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Janet Napolitano Quits: Will Be Next University Of California President

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While everyone is focused on whether Mr. Burns, aka Larry Summers  will take over for Ben Bernanke (he won't), lots of peripheral resignations are flying around. the most recent one: that of the U.S. secretary of the $60-billion budget and 240,000 employees Department of Homeland Security - Janet Napolitano, who will be named the next president of the University of California system. As the LA Times reports, "nothing was pushing her out of Washington now, although the Senate’s recently approved compromise plan on immigration faces an uncertain fate in the Republican-controlled House." The good news: we await for UCLA to be promptly upgraded to AAA and issue bonds inside of the US.

From LATimes:

Janet Napolitano, the U.S. secretary of Homeland Security and former governor of Arizona, is being named as the next president of the University of California system, in an unusual choice that brings a national-level politician to a position usually held by an academic. Her appointment also means the 10-campus system will be headed by a woman for the first time in its 145-year history.

 

Napolitano’s nomination by a committee of UC regents came after a secretive process that insiders said focused on her early as a high-profile, although untraditional, candidate who has led large public agencies and shown a strong interest in improving education.

 

UC officials believe that her Cabinet experiences –- which include helping to lead responses to hurricanes and tornadoes and overseeing some anti-terrorism measures -- will help UC administer its federal energy and nuclear weapons labs and aid its federally funded research in medicine and other areas.

 

“While some may consider her to be an unconventional choice, Secretary Napolitano is without a doubt the right person at the right time to lead this incredible university,"  Sherry Lansing, the regent and former film industry executive who headed the search committee, said in a statement being released Friday. "She will bring fresh eyes and a new sensibility -- not only to UC, but to all of California. She will stand as a vigorous advocate for faculty, students and staff at a time when great changes in our state, and across the globe, are presenting as many opportunities as challenges.”

 

Napolitano, who is a Democrat, was appointed by former President Clinton as the U.S. attorney in Arizona and then won elections as state attorney general and twice as governor, a position she held from 2003 to 2009. President Obama then named her to lead Homeland Security, an agency with an annual $60-billion budget and 240,000 employees.

 

She has been a strong voice in favor of immigration reform that would provide a path to citizenship for those in the country illegally, a stance that has angered some Republicans who contend she has not done enough to secure the nation’s borders.

 

A source close to Napolitano, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said that Napolitano deliberated for a long time after the executive search firm hired by UC quietly contacted her.

 

“I think she loves working for President Obama and serving the American people, but at the same time, this is a unique opportunity,” he said. Napolitano knows “UC is probably the premier institution in the country. She is motivated by the fact that being a part of UC, she will be a part of educating future leaders of tomorrow and be part of a state that sets so much of the agenda nationally.”

 

Napolitano, 55, is no stranger to California colleges since she attended Santa Clara University and was its first woman valedictorian before earning her law degree at University of Virginia. Her father was dean of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, a family connection that UC regents also liked since they oversee medical centers. In Arizona, she helped to enact plans to provide full-day kindergarten and to renovate university buildings, winning fans among educators.

 

The Napolitano friend insisted that nothing was pushing her out of Washington now, although the Senate’s recently approved compromise plan on immigration faces an uncertain fate in the Republican-controlled House.

 

The secretary faced some controversy in Congress when critics alleged the Boston Marathon bombings, reportedly perpetrated by ethnic Chechens from Russia who had been granted political asylum, exposed shortcomings in security.

 

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Fri, 07/12/2013 - 12:21 | 3745555 JR
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Exactly. Damaged goods.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 10:48 | 3745052 caimen garou
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hey janet, act like horse shit and hit the trail!

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 10:50 | 3745063 Payne
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As a UC grad I am horrified but not surprised.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 12:06 | 3745471 overmedicatedun...
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UC will have the most secure admin building in academia..Ss, ATF, Fbi, and most importantly DHS at every door -window basement and roof..get ready for stalag UC.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 10:53 | 3745070 Hubbs
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Yep. California has gone to the dogs. Now they will have to invest in more pooper scoopers to clean up another dump.

 

On an even more cynical note, it is indeed scary that she winds up in a position to poison even more minds (what little is left to poison in today's youth's minds.)

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 11:56 | 3745422 Joebloinvestor
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That act was already written when they gave fuckhead Jerry another at bat.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 10:52 | 3745079 sunnyside
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She is easily in my top ten list of people I wouldn't stop to piss on if I saw them on fire.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 10:54 | 3745092 kchrisc
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She can leave but she will not be able to out run her guillotine worthy deeds.

One day the guillotine will come a knocking.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 10:54 | 3745093 Atomizer
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Valerie Jarrett, you’re next on deck!

Hey, batter batter! Hey, batter batter! Hey, batter batter!

 

Janet, you do realize once the US military immobilizes, you’ll be sitting behind a interrogation table. Would suggest cooperating to your fullest capability. Food for thought! Good luck with the new gig.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 15:20 | 3746226 Bastiat
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As UC president she won't have the security she's used to

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 15:40 | 3746293 Atomizer
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Anything is game now a days. These sick fucks know the clown games are over. As far as Janet is concerned, the MSM could tell us that Janet’s strap-on used the same lithium battery that took out her and her husband without engaging in Boeing mile high inflight experience. 

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 10:54 | 3745097 F. Bastiat
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Where unleashed by liberty, the impersonal forces of competitive free enterprise are proven to deliver better standards of living than those preaching centralized control could even begin to imagine.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 11:15 | 3745211 Quinvarius
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You can't hide from the law now, fatass.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 11:22 | 3745253 NotApplicable
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LOL, like she needs to.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 11:32 | 3745285 LFMayor
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not yet, but it will keep.  The worm turns and then things change.

Don't believe me?  Ask some of those nonegenarian Nazis still being hunted.  They'll fill you in.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 11:28 | 3745270 bankonzhongguo
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As a UC alumni, not only will I not give any more money to UC while she is president, but I will NEVER give anymore money to UC for this worse than crazy (evil) action.

UC you are dead to me.

I cannot think of another black hearted control freak that has reigned terror and warfare upon the citizens of this Republic than this Darth Vader Cunt.

Shame on UC for thinking that bringing in the mastermind behind TSA groping kids, humiliating wounded combat vets, random checkpoints, national ID cards and more illegal immigration to build a modern STASI police and surveillance state into a institution whose motto is (was) "Let There Be Light."

If you are a UC person, call your development office and let them know the spice will not flow if this NAZI cunt leads UC.

 

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 15:40 | 3746294 Bastiat
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Well said!

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 11:29 | 3745277 Debt Slave
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Old termites never die, they just find new structures to eat away at.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 11:33 | 3745293 Save_America1st
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That filthy piece of trash has got to be one of the nastiest, contemptable, treasonous scumbags that has ever crawled out of the cesspool of D.C.  She's a fucking criminal plain and simple, just like the rest of them.  Marxist trash.  Soleless devil worshipper.

I'm sure her/it's replacement at DHS will be just as disgusting as she/it is...probably a whole new level of Nazi scum straight from hell. 

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 11:48 | 3745381 The Abstraction...
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You are being far far too kind.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 14:09 | 3745974 Save_America1st
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Well I didn't wanna seem too over the top...so I scaled it back a bit ;-)

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 13:11 | 3745797 Catullus
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Yeah. But the only entity that would hire her is the government again! Couldn't parlay it into lobbying or a board of directors job.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 11:34 | 3745298 RolloTamasi
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Let us always remember that SHE SAID SHE DOESN'T DO EMAIL. Claiming to not be tech inclined but instead she already knew about the NSA programs and gives the example to every American to move off the grid as well as expose her hypocracy. 

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 11:51 | 3745400 Atomizer
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janet.napolitano@dhs.gov

 

Complete bullshit

MX record about dhs.gov exists. Connection succeeded to mail.us.messaging.microsoft.com SMTP.220 TX2EHSMHS023.bigfish.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:48:29 +0000

> HELO verify-email.org 250 TX2EHSMHS023.bigfish.com Hello [verify-email.org]

> MAIL FROM: <check@verify-email.org>=250 2.1.0 Sender OK

> RCPT TO: <janet.napolitano@dhs.gov>=250 2.1.5 Recipient OK

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 14:34 | 3746065 Buckaroo Banzai
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Just because she has an address, doesn't mean she actually logs in. I'm she she has "people" who do that for her.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 11:38 | 3745326 Vince Clortho
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Pity U Cal.

On another note, what does it mean when all the upper crust scum start shifting positions?

Sat, 07/13/2013 - 00:03 | 3747538 Bringin It
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They need to nail down the various flanks of the empire ... and let's face it, for Janet, that's a lot of flank ... ahead of the impending eruption.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 11:43 | 3745349 discopimp
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I am a UC graduate and unlike the forced tax I have to pay to our Uncle, I will now stop my charitable giving to the UC.  Boy will the marketing rep who calls me each year going to get an earful and no check!  Sorry Janet, go run the Post Office or something. 

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 11:53 | 3745395 Yen Cross
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 As if  U.C. University system wasn't effed up enough already. Get ready for the student strip searches and brainwashing.

He(she) needs younger moar malleable minds to indoctrinate, since her peers were starting to see through her B/S curtain.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 11:54 | 3745404 Joebloinvestor
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NEVER EVER WONDER WHY:

Calif is as screwed up as it is, if it had seasons, it would be even less populated.

The dumping ground for directionless Democrats.

UCLA will have student informers.

The CAl university system is really gonna be screwed up, just look at what she left behind.

Graduates will be under suspicion as domestic terrorists like returning veterans.

 

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 15:41 | 3746299 Bastiat
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She's going to find budgeting a little more challenging.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 11:59 | 3745436 Kirk2NCC1701
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Well, that settles it:  NONE of my kids will be going to any UC schools. 

As if there was any doubt to begin with. ;-)

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 12:00 | 3745440 conspicio
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Prediction on Janet's performance in her new job:

  1. Will rigorously revise and subsequently enforce campus speech codes against any and all groups not toeing the liberal progressive line.
  2. Will support and lobby any and all tuition hikes to the detriment of students and to the benefit of the liberal progressive faculty.
  3. Will reshape campus discrimination laws radically in favor of any and all liberal progressive causes.
  4. Will serve as the primary bundler for an even bigger campaign push for Dems.
  5. Will make every attempt to ensure undocumented Latinos have equal or better aid, tuition, and admission footing with in state students.
  6. Will ensure all transgender students and faculty have access to the self identified bathrooms without any resistance.
  7. Will use every tool available to her to audit, harass, detain, deny, and otherwise obstruct any and all conservative students and faculty.
  8. Will work hard to ensure there are no traces of conservatism at any time anywhere on any campus.
Fri, 07/12/2013 - 12:14 | 3745512 JR
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Frighteningly accurate on all points.

Napolitano’s regime job was “security.” And her open borders’ philosophy means open borders for California education.

Homeland security means secure laws, secure borders, secure nation.  But Napolitano is the voice for non-security, broken security. And it is a message to all potential University of California White students that they have additional burdens to overcome, that if you are headed for the University of California: You now have massive competition for entrance.

And, btw, that massive competition is coming not only from non-taxpayers but non-citizens.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 12:12 | 3745507 yourlifeisamyth
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Somehow it all makes sense!!!

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 12:23 | 3745564 All Out Of Bubblegum
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A crushing blow for higher education.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 12:37 | 3745621 JR
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Alabama GOP Senator Jeff Sessions on the new California non-gate keeper: “Secretary Napolitano’s tenure at the Department of Homeland Security was defined by a consistent disrespect for the rule of law.”

Sessions said: “The most significant obstacle to immigration reform remains President Obama’s selective enforcement of the law. Any selection – interim or permanent – to replace Secretary Napolitano must disavow these aggressive non-enforcement directives or there is very little hope for successful immigration reform.”

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 14:24 | 3746033 kchrisc
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It's bad form to quote one criminal's stance against another criminal.

Sessions voted "yea" for NDAA 2012 and I would bet that he has a similar treasonous track record on other criminal acts as well--he IS a criminal.

Sort of like quoting a rapist that only rapes women on his views of a rapist of girls.

One has to boil things down to the basics: what is Liberty, what is the Constitution, what is criminality? Those answers can then be used to better see and live in the world.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 12:38 | 3745631 Max Cynical
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Napolitano is expected to more than triple her salary, from about $200,000 to the $601,000 gross pay earned by the University of California’s current president, Mark Yudof.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/12/reuters-dhs-secretary-janet-napolitano-to-resign-today/#ixzz2YqVTkAwg

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 12:45 | 3745658 sbenard
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So Big Mother is going to UC! Those poor students!

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 13:04 | 3745752 Catullus
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UC officials believe that her Cabinet experiences –- which include helping to lead responses to hurricanes and tornadoes and overseeing some anti-terrorism measures -- will help UC administer its federal energy and nuclear weapons labs and aid its federally funded research in medicine and other areas.

Hahahaha. Bullshit.

That's jump off a fucking cliff retarded.

"Running the single most unpopular, universally critized, constitutionally offensive boondoggle in history prepares her well to be the figurehead of our incredible bankrupt university system."

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 13:07 | 3745770 reTARD
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As if CA isn't fucked up enough... this will only help to accelerate the sinking of the ship. Keep playing band!

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 13:11 | 3745800 Dre4dwolf
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Atleat she can do less damage there, californias education can't get much worst anyway.... nothing to lose by shoving her there.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 13:30 | 3745864 q99x2
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I take back the muff diven on Saturday comment.

Bitch is coming for me.

Anyhow fuck UCLA

I"m haeaded to Penn State's College of Letters.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 13:30 | 3745865 Oldrepublic
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American feminist version of the SA leader in Germany, Ernst Julius Günther Röhm

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 13:30 | 3745869 joego1
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This is just part of the process. Napolitano now has the privledge of imbedding the propaganda of the Obama administration into the higher educational system. (Although most of that work has already been done) Soon we will feel happy about losing our freedoms to the the government nanny state.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 13:32 | 3745873 Wave-Tech
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Fri, 07/12/2013 - 13:50 | 3745934 paint it red ca...
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Maybe Larry Summers could run both the DHS and FED considering his skill set.....

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 14:19 | 3746004 quasimodo
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Place your bets right here, he has a clit the size of Texas

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 14:23 | 3746028 americanspirit
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What do you want to bet that one of Janet's first moves will be to have chips implanted in every student and faculty member in the system - for their safety. It will not be voluntary - either get the chip or leave the university system. And of course it won't be a simple tracking chip - no no no. It will be a programmable chip so that if, for example, you feel like sitting down in front of the administration building to protest rising tuition costs - zap. Or if you try to teach students about the real actions of the US in, say, Afghanistan - big zap. And, of course, if you ever utter the words "Fuck Obama" - terminal zap.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 14:51 | 3746128 Money 4 Nothing
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And become an advisor to Los Alomos nuclear research center. WTF?

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 15:26 | 3746251 lindaamick
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OMG.  WHAT QUALIFIES HER FOR THIS JOB?

It gets more disgusting every day.

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 15:46 | 3746319 Bastiat
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Napolitano’s move to California draws protests

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/12/napolitanos-move-califor...

 

Let's see, what campus was the primary hotbed of anit-Vietnam protests?  Berkeley of course--part of the UC System.  Big Sis will set the standard for suppression of college campus protests during the troubles to come.  Maybe she'll appoint the Banzai's favorite pepper spray cop from UC Davis to head the University police force. 

 

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