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Ann Coulter Vows To Speak At UC Berkeley Despite Planned Speech Cancellation

Administration officials told organizers that "given currently active security threats, it is not possible to assure that the event could be held successfully." Coulter says she'll speak anyway.
Ann Coulter speaks during Politicon in Los Angeles in 2015.

Despite the decision of University of California, Berkeley, officials to cancel conservative commentator Ann Coulter's planned speech for April 27, Coulter and organizers are promising she will still find a way to speak at the campus.

Early Wednesday, UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor Scott Biddy and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Stephen Sutton emailed

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