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A Failing Grade Away From the Presidency

Many have said of the US Vice Presidency, is like being a heartbeat away from having a heartbeat. The VP in ASUN is just as important. For this election the voters have a choice between Charlie Jose and Maritza Perez. Both candidates fit the job description, which is basically nothing. Since I started with Eli’s ticket in the last post, I’ll start with Michael’s this time. Even though they aren’t “officially” on a ticket, Michael and Charlie are running together. Because Eli and Maritza are “officially” running on a ticket (see their Facebook group) it’s a defacto position for Charlie.

Not very much is known about this Senator from the College of Liberal Arts. Only recently has he started actually doing anything as a Senator besides sitting at the table on Wednesday nights. Only in the last two months has he even found a cause, and he just now found the budget crisis. He’s latched onto the problem, trying to show that he has what it takes to stand up for students. My only response to this is, what took you so long? As far as I can tell Charlie hasn’t sponsored much if any legislation this year, so what has he been doing for the last 10 months? Students need leaders that have ideas and actually want to accomplish something, not just look busy when they are running for office.

Charlie did have one of the highest vote tallies in last year’s election, so he has proven himself a competent campaigner. Time will only tell if people can see beyond his lack of accomplishments and put Charlie into a completely pointless position.

As for his opponent, Maritza Perez, the first thing that comes to mind is, lack of backbone. Last year she joined onto the drowning campaign of Shane/McMenmemey as their appointee for C&O. This was the dumbest political move in history; it was pretty obvious from the beginning that Justin and Ian weren’t going to win. And even if you thought they had a chance, an intelligent person would have waited until AFTER the primary to join on. So instead of becoming Director of C&O she had to be a subordinate to Jason, a person with much less club experience.

Now this year instead of running for President herself, which might have been a good campaign, she allowed herself to be talked into running on a ticket with Eli. This was a genius move on Eli’s part, instead of having to go through a primary against a decent candidate, he convinced her she would be better off running WITH him instead of AGAINST him. Props to Eli, but if Maritza didn’t realize she was being used, she’s dumb. And if she realized she was being used and allowed it, she’s even dumber. The same can be said of both Maritza and Eli, either you love them or you hate them. Maritza knows a lot of people around campus, but who knows how many actually like her or are just being nice. One of the qualities of Maritza is that she’s involved in many things around campus, I’m sure it would be hard to name on both hands all the organizations she’s involved with. But the flipside to this coin is that she’s so busy doing so many things that she doesn’t do them very well. She’s constantly going back and forth to many of her little projects and never is able to spend much quality time on any one. Some have labeled her a “resume hog,” as her only goal is to fatten her resume.

Because of the way the elections are done, VP is elected separate from President. Which means that Eli could win and end up with Charlie as his VP or visa versa. This is what happen last year and why we ended up with a VP and a President who didn’t like each other. Once again Eli has made the decision to have a ticket, luckily for him, this year his running mate can’t be knocked off in the Primary and leave him with a hundred signs that have a loosing name on them.

As of right now, I think it’s pretty well tied between the VPs. While Maritza is more well known that Charlie, there are plenty of people who will be voting against Maritza instead of for Charlie. My only hope is that whoever wins this year; they are paired with a VP who they actually like.

Posted by Wolfie at 10:15 PM

Labels: Elections