Against Crony CapitalismFirst the kerfuffle at UNLV over Ms. Clinton’s $225k 1 hour speech, and now this from the student body at UCLA. Looks like at least the students are waking up to the scam.
It’s pretty hard to stomach such a ridiculous fee when your tuition keeps jumping in cost each year.
(From The Daily Caller)
Of the 271 people that voted, 48 percent thought that the large sums of money were “inappropriate and demonstrate poor prioritizing.” Another 27 percent viewed that large sums as “unfortunate, but without them UCLA might not obtain the same level of notable speakers for the lecture.”
A contrasting view was represented by 21 percent who thought that “the school was right to invest in” the speech, and 4 percent were undecided.
Watch out for that last 21%. They are probably all poli-sci majors with internships ready to go on The Hill. Junior cronies.