Regent Weiser- WTAF?!
the above link from the Daily describes some, uhhh, strange emails written from Ron Weiser’s accnt. Also he has a shadow email account?
this is perhaps the strangest story I’ve read in some time
I think he’s hiding in fear from Ace.
Just one more jab
Or a joke based on Ace’s Twitter handle for at least a month. Ace wants to meet Weiser in the Octagon!
What a Clash of Titans. A stiff breeze would win that fight.
get over it.
I mean, it's Ron Weiser. Nothing surprises me about that guy, especially the fact that Weiser autocorrected on my phone to Weirder.
So, basically he's in love with a married man who is snubbing him in favor of (that guy's) wife? Do I have the plot synopsis right?
Seems about right.
Sprinkled in with a dash of political divisiveness and demonization of those who disagree with you.
Conservative Family Values at their finest!
NTTAWWT
What would it be like with the pace of life back then to sit it the shade and have the time to drink a bottle of whisk(e)y and not have to worry about the book draft due by Friday COB?
You can say that again!
What would it be like with the pace of life back then to sit it the shade and have the time to drink a bottle of whisk(e)y and not have to worry about the book draft due by Friday COB?
I already do that. It's okay.
Just finished reading the article. I know that Regent Weiser is under a lot of scrutiny for his comments and behaviors, but I worry about the man's mental state a bit. These aren't the actions of a well-hinged person. I have 2 friends who had stalkers and this behavior is similar to the harassment they received. Just a gut feeling but I think he might need some professional help.
It's probably safe to assume that his cancer has affected him more than he's led on.
He seems like a normal, well-adjusted person who deserves and needs to be in a position of authority.
From the homicidal clown perspective, this seems like a perfectly rational take.
There really aren't enough points for this...
Sometimes, people are just in charge of things for no reason. Where have I heard that before?
Regent Weiser- WTAF?!
What's the extra "A" for?
I think it's astronaught.
Actual
As opposed to WTHF, "What the hypothetical fuck".
I thought it was Averliving
The Aviril-lavingning?
What the Avril Lavigning Fuck!
I like it.
Please use in next recruiting disappointment, thank you
RIP Avril.
Astroglide.
Username checks out
I'm no fan of Weiser—that's putting it very mildly—but I'm skeptical this alleged email is legit.
Having done my share of email forensics, my first thought was the email account was hacked. An equally plausible explanation is drunken typing by a disturbed person with poor technology skills, who might have difficulty keeping their email accounts straight even when sober. I have seen both, and worse. I don't know the man, nor the politics involved here.
I've had my university (not UM) email hacked a few times and usually the message is just something like "can you call me right away I need a favor," in hopes that someone will go out and buy some Google Play cards and mail them to me, er, the hacker.
Leaving aside the ludicrosity of that scam, my point is that this seems like an awfully detailed message for it to be fake. In other words, if you were hacking his email to get him in trouble, you might not make it seem so unhinged and rather just get to the "I dig men" message. NTTAWWT, except perhaps from the POV of a psychotic wingnut like this guy seems to be.
Maybe he was trying to send it to "Reginald" and it autofilled to "[email protected]?"
I'm skeptical this alleged email is legit.
I mean given his past history of weird emails which they address in the article, this doesn't seem significantly more weird
My second thought was advice from a mentor: don't try to reason with or about the irrational.
I guess I'm out of the loop but I genuinely didn't know who this guy was before now.
In February, The Daily revealed emails Weiser sent to fellow Board of Regents members calling bargaining graduate students “hired union hacks.” He also compared other Regents’ lack of support during calls for his resignation to “Germany in the 1930s.” That same group of emails contained one sent by Weiser that only contained a photo of a bikini-clad woman with the subject line “BB.”
Seems like a great representative of our university...
He is an awful person, and has been for some time. He was out there alleging voter fraud in Detroit well before Trump made it famous.
http://www.annarbor.com/news/gop-operative-ron-weiser-of-ann-arbor-in-hot-water-over-remarks-about-detroit-voters/
The fact he is one of just 8 regents is an embarrassment to U of M, but shows if you have money and connected friends in high places, you can get elected in a low info, low engagement race in a purple-ish state like Michigan.
https://soundcloud.com/richard-d-anderson/sara-harbaugh-and-cathy-schembechler-endorse-ron-weiser-for-regent
and when he won about 4 years ago, he plastered his yardsigns with endorsements from Bo's widow and Harbaugh's wife.
That's not the coaches wives I know.
I'm going to try to stick to the facts here because I know the guy a bit and know a lot of people who know him. PLEASE don't respond with your political takes or the thread dies.
My interactions are all second-hand except one time I talked with him at a fundraiser thing, and that was almost entirely about Michigan (IIRC I was defending Denard as a QB after some Rich Rod loss). I also helped found a volunteer events org inside of the Detroit Jewish Federation about 10 years ago, and I've worked closely with the Ann Arbor version of the same, and at those meetings the doings of Weiser, and my childhood friend/almost sister-in-law Lena Epstein, were a common topic of banter/curiosity while waiting for the thing to start.
Weiser has been a golem in the Ann Arbor--and particularly its Jewish--community for years. His business is McKinley Associates, which buys up and overcharges for dilapidated off-campus housing. I have never discussed this with Brian but I imagine Weiser is high on his and his pro-building group's shit list because Weiser makes more than anybody off of the student housing problem.
Most of his donations are to state- and federal Republican Party operations, but he throws his money around in the community a ton, which gets him lots of picture moments and his name on things and gratitude of the various orgs, and people affiliated with them and reliant on them. The recognition always includes "Ambassador Ronald Weiser" because he was an ambassador to Slovakia for President G.W. Bush. One of the orgs that gets the most support is Ann Arbor Jewish Family Services, which does--and I cannot emphasize this enough--a TON of good.
Everyone I know who's worked with Weiser at Federation and JFS say he's earnest, especially when it comes to Israel and what he perceives as the threat of anti-Semitism on campus, but creepy and constantly aggrieved, like everything that ever happens is a conspiracy against him personally. How people view him seems very important to Ron. I understand the movement to change the building name was especially hard on him.
Weiser is currently on his third non-consecutive term as Michigan's Republican Party chair. From the guy I know who used to work on various state-level Republican staffs (went into private practice in 2014), lately the two-year term after a presidential election cycle is more honorary than effectual so they just sell the honorific as a fundraiser, and Weiser comes up with the money. But this time he needed to shore up his right wing bona fides so he teamed up with Meshawn Maddock, who's one of the triumvirate of that we often call the "fascist auxiliary" here in Oakland County. Maddock was the one who organized the buses to bring Michiganders to the January 6 insurrection--it's an open secret that Weiser paid for the buses.
Weiser told one person I know that he's not really in league with the "sad people" (meaning Trump Republicans), and thinks he's just doing what any politician has to do to appeal to a base that includes extremists, justifying it by saying he thinks the Democrats he knows with are willing to deal with socialists, so what's the difference?
There's a lot more I can't share but I think that paints a clearer picture if you're just getting caught up on Weiser.
That's an enlighteningly clearer picture. Thanks for the background, Seth.
Perhaps WTAF means "What the anlightenment* fuck."
* An alternative and totally not-made up spelling.
Checking the boxes for senior leadership in the 21st century.
This is surprising to people? He talked about killing those who voted to impeach Trump, and made disgusting comments about the female leaders of our State. This guy has brain worms. Legit is not right in the head and hasn't been for a while.
We need someone with clear diction and a good documentary voice to do a dramatic reading of this:
Are we sure these aren't song lyrics to a long-lost Morrissey song that we just don't know about?
Reading it with Morrissey's voice in my head makes it much more understandable.
I get it. I get it. I get it.....
Perhaps this girlfriend is in a coma, and that's why she's not responding? Worth considering.
Perhaps it’s the lost verse to “Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want”.
Explains why that song is so short
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w3qPMe_cCJk&feature=youtu.be