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Posted on January 30 at 12:02 p.m.

It is bad enough living among Florida Gators without having to continuously explain Louisiana politics to everyone here.
The local and state response to Katrina was bad enough (let's not discuss Bush and his associates), but decisions like this which don't make sense to the locals, certainly don't make sense to others. (Yes, I know that a state with hanging Chads should not question anyone else.) I might give the Board the benefit of the doubt, if I knew their rational; but, this decision seems like it might be about someone who told this board of despots, "No!" They then used draconian strategies to remove this non-yes man. I am moving back home next year when I retire. I'd like to think that the state had improved in 39 years, but that does not seem to have happened. If we are going to enter the 20th century (Sorry we are still in the 19th.), much will have to change. We cannot continue to have business as usual. Huey and Earl have been gone for a long time. Edwin is in jail. The under the table payoffs and the entire graft based system must stop. Politics must be brought into the sunshine to even begin the process of growth. I am not a mega-donor to LSU, but I am a yearly contributor. If you lose too many of us at the $100 to $500 level, the university will also begin to feel the pain. That is a sad decision to make for the university I love; however, some times progess can only be achieved through protest. Hope some of the decision-makers for the university read these comments,and begin to realize that they are accountable for their decisions. Some of us have learned to question many things--especially that to which we contribute finacially.

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