I think I figured it out

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Crossposted at DemocraticDiva.com

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So there I was, with my insomnia, watching Craig Ferguson Wednesday night, when what did I see but this ri-donk-ulous ad from the Republican Governor’s Association. It claimed that Fred DuVal personally and single-handedly raised college tuition rates in Arizona an astronomical amount while serving on the Board of Regents. My first thought was that this is a brazen Swiftboating of DuVal, one that not only attacks one of his biggest strengths as a candidate (education), but will also get by the fact-checkers with an “inconclusive” rating because it’s technically true that tuition went up while DuVal served as a Regent. Conveniently omitted is the fact that the Legislature, not the Regents, were the ones who cut funding per college student by one third since 2007. What a bunch of lying scumwads, thought I.

But Jon Thompson, the communications director of the RGA, disagrees.

Thompson, however, was not backing down, insisting the hikes weren’t necessary.

“He had a clear choice,” Thompson said. “DuVal chose to raise costs, making college more unaffordable for middle class families.”

Thompson, a North Carolina native currently residing in DC who has spent his entire career being a Republican ad guy and publicist, is clearly the foremost expert on Arizona college funding so if he says Fred DuVal unilaterally commanded that college tuition was going up, for no reason, by gum that’s what must have happened! Obviously I need to rethink my assumptions.

Here’s the entirely plausible scenario I came up with for how Fred DuVal gets the entire blame for the tuition hikes:

DuVal arrived at his first Board of Regents meeting in 2007 hopped up on speed and possibly a marijuana cigarette. After the minutes were read, Fred whipped out his gold plated cigar cutter custom engraved by Bill and Hillary Clinton and proceeded to slaughter the entire rest of the board members. DuVal then scrawled LOBBYING IS GROOVY on the wall with their blood. Then he was the only Regent ever again and spent his days maniacally raising tuition and giving all the money to ACORN, La Raza, and Planned Parenthood.

And now you know the rest of the story. Thanks, Obama.

6 thoughts on “I think I figured it out”

  1. The ad does not state he voted single handedly to raise tuition 99% while he served on the Board of Regents. It simply says he voted to raise the tuition while serving, which is absolutely true. And it DID go up 99% while he was voting to raise it. To steal Al Gore’s phrase: It is an inconvenient truth.

  3. Doug Ducey DID force franchisees to use his ice cream suppliers, who kicked back some of their revenue received from his franchisees to the management of Cold Stone. He DID force franchisees to redeem corporate coupons for discounts on his kicked back ice cream, and did not reimburse franchisees. DUCEY DID have 1/3 of his franchises go out of business in the first two years. But by then HE HAD skated with a huge Golden Parachute. CALL DOUG AND tell him THATS NOT FAIR!!

    • McDonalds requires its franchise owners to buy ALL products from McDonalds Corporate. So does Burger King, Carls Jr., Subway, and virtually ALL franchises. They do so for quality control and for corporate profit. And nearly all franchises return a portion of their profits to the franchisor as part of the franchise agreement. Only about half of the franchises are required to honor corporate coupons. I question your 1/3 failure statistic because his franchise grew to more than 1,400 worldwide and only 67 went out of business. You do limit it to the first two years, so perhaps there is something there because start-up franchises often do have high failure rates in the first few years, but I would like to know your source. And what was his golden parachute after two years?

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