A friend just showed me a bill in the Iowa legislature to keep Democrats from taking over colleges

[Bucky]

https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=87&ba=SF288

A person shall not be hired as a professor or instructor member of the faculty at such an institution if the person’s political party affiliation on the date of hire would cause the percentage of the faculty belonging to one political party to exceed by ten percent the percentage of the faculty belonging to the other political party, on the date established by the board for determining the political party composition of the faculty.

I'm just thinking of all the ways this could screw up the hiring process. Like, what if there are a bunch of Libertarians, say 5% of a faculty's total, who insist on being counted too. Ha ha. Or worse yet, if a bunch of pissed off Democratic professors start just showing up at Republican party gatherings and just start dropping facts like farts in an elevator.

[skip fox]

1. Never mind the constitutional issues, Imagine

think of the practical for a moment:

Imagine a mediocre grad student in an over-crowded job market in the Liberal Arts.

Won't many of them change party affiliation (in name only) in order to be hired?

Doesn't this breed the mediocre into Iowa education?

[Bucky]

3. I dunno, maybe a lot of the mediocre grad students are already registered Republicans

Still, I enjoy the irony of Republicans favoring a quota system to protect an oppressed minority. Ha ha... oppressed by the facts!

[skip fox]

8. I'm an old English professor at

a decent, but small state university. Most of my colleagues are Democrats. Most facluty of the History and Philosophy departments are Democrat. I'm extrapolating from my experience and what I know of the field.

[C_U_L8R]

2. So everyone just changes to Undeclared. Done.

WTF. Are Republicans complete idiots or what????

[Bucky]

4. Does Iowa have a closed primary voting system? This would have the ancillary effect of...

kicking all the faculty out of the voting system until November.

[C_U_L8R]

5. They've got that caucus system. Got me stumped.

Any folks from Iowa around here?

[Bucky]

6. I think the caucus is just for quadrennial presidential delegates.

For regular state & federal elections, they use primaries.

[OldHippieChick]

7. All of these state legislatures as well as the Rethugs

in D.C. have no agenda except to hold on to power. Are we really this stupid?

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Why would it matter that a professor of Shakespeare be a democrat or a republican?

Or art history, music, chemistry, psychology, French, German, philosophy?

[Bucky]

10. BECAUSE MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN THAT'S WHY!!!1! LOOK AT SWEDEN!! SAD!!!

Remember Bowling Groen

[SDJay]

11. So...

In order to be hired for a job at a public institution, you have to not only declare your political party affiliation but you have to fit within a QUOTA!!! (remember the pukes screaming that word for years) in order to be hired?

It's as if they all sat around and ate their gummy bears while trying to figure out how to put a bill together that's as unconstitutional as possible.