Harvard cuts ties with Rep. Stefanik over voter fraud claims

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Source: AP

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A Republican member of Congress has been removed from a panel at Harvard University for making comments that perpetuated President Donald Trump's baseless claims of widespread voter fraud, the school announced Tuesday.

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York was removed from a senior advisory committee at Harvard's school of government after she declined to resign voluntarily, according to a statement from Douglas Elmendorf, dean of the Harvard Kennedy School.

Hundreds of students and alumni called on Harvard to cut ties with Stefanik, a 2006 Harvard graduate, after last week’s violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Stefanik was one of roughly a dozen current and former public servants on a senior advisory committee for Harvard’s Institute of Politics, a program intended to get undergraduates interested in public service careers.

Elmendorf said the decision was not based on political ideology.

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[yankeepants]

1. She is one district from me. Total nut job.

[maxsolomon]

6. I have a friend who lives in her district.

She's appalled.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. well, I don't know that the political ideology statment is true...

If she supports Trump she is a fascist wishing to overthrow our gov't, getting rid of her for that reason is political as well as entirely appropriate.

[bdtrppr6]

3. tells you that

Harvard, Yale, etc are not that great or selective

like the disgraced presidential* medal, a degree from those schools means nothing more than a normal state school degree

[Scruffy1]

5. I agree.

All these overpriced schools are nothing more than bragging rights for parents. In my long working experience nobody gave a shit where you went to school. I worked with very competent people with degrees from unheard of places. a degree is only entry level training from any college. It's what you do that counts. The textbooks are the same everywhere.

[FailureToCommunicate]

4. Good riddance. Right wing nut jobs trying to cloak themselves in a veil of legitimacy.