Posted on 09/19/2013 8:30:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano may eventually enjoy a beautifully renovated home as president of the University of California system. The UC Board of Regents voted Wednesday to begin repairs on the historic Blake House a multiyear process that will likely cost the financially struggling system millions of dollars.
The 13,200-square-foot Blake House has traditionally been the home of the UC president since it was donated to the school in 1957, but has recently fallen into such disrepair that Napolitano's predecessor Mark Yudof never lived there.
UC Regents said that the $620,000 they unanimously authorized will simply make sure that the dilapidated mansion doesn't collapse, Reuters reports.
"We were just trying to keep it together so it doesn't fall apart ... The last time I was at the Blake House was about eight years ago and I thought it was pretty run down then," one Regent told Reuters.
The San Francisco Gate reported in 2008 that UC administrators predicted that necessary repairs and renovations to the house would cost between $8 million and $9 million. In 2010, this number went up to $10 million, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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RE: Meg Whitman. Was that the “donation” she made so her worthless kid could attend Princeton. Have to look it up, but didn’t he finally get kicked out and arrested on a rape charge??
Oh why not, student will end up paying more to attend and listen to teachers slam American values.
Sounds like a wonderful deal, right?
As a student at Princeton University, the son of California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitmanone of the school's most celebrated donorswas accused of sexually assaulting a classmate. Princeton dealt with it quietly and internally, ultimately allowing Harsh to continue his education
He graduated with the class of 2009, three years after his rape accusationand two years after the inauguration of Whitman College, the residential living complex his billionaire mother donated $30 million to help build. The donation was announced in 2002, the year before Griff matriculated.
After he graduated:
Griff's legal troubles continued even after the rape accusation. Shortly after the Princeton rape incident, Griff was back home in California when he was arrested for breaking a woman's ankle during a brawl at a bar. He was released after his mother posted $25,000 in bail and the charges were eventually dismissed.
Some of this came out during Whitman's campaign, mostly on talk radio. Still, she would have been a better governor than what we're stuck with now!! I doubt she would have seen the efficacy in a high-speed rail from "boon to doggle."
Her photo would blend right in with the photos of the “matrons” who staffed Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen.
This is so silly. All that is needed for her is a pig pen.
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