Friday, September 14, 2007

It Ain't Over Yet:L'affaire Chemerinsky

Over at her excellent and fiesty blog, Witness LA, Celeste Fremon unpacks the latest in the UCI-Chemerinsky furor - check it out. Fremon is a journalist and occasional instructor at UC Irvine.

All the expected players and more are there, including a cameo by LA Supervisor Mike Antonovich. (Damn! I thought I got away from that guy by moving south!)

At the end, Fremon asks: "why should the rest of us care that a job offer was tendered to a Duke University law professor, and then later withdrawn?"

Her answer: "Here’s why: Because when the worst kind of petty back room political maneuvering holds that kind of power over one of the state’s best—hell, one of the country’s best—public universities, then we all damn well better care."

6 comments:

AOR said...

Antonovich started his political career by being on the first Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles Community College District when it was first separated from K12 back in the late '60s. Also on that first board with later political success: Jerry Brown. Some, like Kenneth Washington, Jr. and Frederick Wyatt were actually there because they cared about the institutions rather than their futures. There are still too few of those around.

Anonymous said...

According the the Times this morning, they're trying to re-hire Chemerinsky.

A cabal of 20 OC Republicans apparently came down on Chancellor Drake hard - hmmm, I wodner how many of those 20 are involved in OUR district and sit on OUR college foundations....

Anonymous said...

courtesy of Celeste Fremon's blog:

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.

Anonymous said...

Speaking of 'involvement' in our disrict, did anynone check to see if Al Tello had been a fundraiser before he received his annointment as IVC Foundation Director?

Anonymous said...

But Al is so well connected to the Republicans with big pocketbooks - he doesn't need any experience. And since we exist to serve them and their interests - well - you see, don't you?

Is Al expanding our base or is he just relying on what's there - you tell me.

Anonymous said...

If Al is so connected, especially to Fuentes, then why are we not rolling in the money?

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