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This fall, for example, Monteiro forbid candidates from communicating with the press before official campaigning began, based on an existing rule prohibiting “broadly public?? candidacy statements. But council members were able to talk with the press about issues, so in effect, this restriction prevented outsider candidates from communicating with voters. All candidates should be free to announce their intentions whenever they see fit, and the council must revise its bylaws to give everyone this freedom, as well as eliminate the potential for future drastic reinterpretations...
Friday’s discussion began by focusing on the role that late night talk shows play in shaping the public??s understanding of politics...
This kind of result plays right into the hands of those who deride ballot initiatives as worthless reflections of an uneducated public??s selfish, shortsighted urges of the moment. If voters are not, on the whole, intelligent or thoughtful enough even to retain the memory of one piece of propaganda’s message when they come across another a few minutes later, how can they be trusted with anything? These are, after all, the same people who almost passed Massachusetts’ Question 1, a binding referendum which would have eliminated all state income...
...ruling left-leaning parties and European Union bureaucrats completely failed to acknowledge the public??s concern about immigration. They instead stuck to a utopian ideology of multiculturalism and closed their eyes to the contradictions spawned by their social choices. Fortunately, the center-right has co-opted the far-right’s immigration platform, and with it their popularity, while steering clear of extremism. Instead of blasting all European conservatives for imaginary fascist tendencies, liberals should thank them for saving Europe from the real thing...
...rule against campaigning before the official start date resulted in a full-scale prohibition of any prospective candidates speaking with the press before their petitions for candidacy were certified. Even now, in the days before official campaigning begins, candidates are still prohibited from making “broadly public?? statements about their candidacy. This muddled ban has led to confusion and frustration from candidates, many of whom already hold offices in the Undergraduate Council that require frequent communication with the campus press in order to keep the student body well-informed...