The RG has a story on today’s higher education lobby day at the state capital, here:
Meanwhile, the UO boosters who collected $450K in big donations for a PAC to persuade Kitzhaber and the Legislature to give UO an independent board managed to get their way without spending a dime. So they are now using that money to lobby for state funding for UO, right?
No. Why not? A cynic would say it might be because more state support would weaken their control over UO:
Another cynic might say that PAC money remains in place for whatever issue(s) might come up next.
Like preventing the addition of another faculty member to the UO board, as was in the original legislation?
Sure. But given the state of politics lately, sky’s the limit. International games bid, anyone?