Frog-Gate 2012: Looks Like It's Pretty Tough to Pick a Side in TCU's SGA President Impeachment Proceedings Game

FORT WORTH - After two weeks of questions about the decision to spend $50,000 on the SuperFrog statue, Student Body President Brent Folan is facing impeachment.
The motion to formally begin impeachment proceedings was made at the end of Tuesday evening’s SGA meeting by former SGA Representative Jordan Mazurek.
“I’m not ashamed of anything I’ve done in office,” said Brent Folan to student representatives and about 60 students who crowded into the meeting.
Folan, responding to criticism for a lack of transparency on funding the $50,000 bronze SuperFrog statue on the first floor of the Brown-Lupton University Union, said: “I’m very proud of all the accomplishments we’ve had as a Cabinet.”

Seeing the new bronzed and bug-eyed addition to TCU's Student Center certainly doesn't help ease the fresh wounds of brutal Big 12 losses, but I mean, this bro's just trying to get through the year safe and sound with a nice resume builder, right? Maybe leave behind a little legacy gift for the kids? Well, maybe these bloated pork projects can fly in Washington, but one enviro-Nazi, union-marching, activist will see that they don't work on University Drive in Fort Worth, either.



President Folan, hoping his political career hasn't peaked

Last week, the SGA House of Representatives passed a bill requiring all non-budgeted student government spending above $15,000 to be passed by a majority of the House. Since then, there has been student criticism about the statue’s funding process, its $50,000 price tag and circulating rumors about a possible impeachment of Folan.
Mazurek, whose seat on Intercom was eliminated by Folan earlier this semester, created an event on Facebook urging students to attend Tuesday’s meeting.
"I created a petition on Facebook that invited [students] to come to SGA and reminded
them that SGA is an open forum for them to come and take part in,” he said at the meeting.
  

Mazurek - disgruntled activist at work

What's that? Oh, well then... could it perhaps be that someone isn't taking too kindly to Folan giving this vindictive hippie the heave-ho just months earlier? Well Mazurek, I see your move, and I raise you two Dolans. Two you ask?

(TCU360.com) Chief of Staff Evan Folan, younger brother of Brent, said his computer, containing the minutes from April’s meeting, crashed over the summer. SGA confirmed there are no records of the vote.
Evan Folan said he was not "allowed" to answer questions regarding the missing records, per Cabinet's collective decision not to speak to the media.

Well played, Folans. Well played indeed. The old hard drive crash excuse. It's impenetrable. Nevermind the classic, old school nepotism. We can only pray that some homely freshmen saved her own precious, scribbled copy of the meeting minutes, and this story really goes national. Until then, hopefully this isn't weighing too heavily on the hearts and minds of Gary Patterson's bunch as they enter a brutal November stretch.