Posted on 10/26/2016 5:54:57 AM PDT by snarkpup
A Colorado Mesa University professor who allowed his students to be recruited to stump for a presidential candidate in his class is under scrutiny.
Students in Stan Heister’s International Business class were visited by a representative recruiting workers to promote Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign for president last month, according to students. Nikki Caravelli with the group Work for Progress and Fair Share Action, a political action committee, was invited by the professor to come speak to his class.
On Sept. 22, Caravelli came to Heister’s class, said student Chris Cady. She came up to him and asked him if he was the professor, Cady said. After Heister introduced Caravelli to the class, Cady said she passed out cards and asked students to give their contact information, and recruited them for door-to-door campaigning to convince voters to support Clinton.
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Work for Progress regularly recruits college students on campuses to work for them, said Mary Rafferty, the organization’s Colorado field director.
“A lot of professors ... in schools all across Colorado invite us into their classrooms to tell students about the opportunities,” she said, noting that the main purpose is to hire students to work on campaigns.
The money behind Work for Progress is Fair Share Action. The super PAC has worked to promote Hillary Clinton to voters in Colorado, Florida and Pennsylvania, according to fairshareaction.org. Although it is registered as unaffiliated, Fair Share Action lists the election of Democratic candidates to political office in its track record. According to FEC records, Fair Share Action has paid Work for Progress more than $620,000 so far this calendar year for door-to-door canvassing to oppose Donald Trump and promote Clinton.
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This “university” like most others, contains lib arts departments which are almost totally bereft of any academic rigor.
Attend at your peril.
Public Universities are actually “satellite Democrat Headquarters”. Putting a stop to the proselytizing of political parties in the public school system should be high on PRESIDENT TRUMP’S agenda.
Riiiiight.
Science departments as polluted by progressives as liberal arts on most campuses.
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