Another disastrous result of Republicans taking control of NC: former advisor to GWB and currently

[mnhtnbb]

president of his library has been named the new President of the UNC System.

Spellings’ career has been closely tied to Bush. She was U.S. education secretary from 2005 to 2009 in Bush’s second term. Previously, she was his domestic policy adviser and his education adviser when he was governor of Texas. She is now president of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/education/article41183529.html#storylink=cpy

[zazen]

1. awful: read former NC Congressman Brad Miller's takedown of Spellings in 2006 here

http://www.bluenc.com/content/bush-administration-works-through-stages-grief

[blm]

2. Every state that had stellar university systems is being targeted by GOP fascists

who gained control of the legislatures.

Wisconsin and NC systems that supported research and creativity are being ripped apart.

[mnhtnbb]

3. My husband and I were talking about this at dinner tonight...

and how these lying a$$hole Republicans who demanded Tom Ross' resignation last
January claimed it wasn't "political". Do these people actually think that people
buy their lies? They are so transparent.

This makes me sick. We live in Chapel Hill. My youngest son graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill
in 2012. I sure am glad he's already in grad school elsewhere.

We watched Ronnie take on the UC system and start working to destroy it way back in the 60's
when we lived in California. That's when these attacks on major public university systems started
and it's just disgusting to see this still happening 50 years later.

[mnhtnbb]

4. I just discovered from a Huffington Post article that she's sold herself to for-profit Boards

since leaving the Bushie administration. And she also has long ties to Rove. Great skills, indeed. Maybe come
next spring during tornado season someone will drop a house on her.

Spellings' ties to Bush and his political strategist, Karl Rove, date back over a quarter-century, when she was a lobbyist for the Texas school boards association and Bush was considering a run for governor. Bush made Spellings political director of his 1994 gubernatorial campaign, then his education policy adviser.

Since leaving Washington, Spellings has served on corporate boards for Apollo Education Group, the parent company of the for-profit University of Phoenix; ClubCorp, which owns and manages golf and sports clubs; and student-loan collector Ceannate Corp.

"I have skills that are different from theirs," she said. "I am not an academic."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/margaret-spellings-unc-president_562a622fe4b0ec0a38944016

[Tunkamerica]

5. on twitter she's following

rove, jeb, the bush center, mitch edwards...

[mnhtnbb]

6. Barf. No surprise there.

It's becoming very difficult to hold any respect at all for these Republicans that have set out
to destroy North Carolina and turn it into another Mississippi or Alabama or Georgia or...

[NCarolinawoman]

7. ....South Carolina....