There are at least two student groups at Texas A&M University with an opinion about Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the George Bush Presidential Library.
Texas Aggie Conservatives (TAC) are using protest signs and a member dressed as the grim reaper to show their opposition to what they call her “job killing” economic legislation. They point to federal statistics that show the unemployment rate for youth at 20 percent that they say is comparable to Arab countries.
It’s the second time Aggie Conservatives are employing street theater, repeating a method used when Barack Obama made an appearance in October 2009.
The TAC protest led to a news release from the A&M Council for Minority Student Affairs (CMSA). Members of the CMSA executive council issued an advance apology to Pelosi, describing the TAC as “an attention-hungry group that could care less about political conservatism but rather cares more about controversy, with no regard for the university’s image, and no desire to demonstrate the good in conservatism.”
CMSA board secretary Stephanie Canelas describes the TAC protest will “propagate the image of an intolerant campus.”
One of the protestors, Cary Chesire, says “Obamacare, out-of-control deficit spending, increased federal regulations, and heavy taxes are destroying the jobs that students like me will need when we graduate.”