I am surprised by how little I have had to say about the ASUC elections so far. It also helps Beetle has been sharing his massive amounts of election knowledge and reporting on stuff. A lot of the election is the same as previous years. I talked about the SUPERB fee and how ridiculous it was last year. The same arguments still apply and now it is even worse because students already voted on it and it failed just a year ago.

As for the candidates’ platforms’, they are all the same rehash from the past few years. Andrew gave a quick rundown here and here. If I had a dollar for every candidate that has promised lower textbook prices over the last four years, I would have enough money to buy all my textbooks.

This weekend brought some semi-interesting election sights.

On Saturday I was walking down College Ave. to campus and I saw a person. He was middle aged, well beyond college age. He was tearing down Student Action and BCR candidate Tommy Owens #106 flyers. I don’t know if he had it in for ASUC fliers in general or just those parties, as there were no CalSERVE flyers on the poles he ripped the fliers from.

After I spotted this person, a well placed Student Action member approached him and asked what he was doing. The person responded by saying he did not want to talk about it.

I have heard stories in previous years of a party getting bums to rip down their opposition fliers, but I don’t know if this is an example.

On Sunday I went to Crossroads for breakfast. I had a lot of company at the DC. No less than two executive candidates talked to me. Neither of them was actually campaigning, since campaigning in the DCs is illegal and we had preexisting relationships of sorts. I think I even saw a third executive candidate there, but I might have been suffering ill effects from a lack of coffee early in the day.

Seeing all these people gave me an idea. The next time I go to Crossroads, I will need to play ASUC candidate BINGO. I can play with my friends to see who can find the most candidates without looking. If you do find enough for a BINGO, I don’t know if you win or lose.