Campaigning
Ed Stack reflects on campaigning, which he found to be a challenging and sometimes unpleasant aspect of student government.
Interview on 2011-04-26
Transcript
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The second election was a little bit tough,
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not tough from a voting standpoint but a little bit tough.
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I was running against somebody that
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had worked right beside of me the previous year.
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We knew each other well.
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Different sides, probably threw some things out there that were
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not helping with our friendship,
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and above all I wanted to make sure that
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each campaign was run appropriately and that at the end of the day no matter who won
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that we would still be friends,
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and so I think really the--. I guess in a nutshell
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the politics of it to me
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were the most challenging aspect.
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Everything else was fun,
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and although not easy it’s
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much easier to go in and talk to the faculty senate about the issue at hand
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or talk to the student senate about the issue at hand,
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but when it gets down to vote for me versus voting for that person,
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who I like and respect,
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that probably is the part that I found least fun.
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Everybody that has asked me about my time as student body president over the years
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and what part did you like least,
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and the politics--. I’ve always been surprised at how much politics, pure, ugly politics,
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is involved in student government, or at least was at the time,
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and that is probably the thing that I liked least about it.
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