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Harry Reid's Alma Matter dumps His Name From Building
The Daily Caller via Yahoo.com ^ | August 29, 2014 | Daily Caller Staff

Posted on 08/29/2014 11:15:03 AM PDT by upbeat5

Harry Reid’s alma matter is removing his name from a school building after citizens and alumni lobbied the school president and pledged more than $40,000 to the cause. Concerned citizens lobbied Southern Utah University president Scott Wyatt months ago for the change, but he has only now decided to remove the name out of respect for the Senate majority leader, Utah’s The Spectrum reports. “I didn’t want to offend him in any way,” he explained. Cedar City Councilman Paul Cozzens told The Specter he received $40,000 in pledges to remove the Nevada senator’s name in just five days. “These people in Nevada do not espouse to Reid’s political philosophies,” he said, “and they told me they would not support the university or send any more of their children there … so long as Harry Reid’s name remained.” The school attached Reid’s name to the Outdoor Center expecting donations from Reid and his friends, The Specter reports, but those donations have not materialized. Apparently torn between his desire for financial support from alumni and his desire for theoretical donations from Reid and his friends, Wyatt decided to remove his name from the Outdoor Center, but attach it to a new building — the Harry Reid Center. “We have not received any money yet for … that building,” Wyatt told The Specter, but added that “Harry Reid has a lot of good qualities that could be used to develop a great program and center.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alma; harry; matter; reid
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1 posted on 08/29/2014 11:15:03 AM PDT by upbeat5
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“Wyatt decided to remove his name from the Outdoor Center, but attach it to a new building — the Harry Reid Center. “We have not received any money yet for … that building,” Wyatt told The Specter, but added that “Harry Reid has a lot of good qualities that could be used to develop a great program and center.””

Umm...no, he does not.


2 posted on 08/29/2014 11:17:58 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Manchuria Called. They want their Candidate Back!)
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Translation, Dear Harry, Money talks Bullsh!t walks. Have some of your mob guys donate a few million and we can build you a center.


3 posted on 08/29/2014 11:20:37 AM PDT by DainBramage
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To: upbeat5
What kind of an idiot university president puts a name on a building with no commitment for donations from the person???

This guy must be a moonbat leftie academic who would love to be Harry's boyfriend, but Harry isn't playing.

4 posted on 08/29/2014 11:20:39 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: upbeat5

They were getting real tired of people asking , “Who is Harry Reid” ?


5 posted on 08/29/2014 11:21:48 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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attach it to a new building — the Harry Reid Center.

I didn't know they still used outhouses in Nevada........

6 posted on 08/29/2014 11:21:55 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Is there such a thing as a vegan zombie?)
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“I didn’t want to offend him in any way,”

...Reid certainly has offended Americans often enough. Usually several times a day.


7 posted on 08/29/2014 11:22:09 AM PDT by albie
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Good! It could not happen to a worse jerk!


8 posted on 08/29/2014 11:22:46 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: upbeat5; Larry Lucido; F15Eagle

Removed his name from the building?

Who did the actual removal? Kruger Industrial Smoothing?


9 posted on 08/29/2014 11:24:01 AM PDT by Gamecock (Not responsible for errors resulting from posting via my "smart" phone.)
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Just imagine the MSM orgy that would result if a prominent Republican had the same thing happen to him.

If, for example, a building at the University of Wisconsin named for Scott Walker was renamed after alumni protests.


10 posted on 08/29/2014 11:24:21 AM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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A new building for Harry. How many stories can you build on an outhouse?


11 posted on 08/29/2014 11:24:21 AM PDT by o-n-money
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Maybe they could name the outhouse behind the Obama Golf Library after Harry Reid.


12 posted on 08/29/2014 11:24:36 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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I guess “Dingy Harry Hall” wasn’t a good name for an academic building. I would have changed the name too.


13 posted on 08/29/2014 11:27:24 AM PDT by dowcaet
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It is past time to start boycotting Las Vegas and Reno, until those controlling those cities and casinos get rid of Reid.

14 posted on 08/29/2014 11:37:19 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (If you don't Donate to Free Republic. Shame on you! Freep Loaders are scum!)
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As long as the first floor is reserved for him and the others empty out on his head, I’m hoping it’s hundreds.


15 posted on 08/29/2014 11:37:46 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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Actually, only the basement of the outhouse is known as the "Harry Reid Center."

Huzzah for the folks in Southern Utah!

16 posted on 08/29/2014 11:43:03 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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17 posted on 08/29/2014 11:44:01 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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I think some may be willing to support “The Harry Reid Defecation & Urination Building” to be ERECTED in the VERY FAR LEFT of the campus, next to the concession stand. :P


18 posted on 08/29/2014 11:48:41 AM PDT by ResisTyr ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God " ~Thomas Jefferson)
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“Southern Utah University president Scott Wyatt” apparently has no principles or core beliefs and will do anything for money.


19 posted on 08/29/2014 12:41:20 PM PDT by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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To: colorado tanker

In the world of Academe, this is a backhanded insult. His name has been sent to Coventry, as it were.


20 posted on 08/29/2014 1:22:44 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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