February 24, 2005
UDs Endorse Ignite for SG / Grube for SEC
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
At tonight's University Democrats meeting, the membership voted to endorse in campus elections.
Student Government
The Ignite ticket won the UD endorsement.
The Connect ticket placed second.
Both choices by far outweighed votes to not endorse in the race.
Student Events Center
In the initial vote, there was no candidate with a majoriy. The order of strength was...
Justin Burniske
John Grube
Joy Phillips
Julio "JV" Vela
The top three candidates were closely bunched, reflecting the otherwise "non-stand outish-ness" of any particular candidate in regards to UDems.
In the Run-off, John Grube went from being one net vote behind Justin, to one net vote ahead, and won the endorsement of the University Democrats. Who says one vote never counted.
The announcement of UDems endorsements has been sent out to the 1600 people on our listserv. I will not announce my personal choice for the SEC race as I believe those of us on the Daily Texan endorsement panel (yes, I'm on it) will also be reviewing the SEC candidates this weekend along with all those on the SG tickets.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at February 24, 2005 06:52 AM
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Interesting, how many voters was that and why do you think they voted so overwhelmingly for Ignite? Who did the tickets send, just the Prez and VP candidates?
There were about 6-8 people for each ticket there, including Pres and VP. Traditionally UDems doesn't release vote total and the fact I threw up %s there is a step I took only because I'm covering this. It was on par with the usual number of people who vote in endorsement elections (that aren't Democratic Primaries).
I hope John was selected for his Vision and not for his work with Mabry and Edwards...
Also, we're the Student Events Center
Ack, my apologies! John really did present well and I think the decision was mostly based on that. But being a political org, mentioning that probably didn't hurt of course. know your audience....
Well, I'll vote for someone because they worked for Mabry and Edwards... that's good enough reason for me, but Matt - feel free to email me if you think that there are issues that I ought to consider before casting my vote.
chrisken... my guess is that the overwhelming vote was due to the fact that several UD's are on the Ignite ticket. Usually putting several UD's on the ticket garners the UD endorsement, although that wasn't the case last year as most of the organization was unwilling to go for the Patrick George / Matt Stolhandske ticket (that had several UDs) since George and Stolhandske were both Republicans - George the son of a former right-wing GOP State Rep, and Stolhandske a YCTer. The UD's decided not to endorse a ticket and only endorsed our members that were running.
But except for extreme cases, such as last year, putting several UD's on the ticket will usually get a UD endorsement.
