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Failure of Democracy |
Current rating: 0 |
by Charles Clark
Email: pnifos (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified!)
Phone: 332-1630
Address: 202 E. Peabody 450 Scott Hall Champaign IL 61820 |
07 Dec 2001
Modified: 11:09:19 AM |
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The College Republicans rigged their elections and lied to keep diverse non-elitists from winning. They were outnumbered 30-20 and would have had a new president but instead decided that deceit and changing rules mid-meeting was better than letting outsiders in. |
As written in the College Republicans Constitution: one must attend one
regular event to run for office and have attended none to vote in elections
as long as in both cases the person has paid their dues (confirmed by three
seperate executive board members prior to and during the meeting). At the
Republican elections last night, pNifos showed up in force to elect some of
their members to the executive board. At the outset of the meeting pNifos
had 30 of the 50 people present.
The rule is then changed and the president, Meghan Walk, states that to
run is 2 meetings and to vote is 1. That leaves myself as the only pNifos
member elegible to run and I run for president. Election ballots are given
out and the three contenders for president each give a speach (the eventual
winner, Dan Bolin, gives his best rendition of a used car salesman). Before
ballots are counted and fearing a loss- Meghan Walk begins to ask all
present which meeting they attended and when she realizes it is not working,
sends everyone out of the room for an emergency executive meeting (i.e.
emergency rewriting of the constitution).
They decide to adjorn the meeting and give money back to those who came
and say they will hold re-elections at a different time. The injustice is
tremendous and I take off and throw my republican bar crawl t-shirt at the
non-diverse elitists and a rousing pNifos chant ensues. Today we learned
that after we left they had the elections anyway (oh, the lies keep just
keep mounting) to ensure that we wouldn't find out about a future meeting.
Our response will be to go public with protests and letting the head of
the school organizations and school newspaper know of the injustice. Our
immediate response was to rsvp 40 of our members for their party this
weekend (even saying we'll bring our own refreshments). I'll go out on a
limb though and say that they'll cancel or move the meeting.
For myself, I have gone from undecided politically to joining the
democrats. Along with being less inclusive, rich, and elitist, it will be
nice to be in a party with more than one minority. That of course is not to
say that we won't go to all required meetings next year, elect ourselves in
again, and finally change the party to be much more accepting and diverse
(if that is even possible).
President of pNifos,
Charles Clark |
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Florida Here We Come |
by ML
(No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0
07 Dec 2001
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Is Meghan a Floridian? I hear that Katherine Harris is waiting to get kicked upstairs in the Bush Administration. Meghan could run for Florida Secretary of State. She certainly seems to be qualified to manage an election (at least by Florida standards.)
http://katherineharrissucks.com/ |
