Protest, outrage follow scuttled vote on Texas State student president

SAN MARCOS -- Embattled Texas State University student government president Connor Clegg, who avoided an impeachment trial Wednesday when 19 student senators skipped a planned hearing, told the American-Statesman that he did not have anything to do with the absences and that he wished the trial had gone forward.

“The folks who missed tonight — I have no idea what their motivation was,” he wrote in an email shortly before midnight. “Yes, I have relationships with some of them, but I’ve done my absolute best to remain impartial. And that means cutting off communication with people. It’s a shame we didn’t meet quorum tonight.”

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After Wednesday’s hearing was cancelled because there were not enough senators present to vote on the matter, several senators and student activists called the absences a coordinated effort to avoid an impeachment trial for Clegg, whose term ends next week.

Though largely symbolic this late in the semester, Clegg’s impeachment saga has crystallized anger and frustration at the San Marcos campus, where minority student groups have said they felt abandoned by university administrators in the face of regular targeting of the campus by neo-Nazi groups distributing propaganda.

Read more: https://www.statesman.com/news/local-education/protest-outrage-follow-scuttled-vote-texas-state-student-president/A4xnOnMMMBaJTIIEFTKhLL/