Energy Secretary Rick Perry, whose agency oversees the nation’s nuclear arsenal, is inserting himself into an unusually small political dispute: an election for student body president at Texas A&M University. In an op-ed submitted to the Houston Chronicle, the former Texas governor suggested that his alma mater’s first openly gay president may have stolen the outcome. Perry wrote that the campus election “at best made a mockery of due process and transparency” and at worst “allowed an election to be stolen outright.”“It is difficult to escape the perception that this quest for ‘diversity’ is the real reason the election outcome was overturned,” he wrote. “There are three institutions that are most important to Rick Perry: his wife and family, the U.S. military and Texas A&M. The campus election ended with junior economics major Bobby Brooks winning about 4,200 votes.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 23, 2017 21:40 UTC