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First off, I applaud Sanders for taking on and asking the hard questions to Purdue. J&C seems to have an agreement with the University to stay silent on ANY potentially bad news that comes from the university so Kudos to Dave here as well.

I don't know/think the numbers quite add up but find it interesting that $5000 x 100 people equals exactly $50k which happens to be the exact amount WL taxpayers are being asked to invest.

I am choosing to toss aside the "future economic impact" numbers quoted by the guy who stands to make $200k off this along with the untold amount he will gain by simply saying "look what we did here at Purdue" to future clients/communities.

I have been a remote worker living here since 2005 (1998 Graduate). The company I work for requires every employee, every year, to disclose conflicts of interests. Why did it take some detective work to determine the conflict of interest between Daniels and this company? Why does Daniels continue to ignore the obvious stink that comes from these types of deals like he did when his own daughter ran the mobile hotel rooms on campus for football games (I am sure there are plenty of others but that one was absurd)? Rhetorical question there.

Lastly, would the project be doomed if WL said no to providing $50k? According to the article, that is only 5% of the $1m investment and the project has already met 28% of its goal.

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I don't have an opinion on this program, but this obvious lie cracked me up:

"He said he was constrained by a personal rule to speak no ill of any Purdue community member."

Tell that to Dr. Alice Pawley: https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_d6fa9f2c-9ae5-11ea-b954-63272a684b52.html

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