Murray State University: Cancel Senator Mitch McConnell's commencement address

The Issue

Mitch McConnell will be speaking at Murray State's commencement on May 11, 2013. Why should the graduating class of 2013 have to sit through a commencement address from an elected official that doesn't care about students?

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The Issue

Mitch McConnell will be speaking at Murray State's commencement on May 11, 2013. Why should the graduating class of 2013 have to sit through a commencement address from an elected official that doesn't care about students?

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Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah Johnson
President of the Student Government Association
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“Makes me dread hearing him speak at my graduation. I should be excited for the day and he ruins it. ”
Phil Schooley
Phil Schooley
Staff Regent
Responded
“Mitch McConnell embodies the worst aspects of government; censorship, limitations on civil rights, broad-reaching government police powers, anti-education, anti-science, anti-higher education, fear-mongering, and typifies precisely why no one should ever be a career politician. He and his ilk have suckled from the government long enough. ”
Constantine Curris
Constantine Curris
Chair of the Murray State University Board of Regents
Bob Jackson
Bob Jackson
Associate Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Campaign Director
Randy Dunn
Randy Dunn
President of Murray State University

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Petition created on April 19, 2013