Public records advocates sue Iowa State over details of Dublin football game
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I don't care what the expense was for Reynolds to fly over on the ISU dime was, hearing her get booed off stage at the tailgate, and then again during the pregame was priceless.
Have you ever read his columns? He would probably start out by talking about how deep financial trouble Iowa State athletic department is in. Then he would talk about how stupid it was for Iowa State (did I mention they were in deep financial trouble) to go to Dublin for a silly football game between land grant colleges. “Why i am old enough to remember them playing at Clyde Williams.” Then he would talk about the charter. “Why I remember when Iowa played Minnesota and they took a grayhound bus that cost taxpayers $50, plus the driver’s tip. Boy how things have changed.” Then the governor. The money. Blah blah blah. Then he said the newspapers were doing their duty and filed an FOIA request and Iowa state (did I mention they were in deep financial trouble) delayed (two weeks). Then buried in his last paragraph would be, to their credit, Iowa State finally complied and provide a link to the Gazette story.
That is the typical Randy Evan’s column.
His heart is often in the right place, but he takes 1000 words when one sentence would have been better.
Because the athletic department can spend their non- publicly funded money how they see fit.
They can bring and pay for anyone they see fit.
Yeah ISU should have sent the information but it’s a stupid witch hunt.
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You should have been there at the 2023 Knoxville Nationals. About 15,000 people booed her introducing Ron DeSantis.
won't let me upload the pregame video, and looks like the tailgate video is no longer on my phone but the wife may have it still, but probably still couldn't upload it here easily.
If you want to know what biases Randy Evans has, read the last paragraph of Bleeding Heartland, which published his column. In that paragraph he put the knife in the back of Iowa State fans to remind us that we lost our head coach and we lost all of our players to Penn State. Of course that has nothing to do with the purpose of his FOIA, but he wanted to stick that knife in.
If this is all because of Reynolds then good riddance. She's useless. If you're going to prance around and talk about how youre an ISU alum then at least make an attempt to push the levers of government in favor of ISU. Not even in favor just make the funding levels equal! All the hawks in the legislature blatantly favor Iowa in all their legislation but God forbid you stick up for ISU.
Also the state in general needs a more sec mindset. If you're going to pass stupid and useless laws then pass some that help that athletic departments lol.
Anyways sorry for getting political.
Also the state in general needs a more sec mindset. If you're going to pass stupid and useless laws then pass some that help that athletic departments lol.
Anyways sorry for getting political.
Iowa State fumbles with public records
Months after Randy Evans requested records, Iowans still don't know whether the Dublin trip was a money-maker for Iowa State University.
www.bleedingheartland.com
As a Hawk fan, this seems like a huge nothing burger. Pretty dumb of all the things to worry about.
Who cares how many others got a free vacation? That’s the AD’s call. It’s his budget and if he wants to treat some big donors it’s his decision.
I’m not saying they shouldn’t comply with foia, but there’s no such thing as a gotcha moment here. Pollard could pay for a golden leprechaun toilet on the plane and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. Now, it wouldn’t be a wise use of funds and something like that would come up in a performance review, but it’s not illegal.
Sure, but it certainly doesn't help when you're trying to get the State to put money into athletics. The last thing you need is a trail of unnecessary current spending when you are doing that.
Agreed. Think I spent $4-5k for my 12 day trip and I was being relatively cheap outside of 5 nights in 2 fairly expensive hotels. That and getting a manual instead of automatic rental is about the only way I could have spent significantly less. Had I not been solo for a week it would have been at least $1k less.
That's not the way it works, any money the university spends falls under public spending act, no matter where it comes from. There are not two piles of money here, state and then private money. Once the university gets their hands on it, it all falls under the law and must be shown where the money was spent. This is a good thing in general, its stops public universities and government from giving sweet heart deals to their cronies.
No one is saying they cannot spend the money as they see fit, only they have to disclose where and what the money was spent for. ISU has refused to provide the documentation where the money went, it might be legit it might not be, we will never know if the records are not made public. That is the point of the law.
We don't know if it's illegal or not when ISU refuses to release the records, that is the whole point of public disclosure laws, to keep the public informed about where the money is being spent, which allows everyone to see where the money is going.
is a good thing, if someone is giving a million dollars to the football program, they want to make. sure that is where the money is being spent, not on some other program, and this type of laws show where the money went.
