces a cut next year alone of up to $100 million. You won’t get that out of 10 symbolic jobs. 

    What will the Independence Institute say when their golden boy is out stumping for C & D?

  13. For the life of me I can’t imagine why ANYONE, much less the ACLU or PFLAG, would care about Hesse. He was hired as a political favor to several people and showed his talents by forwarding an e-mail disparaging a reporter to the reporter, then made it worse by claiming it was about someone else, hence insulting the editor of the faculty/staff newspaper. He should have been gone a month ago; Hoffman either didn’t care or didn’t have the guts to fire him.

  14. We all know that Hank is only out in front of C and D because it was a condition to him getting the job.  I’ve seen him speak about it, and never in my life did I see a man so unhappy about the product he was selling.

    Poor Hank, forced to hock this liberal tax and spend nonsense….

  15. Keep telling yourself that, Spendless.  Does Brown really want that temp job so much that he’s interested in lying?

    More likely, he’s unhappy because he doesn’t really want to support it, but realizes it’s necessary for the health of the State.

  16. Spendless:

      That’s it.  Rather than admit that many Republicans know C  & D is vital to the state’s future, attack the character of those who disagree with you. 

      This shows that whatever happens to C  & D the real losers will be the GOP.  They are killing each other. 

      Hmm, according to today’s papers, Hank is even supporting more diversity at CU. 

      What’s next?

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