Rick Perry Decries Election Of First Gay Texas A&M Student President

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HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry is suggesting that the election that gave his alma mater, Texas A&M, its first openly gay student body president was “stolen.”

Perry was Texas’ longest serving governor until leaving office in 2015. He was also an A&M yell leader, or cheerleader.

In an op-ed published Wednesday by the Houston Chronicle (http://bit.ly/2nTW591), Perry decried the election of Bobby Brooks, who finished second in voting but was awarded the presidency after top vote-getter Robert McIntosh was disqualified.

Perry writes that the process at best “made a mockery of due process and transparency” and at worst “allowed an election to be stolen outright.”

He writes “it is difficult to escape the perception that this quest for ‘diversity’ is the real reason the election outcome was overturned.”

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  1. "In an op-ed published Wednesday by the Houston Chronicle (Rick Perry blasts election of Texas A&M's first gay SGA president), Perry decried the election of Bobby Brooks, who finished second in voting but was awarded the presidency after top vote-getter Robert McIntosh was disqualified.

    Perry writes that the process at best ‘made a mockery of due process and transparency’ and at worst ‘allowed an election to be stolen outright.’

    He writes ‘it is difficult to escape the perception that this quest for ‘diversity’ is the real reason the election outcome was overturned.’"

    Aww, is somebody in the Trump administration mad the popular vote winner didn’t get the job? Sad.

  2. What a pathetic snowflake. A gay guy wins an election instead of a Republican noble’s spawn, so it must be RIGGED!!!

  3. This is funny. On so many levels.

  4. "Ill put my He-Man glasses on so Ill look important " .

  5. Don’t we all care about student government elections, decades after we graduate?

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