M.A.D. party wins SGA elections
By: Kendall Jones
Staff Reporter
Issue date: 4/10/07 Section: News
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It's official, students are mad.
After over 19,900 votes were cast, election commissioner Desmond Robinson certified the Student Government Association's 2007 election, officially giving the M.A.D. (Making a Difference) party a victory over the SGAgency at 5:56 p.m. Friday.
A proposition that would raise student fees to purchase green power also passed.
"I think when the students voted, M.A.D. was definitely the party they wanted to lead the student government association," said Kenneth Taylor, M.A.D. senator-elect for the College of Arts and Sciences.
Though votes favored them, the M.A.D. candidates will enjoy a majority in the senate that is finite - 13 seats to SGAgency's 11.
Even the vice-president was decided by just 20 votes, with Vasheta Smith of the M.A.D. party defeating SGAgency candidate James Callicott.
"I don't feel any different," Smith said. "Before I was still the same person advocating change, advocating making a difference and now I'm still that same person."
Except now, Smith has a significant amount of power over student life at The U of M.
Though M.A.D. holds the vice-presidential seat and a majority in the senate, SGAgency president-elect Gionni Carr waltzed his way to victory on Friday unopposed.
With such a small margin of victory, the 58th general assembly of SGA is eerily reminiscent of the United States' Democratic Congress and Republican executive branch.
"Of course, a lot of people have been expecting me to run for (speaker of the senate), and they have referred to Gionni as being Bush and me, if I decide to run for that position, as (Democratic Speaker of the House) Nancy Pelosi," Taylor said.
M.A.D. filed two grievances against the SGAgency, which created some bad blood between the two parties during the election.
One grievance the election commission struck down dealt with Carr announcing his campaign for SGA president at a February step show before filing paperwork in March.
After over 19,900 votes were cast, election commissioner Desmond Robinson certified the Student Government Association's 2007 election, officially giving the M.A.D. (Making a Difference) party a victory over the SGAgency at 5:56 p.m. Friday.
A proposition that would raise student fees to purchase green power also passed.
"I think when the students voted, M.A.D. was definitely the party they wanted to lead the student government association," said Kenneth Taylor, M.A.D. senator-elect for the College of Arts and Sciences.
Though votes favored them, the M.A.D. candidates will enjoy a majority in the senate that is finite - 13 seats to SGAgency's 11.
Even the vice-president was decided by just 20 votes, with Vasheta Smith of the M.A.D. party defeating SGAgency candidate James Callicott.
"I don't feel any different," Smith said. "Before I was still the same person advocating change, advocating making a difference and now I'm still that same person."
Except now, Smith has a significant amount of power over student life at The U of M.
Though M.A.D. holds the vice-presidential seat and a majority in the senate, SGAgency president-elect Gionni Carr waltzed his way to victory on Friday unopposed.
With such a small margin of victory, the 58th general assembly of SGA is eerily reminiscent of the United States' Democratic Congress and Republican executive branch.
"Of course, a lot of people have been expecting me to run for (speaker of the senate), and they have referred to Gionni as being Bush and me, if I decide to run for that position, as (Democratic Speaker of the House) Nancy Pelosi," Taylor said.
M.A.D. filed two grievances against the SGAgency, which created some bad blood between the two parties during the election.
One grievance the election commission struck down dealt with Carr announcing his campaign for SGA president at a February step show before filing paperwork in March.