How not to run a campaign for election
Two of the candidates for Student Government something this year at RIT are Ed Wolf and Sasha Malinchoc. I don’t know what they’re running for. I have no way of knowing. They never say. They have posters up all over campus that just say “Empower & Achieve” and a link to their website at http://vote.rh.rit.edu/. They’re a study in how not to run a campaign for anything.
Let’s start with a simple thing, which is only partly their fault. They should be removed from candidacy for registering vote.rh.rit.edu and using it as part of their campaign (for those not familiar with RIT’s IPEDIT/Claws systems, students are allowed to request custom DNS names). Furthermore, whatever rules govern SG campaigns should be changed to ban such blatant attempts to unfairly sway, even mislead, the student body. That’s like registering united-states.com to promote a single candidate.
Second, the posters, and the website. In all that space, you’d think they could mention what office they’re running for. One would assume president and VP, but how are we supposed to know this? Sasha and Ed never say. For all anyone could ascertain from their posters and web site, they could be trying to get elected for completely separate offices.
Aside from that Sasha and Ed look like generic candidates for whatever they’re doing. Vote for their opponent, please, in the event you do ever figure out what office they’re trying to run for. We don’t want dishonest idiots like this anywhere near SG. And yes Sasha and Ed, although I’m not a big fan of personal attacks in public forums, you deserve it. Your behavior in registering vote.rh.rit.edu for your personal campaign use is inexcusable, and your inablility to make posters, or even a web site, that says what you’re trying to get elected for shows an ineptness at even the simple task of advertising, much less representing the student body.
So this coming SG election, don’t vote Ed and Sasha.
I’m Joe, and I approve this message.
–EDIT
Apologies - it does say what they’re running for at the very bottom of the biography pages. Great way to make sure no one sees it.
April 11th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
I was checking their site, and it does appear that they’ve put some of their goals up now, as well as a bit about the candidates. I wasn’t planning on voting for them anyway though.
I do agree though that they probably shouldn’t be allowed to use that hostname in relation to their campaign.
April 24th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Well they won, so maybe Ed and Sasha should be study of how to run a SUCCESSFUL campaign. Maybe this blog is a study on how one can look like a dumbass. lol