(Bastien Inzaurralde,Julio Negron,Osman Malik/The Washington Post)Bobby Brooks, a junior at Texas A&M, made history this month when he was elected as the university’s first openly gay student body president. That changed Wednesday, when Perry, the country’s current energy secretary, chose to plunge into campus politics, claiming publicly that Brooks stole the election from another student. “When I first read that our student body had elected an openly gay man, Bobby Brooks, for president of the student body, I viewed it as a testament to the Aggie character,” Perry wrote. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)The energy secretary called out, by first and last name, the student election commissioner and student chief justice of the A&M judicial court. Smith, the university’s senior communications vice president, told the Texas Tribune that student government elections are run by the students, not administrators, and that Perry’s “understanding of the election rules of student body president elections doesn’t reflect the facts.”Reached late Wednesday night, the student election commissioner declined to comment.

Source: Washington Post March 23, 2017 09:40 UTC