This group without authorization is using official University of Minnesota logos to raise PAC money for state legislators to influence key decisions about the University including in-state tuition (already sky high) and election of new Regents. Awful! Image
Contributors to this unauthorized PAC include current Regents and former presidents of the University. Using PAC money to pay off state legislators is inconsistent with the values of our University. Nobody should purport to raise PAC money on behalf of a public institution.
This group already has its paid lobbyist on the Regent Selection Committee established by the legislature under statute. Now they are raising PAC money to seal the deal. Unacceptable.
A representative of Mayo Clinic is being advanced by the selection committee as a candidate for the Board of Regents which oversees the University of Minnesota health care system, a competitor. Some "competition." Now let's see what happens to health care costs in Minnesota.

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Maroon & Gold Rising, a new PAC not authorized by the University of Minnesota is using our colors and dishing out money to state legislators to buy what its backers - not the University - say are legislative priorities of the University.
Corrupt!
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"Maroon & Gold Political Action Committee distributed more than $60,000 this past year. A total of $38,000 was donated to the four legislative caucuses ... the campaigns of the most influential legislative leaders and members of the key committees who most impact the University."
This unauthorized PAC is using the colors of University of Minnesota to make political contributions and then lobby state legislators for what its organizers want -- and we can bet that a cut in student tuition is not one of them.
This must stop.
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