Florida Student-Run Paper Sends Ben Sasse Packing

Well he resigned claiming his wife's health issues (epilesy), but it seems like he was hearing some footsteps.

Great work from the Independent Alligator on this.

https://www.alligator.org/article/2...ed-millions-to-gop-allies-secretive-contracts

 

He would have gotten away with it if not for those meddling kids!

 

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Great investigative reporting by a college student!

I'd say that will look pretty good on his next resume ...

 

The response to this by Meatball Ron will be to try to make access to this type of information harder to discover, all in the name of “safety”.

 

What I'd like to know is whether all the toadies Sasse hired from his staff in Washington and paid outrageous sums, resulting in the tripling of the UF president's budget are still employed/getting the same money? Will the guy who got demoted for one of Sasse's underlings get his old job back?
Aside from that, outstanding work by the Alligator. It's not the first time they've embarrassed the entire state press corps.

 

Great job by Garrett Shanley and the Alligator.

 

Shanley wrote a short follow up of UF bringing back their old provost, who had just left to be the provost at the University of Arizona about a month ago. Not too much of a story, but the interim president was basically quoted as saying things are under a "major transition", which says something since Fuchs is in an interim role and even though he was the school president for 15 years, the board wouldn't just let an interim president make major wholesale changes. This will be different I imagine.

My guess is Fuchs stays long enough to wait DeSantis out and hopes the 2026 elections provide higher educsation some independence from the Governor's office.

 

Excellent reporting. Just cold hard facts. My only gripe, journalism-wise, was that unless I missed it, I didn’t see anything in there about any attempts to contact Sasse for comment,

I’m sure Meatball Ron is all set to blame wokism for this.

 

According to the Jacksonville Times-Union columnist, Sasse refused any attempt at an interview from the Alligator since he took the post.

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/...pending-leaves-a-legacy-of-greed/74779535007/

"He seemed terrified of the The Alligator, the university's hard-charging student newspaper, with whom he refused to sit for an interview, and his general absence inspired posters plastered across campus asking, "Have you seen this man?,"

 

What a big puss.

I’m about ready to send a couple hundred to the Alligator staff for a few cases of Swamp Head Big Nose to celebrate.