Election Watch: Grievance Count: 4; “Racism!” Count: 1
- I don’t have time to find and post the links at the moment, but there’s a story by reporter Nick Wilbur in today’s ODE about how Todd Mann’s supporters have been called racists:
Wannita Nualngam, who is running on the Jared Axelrod-Guzman campaign slate, wrote in her report to the BRT that two members of the Mann-Grace campaign were playing Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” at the Heart of Campus. Nualngam and two supporters of the slate said they witnessed the Mann-Grace supporters yell “Todd and Jontae were born in the USA. Juliana wasn’t.”
“They assumed that since she was Latin(a) she wasn’t an American,” Nualngam wrote, calling it “a racist assumption.”
If true, then it’s certainly a very stupid thing to say, particularly since (I believe) Guzman is from Los Angeles. What’s particularly mystifying is the quote further in the article from accused racist and Mann-supporter Dave Elliott:
“I know I personally didn’t allude to Jared (or Guzman) being born in the USA,” he said.
Did the ODE forget to transcribe a “not,” or is Elliott just that stupid?
- In the same story Wilbur mentions an Elections grievance filed by ASUO Multicultural Advocate Ian Tacquard against Mann. The grievances accuse the Mann/Grace ticket of improperly campaigning in the dorms and selling hot pink t-shirts.
- The ODE also has an editorial in today’s paper endorsing Axelrod/Guzman. I’ll address that particular feast of poorly-reasoned opinion when I have a bit more time and a proper keyboard.
UPDATE: Links added.
