Story highlights The frontrunner was disqualified for failing to disclose campaign expensesPerry alleged that the "quest for 'diversity' is the real reason the election outcome was overturned"(CNN) US Energy Secretary Rick Perry weighed in Wednesday on the student body election of his alma mater, questioning whether Texas A&M's first openly gay student body president legitimately earned the title. At best, the school "made a mockery of due process" in the name of diversity, he said. At worse, the election was "stolen." "It is difficult to escape the perception that this quest for 'diversity' is the real reason the election outcome was overturned," Perry wrote. Meanwhile, critics wondered if Perry didn't have better things to do with his time as energy secretary than pen an 851-word op-ed on college politics.

Source: CNN March 24, 2017 03:17 UTC