The journalist received incomplete data, but seems to have wanted to write a particular story, so wrote it anyway with a particular "painting" in mind. It's the same gripe I have with a lot of thinking on politics. Start with your outcome, then reverse engineer your story, rather than following the facts. I'm not saying all of the spending was sensible, but from what I know, I think the worst that happened was incompetence, not grift.
Just the opposite. Brought in by DeSantis to reign in "woke" on campus. Hired in secret (no other candidates interviewed) and he and the clown that's the state's Surgeon General (also head of UF's medical department) shouldn't have been allowed anywhere near UF. Wow, I'm sure absolutely no one is shocked that big contracts and positions were given to GOP backers. A sad story that's been told before about both parties and, sadder still, will be told again in the future.
Do you think giving your former senate staff previously non-existing jobs that you could work remote from at high 6 figure salaries was incompetence? That sounds like rewarding "your people" to me.
If you mean the Den, they delete just about anything political or socially controversial. I'd like to see fewer threads locked and deleted over there, but it's better than foul-mouth, cruel crap that flourishes on other boards (and I saw one -- since deleted -- that called AR a nasty name and wished that he suffer a major injury). We don't need that.
Too bad Sasse left. He was in Gainesville only a short time but the school was running very well while he was here (except for the damn football program) and the future seemed very bright.
If you would care to read my post, it is saying such things have happened before; such things will happen again; and both parties do it. I also specifically noted DeSantis' secretive selection and that money went to GOP supporters. So, try to comprehend the post instead of blaming me for something I did not say. Good job.
I do think he wanted his people he trusted around him and did what it took to make that happen. I don't know what private industry pays in these areas, but I'm sure it's higher than higher ed. Look I hope they get an academic next go around, but I just think Sasse was just not prepared for this type of job.
Not surprised, that cesspool happily allows liberal slander but immediately censors anything anti-MAGA. Theyre probably trying to find a way to get this thread locked too.
I mean, do you even know what they were doing? These werent jobs the university already had, so they were invented out of whole cloth. If the private sector is handing out remote work jobs at over $700k a pop, that speaks more about the waste and corruption in the private sector if accurate lol. No wonder people want to go to an Ivy League school, you just work for a senator and have a guaranteed high income job for life. Seems like the old boys network at work.
I don't and I don't think the writer does either. Was it a news story or an editorial? I can't tell these days.
Lol okkkk. people noted he had been blowing through money and hiring his friends since day one. Now it’s in the public light and you post this weak ass shit. Weaaaak.
Listen people - I’ve worked at Uf through 3.5 presidents now. President can do pretty much whatever they wants. Guess who the cfo reports to? Yeah the president. If the prez wants money he gets money. No one argues with the president. They may try to advise against certain things but when he says shut up most admins get wise and shut up and just do what he says. Ultimately the board of trustees has oversight but it’ll always happen after the fact.
Huh. Apparently this was all known before he was hired…that’s what he was going to do. Seems like a weak ass hit piece from the student libbies.
No, I don't like reporting of news that editorializes. It's a sort of journalistic hissy fit. I don't think it would get past a Ben Bradlee, but that journalistic ship has sailed long ago. And I'm not shedding any tears about Sasse, but more for other reasons than this.
Well its unfortunate the Alligator has to do reporting that bigger papers should be doing, but that's the state of journalism, local papers are pretty much owned by rich guys and hedge funds, probably not the thing they want their papers exploring.
