Well this is certainly interesting. Demlion is running for trustee.
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Pretend I don't know who Larry Schultz is. Why is it this an interesting development?
For those w/o Facebook:
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am in it to win it.
The change we have achieved is good and the credit for that change goes to those of you who have worked so hard since November 2011 to make it happen. But we need to go faster. We need to Speed the Change. I have the skills to help that happen in 2016.
I got in this race because people I admire and respect, some of whom everyone knows and some of whom only a few people know, asked me to run. Some had words of caution, but all of them told me to go. I'm going.
I pledge to campaign in a civil manner. My argument is not with any person currently serving as an alumni trustee. My argument is about how to make more change faster. Nominations begin January 15. Request a ballot here: http://www.psu.edu/trustees/2016election/index.html
Let's get to work! Please share this page with every Penn Stater you know, and ask them to do the same. Thanks for reading this.
The change we have achieved is good and the credit for that change goes to those of you who have worked so hard since November 2011 to make it happen. But we need to go faster. We need to Speed the Change. I have the skills to help that happen in 2016.
I got in this race because people I admire and respect, some of whom everyone knows and some of whom only a few people know, asked me to run. Some had words of caution, but all of them told me to go. I'm going.
I pledge to campaign in a civil manner. My argument is not with any person currently serving as an alumni trustee. My argument is about how to make more change faster. Nominations begin January 15. Request a ballot here: http://www.psu.edu/trustees/2016election/index.html
Let's get to work! Please share this page with every Penn Stater you know, and ask them to do the same. Thanks for reading this.
I hope your not running with that chain saw in your hands. GL on this endeavor
I am a proponent of non-violent change.
Old Growth & Dead Wood hereby warned!
Dem: Are you really running? If so, I would be happy to help drum up support for you. Not being a PSU alum, I cannot vote, but I know a whole lot of people who CAN vote, and I will contact them if you confirm you are really in this thing. I could not agree more that the pace of change has been too slow, and that more agitators are needed on the BoT, particularly smart and articulate ones..
Outstanding! You will be an outstanding Trustee. I'm not an alum so can't help personally, but I retweeted you to my legion of followers. All other supporters with Twitter should do the same!
I'm on board, just as I was with Dave. Need any endorsement signatures?
You run, I'll get support in the Wyoming Valley, NE, PA.
Tom
You run, I'll get support in the Wyoming Valley, NE, PA.
Tom
Thanks. The name on your ballot will be Lawrence M Schultz. Graduation year 1980. You are good to go. 249 more nominations to go!Excellent. I will definitely nominate Larry.
I'm glad you changed your post title, makes more sense now!
Glad to see your putting yourself out there Dem! Hope to be able to vote for you soon!
Hope you are receptive to questions here. Will you seek the PS4RS endorsement and if you do not receive it will your campaign continue anyway?
I am not an alum either (wife and daughter are)...,will also be sharing this with my Penn State friends and family! Go get 'em!
You ain't aimin' to be another one of them there disser-dent fellers there are ya? Them boys at the club don't take kindly to that ilk. Askin' fer a friend....
I just posted this on the Lion's Den, and it almost immediately was relegated to the Test Board:
As some of you may know, Larry Schultz and I, along with the help of a few other Penn Staters, organized a Rally For Resignations in September 2012, and followed up with another smaller affair about six weeks later. Larry made quite a splash as an activist, speaker, and advocate for transparency following the outrageous NCAA sanctions and Consent Decree, and was completely supportive of me when I campaigned, unsuccessfully as it turned out, for a seat on the Penn State Board of Trustees.
Larry was recently approached by others about a possible run for a seat on the BOT, and I was one of a number of people who encouraged him to accept the challenge and give it his best effort. He has a Facebook page worth looking at: https://www.facebook.com/LarrySchultz4PSU/?fref=ts&ref=br_tf
If you don't deal with Facebook, here is a brief statement from Larry:
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am in it to win it.
The change we have achieved is good and the credit for that change goes to those of you who have worked so hard since November 2011 to make it happen. But we need to go faster. We need to Speed the Change. I have the skills to help that happen in 2016.
I got in this race because people I admire and respect, some of whom everyone knows and some of whom only a few people know, asked me to run. Some had words of caution, but all of them told me to go. I'm going.
I pledge to campaign in a civil manner. My argument is not with any person currently serving as an alumni trustee. My argument is about how to make more change faster. Nominations begin January 15. Request a ballot here: http://www.psu.edu/trustees/2016election/index.html
Let's get to work! Please share this page with every Penn Stater you know, and ask them to do the same. Thanks for reading this.
If you are willing to nominate him, his full name is Lawrence M Schultz, and he was Class of 1980.
I will support Larry's candidacy without reservation, and hope that others will do the same. Regards, David Mullaly
As some of you may know, Larry Schultz and I, along with the help of a few other Penn Staters, organized a Rally For Resignations in September 2012, and followed up with another smaller affair about six weeks later. Larry made quite a splash as an activist, speaker, and advocate for transparency following the outrageous NCAA sanctions and Consent Decree, and was completely supportive of me when I campaigned, unsuccessfully as it turned out, for a seat on the Penn State Board of Trustees.
Larry was recently approached by others about a possible run for a seat on the BOT, and I was one of a number of people who encouraged him to accept the challenge and give it his best effort. He has a Facebook page worth looking at: https://www.facebook.com/LarrySchultz4PSU/?fref=ts&ref=br_tf
If you don't deal with Facebook, here is a brief statement from Larry:
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am in it to win it.
The change we have achieved is good and the credit for that change goes to those of you who have worked so hard since November 2011 to make it happen. But we need to go faster. We need to Speed the Change. I have the skills to help that happen in 2016.
I got in this race because people I admire and respect, some of whom everyone knows and some of whom only a few people know, asked me to run. Some had words of caution, but all of them told me to go. I'm going.
I pledge to campaign in a civil manner. My argument is not with any person currently serving as an alumni trustee. My argument is about how to make more change faster. Nominations begin January 15. Request a ballot here: http://www.psu.edu/trustees/2016election/index.html
Let's get to work! Please share this page with every Penn Stater you know, and ask them to do the same. Thanks for reading this.
If you are willing to nominate him, his full name is Lawrence M Schultz, and he was Class of 1980.
I will support Larry's candidacy without reservation, and hope that others will do the same. Regards, David Mullaly
Count me in because I know he won't be a Schultz who says, "I see nothing"!
Larry, need to get Tom McAndrew to post your name and year in a sticky thread at the top.
Congratulations, Demlion!
Go get 'em!
Go get 'em!
A fair question and a fair place and time to ask it. I would reserve the right to change my mind but it sure looks as though continuing without an endorsement from PS4RS is a strategy which has produced few to no winners.
PS4RS is the single organization which has changed this University more than any other since November '11. Even if you disagree with them, you cannot argue their record. Some of us thought they were wrong, but they proved it in FOUR straight elections. I cannot see any circumstance in which I would continue without the endorsement...moreover, even if I did, I have a strong feeling I would lose.
I will be interested to see how they do their process this year. If there is an open primary of some sort, then I am in that to win it too. ;-)
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Yep. I like what them fellers don't like.
Wish you well Larry and with what I know and have seen and heard you might be a breath of fresh air.
Stop by the shop when in town and say hi.
Stop by the shop when in town and say hi.
I'd rather owe it to you than cheat you out of it. I'll pay you if you make it back from 'Nam.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but you're GD right I'm running! Thank you very much!
Go for it. I've always admired your thoughtful post here. There's two votes in our household.
I can't help but imagine demlion eventually falling under the spell of Karen Peetz et al., and being seduced by the old guard...
Eventually we'll be treated to tales of a new soft-spoken demlion - Country Club demlion - manicured, groomed and in pressed flannel, snuffing his cigar out on an endtable in a Beaver Stadium suite, snickering with his new somber posse.
Behind him will be days of re-using old parking passes, wandering mustard-stained from tailgate-to-tailgate for a sandwich, an ogle or two, and a just-before-kickoff fire-sale single seat ticket. Demlion will be trading in his can of Genesee Cream Ale for a crystal tumbler of mineral water, strutting about like a confident Morey Amsterdam, dismissive, yet backslapping and laughing while sprinkling samples of Propecia and Gardasil like they were tic tacs...
What are the odds - a couple of years from now - we chance upon him, Stihl in hand, clearing and splitting stately elms on the Old Main mall, as authorized in a closed-door meeting of the 68 PSU trustees (to make way for an on-campus Eat-n-Park and a BNY Mellon branch, approved in a separate meeting down in Turks and Caicos). Pictures of demlion snatch-hooking steelhead off a 55' Cruisers Inc cuddy just off of Pulaski surface on BWI.
Any other notions of how trusteeship changes demlion?
Eventually we'll be treated to tales of a new soft-spoken demlion - Country Club demlion - manicured, groomed and in pressed flannel, snuffing his cigar out on an endtable in a Beaver Stadium suite, snickering with his new somber posse.
Behind him will be days of re-using old parking passes, wandering mustard-stained from tailgate-to-tailgate for a sandwich, an ogle or two, and a just-before-kickoff fire-sale single seat ticket. Demlion will be trading in his can of Genesee Cream Ale for a crystal tumbler of mineral water, strutting about like a confident Morey Amsterdam, dismissive, yet backslapping and laughing while sprinkling samples of Propecia and Gardasil like they were tic tacs...
What are the odds - a couple of years from now - we chance upon him, Stihl in hand, clearing and splitting stately elms on the Old Main mall, as authorized in a closed-door meeting of the 68 PSU trustees (to make way for an on-campus Eat-n-Park and a BNY Mellon branch, approved in a separate meeting down in Turks and Caicos). Pictures of demlion snatch-hooking steelhead off a 55' Cruisers Inc cuddy just off of Pulaski surface on BWI.
Any other notions of how trusteeship changes demlion?
HAA! Almost spit my coffee. Those elms are sick anyway. And your usual firewood dealer is not going to mess with 'em 'Cause it's too hard to split. I would be doing them a favor. Just like Mark Dambly volunteering his expertise in dorm construction.
That is the best thing I have ever seen you write that was not about a minivan. It brings two things to mind--one happy and the other sad, a little.
The happy one is very simple--BWI needs its own voice on the BoT. PS4RS has its own voice (s). The farm community has its own voices, and God knows the business folks have their own voices. The PSAA has its own set aside member. The Med school has a rep. The governor has a bunch of folks. Even past governors have reps, as we know to our chagrin.
We may not be as big as those groups, but we are not just a bunch of guys who rage on each other about coaching changes and who should be the QB, either. There are many thoughtful, passionate people here who have moved this agenda of change forward as well as anyone. There is a reason that Alum Trustees and investigators and PSAA reps and others come here to report, to gather info, to spread the word, to present ideas they have. All of us have family and friends who know we know this scandal inside out. They rely on us for the latest info about the horrendous mess in the governance of this University. BWI needs its own voice.
People here have tolerated me and my occasionally cranky, stubborn rants for a lot of years, and I can see some of you reaching for the keyboard to dispute the term Occasionally and the term Cranky. I hear you. I have learned a lot here, and I have not always been real good at being gracious about it. This brings up the sad part.
I will not be able to be quite so freewheeling if I win this job, which will come as a relief to many I suppose, but I will never walk away. In fact, when this post is over I will ACTUALLY JOIN BWI AS A PAID MEMBER for the first time, so I can IM people and they can IM me. I always thought I was driving clicks and paying the freight that way. I know, I know, "get over yourself. " The best way I know to get over myself is to take on a potentially humbling public effort of some kind. This is it. I'm not going anywhere. I just might think a little more before I post. It should come as a relief to some.
In what ways are you dissatisfied with the performance of the 3 incumbents? What will you do that they have not done? Not looking for a bash here, just a contrast
I am ALL in, Step. Request a ballot:
http://www.psu.edu/trustees/2016election/index.html
Send that link to your friends. I am telling folks, even if you voted before, to request one now so if something happens, and you do not get your ballot email, there is a fresh record of your inquiry.
