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Question for the Candidates

Posted March 10, 2019, 7:10 a.m. by Admiral Joe P (Election Coodinator) (Joe P)

Posted by Robert Archer in Question for the Candidates

Posted by Admiral Joe P (Election Coodinator) in Question for the Candidates
These questions are for everyone.

I don’t see a lot of visible effort being put in by anybody on the Election Ship at the moment. Some candidates are even talking in Discord about how bored they have been for the past few days. Usually Election Season isn’t boring for a candidate because they’re busy trying to demonstrate that they’re going to run the club proactively and that they’re a better choice to do that than their opponents. This doesn’t appear to be currently happening.

Why has your campaign posted so very little so far?

Part of the reason has been my real life responsibilities, which even a prez needs to balance with. Secondly much of what Louis and I plan to do has already been declared in our campaign HQ posts. I’m not sure why people are posting about being bored, but perhaps the lack of activity could be due to no front page news being shared with the club at large.

Well, maybe you misunderstood what I wrote, so let me clarify. When I said candidates were writing about how bored they were in Discord and weren’t very active, I was in part specifically referring to you, as you’ve made public declarations of your boredom about four times since you wrote this post. So, let’s not guess what other people are thinking, let’s get straight to what you are thinking.

How could you possibly be bored right now given that you are running for President? Are you boring yourself?

Election season is often a preview for how people are going to be as President. Are you going to be bored as President? Were you bored as President the last time you were President?

If you are bored, do you think you might also be boring other people? Do you think that is a problem for your campaign? Do you think it’s a problem for your eventual Presidency if you win?

Do you plan on being a reactive President or a proactive President? Which do you think is better? Why?

– Joe

I plan on being both, right now in the club much of what needs to be done is handled or in planning from what I know of by TECH to finish up our EXODUS deployments and site maintenance. So beyond what we plan to do we plan to keep things simple and straight forward. But! If something is brought to our attention then we will handle it as it comes up.

As for which I think is better it is hard for me to say, because the club changes almost day to day and week to week at times with which is needed. But personally, I find being proactive usually a better fit for myself.

Robert Archer

I consider the answer of “both” to be self-contradictory. Also, saying that you want to be proactive is completely at odds with everything you listed here, because it’s largely a description of work that people other than you are doing that you say you’re not going to mess with, and that you’re going to react to stuff that comes up. I don’t know how you can be proactive when every proactive thing you have described so far is the activity of other people who will be doing what they’re going to do independently of you.

So, I think you’re going to be reactive. Which, is not necessarily a bad thing if it’s done deliberately with some thought. But it seems as though you’re adopting that stance because you think the club doesn’t really need anything from the President to keep running; that we’re a well oiled machine that just needs someone to sit and watch it and add more oil or something every once in a while. Is that a fair assessment of your view? If it’s not, what exactly do you think the President does?

Joe


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