College liberals spurn $10M gift from Koch brothers

NY POST ^ | June 24, 2014 | By Carl Campanile

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They may teach business classes at Brooklyn College, but the school’s liberal leaders have told two of the country’s top businessmen to take their money and shove it because they don’t like their conservative politics, a veteran faculty member charges.

The CUNY college has turned down a $10 million grant offer from the Koch brothers, said business professor Mitchell Langbert — who called the decision by School of Business Dean William Hopkins a knee-jerk reaction to the mega-rich industrialists’ support of Republican causes.

“It’s political correctness. It’s intolerance about anyone who doesn’t toe the left-wing line,” Langbert told The Post.

Langbert was so upset that he fired off a letter to members of the state Senate Education Committee protesting the school’s refusal to take the donation.

“The Charles G. Koch Foundation has repeatedly called Brooklyn College and me personally with an offer of as much as a $10 million grant,” he told the senators. “This grant would have been considerably larger than any that I have seen in my nearly quarter century of teaching.”

This isn’t the first time that liberals have tried to stop Charles and David Koch from doing good with their combined $100 billion fortune.

Activists from the NAACP and the hospital-employee union SEIU Local 1199 in March protested their $100 million donation to build a new wing for cancer patients at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

The Kochs are despised by Democrats for pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into political advocacy groups helping to elect Republicans and attacking liberal causes.

Despite this, Langbert says that he, Brooklyn College and the Koch Foundation had been in discussions for nearly a year about establishing a financial center at Brooklyn College — possibly in partnership with the CUNY Graduate Center, correspondence obtained by The Post reveals.

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Activists from the NAACP and the hospital-employee union SEIU Local 1199 in March protested their $100 million donation to build a new wing for cancer patients at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

SEIU Local 1199 is probably one of, if not *the* most racist union in the country. If you're white it's virtually impossible to get in. I should know, I tried it in the late 1980s and was told to my FACE I would never get in because I was white. They were having another one of their usual strikes, which they seem to have every year, and I was hired by Flushing hospital here in New York city as a temp, and when the strike was over - which BTW when on for 3 months - I didn't want to get fired, so I went down to their union headquarters and was told to my face I would never get in because I was white. Hispanic, black, they get in. White forget it.

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The Kochs should offer the money directly to the students, since the final goal is to help students.

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“The Kochs should offer the money directly to the students, since the final goal is to help students.”

EXCELLENT IDEA. Give the students some big bucks, and make sure the world knows about it. It will KILL THE LIBERALS to see the Koch Brothers helping out the students, as that means that the students just may be open to their ideas.

It is MUCH MORE effective than giving it to the school, where it would simply finance more sabbaticals or whatever they do with extra money.