You know, I should institute a new policy, just don’t write posts about Representative Carl Wimmer (R-Herriman-District 52) – he is just so diametrically opposite from me that it is not even funny, and I am convinced that he would not know how to propose a good bill if we were to sit him down in a 4th grade civics class.

Well, I have to admit that HB 114 – Disclosure of Donations to Higher Education Institutions is not so much a bad bill as a bill that just makes no sense.

You see, the bill wants to require the disclosure of any gifts from a foreign person to the Board of Regents if the gift is above $50,000.  Now, if any other legislator would have proposed this bill, I probably would have just shrugged my shoulders and simply have said “whatever,” but my sick fascination makes me have to wonder why Wimmer cares so much about this education issue.

Is he concerned that Osama Bin Laden is funding research at Utah State? Is he concerned that no one would notice all the big skull and crossbones on the boxes leaving the lab? Does he think that it is bad for foreign individuals and companies to invest in our schools…where the school would own the rights to the research? Does he think that foreign students would only be allowed in the labs and that none of the students or professors would write down their research? AAAACK!!!! Where is this coming from Representative?! Please tell me.

Perhaps the biggest question – why do we need to spend the time debating this bill in the first place.

So I am going to mark this bill down as one I am against, can someone out their possibly explain why we need this bill?

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