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You've been Trumped
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 08/25/2013 14:09:11

Good morning.

Were you aware that THE DONALD™ as in Trump™ had a University? I was not! I knew he had an several office buildings, a Hotel, Spa, Golf course in Scotland, a Casino which often looses money, a ridiculous television show, a beauty pageant (which some say may be a searching ground for his next wife), and a ton of gaudy rich accessories like yachts, helicopters, limos and homes that could hold football stadiums. But an actual school? Nope, who'd have thunk it?

Trump University - are you surprised he named it after himself? - was started in 2005. That's about all the information that I have on it as one must be a member to log into the website and even the wikipedia page is two short paragraphs. It was renamed Trump Entrepreneur Initiative somewhere along the lines, maybe because it didn't have college credits or give out degrees of any sort. Also, it wasn't accredited by the National College and University system. Oh, and it didn't even have classrooms. No TU doesn't even have a football team! Instead, you pay lots of money and sit at home in online classes.

Well, it seems the New York Attorney General thinks this "university" could be nothing more than a way for Donald Trump to make more money at the expense of other people and has filed a 40M dollar lawsuit. I'm SHOCKED! Who could imagine the Donald trying to con people out of their life savings?

According to this article here in the always unreliable NYT:
The lawsuit, which seeks restitution of at least $40 million, accused Mr. Trump, the Trump Organization and others involved with the school of running it as an unlicensed educational institution from 2005 to 2011 and making false claims about its classes in what was described as “an elaborate bait-and-switch."

In a statement, Eric T. Schneiderman, the attorney general, said Mr. Trump appeared in advertisements for the school making “false promises” to persuade more than 5,000 people around the country — including 600 New Yorkers — “to spend tens of thousands of dollars they couldn’t afford for lessons they never got.”

The advertisements claimed, for instance, that Mr. Trump had handpicked instructors to teach students “a systematic method for investing in real estate.” But according to the lawsuit, Mr. Trump had not chosen even a single instructor at the school and had not created the curriculums for any of its courses.


I dunno, this seemed simple enough. You pay $1,500 for a 90 minute class about Real Estate (online) then at the end of the class, just when you're about to find out how you can become a Billionaire like Trump (he inherited his fortune) you are told you have to pay another $35,000 for the rest of the classes. Seems all "up and up" to me!

Well, the New York AG doesn't see it that way and so we have yet another Trump lawsuit. Guess what "The Donalds" people think about it? Is it Obama's fault? Could this just be political? Let's see what Trumps overpaid lawyers think:

George Sorial, another lawyer for Mr. Trump, called the lawsuit politically motivated. He said that Mr. Schneiderman had asked Mr. Trump and his family for campaign contributions and grew angry when denied.

“This is tantamount to extortion,” Mr. Sorial said.


Of course.

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Meanwhile, as he fights this horrible injustice, some other students fight an injustice of their own in a little town in North Carolina:
Editor's note: The following editorial was unanimously approved by the editorial board.

Gov. Pat McCrory and many North Carolina Republicans won't be making many college-aged friends any time soon.

McCrory approved new voting restrictions earlier this month that will eliminate the use of state-issued school IDs as acceptable voting identification. Aside from that, the Republican majority of the Watauga County Board of Elections plans to condense the three voting precincts that previously made up the Town of Boone into one precinct, according to WRAL. The voting for that district will move from areas convenient to Appalachian State University's campus to a location that is farther away.

The new polling place will be the voting location for just short of 10,000 Watauga residents. For perspective, there are fewer than 40 parking spaces, according to WRAL.

Of course, jamming all of the voters into one polling place is a small price for these Republicans to pay in order to suppress the Appalachian vote.

Watauga County was almost an even split between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney in the 2012 elections, according to U.S. Election Atlas. However, voting numbers indicate that in the precinct on campus, the majority of votes were in favor of Obama, who gained nearly twice as many votes as Romney. Anyone from Watauga County could vote during the early voting period on campus

Combining the three precincts is only one way that state Republicans are working to harm the student vote. Voters are now required to have specific forms of government-issued IDs. Efforts by Democratic lawmakers to allow school IDs to be acceptable were blocked by Republican lawmakers.

Should Appalachian IDs not be acceptable forms of identification for students at the polls? They are, after all, state-issued IDs.

McCrory said during a radio appearance that the changes were about fairness, according to WRAL. He also claimed that Democrats had manipulated polling locations and early voting hours for partisan gain.

This issue, however, goes far beyond party lines. It becomes a case of what our rights are as young adults and as Americans. We may be young and, largely, a group of typically progressive thinkers, but it does not mean our voice in how our government operates should be affected.

And as it turns out, according to the Fair Elections Legal Network website, the Supreme Court ruled in the 1979 case Symm v. United States that college students have the right to vote in the community in which their school is located.

But with the newest changes in our area, it seems as though our right to vote is coming under fire. We are entitled to have our voices heard by our government without restraints.

We are students of Appalachian and you will hear us loud and clear when we say that we refuse to stand for this breach on our right to vote.


Well, good luck with that. McCrory and the teapublican NCGA are pieces of work for sure. They'll probably get their funding cut for speaking up. Hey, maybe the students can sign up for Trumps College!
 

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