For the OC Candidates of the Past, Present and Future

Each of the candidates from the Oregon Commentator has done reasonably well for usually spending the lowest amount of money out of all of the ASUO exec campaigns. Jeremy Jones has snagged about 125 of 2,257 (5.5%) votes with his greatest expenditure being his campaign ad in the last issue of the Commentator.

Managing Editor Tim Dreier got 98 of the 2,346 (4.2%) votes while fighting the commies on campus and competing with nine other tickets. Tim ended up coming behind one serious campaign by seven votes.

Oddly, the Emerald website doesn’t have my results in any article from the 2001 primary elections. However, they do have my interview. I believe I received over 100 votes out of 1,500 (6.7%).

Unfortunately in 2000, Former OC Editor Ed Madrid was dropped from the ballot when he couldn’t keep “All these people are idiots” as his official moniker. However, OC contributor Dan Atkinson ran on a “left-handed student rights” platform winning 4.2% of the vote.

1999 was host to one of the most memorable election debates, with Former OC Editors William Beutler and Tamir Kriegel and OC AP writer Brandon Hartley creating most of the chaos.

The best finish of any OC canidacy was in 1998 when Kriegel teamed up with Greg Labavitch to win an amazing 409 out of 2,040 votes and land in third place. I believe their campaign slogan was, “Tamir and Greg Rhymes with Beer and Keg.”

A freshman Madrid and his running mate Sal 2000, a talking computer, took on the big leaguers in 1997 and won 6% of the total votes.

And so the OC continues its proud tradition of mocking the ASUO elections for the farce that it is. Here’s to next year’s elections!

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