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RE: Rudd drops bomb on County Mayor's Money for Influence Demand
(07-10-2019 10:35 AM)FlyingTiger2016 Wrote: (07-10-2019 10:11 AM)aardWolf Wrote: The Commercial Appeal now says that Harris "won"...
https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/n...682994001/
Quote:So yes, Harris came out on top. He got what he was after. But at what cost? In the grand scheme of things, he may have lost much more than he won by alienating the U of M.
The narrative that the UofM is a powerful institution with nothing but money to spend needs to die.
The UofM is facing the same challenges that every public institution of higher education is facing today.
Lower enrollment and less state support. I can not stress what this does to the budgets of these universities. Deferred maintenance, no cost of living raises, employee turnover.
And so called progressives are taking a victory lap for cutting 1M from the University Budget when neither the city or county funds our University at all???
This is just crazy. You aren't progressive if you cut funds from education. Period.
It was Harris's damn job to fight for the UofM in the State Legislature. He didn't. Any delay in moving to $15 is on him. It's on the State government. It's on the city and county government. It's on the people who actually raise revenue for this public institutions.
Not the UofM.
Who have you been talking to? I am not aware that there is a big money narrative related to the U of Memphis in any circles. Rudd has been a good and creative leader. He has rallied the big money community in ways we have never seen before giving the U of M some opportunities, some amazing opportunities. But "nothing but money to spend? Fairy Tale.
Harris is a politician. Period. He sets political agendas. Period. He leveraged his agenda at the University's expense and he benefited from a poorly timed "mis-speak" by the CFO.
There was a time I spent a lot of time on the Hill lobbying (not as a professional lobbyist) to pass legislation. There are some good people representing their communities but politics in the end drives agendas. I was once told by a senior East Tn pol that all you have to do is get the Shelby contingent to agree to support something and there is nothing that can't be passed. Unfortunately, I found that to be true and sadly the Shelby contingent could rarely agree on anything.
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Rudd drops bomb on County Mayor's Money for Influence Demand
