If Jeff Wright and the rest of ASM really think that this mockery of a safeguard is “absolutely fantastic” they should put their money where their mouth is: hold the referendum again with their minimum enforced. Hold it again, now that the plans and services have actually been laid out and the cost to students has been clearly defined. Or better yet, apply this minimum to all student votes that involve ASM instead of just “capital building projects.”
But neither of these will happen. The wrecking party is already set for Union South, and ASM would never apply the 15 percent minimum across the board. After all, we can’t have ASM ignored out of existence, now can we?
From the golden era of LIB on campus circa 2006ish:
I talked to Ashok Kumar, candidate for Dane County Board, who said he hoped his side would push the living wage referendum through.
We agreed, however, on the need to defeat the union renovation referendum.
Politics, as they say, makes for strange bedfellows…it’s time to renew the alliance from last spring when the far-left and campus conservatives came together to defeat a similar referendum.
2 Comments
November 21, 2008 at 3:14 am
Yes.
Problem with that article is the writer said it was pointless to pass a voter turnout threshold when there aren’t any big projects in the works.
Um…Natatorium addition, anyone?
November 21, 2008 at 12:02 pm
It’s the right thing to do. It may be too late to help with the infamous Union project, but the 15% threshold for capital building projects is the right thing to do. Someday, it should be across the board.