Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] no new laboratory space for Mizzou? [politics, I guess]

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Jerry Gamblin wrote:

> > Does anybody on the list have any insight into how this really
> > happened? This strikes me as a really, really unfortunate result, and
> > the kind of thing that will be really wince-worthy inside of a decade.
> > But maybe I am missing something?
>
> I don't know what Mike is talking about but what really happened was 
> that the Democrats from the Columbia area "Cut off their nose to spite 
> their face".  During the last days of session the Democrats from 
> Columbia tried to filibuster the Mohela bill because they thought it was 
> wrong (they did have a point) while keeping in the 150 Million dollars 
> for MU.  This really infuriated the Republicans, so they redrafted the 
> bill in the senate to remove the MU funding and they then passed the 
> bill.
>
> So it wasn't Blunts fault as much as the Democrats from the Columbia 
> area and it really had nothing to do with embryonic stem cell research.

So Jerry Gamblin says that the newspaper was wrong when it printed this:

   http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2007/07/08/blunts-building-boom-meeting-rooms-replace-medical/

   ...partisan politics and speculation about human embryonic stem cell
   research led lawmakers to drop the most prominent life sciences
   projects from the list.

   When foes of embryonic stem cell research opposed the life sciences
   projects, Blunt's supporters searched for a way to reconfigure the
   package to keep it from collapsing. Asked if they had any needs, the
   university's agriculture officials quickly compiled a roughly $50
   million wish list. State officials picked about $14 million of those
   projects, not necessarily according to the priorities the university
   would have followed.

Do you have some evidence that this is not correct, Jerry?  It seems odd 
that you would interpret Republican removal of money for MU as the fault 
of the Democrats, claiming that the Democrats "infuriated the 
Republicans."  Think, Jerry -- maybe, just maybe, the Republicans just 
suck and it's no one's fault but their own.

Mike

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