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Re: The 1997 letter on comm. colleges

FFC1304 — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:16:05 -0500

This is just another, one of the many ways, in which democrackkks have RUINED our once great state!

Gov. Sleazely ought to FIRE the Atty. General and ALL community college bureaucrats from the head on down, if they DARE offer ILLEGALs this kind of TAXPAYER fleecing!

STRIVE to be SMARTER than a damn democrackkk!!!

Re: The 1997 letter on comm. colleges

Cdickson — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:33:02 -0500

The Democrats have been lying about this for years. I don't use this word lightly but they are liars. Dishonest Liars.

They've said for years that no illegal immigrants are in the community college system.

BTW, has Easley ever 'fessed up to anything. The man can't take responsibility for any thing but damn if he can't take credit for things...wish some enterprising N&O reporter would give him a Jim Black style vetting.

Re: The 1997 letter on comm. colleges

MeckDeck — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:50:02 -0500

RTB:

So system General Counsel David Sullivan has it all wrong then? He is the one who cited a "1997 advisory opinion of the Attorney General" in his memo.

Easley didn't know what his staff was doing? That is the argument? We better go back and check every other advisory letter sent out by staff attorneys working for then-AG Easley. Maybe they also form the basis for state policy that the Governor now disagrees with. I guess. As ever, it is impossible to tell where this man stands on anything.

All the more reason to have AG Roy Cooper re-visit this topic and issue his own opinion. Which he presumably will know about and stand behind.

If Sullivan is reaching by defining citizenship as a "nonacademic requirement" wouldn't it be nice hear something from those higher up the chain of command?

The 1997 letter on comm. colleges

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:11:58 -0500

Gov. Mike Easley did not write an opinion in 1997 on community colleges.

In a Dome item earlier today, we noted that the state community college system had been relying on a 1997 opinion by Mike Easley that the schools could not impose nonacademic criteria for admission.

This evening, Governor Easley's staff said that overstates the case.

The letter was not a formal opinion and it was not signed by Easley, who was then attorney general, said spokesman Seth Effron. It was a letter from staff attorney Thomas J. Ziko to Wake Tech.

Effron said the letter did not address whether illegal immigrants could study at community colleges.

"It only dealt with whether or not a convicted criminal had a right to go to a community college when ordered by the court to do so," he wrote Dome.