Clinton Crony and former @ClintonFdn Boss @DonnaShalala Mounts a Charge for Congress frontpagemag.com/fpm/271635/cli…
President Clinton, doubtless with Hillary’s input, tapped Shalala as federal Health and Human Services boss and she headed HHS for eight years.
Shalala worked at HUD during the Carter administration then went on to head Hunter College before becoming chancellor of the University of Wisconsin in 1988. There she proclaimed “The university is institutionally racist.”
“American society is racist and sexist. Covert racism is just as bad today as overt racism was 30 years ago” Shalala added.
The remedy was her “Madison Plan,” which as the inaugural issue of Heterodoxy noted, was the academic version of a Stalinist five-year plan, hostile to free speech and heavy on racial and ethnic quotas.
“She’s basically an authoritarian personality who is politically savvy enough to create an appearance of consensus,” explained UW history professor Theodore Hamerow. “She exercises a great deal of pressure to ensure conformity with her views.”
Shalala’s quota plan caused a “measurable decline” in academic excellence because it made “race or ethnic origin the prime consideration and not merit.”
According to Hamerow, Shalala’s plan constituted “a kind of resegregation of American education, with a program for blacks, a program for Asians and so forth.”
Shalala’s speech code punished students for what she perceived as “racist” and “sexist” remarks to other students. Shalala shrugged off the First Amendment as a dodge but in 1991 U.S. District Judge Robert Warren declared the speech code unconstitutional.
the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan spoke at the campus but UW halted conservative Paul Weyrich’s National Empowerment Television network, “by insisting on controlling the program’s content.”
Shalala was “the epitome of today’s wholly politicized educator,” doubtless why the Clintons tapped her for HHS, where she was “a pillar in the administration’s Hillary wing.”
The feminist Shalala defended Bill Clinton when he was accused of having an affair with Monica Lewinsky. As Ken Starr noted, Shalala signed on to a statement that the allegations were “completely untrue.”
