Yay! Controversy!

I was actually planning on doing this deliberately, but I chose not to.

Summary: Guillermo Murga is running for ASUC Senate. I don't know who that is, and assume he's going to lose. He signed up after the candidates' meeting, but before the filing deadline. He didn't know when the voters' guide statement was due. His name is misspelled in the voters' guide (but then again, so is the ASUC's). Jessica Wren says she plans to seek a censure against him for missing the candidates' meeting.

Thoughts:

As far as I can tell, there is no basis for seeking a censure for missing the candidates' meeting.

Candidates are clearly responsible for the material in the candidates' meeting, according to the By-Laws. However, according to the By-Laws, the candidates' meeting was not held, since it is to follow the end of the filing period.

Moving the deadline for the filing period was a very bad idea. One could, probably with legal justification, think the candidates' meeting was to be held on April 3, simply by reading the By-Laws. Murga could probably argue that he was denied the right to attend the meeting, since it wasn't held when the By-Laws said they would be held.

The Judicial Council doesn't really have any remedies lying around but cancelling/postponing the elections.

Anyway, if you know this dude, or are this dude, and this dude wants some help dealing with the Judicial Council, I'm always available.

posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 4/09/2007 12:28:00 AM #
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Comments:

I agree with anonymous above about it being stupid to delay the election over this.

I think it makes much more sense for the Judicial Council to decline to issue a censure for this if it ever comes before them, based on the argument you have given Beetle, than for some kind of preemptive suit to be filed before the election takes place.

# posted by  jimf : 1:35 AM, April 09, 2007

 

Those are completely seperate issues, actually. NO candidate can be censured for missing the candidates' meeting, I believe, and thus this candidate cannot. It has nothing to do with the issue of the Voters' Guide or the lack of a candidates' meeting at the By-Law-defined time.

# posted by  Beetle Aurora Drake : 1:39 AM, April 09, 2007

 

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