Kentucky Gov. OKs Private College Funds

[Judi Lynn]

Kentucky Gov. OKs Private College Funds
Kentucky Governor Allows Funding for Private College That Expelled Gay Student
By ROGER ALFORD

FRANKFORT, Ky. Apr 24, 2006 (AP)— Gov. Ernie Fletcher said Monday he would not veto $11 million in funding for a private Baptist college that expelled an openly gay student.

The University of the Cumberlands wants the money for a proposed pharmacy school, but became the center of debate in Frankfort earlier this month for asking a student to leave after he posted on his Web page that he was gay.

The governor said he based his decision on the fact that the $10 million for construction and $1 million for scholarships for the proposed project came from coal severance taxes paid by coal companies, not by individual taxpayers.

But before the money is released, Fletcher said he will ask the courts to determine the constitutionality of providing state funding for construction projects at private institutions.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1885913



Governor Ernie Fletcher and _Bush

[MountainLaurel]

1. Fucker.

:mad:

[Roland99]

2. That college doesn't provide services not already available by UK

in that area. It's not serving a public good and therefore doesn't need gov't funding.

[alfredo]

6. Isn't there already another college in that area of Ky already

have a school of pharmacy?

[Roland99]

7. Ayup. Local news was reporting they just opened one.

[Roland99]

8. Here ya go >>>>

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/14321980.htm

Sullivan University, a private, for-profit institution with headquarters in Louisville, plans to open a pharmacy school in fall 2008, said Tom Davisson, Sullivan's senior vice president.

Sullivan will "absolutely" comply with accreditation standards, he said. It has hired as a consultant Dr. Daniel Nona, former head of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education.

The state's only existing pharmacy school is the University of Kentucky's College of Pharmacy, which was No. 8 nationally in the recent U.S. News & World Report rankings. UK received $80 million to build a new pharmacy school building.

The sponsor of the University of the Cumberlands pharmacy project, Senate President David Williams, R-Burkesville, said the University of the Cumberlands is accredited overall with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and that he was sure its pharmacy school would become accredited, too.

[alfredo]

11. So this is just another attempt to fund fundies with tax money.

[Roland99]

12. Can't wait for Six Flags Over Jesus to pitch the state to fund a school

Surprised they haven't tried to create one yet.

[alfredo]

16. He has slashed tens of millions from public schools, but wants to give

a private religious school 11 million. Asshole.

[alfredo]

3. The supreme court is packed full of republicans.

[Erika]

4. Vote atheist and get rid of this religious garbage.

I know, the U.S. will not tolerate non-religion in their candidates.

So our tax $ will just go to the religious sect of the month club.

[stevietheman]

5. Fletcher knows full well he is openly defying the Constitution...

and what I would like to see done to politicians who spooge on the Constitution is worse than impeachment and imprisonment.

[yellowdoggess]

9. glad KY finally got noticed

we are an absolute mirror of the disgraceful national scene. Heard about the indictments and pardons of the Gov's cronies in the state civil service system? Heard about the Gov's executive order removing homosexuals from protection from discrimination (as in sex, age, religion, national origin)? Heard about the legislature voting to REplace the Ten Commandments on the Capitol grounds? Heard about Oakwood, an institution for mentally retarded, that has been under US Office of Civil Rights because patients keep dying, but the state awarded a $9M contract to Liberty HealthCare, whose lobbyist just happens to be the ex director of the state GOP. We also have about 2 yrs left of these buffoons. blue, blue, blue in a red state

[Roland99]

13. And wanting to eliminate prevailing wage laws.

[brentspeak]

19. What's happened in Kentucky that it's become so ridiculously Red?

[Charlie Brown]

10. Has anyone read the relevant part of the Kentucky Constitution?

I know conservatives like to split hairs over the Fed. Constitution, but what about their own state constitutions? There's no way governors like Fletcher can possibly claim to be upholding the law with language like this:

http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/Legresou/Constitu/005.htm

No preference shall ever be given by law to any religious sect, society or denomination; nor to any particular creed, mode of worship or system of ecclesiastical polity; nor shall any person be compelled to attend any place of worship, to contribute to the erection or maintenance of any such place, or to the salary or support of any minister of religion; nor shall any man be compelled to send his child to any school to which he may be conscientiously opposed; and the civil rights, privileges or capacities of no person shall be taken away, or in anywise diminished or enlarged, on account of his belief or disbelief of any religious tenet, dogma or teaching. No human authority shall, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience.

[Erika]

14. It sounds like the governor is telling taxpayers he'll make

the decisions on how their tax $ are spent and if he wants to give it to the religion of the month club, he damn well will. Taxpayers be damned.

[saigon68]

15. Can he (the gov) raise the dead too?

[alfredo]

17. To top it off, when his staff got indicted for violations of the merit

system laws, he gave them total amnesty for past and future offenses.

[brentspeak]

18. Fletcher's the same crook who pardoned his staff who were indicted

in Kentucky's merit system investigation -- before they were forced during a trial to point any fingers at him. He also invoked the 5th amendment in this case when subpoened before a grand jury.

[nonconformist]

20. I liked Fletcher better

when he was gravely ill recently.

:mad:

[RedStateShame]

21. Thanks, Ernie, you bastard-making bastard!!!!

It's a good thing Kentucky isn't the world's butt of jokes, otherwise, we might never hear the....oh, fuck.