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      <![CDATA[Unfortunately, NEA, you are absolutely right.  All the universities employ lobbyists to pursue their own individual goals while giving lip service to the higher education financial coordinating board, or whatever it is called.  They join an organization to coordinate higher education funding in the state, and then immediately hire a lobbyist to undercut the work of that board, and try to get  a little bigger piece of the pie for their own institution.  Don't ever believe that academia is any purer or more honorable than all the other  hogs at the trough.  Apparently, the people at UCA believe that Baker built up enough chits owed to him in the legislature to make it worthwhile to pay him $132,000.00 a year.  That's a hell of a lot more than a music teacher makes, and it will build up his TIAA-CREF account a hell of a lot faster.
        
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      <![CDATA[Not a fan of Baker, but unless UCA retirement plan differs from other universities in Arkansas, his retirement is not a state plan and he cannot draw on it before a certain age.  Don't all of the state universities employ lobbyists?
        
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      <![CDATA[So Baker will be pimping for UCA.  Figures.<br>
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Uh, radical, a week or two ago Obama took personal responsibility for the failures in Benghazi.  That's what responsible presidents do when something like that happens on their watch.  Were you in a cave then?
        
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      <![CDATA[Courtway just lost his creds with a bunch of his constituency. Baker looks like the used car salesman he could be.<br>
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And to radcen, Sale on tinfoil hats on Aisle 3.<br>
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Jeez, you folks are grabbing for anything.
        
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      <![CDATA[Maybe, he can afford a real haircut and get rid of the bowl.
        
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      <![CDATA[So much for Courtway and turning over a new, ethical leaf at UCA.  I'm deeply disappointed. What was Courtway thinking?  Had it not been for the Gilbert/UCA scandals of previous UCA administrations, this hire would not be so bad--just a faculty member returning.  As it is, Courtway just selected to bring on board someone who has already brought disgrace to UCA.  How incredibly embarrassing.
        
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      <![CDATA[The school is like an ingrown toenail in Conway.<br>
Baker exempted himself from a law he helped pass?  Why is it so hard to trust anyone there?
        
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      <![CDATA[Didn't expect any integrity from Baker or UCA, but I mistakenly thought Courtway was of a different breed. Not.
        
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      <![CDATA[UCA had a chance to show it was going to put Scandalous Behavior in the past.  Didn't take long for Courtway to show he has no balls.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Vanessa]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Word is that the Petraeus affair is not a cover story and that the resignation has absolutely nothing to do with anything else. Numerous journalists know Holly Petraeus and say the story is the real deal.
        
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      <![CDATA[Entitlement is what it's called.  They sincerely believe they are entitled to it.
        
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      <![CDATA[And the Higher Ed institutions will continue to tell us they are underfunded and that they have no alternative but to continue raising tuition and fees!!!!!
        
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      <![CDATA[outlier - As predicted last week in the "Beer and Money Open Line" - <br>
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"Right now, Bill Clinton is trying to figure out how to arrange for Petraeus or Panetta to take the blame for Benghazi, but he has to wait until after the election to make his move."<br>
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Done.
        
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      <![CDATA[I thought the universities created the Arkansas Association of Public Universities in order to save money and consolidate / coordinate all their lobbying efforts and costs into one entity.  I guess some universities are more equal than others.  <br>
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Now the worthies at the capitol will have one more voice clamoring for their attention.  I wonder whether they ever get tired of all the bloodsuckers like Gibby who add nothing to the process but take away valuable time.  But then I guess if they object to this one they won't be able to justify it when their own selves switch sides.<br>
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Them that has gets.
        
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      <![CDATA[OT but Petraeus resigned as CIA director. citing an extra-marital affair.
        
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      <![CDATA[Instead of "government relations", they should have called it "director for external affairs", like Vic Snyder's job at the insurance company.
        
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      <![CDATA[Will he get to do any side lobbying too?
        
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      <![CDATA[Never respected Baker. Didn't know Courtway was cut out of the same slimy cloth. But then, foolish to expect anything else out of UCA with its long history of ethical lapses.
        
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