RED light?: ASUA campaigns starting early on Facebook
(Updated)
Much like last year, the current ASUA campaign strategy looks to involve packing people into large Facebook groups named for potential candidates, and then putting things up declaring a "campaign" immediately when the campaign begins. This year’s campaign begins on February 12th according to the elections website, but I’ve been noticing some activity.
Remember Team Yellow? A similar strategy looks to be back in the works, as three recent Facebook groups have declared an apparent alliance of "RED." These include:
- RED - It’s more than a color
- The Awesomeness of Steven ‘RED’ Gerner
- I love James "RED" Pennington-McQueen
- Amy C. Drapkin is RED Hot!!!
I’m not assuming anything malevolent here, but what we’re definitely looking at here is an inevitability of a system where "official campaigning" is only allowed to take place within a specified amount of time. Regardless of what the elections commissioner might think about this, it’s only fair that everybody finds out and is allowed to follow suit.
If anything makes this "RED" team a painfully obvious preliminary campaign, you might try reading one of the group’s walls…
Moreover, I was hoping that these elections would rise above petty slogans and monikers, but there was also no reason to think they actually would.
Full disclosure: Steven Gerner and I are former classmates from a political theory class and are registered as friends on Facebook.
heres a tip: look at either one of the two UA Technology Survey. See whos it from? Steven “Red” Gerner, ASUA Senator. It was sent to EVERY UA student. Twice. Dont you think electioneering in an official capacity is wildly inappropriate?
Comment by ;lks — January 25, 2007 @ 1:19 am