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Vice
presidential candidate withdraws from ASI
race
By
Lesley Nickus
Daily Forty-Niner
Assistant City Editor
Joseph
DeSantis withdrew from his vice presidential
candidacy this week. His official resignation
letter was turned in to the Academic Senate
office yesterday.
In
his letter, DeSantis said he is "withdrawing
in protest of inappropriate and viscious
campaign tactics waged against me."
DeSantis said his experience during the
campaign has been negative and he does not
want to be a part of a "system as debase
as this." DeSantis declined to comment
about his resignation, thus specific details
regarding these allegations were not available.
According
to DeSantis' letter, Associated Students,
Inc. bylaws require two or more candidates
for any one position and he believed there
would be a need for a special election due
to his resignation. However, while this
stipulation is in the bylaws, it only applies
to the elections before they are in progress.
"I
deeply regret the decision of my opponent,
Mr. Joe DeSantis, in withdrawing himself
as a candidate for the office of vice president,"
said Hironao Okahana, the only other vice
presidential candidate on the ballot. "[M]y
team and I will be making [an] effort to
reach as many students as possible to vote
for all areas of student government."
"Okahana
will still be running alone. Once elections
have started, there are no provisions,"
Government Adviser Kim Hinckson said.
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