Student Rep Rips Into Hergert

Sep 19, 12:38 PM CST

UNL Young Democrats President and ASUN Senator Matt Schaefer took his displeasure directly to the source on Friday: Regent Dave Hergert. Schaefer recently proposed a resolution unanimously passed by the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska asking Hergert to step down. At Friday’s Board of Regents meeting, Schaefer had harsh words for Hergert, who still refuses to resign.

“We feel that you are a stain on our democracy, an embarrassment to our state and a disgrace to our university,” said Schaefer as he spoke directly to Hergert. [Daily Nebraskan, September 19, 2005]

To read more about this young Democratic leader and his confrontation with Hergert, check out these articles in the Daily Nebraskan and the Lincoln Journal Star.

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  1. It is important to add extra emphasis to one sentence above:

    “Schaefer recently proposed a resolution unanimously passed by the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska asking Hergert to step down.”

    Yes, the student senator who proposed the resolution is the head of the UNL Young Democrats.

    Regent Dave Hergert cannot use that as an excuse for the reaction of students and faculty to his unethical behavior as he has been doing on news interviews.

    Regent Dave Hergert has stated repeatedly that the student senator who proposed the resolution does not speak for all students.

    True, one student senator does not speak for the entire student body.

    The student senate, however, does speak for the entire student body of the Univesity of Nebraska in the form of representative democracy that has been established for the University of Nebraska.

    And the message of the entire student senate was unanimous, Regent Dave Hergert has dishonored the University of Nebraska and should step down.
    — Lee Clausen    Sep 19, 05:49 PM CST #
  2. Why have so many of the Republican party’s office holders (or their close associates) been so quick to dismiss laws, sidestep ethics and simultaneously claim the moral high ground? Nationally or locally, it is almost as if questionable behavior has become a platform plank.

    Look at “Worse Then Watergate” by John Dean. Even Nixon had the ethical integrity to resign. In the 21st century, a grand jury investigation leads to indictments in Texas regarding Tom Delay’s PAC. Thomas Fitzgerald’s grand jury investigation regarding the Valarie Plame leak is looking at the White House’s deputy chief of staff for what I would call treason. The Vice President makes money from stock options he has with Haliburton, a company with an unbeaten record in getting no-bid contracts. More than a billion dollars just “disappears” in Iraq. In Ohio, the workers’ compensation fund is “invested” in coins which somehow disappear (I think it’s maybe under the cusions on someone’s couch.) A Nebraska state treasurer resigns because she secreted checks. Now a U.S. Supreme Court nominee is considered whose judicial ethics (meeting and interviewing for a job with a litigant, while a case before him was under advisement) wouldn’t be tolerated for a County Court Judge in Nebraska. Connecticutt’s Governor resigns because of deals he had with a contractor for home improvement. Need I continue? I can, because it’s not hard to find. It is almost as if they need one of those “interventions” that the families of substance abusers hold to confront the abuser.

    TAKE YOUR PARTY BACK!!!

    President Clinton’s behavior embarressed me. But that “affair” was between two adults and did not cost taxpayers anything, save and except the 70 million spent by on Kenneth Starr. New Jersey’s Governor resigns. Why? Because, he was having a homosexual affair. Again, personal morality, not public morality.

    Looking at the list of ethical misdeeds committed above, I suppose Hergert’s violations really aren’t that bad. . . .
    — jimdake    Sep 19, 09:45 PM CST #
  3. From what I understand Mr. Hergert’s actions where that he overspent on a campaign. Typical Republican behavior. Is it a learnt behavior that has never really had any consequences or blantant unethical behavior? Probably both. If he got his hand caught in the cookie jar he does not have much to argue about. What is sad is that he may have won the election without having to revert to those tactics. And if he did not win at least he could have felt that he did the best that he could without breaking the rules. I do not know all the nuances of the situation but at face value it appears he should step down
    — rufino villarreal    Sep 22, 01:50 AM CST #

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