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Public university offered course credit to campaign for obam

Larrry

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Public university offered course credit to campaign for Obama, may have violated election law
Oliver Darcy

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By Oliver Darcy, on Aug 29, 2012

A public university in Colorado offered course credit to students to volunteer on President Obama’s reelection campaign, Campus Reform learned on Tuesday.

The offer, which has since been retracted, appears to have violated the Colorado Fair Campaign Practices Act, section 1-45-117, which bans the use of public resources for “campaigns involving the nomination, retention, or election of any person to any public office.”

Adams State University offered students course credit to volunteer on President Obama’s reelection campaign, which appears to violate the Colorado Fair Campaign Practices Act.

Adams State University posted the opportunity late last week on its website stating: “The Obama Campaign Internship (GOVT 279 Presidential Election Internship) will be a 12 week long organizing internship for the Obama Campaign.”

No similar offer was made for students to participate on the presidential campaign for Mitt Romney, who is the Republican nominee for the White House.

Julie Waecter, Assistant to the president for communications at Adams State, told Campus Reform on Tuesday that while the public university did offer the credit no public resources were deployed towards that end.

“No state funds are being used to pay for students working on the campaign,” she said.

She added that the school had decided to cancel the offer.

To obtain school credit, individuals would have been required to volunteer for the Obama campaign for at least 15 hours each week and attend an all-day training session on September 20th.

The written announcement on the university’s website explained that the program “offers high-level campaign organizer training and in-depth involvement in one of the most expensive Presidential races in recent history.”

A link to the Obama campaign’s official website was also included in the post.

A few hours after Campus Reform inquired about the course offering, the post advertising the opportunity was removed from the university’s website.
http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=3148
 

loomixguy

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I figgered the People's Republik of Boulder would be the "school" offering that course.

Has Ward Churchill crawled in a hole? Don't hear a peep about him now.
 

Steve

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loomixguy said:
I figgered the People's Republik of Boulder would be the "school" offering that course.

Has Ward Churchill crawled in a hole? Don't hear a peep about him now.

maybe he is out east working for the Elizabeth Warren campaign.. :shock:

FAKE INDIANS, REAL PLAGIARISM: Scandals Of Professors Ward Churchill And Elizabeth Warren Overlap

What do former CU professor Ward Churchill and U.S. Senate candidate from Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren have in common? Both falsely claimed Native American ancestry and have been caught plagiarizing others work.

Churchill claimed varying degrees of Native American ancestry, but a Rocky Mountain News investigation "identified 142 direct forebears of Churchill and turned up no evidence of a single Indian ancestor among them."

Likewise, Elizabeth "Hunts At Whole Foods" Warren claimed to be 1/32 Cherokee, but the Boston Globe reports "she has not proven she has a Native American ancestor, instead saying she based her belief on family lore, and she has no official tribal affiliation." Worse yet for Warren, an investigation found that not only does she not have Indian blood, but a relative of hers was actually involved in rounding up Indians to be killed in the Trail of Tears. So we guess it's fair to say she has Indian blood...on her hands.

Not only did both Churchill and Warren falsely claim to be Native American, but both appear to have enjoyed professional benefits from doing so.

Churchill was hired under a "special opportunity" position based on his claimed Indian heritage. Similarly, Warren benefited from her fake ancestry, with her being promoted as a "woman of color" by Harvard many times throughout the 1990s, as well as listing herself as a Native American in a professional law directory in the 1980s.

Neither appreciated being questioned about their genealogical hoaxes either, and both ended up making less-than-politically-correct statements when pressed.

Here's Churchill in 2005: "I have never been confirmed as having one-quarter blood and never said I was. I have never claimed to be goddamned Sitting Bull."

And Warren earlier this month: "My Papaw had high cheek bones like all the Indians do."

As if those similarities weren't enough, both artificial American Indians also decided to steal the work of others without recognition.
 
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