On liberal campus, College Republicans fold (have no money)

Source: AP

April 6, 2007
BURLINGTON, Vt. --A student Republican club at the University of Vermont has folded, its undoing sealed by financial problems that included payment of a speaker's fee to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.

The College Republicans took out a $7,000 loan from the Student Government Association to help pay the fee for the October 2005 speech by Gingrich. The club failed to repay the loan for more than a year, and after several warnings was decertified last month by the Student Government Association.

Gingrich's fee for the speech was never revealed.
Now, the College Democrats and International Socialist Organization are the dominant political groups on a campus long perceived as left of center, leaving conservatives on campus without an ideological home.

Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2007/04/06/on_liberal_campus_college_republicans_fold/

are folding across the country.

My guess is Gingrich's fee was $50,000

Not paying your bills. Classic display of integrity.

If a campus is dedicated to learning and provoking thought it always will be a liberal campus.

If you want to be a young republican you don't need a liberal education you just need an abramoff education (and pass on military service as well.) Grow up to lie, cheat, steal and be good at corporate crime. Not too many criminals need much of an education, just look who supports the gop.

AND TO THINK THEY GOT FUCKED BY AN IMMORAL SACK OF SHIT. Way to go newty.

Ah yes, "adults in charge" in training.

The University of Vermont is not one of those fundie far right universities so the AP labels it liberal.

To the AP either it is black or white, GOP or Dem, Conservative or radical far left.

The University of Vermont is just a run of the mill everyday university.

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lol

It's especially ridiculous to lend money to a group like that, which absolves it's members of any personal responsibility for the loan.

If they had any decency or sense of personal responsibility, they would work themselves to pay it off, so the university should not expect repayment, ever.

The point is, they were lending money to a group that had no personal responsibility for paying it back. The 'group' in this case will just reorganize under a different name and skip out on their debt.

money is given to various groups-------so, all students who are registered end up paying for this foolishness.

My son is in SG at his college, and they raise 75% of funding, with the school providing 25%.

mess. That only works on a national level, sadly for them.

Nothing new there.

The republics love to call themselves "conservatives."

But NO WAY.

They are radicals, and spend like drunken soldiers.

They conserve nothing, not the budget, not ethics, not the environment.

Republics are dangerous and unprincipled radicals.

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I love this... the freepers will be so confused!

return the fee, but I guess not.

I really can't wait.

Q.E.D.

Colleges have been training grounds for Republican hatchetmen at least since the days of Donald Segretti, dirty trickster for the Nixon administration, and has continued through the odious likes of Lee Atwater, Floyd Brown and Karl Rove. For the paltry sum of $7,000, some well-heeled fascist will bail out these young Republicans, who will swear an oath of fealty to flat taxes, personal responsibility, and the end of personal welfare (for everyone else).

$7000 is nothing to the oil companies.

What is this world coming to?

Although the folks may be too stupid?

Why aren't they fighting the Great War On Terror? What other priorities could POSSIBLY be more important?

Strange pair... but this hard leftist has a smile on his face.

Hahahahahaha

Borrow and default, borrow and default. Bet you Gingrich's cheque cleared though.

If you don't have a plan to make $7,000 back, don't borrow that money. That's a whole lot of money to spend so frivolously.

Typical Republican shit.

HELP! Your buds are in trouble:rofl:

Repukes out and the campus left to democrats and socialists. . . Why can't that happen to the entire country?

pResident started, and that they all love so much.

Aren't those called Libertarians?

whodathunkit?