The GW College Democrats and the GW College Republicans announced their endorsements for Student Association President and Executive Vice President tonight in the Marvin Center.
The CD’s will be endorsing juniors Marc Abanto for SA President and Nick D’Addario for SA EVP.
The CR’s will be endorsing junior Casey Pond for SA President and sophomore Brand Kroeger for SA EVP.
Stay tuned for more election news throughout the upcoming weeks and be sure to join the Hatchet and the SA in the First Annual SA-Hatchet Candidates Debate, Thursday February 15, from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. in the Jack Morton Auditorium.
The CD’s and CR’s endorsements are bogus. In organizations having over 1,000 members each, it is aboslutely ridiculous to allow endorsement hearings, which represent the stance of the entire organization, to go on without a quorum. The hearings were held in the Ampitheatre in the Marvin Center and it was not even half full. I blame the organizations for not making these events a larger issue. In regards to the SA elections as a whole, these two organizations’ endorsements do not mean anything and they should be taken with a grain of salt.
The fact that CD’s are endorsing Abanto and D’Addario is preposterous. The two appealed to the fact that Marc had given money to the org. And let’s not mention the questions that D’Addario’s girlfriend and several people from their campaign asked them.
As for CR’s endorsement, it is highly biased as well. The amphitheater had a significant number of Casey Pond’s fraternity brothers. I doubt that they are the majority of CR’s.
This year’s election is the worst out of the last 3 years.
Someone is obviously a bit upset about not getting the endorsement…..
I think endorsements from the CD’s and CR’s are very significant, and we have seen many candidates benefit from these endorsements in past election cycles. People (who one would asssume are candidates because of their fierce language and obvious anger) have written entries above this one that the endorsement hearing are bogus and highly-biased. As a suggestion, I would say, that while I feel like both the CD’s and CR’s always put on a fair endorsement hearing, any person who feels that the hearings are biased and bogus has the option not to participate and to expose what they think is wrong with the process. However, no candidate chose to do this, and in my mind, candidates who are complaining about endorsements now are just sore about losing the endorsement battle.
Is anyone else disgusted at the CR event scheduled for University Yard on V-day?
Luke Moses,
You are wrong. I am actually not a candidate. I just saw how ridiculous the process was. Two organizations, having over a thousand members each, allow forty people to decide who will be endorsed. It just doesn’t make sense. Either the endorsements must not be announced unless there is a certain threshold passed for number of votes or the process needs to change completely.