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@onetoughnerd Decides Not To Go To Harvard After All Because Everybody’s Being Mean #NoSnyderFellowship #OpFlint
Wednesday , 3, July 2019 Flint Water, Nerd Problems, Nestlé Leave a commentOn Sunday, June 30, 2019, @prisonculture launched a tweetstorm to right the injustice of granting Rick Snyder a fellowship at Harvard University. People answered her call to action and flooded the Dean of the Kennedy School where Snyder would have spent the next year offering his knowledge and experience to the students of Harvard. What […]
Making Government Accountable 501(c)(4) PAC Formed: Guess Who Wants To Be Nerd In Chief
Monday , 20, April 2015 Nerd Problems, Presidential Primary 2016 1 CommentSnyder spokesperson Jarrod Agen told the Associated Press that a group of Snyder’s inner circle created a tax-exempt PAC to raise funds for Snyder to tour the country starting next month after the state votes against raising the sales tax. With that defeat over his head, Snyder will likely want to get out of the […]
Nolan Finley Surprised By The Facts About Michigan’s Gubernatorial Race
Thursday , 31, July 2014 Candidates, Nerd Problems Leave a commentNolan Finley’s editorial in today’s Detroit News had the distinct tone of someone who thinks he understands a problem but hasn’t considered all of the facts before firing off an editorial about why this is all wrong and it shouldn’t be this way. What Finley doesn’t seem to realize, and perhaps this is the case […]