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16 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Former University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler contributed $10,000 to this PAC that pays legislators to advance its agenda for the University including Regent elections . Who’s advocating for students? Nobody with money apparently.
Most of the world has adequate government support for higher education, sensible controls on costs and free or low cost college.
Who doesn't want that? Overpaid university administrators and outgoing Education Secretaries who are billionaires.

insidehighered.com/quicktakes/202…
For more see the Maroon & Gold Political Action Committee
cfb.mn.gov/reports-and-da…
Additional information here:
cfb.mn.gov/reports-and-da…
Reports here

cfb.mn.gov/reports-and-da…
Why is former University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler using the address of the President's house to make a PAC contribution in January 2020, six months after he left the presidency? This is like Trump making PAC contributions from the White House address six months from now.

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Richard W. Painter Profile picture
16 Jan
We need more government support for higher education, every penny going to cut tuition. The days of wasteful spending, university bureaucracy, and overpaid administrators and coaches are over.
Most of the world has free or low cost college. So can we.
startribune.com/university-of-…
No state should pay it's university administrators more money than the governor. The size and cost of bureaucracy in higher education is obscene.
For $174,000 Minnesota got a very good Governor @Tim_Walz to run the entire State. Running a university is not that much more complicated. Let's get real folks.

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11 Jan
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.
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11 Jan
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!
maroonandgoldrising.org/our-impact
"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.
maroonandgoldrising.org/pac
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6 Jan
Time for another call to the Georgia Secretary of State to ask him to "find" 11,000 plus votes....

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Urgent call to the Georgia Secretary of State:
@KLoeffler has placed an order to sell 100,000 shares of whatever for 30,000 votes. Instructions to execute trade immediately.
Sorry @KLoeffler. The bell has rung, market is closed. No more trades.
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5 Jan
This letter to U. Oregon Trustees is about pay inequity in the psychology department.
U. Minnesota Regents know that in the academic half of the Music School with 15 professors a woman has not been hired or promoted to full professor in 30 years. Awful.
jenniferfreyd.medium.com/equal-pay-at-t…
The Minnesota Department of Human Rights has an open investigation of retaliation and discrimination in the School of Music. A MDHR subpoena of documents was served last November.
In a lot of these institutions women who complain about pay inequity and discrimination, as well as harassment, are retaliated against. Of course that's illegal but internal investigations take forever. This needs to stop.
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31 Dec 20
We still don't know the facts here. But earlier shootings must be investigated. A Falcon Heights MN City Council member in 2016 admitted to knowing about police racial profiling before a fatal shooting and doing nothing about it. Yet no investigation.
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DOJ under @JoeBiden needs to investigate racial profiling by police departments and also any evidence that police chiefs, mayors and city council members knew about racial profiling by police and didn't do anything about it.
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