JD Alexander a “powerful self-absorbed senator who wants to steal an asset for his own purposes”
So infers the editors of the Tampa Bay Times over JD Alexander’s latest attempt to make USF Polytechnical into his own little hometown school:
The Florida Senate has no shame, no self-respect and no guts to stand up to one of its own. Sen. JD Alexander’s obsession with transforming a University of South Florida branch campus into an independent university in Lakeland remains unchecked, and it tarnishes the Legislature and higher education. His latest brazen effort to immediately break off USF Polytechnic into a separate university is a ruthless demonstration of brute force without regard for the consequences.
It should be time for Alexander to declare victory. The Board of Governors, which oversees the state university system, responded to Alexander’s demands last year by establishing a reasonable timetable with a series of conditions for USF Poly to meet before becoming the state’s 12th public
