My alma mater will see no contributions to their various campaigns if this is how they spend it.
Amount former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will receive to speak at the University of Florida later this month. It will be Gonzales’s first speaking appearance since his departure from the Bush administration.
[From $40,000:]
There’s a “don’t tase me, bro!” moment in there, especially for someone who doesn’t think waterboarding is torture.
Not one of my better letters to the editor.
As an alumnus of the University of Florida and the Alligator, I was
disappointed to learn that $40,000 of student activity fees would be going
to pay former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez to speak at UF. What
on earth could he have to share with students? What valuable insights
will he offer, given how little he remembers of his own tenure?Why not have Britney Spears offer parenting tips? Or VP Cheney hold
forth on gun safety?$40,000. That’s almost 6,000 hours of minimum wage labor. I think there
are better uses for those funds.