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bluevoter4life

(788 posts)
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 05:02 PM Feb 2012

This is the guy...

...who, single-handedly wants to destroy the Florida university system. Sen. J.D. Alexanders proposal would strip 60% of the budget for the University of South Florida, the largest in the SUS and more than twice the amount of the seond largest recipient of the proposed cuts, and immediately grant independence of the "Florida Polytechnic University", currently known as USF-Polytechnic. This is in direct defiance of several benchmarks and measures passed by the Board of Governors back in December, to gradually break off USF-Poly.

USF is the the third largest university in the state of Florida for both research and enrollment. The impact these cuts would have is catastrophic to the welfare of thousands of jobs in the Tampa Bay area and USF system.

JD Alexander has turned this into a personal vendetta against USF for fighting off an independence motion toward USF-Poly. Many Florida Republicans have come out in protest of this major cut. Please contact your state representative, senator, and Gov. Scott to urge them to do the right thing. I want J.D. Alexander's name and face plastered in any place we can find room.


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This is the guy... (Original Post) bluevoter4life Feb 2012 OP
the problem is DonCoquixote Feb 2012 #1
He's in real estate? You would think this would have received wider attention in Florida. Keystone Writer Feb 2012 #2

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
1. the problem is
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 06:03 PM
Feb 2012

A) he is out of office soon due to term limits but
B) his successor is a hand picked puppet

Let's not forget that his Polytech would be in an area of HIS land that he has been trying to deveop for years.

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