The newspaper incident

As I stated, this blog was meant to expose the corruption and absurdity of the UF Senate under the Unite Party.  Well, looks like it's time I began.  This incident occurred during the most recent election.  This is going to be a long post.

On February 20th, Two witnesses saw the senate pro tempore (basically the number 2 guy in the senate) throwing away 268 copies of the student newspaper "The Independent Florida Alligator" because they ran a headline showing that the head coach of the Florida Gator football team, Muschamp, endorsing the Student Party's VP candidate.  The VP candidate was a walk-on Fullback on the football team.

The original article

By the way, check out the comments on that page.  Remember how much they denied his involvement in the incident, and then proceed to claim the Alligator was making it up.


The same day as the news article, an editorial was written.   They call for his release and for the other person involved to step forward and apologize.  Once again, check out the comments. 

Editorial


In response, the Unite Party Presidential candidate released this video saying the Alligator was "falsifying stories."  He also said that the newspaper was being racially discriminatory against his all minority racial ticket.  A fact he brought up numerous times in his campaign. 

Candidate's video

Every Friday, the Alligator print's a section called "Darts and Laurels", where it acknowledges good and bad events going on.  They gave a Dart to the Senate Pro Tempore, calling for his resignation.  Also, I have it on good authority that the commentator "You Got Served" is the Unite Party Presidential Candidate.

Feb 24th Dart and Laurel

Then, Glory be, the Senate Pro Tempore suddenly resigned after the election.  He gave no indication why he was resigning. 

The Alligator, not at all amused by his continued silence on the subject gave him another Dart that Friday.

March 2nd Dart and Laurel

Finally, on March 12th, 3 weeks after the original incident, the Senate Pro Tempore wrote his apology and admitted his guilt.  Suddenly the comments against the Alligator were silent.  However, the damage was done.  The election was over.  In the end, the Student's Party picked up 19 seats, and lost the Presidency by 114 votes.

The Apology

I have never seen an apology from the President Candidate about his false statement about the Alligator.

There is a followup to this whole thing, but that will be my next post.