Bruce Fealk's testimony to the State Senate Subcommittee on Funding Higher Education

On Friday, February 22, 2008, I drove 4 hours round trip and spent approximately 3 hours on campus at Alma College to have an opportunity to respond to Dennis Lennox's ridiculous assertion that the state delay funding CMU's education budget in response to the hiring of Gary Peters as the Griffin Endowment professor in the political science department.

Lennox Lies to Senate Committee

Yesterday I attended the Michigan Senate Hearing on funding for higher education. (Click here for the story in the Saginaw News.) Dennis Lennox appeared with a couple of his friends. Dennis made a 12 minute presentation to the committee, asking the committee to delay any funding increase for CMU based on his complaint that Gary Peters should not be running for Congress and holding a teaching position at the same time. Unbelievably, Lennox said that his campaign wasn't political, even though he's held press conferences with Saul Anuzis, Chair of the Michigan Republican Party.

I also had a chance to testify and brought up the point that all 3 major candidates for President of the United States are holding publicly funded jobs as Senators and are running for President, with no complaints from the U.S. citizenry. I also brought with me and mentioned to the committee that the CMU budget for Peters' position is $0. It is funded by a private endowment.

I made this little video.