Folsom Prison Blues

From the Sentinel (emphasis mine):

FSU grad student Justin de la Cruz is spearheading a campaign to replace outgoing President T.K. Wetherell with rapper T-Pain, the Tallahassee Democrat reports.

A Facebook page for the "cam-pain" was pushing toward 1,800 members tonight. UPDATE: 2,400 members as of this afternoon.

T-Pain is a Tallahassee native. He's endorsed the movement though his own Facebook page, according to the newspaper.

The newspaper got this response from Wetherell, a former House speaker stepping down after six years at the helm at FSU: "I'm more a Toby Keith, Johnny Cash guy. I don't know what a T-Pain is. Can he lobby the Legislature? That's all I want to know."

Hey T.K., I think Jack Abramoff should succeed you. I know he has that little felony problem, but a felony conviction didn’t keep your brother from becoming a Provost at Daytona State College.

Florida’s universities will never have any respect if they continue to be run by lobbyists/politicians.