{"id":15596,"date":"2013-12-24T15:27:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T20:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15596"},"modified":"2013-12-24T15:31:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T20:31:57","slug":"rachel-maddow-charles-koch-buying-sway-over-university-hires-is-objectively-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/12\/24\/rachel-maddow-charles-koch-buying-sway-over-university-hires-is-objectively-insane\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Maddow: Charles Koch buying sway over university hires is \u2018objectively insane\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Rawstory<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Raw Story article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/12\/23\/rachel-maddow-charles-koch-buying-sway-over-university-hires-is-objectively-insane\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rachel Maddow: Charles Koch buying sway over university hires is \u2018objectively insane\u2019<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cForget naming rights to the stadium, or whatever,\u201d Maddow said, explaining that Koch \u201cpurchased hiring rights for the faculty at Florida State\u2019s economics department. And yes, Florida State has the word \u2018state\u2019 in it because it is a public university, and yes, it is objectively insane that the state of Florida allowed that to happen.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/business\/billionaires-role-in-hiring-decisions-at-florida-state-university-raises\/1168680\" target=\"_blank\">As the <em>Tampa Bay Times<\/em> reported in 2011,<\/a> a foundation funded by Koch gave $1.5 million to the school\u2019s economics department in 2008, in exchange for Koch having the power to select members of an \u201cadvisory committee\u201d that screens prospective new hires. A year later, Koch reportedly rejected 60 percent of job candidates suggested by FSU faculty.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Watch Maddow\u2019s commentary, as aired on Monday, below.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/2E2eJC\/EmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_6rock_131223\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"635\" height=\"500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I think I now understand the timing behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/steven.s.greenberg\/posts\/10151921908089247?comment_id=28372522&#038;offset=0&#038;total_comments=7\" title=\"Jane's comment\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>JaneS&#8217;s Facebook comment<\/strong><\/a> about Florida State University.<\/p>\n<p>However, my recent rants actually have been inspired by the same story that Maddow discovered.  On August 21, 2013, I had the post <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/08\/21\/how-billionaire-philanthropy-is-fueling-inequality-and-helping-to-destroy-the-country\/\" title=\"Previous Post\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>How Billionaire \u2018Philanthropy\u2019 Is Fueling Inequality and Helping To Destroy the Country<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rawstory has the article Rachel Maddow: Charles Koch buying sway over university hires is \u2018objectively insane\u2019. \u201cForget naming rights to the stadium, or whatever,\u201d Maddow said, explaining that Koch \u201cpurchased hiring rights for the faculty at Florida State\u2019s economics department. And yes, Florida State has the word \u2018state\u2019 in it because it is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15599,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15596\/revisions\/15599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}