Monday, September 17, 2007

If we wanted your opinion ...


Right-wing support for "free speech?" Ehhh, not so much ...

GOP politician sent email asking how to stop naming of dean

A conservative Los Angeles County politician asked about two dozen people in an e-mail last month how to prevent the University of California, Irvine from hiring renowned liberal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky as its founding law school dean, a spokesman for the politician said Friday.

Making Chemerinsky the head of the law school "would be like appointing al-Qaida in charge of homeland security," Michael Antonovich, a longtime Republican member of the county Board of Supervisors, said in a voicemail left with The Associated Press.

He was not available for further comment on why he was getting involved in the situation at a campus located outside his jurisdiction in Orange County...

The Antonovich e-mail was disclosed after UCI Chancellor Michael V. Drake withdrew an offer earlier this week to appoint Chemerinsky to the law school post.

In unrelated news, we here at CC HQ engage in censorship because we don't allow anonymous comments. Yes, we are bad people.

1 comment:

E in MD said...

What the fuck do conservatives know about law? Other than how to break them and get away with it, that is.