Posted on 05/03/2011 12:54:13 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Kind of foolish to pull this in the era of smart phones.... but a UW-Oshkosh prof is caught enflagrante using class time to push for the recall of a state senator and Governor Walker. Would have been nice if someone from the MSM was hounddogging this sort of story, but the release comes from the state GOP:
"A recording released by the Republican Party of Wisconsin exposes Professor Stephen Richards using class time to actively campaign for the recall of State Senator Randy Hopper, encouraging his students to sign recall petitions offered by circulators present in his classroom.
"In the tape, recorded during a criminal justice class,Richards can be heard encouraging a female student to sign the recall petition even though she thinks she lives outside the district, and instructing students to sign using their campus address instead of their parents’ home address. He also tells students to look for petition circulators all around campus and “in the bars.”
“This incredible misuse of power by a person in a position of authority cannot be tolerated,” said Mark Jefferson, Executive Director of the Republican Party of Wisconsin. “Professor Richards used valuable class time to actively campaign to his students, over whom he has influence. The incident goes way past poor judgment - this is egregious professional misconduct.”
"In the recording, Richards openly discusses his involvement in the recall effort, detailing organizational meetings he has attended, and using the term “we” to describe recall organizers. .....
(Excerpt) Read more at 620wtmj.com ...
So we are paying the salary for this POS, who uses our time and tax dollars to do illegal things? Given his background, shouldn’t he know better?
This worthless CONVICT belongs back in prison.
Thanks for the link.
The punishment would have been different if had been a dying wish to vote for a Republican.
These universities DON’T terminate for criminal acts like these — they just consider it “crossing the line” and give them a pat on the head. It actually enhances their activist-political education cred.
Given his background, I guess the UW thought he’d be a good fit!
He should go to jail for this.
Absolutely!
And if it was a conservative professor who had done this, liberal professors on campus would make their minds full of mush students get out to march against the conservative professor. Just as this “professor” is getting his students to sign recalls to benefit his union and his political party — legal signature or not.
That he feels so comfortable doing this in class — to the point of lying about what Gov Walker has proposed and then telling them to vote using their college address vs their home address (and that many other classes will be asking them to do the same thing) — says this activity is common place on campus.
Your tax dollars at work.
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