Let the Race Begin
One Man's Musing on SGA Politics
Issue date: 1/31/06 Section: features
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Versus Magazine Online [Image Edition]
Everybody knows that Jamie Frazier and Bill Weimar are going to run for SGA president, so that might as well be out in the open. Both have been striving for the position ever since they started getting involved with SGA. With Jamie Frazier having his infamous president.frazier@vanderbilt.edu email, since changed, and Bill Weimar working his angles behinds the scenes, this year's SGA elections promise to be one of interest. Boone Lancaster's late addition to the mix will only make the pomp and circumstance only so much better. No one can publicly state their running for office because that would count as campaigning and it would immediately disqualify them from SGA elections for illegal campaigning.
Hopefully, the rat race conducted this year behind that scenes to find running mates for SGA President will be lesscomplicated. Last year, the search for SGA Vice-Presidents as running mates turned some candidates. At the beginning of the year, Jamie Frazier and David Darwin spoke loosely about combining to become a ticket to run against the incumbent Vice-President Kate Morgan. As what often happens with politics, Jamie Frazier made the calculation, an astute one I might add, to disengage with David Darwin's presidential hopes to jump the fence to become Kate Morgan's running mate. Looking back on it, it was a cool calculation made by an intelligent politician that understood his demographics well. Obviously, one could also understand why Jamie Frazier's decision could leave David Darwin with a bad taste in mouth (not to mention scrambling for a running mate). To the knowledge of Versus, there was no foul play involved with Jamie Frazier's decision, just a calculation of the odds.
Here in enters Bill Weimar into the story. Being another burgeoning politician looking for avenues to grow, Bill Weimar called David Darwin as soon as he heard about Jamie Frazier's changing of sides. Weimar was instrumental in helping pull together David Darwin's new team and was one of the key coordinators of his campaign.
Everybody knows that Jamie Frazier and Bill Weimar are going to run for SGA president, so that might as well be out in the open. Both have been striving for the position ever since they started getting involved with SGA. With Jamie Frazier having his infamous president.frazier@vanderbilt.edu email, since changed, and Bill Weimar working his angles behinds the scenes, this year's SGA elections promise to be one of interest. Boone Lancaster's late addition to the mix will only make the pomp and circumstance only so much better. No one can publicly state their running for office because that would count as campaigning and it would immediately disqualify them from SGA elections for illegal campaigning.
Hopefully, the rat race conducted this year behind that scenes to find running mates for SGA President will be lesscomplicated. Last year, the search for SGA Vice-Presidents as running mates turned some candidates. At the beginning of the year, Jamie Frazier and David Darwin spoke loosely about combining to become a ticket to run against the incumbent Vice-President Kate Morgan. As what often happens with politics, Jamie Frazier made the calculation, an astute one I might add, to disengage with David Darwin's presidential hopes to jump the fence to become Kate Morgan's running mate. Looking back on it, it was a cool calculation made by an intelligent politician that understood his demographics well. Obviously, one could also understand why Jamie Frazier's decision could leave David Darwin with a bad taste in mouth (not to mention scrambling for a running mate). To the knowledge of Versus, there was no foul play involved with Jamie Frazier's decision, just a calculation of the odds.
Here in enters Bill Weimar into the story. Being another burgeoning politician looking for avenues to grow, Bill Weimar called David Darwin as soon as he heard about Jamie Frazier's changing of sides. Weimar was instrumental in helping pull together David Darwin's new team and was one of the key coordinators of his campaign.