PERRY/Clinton’s partisan Ole Miss visit
Kittredge, who writes the Majority in Mississippi blog, wrote that after the debate, Childers notified Andy Mullins, chief of staff to Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones, that Clinton would be calling him shortly.
“He made sure his cell phone was on. The plans to bring a president (or former president in this case) to the Ole Miss campus for the first time unfolded about 36 hours before the actual event,” he said.
The university was told that Clinton would be speaking about voter education and the importance of voting. In fact, the morning of the speech, Clinton’s people maintained that that is what the president would be speaking on, Kittredge said.
The University of Mississippi issued a press release describing Clinton’s visit as “an opportunity [for students] to hear firsthand about the importance of exercising their right to vote.”
Chancellor Jones stated, “This is an exciting opportunity for our students to hear from a former president about how important it is to have a voice in the political process, and we are honored to have President Clinton here. I hope that our students will take advantage of this special opportunity and that they will come away with a sense of how vital their political involvement is to the future of our country.”
Brian Perry
Madison County Journal
10/20/10
Magnolia Tribune
