Outcry from CU-Boulder students about limited seating at GOP debate

[angka]

Source: Boulder Daily Camera

University of Colorado students are frustrated that they won't be able to attend the Republican presidential debate being held on their campus and are banding together this week to demand that more tickets be made available.

Late Thursday night, the CU Student Government passed a special resolution chiding the university, the Republican National Committee and CNBC, the cable news channel that's broadcasting the debate, for making just 50 tickets available to the university community.

The Oct. 28 debate is being held at the Coors Events Center, which can seat more than 10,000 people. But the audience will be capped at roughly 1,000, with a small fraction of those seats going to university students, faculty and administrators...

The CU Student Government resolution calls for a "drastic" increase in the number of tickets available to students and the community and states that if the Republican National Committee and CNBC refuse to do so, the university should no longer be involved with the event.

Read more: http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_28879339/outcry-from-cu-boulder-students-about-limited-seating

[Earth_First]

1. Gotta keep them rabble rousers to a minimum...

GOP attempting to save face.

Good luck!

[snort]

2. They could watch some 3 stooges that day

and get pretty much the same impression.

[Roland99]

3. 12+ years of learning and they *still* want to see this train wreck???

Our educational system truly is failing our children

[Kotya]

23. They don't want to watch it.

They want to be heard. And this is why the GOP is only handing out 50 tickets, and I'll bet the students who get them have been carefully screened.

[beveeheart]

4. 50 tickets? That's a lot!

Paraphrasing, but that was the opinion of the host and his guest on the local Denver conservative radio talk show I was accidentally listening to early Friday evening.

[certainot]

6. would that be ayn randian wet dreaming mike rosen on KOA?

used to live in co and fairly fam with co talk radio.

CU students could really do some offense by pushing CU to stop broadcasting on KOA, the limbaugh/rosen station. the association is completely antithetical to their mission statement.

they have broncos and rockies for backup but it would hurt them and maybe the pro athletes would join in re racism and global warming.

[beveeheart]

19. I don't think it was Rosen

but I only listened for about 5 minutes.

[Ned Flanders]

15. Oklahoma in the Mountains (n/t)

eom

[Drahthaardogs]

21. Um, not even close.

A campus that is liberal to ultra liberal. I know. It's my Alma mater.

[Ned Flanders]

22. Sorry, I was referring to the State of Colorado in general

But I must admit to be wholly ignorant of Colorado, most of my knowledge of same coming from watching South Park. Now how do I insert an emoticon for "derp?"

[Orrex]

5. Could be worse

The could be forced to attend.

[lobodons]

7. What else do you expect from the Party of Voter Suppression?

Its their Mode of Operandi.

[erronis]

8. And you betcha the cameras won't show all those empty seats (90% empty)

Just the glowing white old people wiping their republican drool whenever one of their saviors says a sentence with correct grammar (forget the facts.) Oh, I'm sure there will be some different-hued people there but can't have too many - offend the base.

I hope the CU students can raise a huge mass demonstration against this anti-democratic scheme - maybe big enough that the M$M will have to cover.

[pangaia]

9. Why would they even have a "debate' on a college campus?

Repukes have no interest in edjukashun,
no interest in thinking,
no interest in contemplation
no interest in science
no interest in art
no interest in culture
no interest in politics
no interest in history
and especially no interest in weed

They should go to some southern megachurch..

[FairWinds]

10. I went to CU back in the day . .

did not know that there were as many as 50 conservatives on campus . . !!

". . . just 50 tickets available to the university community."

I think the GOP is worried about peals of raucous laughter drowning out
the clowns if they admit more than a few students.

[Sunlei]

11. 30,000 students. Give the "9,000 planned to be empty seats", make tickets for the students.

[certainot]

12. CU students ought to knock limbaugh off ralphie

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850 KOA is the loudest station in CO and it is the father of republican talk radio in the state. it broadcasts limbaugh and local ayn randian koch sucker mike rosen for 5 or 6 hours a day and thankfully most of the rest is just fox type news and sports these days.

they also get to announce "850 KOA, home of the buffs, and rush limbaugh!"

it's a lot like nike paying a star athlete to wear their shoes. the republican talk station pays CU, through a licensing company which won't divulge how much the station pays, to broadcast buffalo games. the station gains community cred and advertising advantage.

if cu students forced cu to divest from KOA and tell the licensing co they didn't want to support republican/global warming denying/planned parenthood attacking/racist rw radio, the station and republican media in the state would suffer greatly in lost PR prestige. and even if it was just an announcement for future action the discussion would cause an exodus of advertisers.

it would really piss off republicans. and could get media around the debates.

pro athletes (broncos/rockies) would have to discuss same. those stations are the ones encouraging and excusing police brutality on african americans and racism in general all over the country, lying about mike brown and travon martin and others.

CU is one of 90 major unis that keep koch wing republican radio going, endorsing 270 of limbaugh's/republican loudest stations.

colorado lost their only liberal talk radio in co history a couple of years ago just in time for the elections, in a standard sabotage.

if dems in co want to turn things around.....

[erronis]

16. Good ideas. Hit them in their doughnut$, where it can really get their attention.

Boycotts of station advertisers is also extremely effective.

[jtuck004]

13. They can only have it if you let them. There are far too many of you to stop. <G> n/t

[jalan48]

14. Hey, look on the bright side. At least the Republicans are having debates.

[jtuck004]

18. +3 n/t

[jtuck004]

17. Go in and sit down early. Thousands of you. Don't leave. n/t

[angka]

20. Much more happening here in the next few days.

Stay tuned!