Sunday, March 27, 2005
Wow
Okay, war on Bears United. They have a website, but they haven't put anything there yet, so nothing to say yet.
However, their response to Mike Davis's suit is so absurd that I have no choice but to go to war.
First, let me explain what happened. Mike sued Bears United for violating campaign laws. Bears United responded with a blog commenting campaign. Seriously. With talking points and everything. Here they are:
Mike Davis is just trying to look cool
Ha. Yeah. Okay. Sorry, guys, Mike Davis is one of the few people who understands that if people want control of our money, they have to follow the rules we place on them.
Mike Davis shouldn't sue, since he's only a voter
Well, good bye democracy.
Bears United is running on a platform of accountability and responsibility
Strong words, for a party that couldn't even file its paperwork on time. Anyway, it seems the BU interpretation of "fighting for accountability and responsibility" is to just bitch about all the stupid things the ASUC has done over the years. Which, while reasonable, would make much more of an impact if Bears United wasn't doing such stupid things before they even got into office.
Suing Bears United is mean to transfer students
Uh... Okay. Don't enforce the rules, because it's mean?
Let the students decide
Students have already decided that candidates must follow the rules when campaigning. There's a structure in place for enforcing those rules at the request of students.
"Let us run in peace"
*sigh* You guys aren't going skiing. It's not a game of poker. You aren't spending your time and money to have fun. You want to have the power to spend the students' money. We will not let you run in peace. You want our money, but want us not to make a big deal of it. Are you fucking insane?
It's hard to run a campaign
Yeah, it is. That's why you shouldn't do it. If you can't handle stress, pressure, and rules, you shouldn't be in the campaigning business. And you definitely shouldn't be in ASUC office.
It's our first election, so we don't know the rules very well
Oh, wow. First of all, didn't Bears United run a slate last year? What happened to all those people? Can't they tell you things? Second, your ignorance of the rules is no reason to ignore your violations. The rules are written down. They're available. They've been available for months. Even if you transferred here, it wasn't difficult to just go read them before election season came along.
It's our first election, and it's hard, so have some sympathy
Dude, WTF? Seriously WTFF? (That's "What the Fucking Fuck?") There isn't a training election. You don't get to try it once without pressure just to see what it's like. You learn by being tossed into it and losing badly. Then, next year, you learn from your mistakes. Except this didn't happen with Bears United for some reason. Last year's Bears United and this year's Bears United are apparently completely seperate.
Berkeley is the bastion for government criticism and civil disobedience
Uh... not in the past few decades. In any case, no one runs for governmental office with civil disobedience.
Finally, the best of all:
"BEARS-United doesnt actually want control of Student Funds. We want to set up an independent watchdog committee to oversee student money."
That's right. They want to criticize funding in the ASUC, but don't want control over it. Which raises the obvious question, why are they running for office? I criticize the ASUC all the time, and don't have control over funding. I didn't have to run a whiny campaign to pull it off. That's like saying "I'm running for president, because I want to be a pundit."
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