Who Knew Berkeley Had Gone Right Wing? Clinton Rakes in the Bucks from Colleges

[McCamy Taylor]

According to an article from McClatchy,

In December, hundreds of volunteers signed up for Hillary Clinton at the University of California, Berkeley – more than at any other campus in the nation – when the Ready for Hillary bus rolled through town nearly two years before America chooses its next president.

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People affiliated with the University of California made the 11th largest bloc of contributions to Clinton’s three previous campaigns, according to an analysis for McClatchy by the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks money in politics. They contributed $342,173 to her two campaigns for the Senate and her 2008 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, the analysis found.

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“I wanted to vote on the side of history,” said Sarah Fenstermaker, who as a sociology professor at UC Santa Barbara in 2008 wrote a $250 check for Clinton. “She is a perfect choice for the first woman president, and . . . if Hillary is elected, women candidates will thereafter be viable choices for the country.”

Read more here: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2015/03/17/4190226_colleges-give-clinton-an-a-and.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy

Everyday here at DU we read about how Clinton has gotten money from this bank or that corporation---banks and corporations that have also given to Obama and other Democrats. But I thought it might be fun to mention the other folks---the just plain academic folks---who support her.

Ready? On your marks? Let's bash Berkeley! You know you want to....

[blkmusclmachine]

1. Clinton. MEH.

[grasswire]

2. two words

John Yoo.

[Fumesucker]

3. You mean the school that hired John Yoo as a professor?

www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/facultyProfile.php?facID=235

Berkeley Law - Faculty Profiles

John Choon Yoo

Title: Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law
Email Address: [e-mail]

FSU Contact: Don E. Johnson

John Yoo received his B.A., summa cum laude, in American history from Harvard University. Between college and law school, he worked as a newspaper reporter in Washington, D.C. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal. He then clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the D.C. Circuit.

Professor Yoo joined the Boalt faculty in 1993, then clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. He served as general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995-96. From 2001 to 2003, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security and the separation of powers.

Professor Yoo is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and has been a visiting professor at Chapman Law School, the University of Chicago, and the Free University of Amsterdam, and he held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Trento. Professor Yoo also has received the Paul M. Bator Award for excellence in legal scholarship and teaching from the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy.

[NYC_SKP]

4. No prob. Just raise tuitions. Fuck it, raise em even higher, pay her $2Million, she's so special.

[tammywammy]

9. These are people associated with the university, not the university itself giving money

Just like when I make a political donation I put down my employer. It could show up on the list that XYZ Company gave a bazillion to whomever - but it could easily be donations from lower level employees like myself and not executives.

[daredtowork]

5. Me first!

You mean the place Chancellor Tien tried to make MIT west in the mid 1990s? The centerpiece of a town undergoing a horrific tech-driven gentrification process? Even in the late 90s when I was a Graduate Student Instructor on that campus, the student body was not the classic stereotype anymore: students wore business suits had their cellphones (today it would be smartphones) surgically attached to their ears. I haven't been on campus lately, but I'm sure things have only gotten worse as tuition has run out of control and values have become more IPO-centric.

Oh wait, by the time I finished typing I was fourth...

[pnwmom]

6. I think students everywhere, especially women (which are in the majority) are going to be

more excited about Hillary than most DUers realize.

This will be a HUGE thing for most young women.

(They would probably be equally excited about Elizabeth Warren, but she's not shown any indication she's running.)

[DonCoquixote]

17. perhaps, perhaps not

Obviously Hillary will be better on Women's issues than anyone the GOP will put, even if the GOP were to put up a Nikki Haley or Sussanah Martinez. However, the idea of enthusiasm may disappoint, because many women, especially young women, realize that they need help with the economics as well as the other issues. No one will be able to break Glass ceilings if they cannot afford the cost of college, the student loan payments, or the cost of getting medical treatment. Yes, we must defend roe v.wade, but if only rich ladies can afford the clinic, we still lose,Llof us, but especially women. The young women living off ramen at college understand this better than mos
T of us.

[GreatGazoo]

7. a bit of background

[liberal_at_heart]

10. I doubt these professors who can donate hundreds or thousands of dollars to Clinton can

relate to most working Americans anymore than Clinton can. Fenstermaker donated $250 to Clinton. I think I donated all of $10 to Obama. That was all I could afford to donate and now I wish I hadn't done that. No more corporate dems. We need a socialist Democrat.

[msongs]

11. your right, berkley voted for obama twice, and hillary is obama 2.0 nt

[Cha]

12. I see what you did there.. lol

[Warren DeMontague]

13. Ha, have you been to Berkeley any time lately?

it's way more Park Ave. than Peoples' Park, now.

But so what?

.. obviously large portions of the Democratic Party establishment are lining up to support HRC. If anyone is calling them "right wing" they are off base.

I look forward to seeing her compete in a vigorous primary process with other Democrats, so we can establish who will be our nominee.

[delrem]

14. McCamy,

Didn't you post an OP recently that explained that you had been on the fence re. who to support as Dem candidate for president, but on reading so many anti-HRC posts on DU you decided to support HRC just for spite? That is, to troll?

Yes, good ol' google, I found it
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026315064
Clinton Hatred Fatigue

So, what am I to make of this:
"Ready? On your marks? Let's bash Berkeley! You know you want to.... "

I wonder, if you really want HRC to be president of the US, why don't you just stop it?
Why do you want those who don't agree with every word you say, to feel ill when you talk about your candidate? How do you suppose that can possibly win them over?

And if you're speaking inside a bubble of like-minded people when you talk like this, why can't they help you come up with a better plan than *trolling*?

[Maedhros]

15. I don't care who gives Hillary what,

her own actions define her - and I will not vote for her because of them.

[Prism]

16. Berkeley is full of rich people

Social liberals, generally, but economically just as ready as any other rich type to not much care for the poor. Note what's happening to Section 8, social welfare, and land development in Berkeley these days.

Berkeley's liberalism rests on an older reputation. I live and work here. These are over-privileged, over-monied, over-entitled, mainly white middle-aged people who got theirs and could not give a shit less about income inequality outside of mouthing a few quiet platitudes at a cocktail party.

So yeah, of course they love Hillary.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

18. Sincere people can make sincerely poor choices.