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Tapiaâs plea to be allowed in the race stems from her view that students lacked a choice for president. The two candidates, Andy Nicholas, the current representative to the Colorado Student Association, and Dave Flomberg, a copy editor/columnist for The Metropolitan, left students without options, according to Tapia.
But to assume that the whole process should be changed because she deems the candidates unfit is too little, too late.
If she seriously wanted to be the student body president, Tapia would have been prepared to run for the job. Even Flomberg, the candidate she criticized most harshly for his seeming lack of sincerity, made the deadline.
In campaign fliers, Tapia quotes Flomberg and Nicholas from editorial columns each wrote for the March 27 edition of The Metropolitan. She also takes The Metropolitan editorial out of context, saying that not even The Metropolitan could make an endorsement. The paper could not justify making an endorsement for president because one of the candidates is employed here. A simple conflict of interest.
Tapia also says in her fliers that she met all criteria and was ãinexplicably deniedä the chance to run for office.
Not true. She did not meet all criteria.
She missed the deadline.
Whether Tapia would have been the best candidate is immaterial. Sheâs right in believing students should have had more of a choice for SGA president. A diversified group of candidates is always better than the alternative.
The real losers are the students, who, by Tapiaâs failure to join the race, were denied the choice Tapia believes they deserve.
And for that, Tapia can only blame herself. |
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