According to new reports, Rebecca Blank, the taxpayer-funded chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has “sent a number of emails to alumni openly lobbying against a budget proposed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker that includes cuts to higher education.” Black did so while on the taxpayers’ dime. The Daily Caller,
Blank, who was hired in 2013, collects a base salary of $495,000, plus various perks and benefits…
About $100,000 of Blank’s salary comes from privately-endowed funding sources. The remaining $395,000 is courtesy of Wisconsin’s taxpayers…
A Feb. 5 email from Blank sternly rebukes Walker for his plan to reduce government spending.
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