Thursday, August 27, 2009
News Perdue pining for UGA president position after office?
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:46 PM
President Sonny Perdue. It's got a nice and rather frightening ring to it, doesn't it?
A recent Insider Advantage piece that says the governor's rumored to be lining up a post-office position as president of the University of Georgia caught the eyes of those rapscallions at the Marietta Daily Journal on Monday.
As the storyline goes, Perdue — who is joined at the hip with UGA President Michael Adams — would consider being named by the Board of Regents as president of the University of Georgia at the end of his term. In exchange for the creation of an open seat via the resignation of Adams, Adams would then be in strong consideration to become the system’s new chancellor. Sound crazy? Well ... so did borrowing $21 million in the middle of a world financial meltdown. But Perdue pulled that one off didn’t he?
A commenter at the AJC's Political Insider column speculates that the recent Board of Regents appointment of Larry Walker, a former House Majority Leader and Georgia Department of Transportation board member, by his pal Perdue could help the governor transition from one mansion to another.
Perdue's a UGA alum and would probably be delighted to be one of the few university graduates lucky enough to find a job in the Classic City after throwing his cap in the air. Even if it's about 40 years after the fact. (Seriously: every Bulldog wants to stay in Athens, but there just aren't enough jobs.)
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Ridiculous. Isn't that an actual job requiring actual skills beyond praying for rain? I don't know why - i didn't even go to UGA - but this makes me furious.
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Makes sense to me, university presidents are primarily fund-raising politicians. War Eagle :-)
Unfortunately, there is a lot of truth in this report. It has been known for quite some time that the price of admission to the Board of Regents was a promise to name 3B (the Baldheaded Bastard from Bonaire) as the next President of the University of Georgia. You see, the job pays over $600k and 3B needs the money. Something about an unpaid $21M loan. And probably, most folks didn't catch the significance of the small procedural change that was made by the Board of Regents at their last meeting. The Search Committee will now be named by the Regents and NOT by the Chancellor as in the past. Anybody care to bet who the Chairman of the Search Committee will be??? You got it ... Good Ole Boy Larrrry Walllker; Childhood friend and fellow real estate investor with 3B. (More skeletons buried there). If any UGA graduate ever needed a more important reason to vote for Roy Barnes, this is it. Roy will shut down the entire university system before he lets 3B become the next president of the UGA!
Governor Perdue and the General Assembly have chosen to disregard countless emails to the Governor’s Office regarding the fact that the Board of Regents has NO accountability to anyone. At the very least, they should introduce legislation to bring back the BOR accountability to someone other than themselves. Seth Harp, Chairman of the Senate Higher Education Committee, will not address major unethical practices by the BOR because of the “good ‘ole boy” network. It is very clear why Perdue looks the other way - he does not want to bite the hand that will be feeding him millions in his "Sonny" retirement - the Board of Regents! View full story at: http://www.atlantaunfiltered.com/2009/10/05/university-execs-deferred-pay-often-hidden-tops-7-million/ Recently confirmed compensations via Open Records request to BOR by Jim Walls, Atlanta Unfiltered: $1,820,697 — Wayne Clough, former Georgia Tech president (includes $500,000 cash, a $38,000 car and a split-dollar life insurance policy valued at $750,000 from the foundation) $1,666,639 — Carl Patton, retired Georgia State University president $1,573,606 — Michael Adams, UGA president (includes $786,106 due from the UGA Foundation as of June 2008) $600,000 — David Bell, Macon State University president (includes $400,000 due from the Macon State foundation) $495,990 — Thomas Meredith, former University System chancellor (includes $180,990 from the University System of Georgia Foundation) $480,000 — Daniel Rahn, Medical College of Georgia president $262,500 — Erroll B. Davis Jr., University System chancellor $127,000 — Beheruz Sethna, University of West Georgia president $90,000 — Dan Papp, Kennesaw State University foundation $75,000 — Bud Peterson, Georgia Tech president since April 1 $7,191,432 – Total Additional comment made on Political Insider by Zeb: October 22nd, 2009 5:49 pm Hello FBI. Hello U.S. Attorney. Hello GBI. Hello Attorney General. Pay for play is standard operating procedure here among the good ol’ boys of Georgia. But you don’t seem to have noticed! Maybe that is why our state is near the top of every list of shortcomings. Our pols are too busy lining their pockets to notice or care that GA is sinking in the muck.
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