This morning a roommate of mine, who was out flyering for Student Action, told me about some anti-SA flyers that were out. The flyers are on par with SA’s own Done flyers for playing fast and loose with the truth. I will comment on what I do know of regarding the flyers.

EAVP: Lina Ochman

No lobby visits

If the people are referring to Cal lobby day, it should be known the EAVP office usually puts it on. The lack of it would be their fault, which would be a CalSERVE failure. However, eliminating lobby day in favor of other things is worth a try. Why would lawmakers listen to students at their office one day out of 365?

Voter registration campaigns

For the academic year, there was a primary in February, but not a general or special election like there has been in the past three years. The lack of an election would imply the lack of a registration campaign

Where in the ASUC constitution does it say the EAVP should conduct voter registration? There are numerous campus groups that register voters of their own accord and do so without the ASUC overhead. The people who are passionate about politics and really care will vote in the primary. If someone does not want to get involved in the primary, they should stay out.

Not advocating for lowering student fees

Almost no on in the ASUC actually works for lower student fees. A lot of people claim to, then they let stupid fee increases go to voters, like the SUPERB fee.

AAVP: Christian Osmena

This attack is the most comical. They don’t actually attack Christian’s record, but that of a congressman he worked for. Then they put up a picture of President Bush, even though the only connection is both Rohrabacher and Bush are registered Republicans. The President does not even act like a Republican. This reminds me of the anti-Dwight flyers last year, but those flyers quoted something the candidate had actually wrote.

Also a No vote on the energy conservation tax act by Congressman Rohrabacher might mean he is actually against higher taxes and fees, which seemed to be a big issue in the above attack.

EVP: Grace Shen

Nutrition information in campus restaurants

If I remember correctly, I asked Grace about this campaign point at an endorsement meeting and she said when she was took office it was already underway. Check out this nifty thing.

President: Curtis Lee

This makes the best points of this flyer series. I asked Curtis about the student web portal and was told about a 2012 plan, which is marginally better then the mid-semester evaluations that never happened.

These flyers make the point a few of the candidates are bad. However, if you took the CalSERVE candidates I don’t think you will find they are all great leaders who do incredible things.