Three strikes

The real problem here is that our Judicial Council seems afraid. With election dates being tossed around left and right, it is the job of the Judicial Council to lay the law down. A Judicial Council that makes allowances in the law to make things "run smoother" is easily pushed around, and becomes irrelevant. The era of Mike Davis and Paul LaFata is over. No one cares anymore, so we get messes like the one we have now. Especially since the Senate showed itself last year to be willing to impeach justices for giving a decision that caused people to complain loudly, rather than for any kind of malfeasance.

The editorial on the topic comes up with the lamest explanation ever:

Since Wren can't know all their needs, candidates should work together to help her devise the most effective solution. And who knows? Such cooperation could be a good omen for the success of next year's student government.

Cooperation is not a good omen. Cooperation gave us last year's GA mess, and it gave us this year's GA mess. This year, due to "cooperation," the GA has put forth a ballot measure that gives them loads of stuff for free, and the ASUC senate went along with it. Cooperation is not a good sign in a democratic control structure, because it loses the very purpose of the structure (that bickering will prevent idiocy from taking place).

posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 4/07/2006 04:37:00 PM #
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::blushes::

It's true Paul and I teamed up to draw hard lines (though not as clandestinely as the conspiracy theorists thought), but that said, I approved plenty of temporary rules to make things go smoother in elections. There were times I had to go so far as ramming them down the Election Council's throat with the threat of voiding the election and freezing their stipends. It helped that they knew I would.

In this case I probably would have done what the Council did. Elections are complicated beyond belief, I presided over 4 of them and you couldn't pay me enough to do the job of the ECC, and if the ECC needs more time to pull it off I'd be willing to give it to them if they have a good enough reason. Being brand new after the previous ECC resigned without doing much work would fall under that.

# posted by  Anonymous : 7:38 AM, April 12, 2006

 

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