UF brings in former AG Alberto Gonzales

UF administrators earlier this fall postponed the campus-funded speech by assisted suicide advocate "Dr. Death" Kevorkian until early next year, hoping to work out their police officers' 'issues' with Tasers. But in just a couple of weeks, they'll welcome an even more high-profile, potentially controversial speaker: just-resigned U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

UF's student government is paying Gonzales $40,000 in student fees to give a speech on campus Nov. 19. A Houston attorney in the 1980s, he served as then-Gov. George W. Bush's general counsel and eventually became Texas' secretary of state.

Gonzales served as President Bush's White House counsel from 2001 to 2005, when the Senate confirmed him as the nation's first Hispanic Attorney General, replacing John Ashcroft.

Gonzales resigned recently after being at the center of several high-profile controversies. Lawmakers scrutinized his role in the dismissals of nine United States attorneys late last year, and he faced allegations of perjury during his testimony about the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance programs.

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I don't recall anyone saying they were actually going to give Gonzales the $40,000 pay.

Gonzales should be in jail.

"UF's student government is paying Gonzales $40,000 in student fees to give a speech on campus Nov. 19"

40K to this criminal? “Don’t taze me bro”… ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ… ouch!

Will he speak about how to exploit a dying man in order to forward a nutjob’s war-mongering agenda?

These guys sound like they'll be stealing each others political signs before they even get out of the print shops and on the street.

[Bland]

When I went to Floida we had traders and criminals like Jane Fonda, Ramsey Clark, and Angela Davis speak on campus.

Former AG Gonzales as a speaker is much more refreshing. I hope his speaking is what Pres. Machen meant when he professed he wanted to increase diversity on the campus....

4:04, You didn't study English at UF, did you? "Traders"? Angela and Jane trading baseball cards or what?

And why book "Dr. Death" when you can book a real professional like Goonzales?

[UF Student]

Can't wait to hear him speak

I would only pay $4 for a university to hear such a corrupt AG.

I would pay more for AG Mitchell though - more interesting person.

If I show up and point out that Dirty Al lied, a whole lot, let me just say in advance:

Don't tase, or waterboard me, bro!

myomy
how profitable it is to be a lying stooge for apathologicallylyingdrydrunk!!

Obstruction of justice charges pending.