Campus Dems Blow Supermajority in SGA
CND CLUSTER – Voters in the northern cluster of CND dealt President Henry Krejsa's Democratic Party a major blow by electing a center-right Republican Rick Newcastle '11, to the seat long held by leftwing icon Debby O'Reily '11, who is currently abroad.
The vote drops the Campus Dems to 17 votes in the 18-seat Senate, leaving them shy of the supermajority of 18 senators needed to get anything done.
The Republican victory is a shock in the notoriously left-leaning campus, which has not had a Republican SGA senator in some 164 years. All six of the other clusters on campus appear to have maintained their sanity.
But the race was also viewed in part as a referendum on Krejsa, whose approval ratings have slipped steadily over the last semester amid a long and divisive debate over the respective merits of the “Kid at Heart” panini vs. the big cookie at the Grill.
Most of campus is rather apathetic about the whole issue of the dems losing the supermajority because, to quote Sean Deese '12, “It's not like SGA actually accomplished anything before.” And for now at least, it appears as if it will stay that way.
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