Future Front members to continue cause

All four Future Front candidates running for general
representative and the Facilities commissioner offices responded
with shock and disappointment, but said they were not discouraged,
when they learned that none had won any positions when student
government election results were announced Thursday night.

There were six candidates running for the general representative
office, and the three candidates who received the fewest votes were
from the Future Front slate.

The slate was centered on sustainability and focused on
promoting environmental and economic issues, such as bringing the
Farmers’ Market on campus and creating more campus dialogue.
Future Front announced its alliance with the Student Power! slate
late in the campaign process.

Upon hearing the results, Future Front general representative
candidate Dorothy Le said, “I was surprised. This
doesn’t mean anything though because we are going to continue
preaching sustainability.”

Le said her slate’s decision to form an alliance with
Student Power! did not impact the election outcome because she said
their goal wasn’t to campaign as much as it was to educate
the students on what they believed.

Le lost out on the third general representative office position
by almost five percent of the votes.

Following close to Le, second general representative hopeful
Megan Carney, expressed similar sentiments.

“It would have been quite a victory for us to make our
causes political and I think we got the support where it
mattered,” Carney said.

Carney believes that the alliance between Future Front and
Student Power! was a factor in the outcome of the elections.

“I think it’s a major shortcoming of the election
process that on the ballot, it is restricted to show any slate
affiliations. That makes me angry,” Carney said.

Besides Le and Carney, Zoe Loftus-Farren was also a general
representative hopeful but placed last among her running mates.

Aside from general representative positions, Facilities
commissioner hopeful Holly La Luz reiterated that she was hoping to
educate students and not focus on the politics of the process.

La Luz said she cared most about the dialogue she had with
students along Bruin Walk as she handed out fliers for her
campaign.

“Slates didn’t play a role in the election outcome
for us. I didn’t see Student Power! have a fare in our
election results at all,” Carney added.