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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1017491" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p><strong>Re: Obamanation here today</strong></p><p></p><p>Sounds illegal to me....</p><p></p><p>Liberal academia strikes again.</p><p>Via <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/31/campaign-for-obama-get-college-credit/" target="_blank">Daily Caller</a>:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px">A public university in Colorado may have violated state law by offering students course credit if they volunteered with President Obama’s re-election campaign. A<a href="http://oi48.tinypic.com/4jrr53.jpg" target="_blank">blog post</a> on the Adams State University website billed the opportunity as a “12 week long organizing internship for the Obama Campaign.”</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Both the blog post and the course are now gone. The course was canceled due to lack of interest, according to the university. The blog post was taken down earlier this week after a conservative student blog, Campus Reform, <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=3148" target="_blank">reported</a> on it.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The course may have been in violation of the <a href="http://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/CampaignFinance/files/2008Title1Article45.pdf" target="_blank">Colorado Fair Campaign Practices Act</a>, which prohibits the use of public resources toward “campaigns involving the nomination, retention, or election of any person to any public office.” Oliver Darcy, the editor at Campus Reform who first reported the story, said the course struck him as a likely violation of state law.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">“They are definitely using a few professors at least to help these students with the campaign process, so I don’t understand how it doesn’t use public resources for campaign purposes,” he said in an interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1017491, member: 1246"] [b]Re: Obamanation here today[/b] Sounds illegal to me.... Liberal academia strikes again. Via [URL="http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/31/campaign-for-obama-get-college-credit/"]Daily Caller[/URL]: [INDENT]A public university in Colorado may have violated state law by offering students course credit if they volunteered with President Obama’s re-election campaign. A[URL="http://oi48.tinypic.com/4jrr53.jpg"]blog post[/URL] on the Adams State University website billed the opportunity as a “12 week long organizing internship for the Obama Campaign.” Both the blog post and the course are now gone. The course was canceled due to lack of interest, according to the university. The blog post was taken down earlier this week after a conservative student blog, Campus Reform, [URL="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=3148"]reported[/URL] on it. The course may have been in violation of the [URL="http://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/CampaignFinance/files/2008Title1Article45.pdf"]Colorado Fair Campaign Practices Act[/URL], which prohibits the use of public resources toward “campaigns involving the nomination, retention, or election of any person to any public office.” Oliver Darcy, the editor at Campus Reform who first reported the story, said the course struck him as a likely violation of state law. “They are definitely using a few professors at least to help these students with the campaign process, so I don’t understand how it doesn’t use public resources for campaign purposes,” he said in an interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation. [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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