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This morning’s Daily Cal tells us that ASUC candidates spent almost $12,000 on campaigns or roughly $0.35 per student, according to preliminary numbers.
Student Action presidential candidate Ilana Nankin dished out the most money, putting down $630 out of a $1,000 maximum allowed.
Presidential campaign spending went as low as $0, something for which Beetle takes credit.
Of course individual spending doesn’t tell the whole story, as the Daily Cal notes.
According to ASUC election bylaws, a candidate must declare campaign material to the Elections Council if it includes their name. However, if the material includes multiple names, members of a slate can split the cost.
Naturally, independent candidates don’t like this with people like CalSERVE’s Van Nguyen adding his name to $2,000 of slate materials.
And by independent candidates, we mean Travis Garcia, Mr. Whiner himself, who tells the Daily Cal:
“They can reach a much bigger audience than I can, because they can split the costs.”
In the words of Fleetwood Mac, “If I could / Maybe I’d give you my world /How can I / When you won’t take it from me / You can go your own way.”
We just think ASUC candidates should rethink this whole campaign literature brouhaha for something more tangible such as doughnuts.
Buying in bulk, $12,000 could probably secure a doughnut for almost every student. Shit, they could even be iced with campaign slogans for maximum effect.
Remember how happy Kingpin’s trans fat-free doughnuts made us? Imagine thousands of students experiencing that level of gluttonous pleasure.
That might even bring a respectable number of students to the polls.
Comments:
Apr 16, 2007 at 3:24 pm
be careful what you wish for