Vis Lupi Est Grex

Orovada here. The silent third amigo of Vis Lupi. I've been watching the events unfold and now I want to put in my two cents. As a side note, if you're wondering what "Orovada" is, its Nevada's state soil. Why the state soil? Because ASUN is muddy business, my friends -- and with this election I have a feeling things will get dirty.

Back to the recap. We are approximately 3 weeks away from the general election and half of the candidates haven't even bothered to put up any kind of signs. Today, I was suprised to see that Reilly/Perez had put up a ton of little signs in addition to their huge one in front of the Knowledge Center. Charlie Jose has signs scattered around the campus as well. But Michael Cabrera who is running in the presidential election is MIA. Granted, its still a little early, but having the campus blanketed in Reilly/Perez signs doesn't look good for Cabrera, in fact, it makes him look like he can't get things together or that ASUN President isn't his top priority. I will give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that his campaign is going to unroll something big in the next couple of days.

As for the Senate races, the Neben & Neiman team had signs up really early -- which is good because these two are virtually unknowns. Their sign is catchy and creative saying that they are "good from every angle" because both names start and end with "N". What could be more Nevadan that that? Too bad neither of them submitted a video or statement to the Nevada Sagebrush, Neben submitted a picture, Neiman didn't even both to do that. 

Brice Esplin (incumbent) and Maragakis have a crudely painted sign up in front of the Joe Crowley - kudos for being the first to get some signage up, but maybe you should've spent a little more time on it to make it look professional. Again, neither of them bothered to submit anything to the Sagebrush, Maragakis isn't even listed as a candidate. Esplin should know better, he's been through an election before -- what does that really say to voters? It says that you don't care enough to meet deadlines, it says that you don't really care about putting in the effort for a Senate seat.

Ann Newsome has a couple signs up that say "Make a Plan, Vote for Ann" too bad she didn't put what College she's running for....I guess we're all just supposed to know that?

Oh, and last but not least, START has put up a monstrosity in Hilliard Plaza, complete with a leaf meant to symbolize some bullshit about being renewed, or starting from the ground up, or turning another leaf, or who the hell knows why they have some random leaves on their signs?Thier symbol is reminscint of a pot plant, since you'd have to be high to think up some of their platforms. On the other side they stapled the little fliers with their candidates. Too bad they're so small that you can't even read them. Maybe thats a good thing because voters still won't know who they are.

And thats it folks. No one else has even bothered to put up any kind of signs, fliers, anything. This is especially interesting because the number of candidates running in this race is much higher than in recent years, and all the senatorial candidates have professed that they really want to make a change -- fix the budget cuts, etc. But most of them can't even get their shit together to submit a short statement to the Sagebrush, take a photo, and record a 1 minute YouTube video.

In case you were wondering, here's a list of the slackers that didn't get their stuff into the Sagebrush:

Sean Hostmeyer (Incumbent)

Jane Glasgow

Thomas Hullin

Daniel Neiman

Ryan Quinlan

Ciara Villalobos

Adam Egan

Carson Nikkel

Samuel Owens

Johnson Wong

Brice Esplin (Incumbent)

Mary Hunton

Patrick Kealy (Incumbent)

Tatina Kosrykina

Matthew Maggy

Hayden Meyer

Lea Moser

Timothy Taycher

Thomsen Reed

Zachary Rees

Amanda Tipton

Will Wagner

Kimberly Anichowski

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