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Fugitive Scandal May Pose a Hurdle for the New School (Bob Kerrey loves his Hsu)
New York Times ^ | 9/9/07 | AREN W. ARENSON and LESLIE WAYNE

Posted on 09/08/2007 8:16:45 PM PDT by LdSentinal

It is the kind of embarrassment that any school would want to avoid: an esteemed board member who has given generously of his time and money gets caught in a headline-grabbing scandal.

And in the case of the New School in Greenwich Village, it turned out to have some national resonance: Norman Hsu, a major Democratic donor active in Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign and a New School trustee, was found to be a fugitive who had skipped out after a felony theft conviction in California 15 years ago.

Compounding matters, he failed to show up for a court date. He was arrested on Thursday in Grand Junction, Colo., after having slipped away from the authorities in California on an Amtrak train. He is now hospitalized under federal custody.

How did someone like Mr. Hsu make his way to the New School’s board?

He was a mover and shaker who was recruited by Bob Kerrey, the university’s president and a former senator from Nebraska, one of several people associated with the school who are prominent in Democratic politics or political fund-raising circles. Until last week Mr. Kerrey had been one of the few people speaking out in Mr. Hsu’s defense, calling him a “terrific member” of the board who was being unfairly pilloried.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Nebraska; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bobkerrey; donors; hsu; kerrey; nebraska; ratcrime
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Bad timing for Kerrey. Hsu's connection with him may prevent him fron running for the senate.
1 posted on 09/08/2007 8:16:47 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: LdSentinal

When has scandal stopped rodents ? This is about making their bones.


2 posted on 09/08/2007 8:20:52 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: LdSentinal
Perhaps not surprisingly, the New School, which has a liberal tradition and a reputation for left-leaning faculty and a former political official as president, has a board sprinkled with politically active trustees.

Take out the name New School and insert any Ivy League school.

3 posted on 09/08/2007 8:21:18 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: LdSentinal; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Kuksool; MassachusettsGOP; Non-Sequitur; BillyBoy; ...

This could make Kerry not run, if the story has any legs.


4 posted on 09/08/2007 8:28:51 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit)
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To: LdSentinal

Yeah, but how are we going to keep this story alive and growing for a year?


5 posted on 09/08/2007 8:28:56 PM PDT by counterpunch ("The Democrats are the party of slavery." —Cindy Sheehan)
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To: LdSentinal

perfect timing, wouldn’t you say ? Hagel says he’s not running, Kerrey wants back in the Senate, and Hsu leaves egg foo yong on Kerrey’s face.


6 posted on 09/08/2007 8:30:54 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Mrs Zip

ping


7 posted on 09/08/2007 9:37:59 PM PDT by zip (((Remember: DimocRat lies told often enough become truth to 48% of all Americans (NRA)))))
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To: LdSentinal
It all gets curiouser and curiouser. Every one of the New School's board members except Hsu has a prominent position with one or more businesses and is highly compensated in that position, giving him or her the financial wherewithal, reputation, and group of prosperous friends necessary to serve on that board. The brief vetting the MSM has done of HSU in the last few days has shown him to be a bankrupt grifter and fugitive from justice. Normally people who are as prominent as Kerry and Schwartz know, through the "old boy network," if nothing else, where potential board members come from and who they are. Any reasonable vetting would have shown Hsu to be poison, unless a number of people on that board, particularly Bernie Schwartz, knew exactly who Hsu actually was and deliberately put him on the board to give him respectability and cover. Given Schwartz's and the Clintons' close prior relationship with the Chicoms, that's probably what happened, meaning the Clintons and the DemonRat party knew exactly who Hsu was and what his job for the Chicom government was.
8 posted on 09/09/2007 5:40:52 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: LdSentinal
FWIW, Here's a .pdf of the annual report from the New School for '05/06.

Hsu's mentioned about a half dozen times. He's listed as a trustee, but most of the mentions are for gifts to the school.

I wonder if Kerrey will see that the school returns the money.

9 posted on 09/09/2007 5:55:22 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Clintonfatigued

I don’t think Kerry is a serious opponent even if he does run. He hasn’t lived in the state since he left office. His ties to the state are weak at best.


10 posted on 09/09/2007 6:03:17 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Bob Kerrey, Bernie Schwartz of Loral, and Norman Hsu are all part of the New School, this is not a coincidence.
11 posted on 09/09/2007 7:12:17 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (To libs killing a windfarm is bad, letting a gal die in your Oldsmobile is not so bad)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Al Franken’s ties to the state of Minnesota are weak at best, as well.

The liberals are rallying around him despite that fact.

Maybe the good people of Nebraska aren’t as crazy as some Minnesotans.


12 posted on 09/09/2007 7:38:23 AM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: mplsconservative

Minnesota is a whole lot more red than Nebraska is, Cornhusker uniforms not withstanding. And Coleman is in more trouble than the GOP in Nebraska are.


13 posted on 09/09/2007 12:12:24 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: libstripper
Repeat after me: Bernard L. Schwartz.

Bernard L. Schwartz.

Bernard L. Schwartz.

Bernard L. Schwartz put Norman Hsu on the Board of Trustees of The New School:

http://www.newschool.edu/administration.html

Screen capture here:

http://s175.photobucket.com/albums/w146/luciusvorenusfreeper/?action=view&current=new_school_hsu_schwartz.jpg

Bernard L. Schwartz parties down at fundraisers with Norman Hsu:

http://www.creators.com/opinion/robert-novak/will-newt-run.html

A further 148,000 pages at Google listing both their names [up from 109,000 when the scandal broke]:

http://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=%2BBernard+%2BSchwartz++%2BNorman+%2BHsu

And, of course, Bernard L. Schartz taught the Chicoms how to build missiles that could make their way out of the lower atmosphere, giving rise to Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles which could reach the continental United States and anti-satellite missiles which could take out our command and control infrastructure:

http://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=loral+china+missile

Bernard L. Schartz should be hung for treason.

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PS: WorldNetDaily has [finally!] picked up on the story:

Is the other Hsu about to drop?
Hillary's donor linked to China missile trader
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57450


PPS: Freeper TommyDale says we need to keep alive the name of Kearn A. Cottingham.



14 posted on 09/09/2007 12:51:03 PM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Good info. Thanks!

Do you know if Omaha is still fairly conservative? I used to travel there quite a bit some years ago. I loved the place, especially the old town and the Henry Doorly Zoo.


15 posted on 09/09/2007 12:59:06 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: mplsconservative
Do you know if Omaha is still fairly conservative? I used to travel there quite a bit some years ago. I loved the place, especially the old town and the Henry Doorly Zoo.

Omaha is about as liberal as Nebraska gets. And that isn't much.

16 posted on 09/09/2007 1:06:26 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: LdSentinal

thanks, bfl


17 posted on 09/09/2007 8:48:22 PM PDT by neverdem (Call talk radio. We need a Constitutional Amendment for Congressional term limits. Let's Roll!)
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To: libstripper

Bernie Schwartz is bought and paid for by the Chinese Communist Party, and Hsu is another operative of the Chinese.


18 posted on 09/09/2007 9:05:37 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy
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To: LdSentinal

bttt


19 posted on 09/09/2007 9:30:46 PM PDT by AnimalLover ( ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?)))
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To: LdSentinal
From wikipedia:

The New School for Social Research continues the Graduate Faculty's tradition of synthesizing progressive American intellectual thought and critical European philosophy. True to its origin and its firm roots within the University in Exile, The New School for Social Research, particularly its Department of Philosophy, is one of very few in the United States to offer students thorough training in the modern continental European philosophical tradition known as "Continental philosophy." Thus, it stresses the teachings of Aristotle, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Freud, Benjamin, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, et al. [1] The thought of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School of Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, et al. holds an especially strong influence on all divisions of the school.

In other words, the primary mission of this school is to push the hard-left Critical Theory and other forms of Cultural Marxism. Wasn't Bob Kerrey supposed to be a 'moderate' Democrat?

20 posted on 09/10/2007 5:38:57 AM PDT by Aikonaa
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