Controversial filmmaker Michael Moore still intends to speak at George Mason University in Fairfax, despite the university rescinding its official invitation to the man from Flint, Mich., who brought us “Roger and Me,” “Bowling for Columbine,” and “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Moore was supposed to speak at the Patriot Center for $35,000, but when word began to spread, the phone calls started flooding in expressing concern that public money would be used for a partisan speaking engagement so close to the Nov. 2 elections.

The Post reports that Virginia Del. Vincent Callahan, a Republican moderate from Fairfax, said that Moore is “a sleazebag of the first order.” Callahan is also chairman of the Virginia House’s appropriations committee, so the threat of slashed subsidies must have loomed over the university administration’s heads.

Moore contends that speaking engagements in key battleground states will help increase voter turnout.