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In the Guardian article, Lewd messages linked to University of Michigan regent who led campaign against pro-Palestinian students (4/18/2026) by Tom Perkins, Mr. Perkins reports that:
The University of Michigan regent Jordan Acker, who helped lead the university’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian students, appears to have made obscene sexual comments about a Democratic party strategist in a group chat, messages provided to the Guardian reveal. The Slack messages, attributed to Acker, also include lewd comments about a female U-M student and a picture of her with her friends.
Mr. Perkins states the he reached out to lawyers who represented Mr. Acker about whether or not Mr. Acker admitted to making these comments on various social media and communicating platforms.
Mr. Perkins reports that:
When asked by the Guardian whether Acker denied writing the messages, his attorney responded: “Your understanding that Mr Acker does not deny this is not correct or incorrect.”
Lets all say that again.
Your understanding that Mr Acker does not deny this is not correct or incorrect.
Now in my day as a student at the University of Michigan, I doubt I could have named a regent or even defined their job other than to rubber stamp an approval to whatever the President of the University wanted to do.
We, as students, pretty much understood that Regent slots were doled out to the political party faithful and whichever party was winning that election cycle got to reward some long standing donor to serve and get free football tickets along with great parking rights.
Now a regent at the University of Michigan makes worldwide headline news.
Gosh, any recent worldwide headlines about Michigan (aside from the recent Basketball triumph) usually focused on the football team and the problems they were having in court.
Funny that it just hit me that the Michigan Basketball team makes headlines ON THE COURT while the Football team makes headlines IN COURT.
But I digress.
Lets get back to that statement.
Your understanding that Mr Acker does not deny this is not correct or incorrect.
Right there with Joe Tacopina, lawyer for that man in office talking about that man’s testimony about hush money payments to a porn star when he was if his client told the truth, replied, “Of course it’s not the truth! Was he supposed to tell the truth? He would be in violation of the agreement if he told the truth“.
And Mr. Gore’s “My lawyers tell me I did nothing wrong.” (After attending a fund raiser at a Buddhist temple.)
And Mr. Clintons, “That depends on what your definition of IS … is. (Indeed!)
Oh going over the top but as Dick the Butcher said, “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” (Act IV, Scene 2 of Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare.
Oh gee whiz.
Just one more reason to withhold my Alumni Association fees.
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