Lakhota
Diamond Member
- Jul 14, 2011
- 168,515
- 95,457
By Paige Lavender
Top Republican strategist and pollster Frank Luntz decided not to renew a University of Pennsylvania scholarship for students to travel to Washington, D.C. after a student secretly taped contentious comments he made during a meeting on campus and leaked them to Mother Jones.
The Daily Pennsylvanian reported Friday that Luntz would not renew the scholarship, which is in his fathers name.
Luntz told the Daily Pennsylvanian he would fulfill his promise to speak to on a panel at graduation weekend, but that he would never return to the school for another speaking engagement, and he would encourage others to stay away as well.
Im very disappointed that at Penn, that trust between students and speaker is gone," Luntz said.
More: Frank Luntz University Of Pennsylvania Scholarship To End After Leaked Comments
Did Luntz honestly think he had an expectation of privacy while speaking to a group of college students? Not renewing the scholarship, in his father's name, seems extraordinarily petty to me. What was he thinking?