Pomona professor protests Gonzales speech

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/16/pomona-professor-protests-gonzales-speech/

Pomona professor protests Gonzales speech.

The Pomona College student government is considering bringing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to speak on campus. Pomona Associate Professor of Politics Heather Williams today writes an op-ed in the school’s paper, The Student Life, wondering why student funds will be used to bring this “disgraced former member of the Bush Administration” to campus:

My question to Pomona College students is this: With a host of people out there with conservative viewpoints who are articulate, smart, and willing to speak in a detailed way about their ideas or their records as public officials, why invite a man who repeatedly broke the law, shredded the ethical codes of the institutions he served, and then lied about it? Is this really going to balance your political horizons?

Gonzales will reportedly receive $40,000 to speak at the University of Florida later this month.