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October 13, 2004
Moore in San Diego
Michael Moore spoke at the Del Mar Fairgrounds last night. It was an alternative venue after the president of Cal State San Marcos disinvited him from speaking at their campus. This decision was made as the school was supposedly prohibited from spending funds on partisan political activity.
Another school, George Mason University, also disinvited Moore for similar reasons. Prof. Don Boudreaux, who teaches at GMU, had this post on the subject at Cafe Hayek:
But I cringed whenever I heard or read the objections to his appearance at GMU. A Republican member of Virginia’s House of Delegates, Rep. Dick Black, wrote to GMU President Alan Merten that “Profligate spending for liberal speakers sets a tone for slipshod financial practices permeating the university system. Tax money is being spent poorly, and for partisan purposes." See this news story.
What a narrow-minded objection! Is “profligate spending” for conservative or libertarian speakers okay? If GMU agreed to pay, say, Thomas Sowell or Rush Limbaugh $35,000 to speak on campus, would such an agreement set “a tone for slipshod financial practices” at the University?
Hat Tip: Patrick Finucane (for the Union Tribune article)
Posted by Peter Mork at October 13, 2004 6:44 PM
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