manchicken here…

Congratulations on your position and your new blog. I find it refreshing that you have taken the time out of your busy schedule to share with students and community members what you believe to be in the interest of our community and our young people. This is, of course, not without some sense of irony… I have a hard time grasping how a man making $620,000 in the days of budget cuts, tuition hikes, and unpaid furloughs could possibly have any clue as to what would be best for either our students or our community. That said, it does seem like you have quite a knack for looking out for what’s best for you and the other wealthy elites and blue-bloods in our community, so maybe its not your ability to act in the best interest of a population or organization that should be in question, but perhaps your ability to do so for people other than the rich, connected, and yourself.

I would like to extend my sincerest congratulations for managing to land such a lucrative position on the backs of working-class Illinois residents. I don’t know how you did it, but I suppose at least I must concede that you’ve displayed an ability to succeed in an endeavor we all had hoped was impossible: fooling the whole of the State of Illinois into making another rich, connected person even more rich and connected at tax-payer expense.

I look forward to seeing how you will spin what is best for yourself and your connections into what is best for students, the Champaign-Urbana community, and the state of Illinois as a whole. I wish you the best, but in all reality I do hope you are ashamed of yourself.

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