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Paying for Brown’s tuition hike

Last year our family celebrated my son’s graduation from WSU. Today, he’s taken a job away from Spokane and we are struggling to help him cover the monthly payments on a $50,000-plus college loan debt, nearly the equivalent of a monthly house payment.

I am so angry now to learn that former Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown was responsible for leading deep cuts in state higher education funding and then jamming through a state budget that pushed Washington universities to double tuition to fill their funding gap. Lisa Brown robbed Peter to pay Paul, and then robbed my son to pay back Peter!

After that, Lisa Brown took a state job in 2012 as chancellor of WSU Spokane, making $364,000 a year. Why are we paying state bureaucrats that much money? Lisa Brown raised college tuition and then pocketed over a million dollars of salary in three years as chancellor of WSU Spokane. Meanwhile my son has had to move away for a job that barely pays enough to cover his school loans - loans he needed to have to pay the escalating tuition cost for a diploma from WSU.

How is this fair?

Lynn Madison

Liberty Lake

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