colorado democrats don't support a new private university

[ElFenix]

yay for playing politics

You wouldn't think Ronald Reagan would still be so controversial a figure in America. But a proposed Ronald Reagan University, to be built with private money on private land, has drawn the ire of Democrats in the Colorado State House.

This week, a resolution praising the creation of the university cleared the House Education Committee by only a six-to-five vote, with every Democrat playing spoilsport and opposing it. Terry Walker, an educator who hopes to be the university's first president, says 200 acres of land on a rolling plain in Adams County near Denver have been donated for the project. The land's owner, Steve Schuck, is a Colorado Springs businessman and leading national supporter of school choice programs. He's also an unabashed Reagan fan. "I love his legacy, and I will do anything to perpetuate it and memorialize it," he told the Rocky Mountain News.

Mr. Walker says he plans to raise money for a school that he hopes will open with 10,000 students by 2010. Plans are for the university to offer a full range of bachelor's degrees and also house a graduate school of public and international policy.

 

[GoPackGo]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
yay for playing politics

You wouldn't think Ronald Reagan would still be so controversial a figure in America. But a proposed Ronald Reagan University, to be built with private money on private land, has drawn the ire of Democrats in the Colorado State House.

This week, a resolution praising the creation of the university cleared the House Education Committee by only a six-to-five vote, with every Democrat playing spoilsport and opposing it. Terry Walker, an educator who hopes to be the university's first president, says 200 acres of land on a rolling plain in Adams County near Denver have been donated for the project. The land's owner, Steve Schuck, is a Colorado Springs businessman and leading national supporter of school choice programs. He's also an unabashed Reagan fan. "I love his legacy, and I will do anything to perpetuate it and memorialize it," he told the Rocky Mountain News.

Mr. Walker says he plans to raise money for a school that he hopes will open with 10,000 students by 2010. Plans are for the university to offer a full range of bachelor's degrees and also house a graduate school of public and international policy.

I heard to get in you will have to have a minimum SAT score of 1400

 

[ElFenix]

why would you not only decline to praise a new university but actively vote against doing so?