Wash. University’s College Democrat student says paying well over $100k for Gore to speak on campus was a ‘steal’ — ‘Thank you Treasury for funding Al Gore’
'The University's treasury absolutely did the right thing by approving money for the purpose of bringing Al Gore to campus. Gore is a generational figure...Bringing Al Gore will up our 'going green' street cred in a big way...this is a steal...the cost to the students, because of the alternate funding, is substantially lower than it would normally be to bring Al Gore to campus'