After a college board vice president quipped about getting rid of conservative faculty members, the attorney representing two history professors said he expects these “ugly comments” to “figure prominently” in a First Amendment lawsuit.
Vice president of Kern Community College District (KCCD) Board of Trustees John Corkins made comments against conservative faculty members at a board meeting on Dec. 13, 2022.
In the meeting, he said there were “about 5 percent that we [the administrators] have to continue to cull.”
“Got ’em in my livestock operation, and that’s why we put a rope on some of ’em and take ’em to the slaughterhouse,” Corkins continued, while Trustee Nan Gomez-Heitzeberg, a retired 30-year administrator at Bakersfield College (BC), guffawed….