10 things that surprised me this election
1. Every candidate had a website outside of Facebook, and for the most part these were good websites.
2. I didn’t hear a single Kings student bitch about not getting to vote in the DSU Elections.
3. The Elections Committee eased a decade-old restriction on online campaigning: websites can remain up during polling. [Candidates: any idea if new people visited this week?]
4. Eric Snow wasn’t running in this election. (He’s run in almost as many elections as Debogorski! Speaking of…)
5. Debogorski. After 3 years I thought I’d seen it all, but I was very impressed with his campaign this year.
6. Calibre of candidates in general. I might speak more on this later, but the quality and variety of candidates pleased me greatly. Judging (as always) purely from online content including punditry.ca posts, the Union will be well-served by almost any combination of candidates. I hope, as I always do, that those who don’t end up with an executive seat stick around in some capacity.
7. NSPIRG didn’t come up at all. It doesn’t usually, actually, but after its dominance last year I thought we’d never again hold an election without hearing “enn-ess-purg” 100 times a day.
8. Three candidates from Sexton?!? Happy surprise!
9. There are people who don’t like Henry Whitfield. Seriously, I’ve never met him but I have heard about him, and I didn’t imagine anyone would be harboring the level of resentment I’ve seen in our comments section.
10. In a platform plank a supporter complained we were neglecting and suggested we look at : 5 spelling mistakes, in 1 sentence, including the same word spelled two different ways, both incorrect. Awesome. I won’t name names, but man was that ever kurInkredible. (No? kaylAmazing? fan-kurin-tastic?)
#2: I’m surprised, too. Though I recall hearing someone complaining about it, so maybe I just haven’t heard it directly.
#3: About freaking time.
#4: Thank God. What a relief.
#6: Here, here!
#7: We’ll see, there’s still an AGM tomorrow… cross your fingers, though.
#10: Seriously, those jokes are kaylAwful. You should stop them right this kurInstant.
You two should be kaylashamed.
And yeah, I’m just waiting for the SMACATTACK.
There are only two Sexton candidates. Ben Wedge is only in second year, so he lives in the Dunn building and represents the first two years of Engineering (which, incidentally, will start moving to Sexton next year…)
Sorry, let me rephrase: three candidates who will be considered members of Sexton while they hold office, if elected.
@Samer
In practice, “Sexton” is just another word for “All Engineers, and architecture/planning students when it’s convenient” anyway.