Changing of the Guard

[aggienaut]

   At Senate today the six senators elected a year ago made their farewell speeches and were replaced by six new senators. In their farewell speeches, Senator Spencer Higgens announced his intention to run next quarter as the Focus Presidential Candidate, Senator Kareem Salem announced his intention to run as the Lead Presidential Candidate, and Senator Jonathon "Independant" Sanders --who almost exactly a month ago left the Lead party with "no plans on running for office on another slate in the future" announced his intention to run as the Focus Vice Presidential Candidate. The ASUCD Advisor / SGAO then completely overstepped their authority and gave the six outgoing senators the certificates of election that the Elections Chairman had refused to issue last year (stating that he could not in good conscience certify the election after the qualifications for office had been retroactively changed). Technically this would finally make these outgoing senators real senators, at least for a few minutes until the new ones were sworn in -- but lacking the Elections Chairman's signature I guess they're not really certificates of election.

   As I'm still in office, this bring the total number of Senators I've served with as Chief Justice to 57.


Inaccurate Tasering
   I was also very amused today that our paper the Cal Aggie carried a "guest editorial" from the UCLA Daily Bruin titled "UCSA Taser Resolution Inaccurate, Uninformed." Coming from a school that not only is still a member of UCSA (the UC Student Assn), but was the location of the tasering incident itself, this chastisement is so much stronger than if it had come from us.
   In conclusion, the staff of UCSA should be tasered.

Comments

[jtleathers.livejournal.com]

The day that article about Tiny leaving LEAD ran I was talking to him and Chris Herold. I found out from them that he was going to run with Student Focus before I read that he wasn't going to in the Aggie.

I'm not surprised that Tucker overstepped his authority (again) and gave out certificates of election. I was talking to him the other day and he brought it up at which point I had to re-inform him that I was not going to give them certificates of election nor would I sign new ones. The funniest part was that the conversation ended with him saying something along the lines of "well, it's up to you."

It figures that the one student government advisor that I liked was only around for about a half an hour.

Who was this guy?

[libpaul.livejournal.com]

The one that was there for 1/2 hour that is?

Re: Who was this guy?

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Remember Eric Sanchez?

Re: Who was this guy?

[orwell-troll.livejournal.com]

Who?

Re: Who was this guy?

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Hahaha

Following Victoria the Terrible we had Eric the Wise, now we have Tucker Ironfist.

Re: Who was this guy?

[jtleathers.livejournal.com]

Eric Sanchez. He took over when Vicki Swett left which was winter quater 2005. Then he took a better job on campus during the summer of 2005. Then Tucker was hired in the middle of Fall quarter 2005.

Re: Who was this guy?

[libpaul.livejournal.com]

O right, Sanchez. I never met him, unfortunately. Hah, you know what is interesting is that if the job had opened up earlier in 2005, say around January, I could have applied for it. Instead, I now have nearly 2 years in the private sector.