Posted on 09/05/2010 12:47:24 AM PDT by thecodont
Reporting from Sacramento — The president of the University of California and the chancellor of the California community college system have quit the California Chamber of Commerce board of directors after the group voted to endorse Republican Meg Whitman for governor.
The endorsement is the latest example of the state's largest business organization increasing its political profile.
Jack Scott, a former Democratic state senator from Pasadena who was appointed as community college chancellor by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, announced his resignation Friday in a letter to chamber President Allan Zaremberg after the endorsement vote.
"I do not believe the board is using sound judgment by catapulting the California Chamber of Commerce into the center of a fierce political contest," Scott wrote. "…It is destructive to the chamber's core mission and the businesses it represents when it becomes a partisan operation."
UC President Mark G. Yudof suspended his membership last week in anticipation of the vote.
"As the president of a public university, I cannot take sides in electoral politics," Yudof wrote in a letter to Zaremberg. "I must preserve my politically agnostic status."
He left open the possibility of returning to the board if he could serve as a "nonvoting, ex officio" member. Charles B. Reed, chancellor of the California State University system, also sits on the board; he did not attend Friday's meeting because of the endorsement, a spokesman said, but remains on the board.
The chamber has traditionally stayed out of partisan politics, even though the group is often seen as Republican-friendly. In 2003, it backed Schwarzenegger with its first endorsement for governor in its 112-year history.
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Boo hoo, Dems openly crying into their milk when someone picks the better candidate over theirs.
Good.
More liberals need to get the hell off of these boards.
More liberals need to get the hell off of these boards.
Moved and seconded.
Why are college presidents on a Chamber of Commerce board to begin with? Unless it’s an affirmation of what we already know: colleges are businesses, not learning institutions.
What is a president of a public university doing on the board of the Chamber of Commerce? What does a Liberal Bureaucrat know about business? Why doesn't California put businessmen on the board of the Chamber of Commerce?
“More liberals need to get the hell off of these boards.”
Agreed!
Don’t let the door hit you, etc.
Agreed. They have invaded.
What we are seeing here is the intolerance of the liberals masked as some sort of principled victimization.
We need corporate heads on boards of education - - not tenured educators on boards representing businesses.
Whitman is a pro-abortion RINO who true conservatives should boycott anyway.
.. and was that because they favored the Schwarzenkennedy over the Democrat? No.
Tom McClintock a conservative had strong support among Californians was also on the ballot -- among positions McClintock favored was enforcing immigration laws which would have ended taxpayer-subsidized cheap and ILLEGAL labor much prized by the Chamber of Commerce.
2003 would be the citizens' effort to recall of Democrat Gov. Davis whom the California Republican Party backed and defended against recall.. once the recall was on track to be successful the California Republican Party shoved all those citizens aside and claimed the recall.
.. and all California got was this lousy Schwarzenkennedy.
Sure and then we could have that wonderful Brown as our Governor again. I find it funny that you would actually talk about conservatives, as much as you want to spend other people's money on RRs.
I find it funny that you would actually talk about conservatives, as much as you want to spend other people's money on RRs.
That's because you've been dumbed-down like many other Kalifornicators.
Agreed. The chancellor of a community college is one thing: community colleges are often funded directed by the business community to provide a workforce with the specific, needed skills sets, such as accounting, computer operating, languages, etc. A good chancellor would have a very keen listening ear to what area businesses’ needs are, and probably is a business leader himself.
An academic bureaucrat is another matter altogether.
“The president of the University of California and the chancellor of the California community college system”
Good riddance
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