Election Poll'

banquo

In the words of PrivateEye: VOTE FOR CAPSLOCK!

Rather than loads of different polls, this one is multiple choice. Vote once in each 'category' for the candidate of your choice. If you don't know yet, you can come back and vote once you've made your mind up

allandanyways

I don't think it makes much difference who I vote or don't because I won't be here next year. But I'll be back for a masters the year after and I think if the elected candidates are kickass and actually do what they promise and actually deliver, then there'll be greater competition and greater ambition among the next lot of candidates.

In all fairness, some people clearly just do it for the laugh, or just think it'd look good on their CV, but if they feel that they have a reputation to live up to (and God help the following VP Comms if Rob gets it) then they might think twice before throwing up a Facebook page and getting elected cos they know a load of people, then just fecking around all year doing f-all.

So that's why I'm voting, even though I won't be here next year.

banquo

You won't believe the awesomeness of The Print as a newspaper next year if I get it.

I'm not voting in this poll yet, I've yet to make my mind up. Leaning strongly toward Aengus for prez, esp after talking to him in O' Neills the other night. Otherwise, I'm not ready to commit. Cait is impressing me though.

barleybooley

Who clicked Tuohy? This is the guy who used ask my housemates to type up his essays for him and quite recently asked me how he could make all the fonts the same size on a word document and this is the guy who wants to be an editor?! MENTAL!

Michellenman

I saw the Tuohy people out in force today. One person they approached asked them what he'd do if elected. They paused for a minute before giggling awkwardly and saying and I quote 'haha, just vote for him sure'


Rob, you've my vote needless to say :P

princess_calico

Please vote Louise Feaheny for Ents

As a long-standing member of boards.ie

Michellenman

princess_calico wrote: »

Please vote Louise Feaheny for Ents

As a long-standing member of boards.ie

Not being bad but I'm not gonna vote for ya just cause you're a member here.

LeixlipRed

Sell yourself to us Louise :P I'm voting for Rob, will check out the candidates for Pres when I have time.

princess_calico

Michellenman wrote: »

Not being bad but I'm not gonna vote for ya just cause you're a member here.

I'm really glad you said that- It was only after I posted the thread that I realised how it sounded! I don't expect you to vote for me based on that at all!

I'm going to have my manifesto up on my FB site hopefully before tomorrow so you can check that out and hopefully that might change your mind!

I know it sounds like I'm really slow getting around to putting up the manifesto etc but I'd just like to point out also that I am the only Ents candidate (AFAIK) that has a FB page, posters or a manifesto so far. I hadn't heard of any of the other candidates until yesterday, and I had been keeping an eye out for them, especially around the SU on some of the nights that were held there this week.

Michellenman

Yer one Cait has hers up for the last week or two I think.

K4t

princess_calico wrote: »

Please vote Louise Feaheny for Ents

As a long-standing member of boards.ie

Best of luck trying to get first years to vote!
I'm not voting for ents anyway but good luck.

banquo

I always find it hard to find my last post in a thread when K4t is online

Lord TSC

Honestly, I've never voted and I doubt I will this year either.

And that's mainly because a large portion of the voting will be based on who is Mr or Mrs popular over in the students union, part will be pure random and none of them have ever really appealed to me as a non-drinking commuter. I guess I'm not their target demographic though :P

the_Meh_Girl

hi guys,
I actually got three quotes on buses, I am intending on publishing them and the offer is to run it as a trail basis to start with and we'll see how it goes, one of the quotes received was even for three weeks free as a trail which unfortunately I can not yet take as I intended to run this as a trail starting with only Bar Exs the terms need to reviewed further but it is possible.

cian1500ww

Where's the option for "can't honestly be arsed to vote" ??

PrivateEye

Aengus (Pres)
Rob (Comms)
Declan (Finance)
Louise (Ents)
James (Welfare)

Irish Officer, hmm, not thought about it. And me a Gaelgoir. I'll probably vote Naoise. In fact, I will.

So, all the above plus a big YES for the Union of Students in Ireland, and I'm also going to vote yes on the three year matter (That we'll have another referendum on USI in three years. While I'm campaigning for a Yes, if the thing doesn't deliver we deserve the right to say so)

PrivateEye

I told the other Comms candidate that I was a "Rob Man", Lazor Eyes!

K4t

the_Meh_Girl wrote: »

hi guys,
I actually got three quotes on buses, I am intending on publishing them and the offer is to run it as a trail basis to start with and we'll see how it goes, one of the quotes received was even for three weeks free as a trail which unfortunately I can not yet take as I intended to run this as a trail starting with only Bar Exs the terms need to reviewed further but it is possible.

Trial.

Sounds like a good, sensible idea providing it doesn't cost too much.

irish_goat

Can someone explain Declan Meenagh's polling? Holding more Bar Ex's and making the SU carbon neutral don't strike me as matters which really fall under the Finance Officer's remit.

banquo

It's good to have a voice for that in the Union though, imo.

My 2c

teamshadowclan wrote:

Honestly, I've never voted and I doubt I will this year either.

Long time no see!

K4t

irish_goat wrote: »

Can someone explain Declan Meenagh's polling? Holding more Bar Ex's and making the SU carbon neutral don't strike me as matters which really fall under the Finance Officer's remit.

He's obviously going to go above and beyond the call of duty!

Nision

Michellenman wrote: »

I saw the Tuohy people out in force today. One person they approached asked them what he'd do if elected. They paused for a minute before giggling awkwardly and saying and I quote 'haha, just vote for him sure'


Rob, you've my vote needless to say :P

Im a Rob man myself, but to be fair, in the interest of openness i feel i should point out that its Robs Girlfriend (Who is actually a real person) who's saying this. Hardly Neutral.

Edit: Totally, 100% wrong. My bad.

banquo

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Wrong Michelle Oisin.

Nision

K4t wrote: »

He's obviously going to go above and beyond the call of duty!

SU Elections are largely to do with knowing lots of people, especially on a poll like this. Also, Declan's a Boardsie , this a poll of Boardsys

Nision

banquo wrote: »

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Wrong Michelle Oisin.

I just realised this, my bad.

banquo

Nision wrote: »

SU Elections are largely to do with knowing lots of people, especially on a poll like this. Also, Declan's a Boardsie , this a poll of Boardsys

Oisin's right in this respect. I'm a boardsie, so even if I were promising to make every single student come to my office so I could punch them in the face I'd probably be top of the poll. It's the non-boardsies about whom the poll is way more accurate.

Still, it all comes down to how many vote on the day. The general rule is that you aim for 600 votes on the first count if you want to win.

K4t

Nision wrote: »

SU Elections are largely to do with knowing lots of people, especially on a poll like this. Also, Declan's a Boardsie , this a poll of Boardsys

I know, It was just a quip in relation to IrishGoat's point about his manifesto giving the impression that he's running for ents and not finance.

Lord TSC

irish_goat wrote: »

Can someone explain Declan Meenagh's polling? Holding more Bar Ex's and making the SU carbon neutral don't strike me as matters which really fall under the Finance Officer's remit.

Who cares! More booze! HUUZAH!

;;<_<

Red_Niamh

banquo wrote: »

even if I were promising to make every single student come to my office so I could punch them in the face

If you get elected...there may be days that you feel like doing that..

This will be the 5th group of sabbaticals I will have the pleasure to work with and would you believe it, today is the first hustings I've been to. I was really impressed with the candidates. It's such a bittersweet time, really exciting to see who succeeds, but remember the outgoing group still have half their term in office to go!

Rozabeez

Very impressed withe the votes for Aengus!

Holda

As for the Tuohy thing. I can't believe his own people don't know what he stands for, it makes me wonder if he's all that sure of it himself. Reminds me of a slightly younger version of him that was certain that typing jstor beside a quote was good enough and thought anyone who told him otherwise mad. Thankfully he's not bad now, but by the sounds of his unprepared campaigners, he's not much better! :-P

Effluo

princess_calico wrote: »

Please vote Louise Feaheny for Ents

As a long-standing member of boards.ie

I made a jokey kind of post before about the whole "Don't bitch about us debacle", but that was before I realised you were really canvassing here.

I'm not trying to "come out and get you", but I just wonder why you think anyone who posts on this forum think should vote for you after this,
"You all give out about the SU, but what have you done? In case you forgot, the SU is run for students BY students. Tell us what you want us to do! Don't b*tch about it on an online forum."(full post) http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=62732474&postcount=52

I responded like this;
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=62752540&postcount=82

And I still feel the same way about the whole thing. You actively ignored not criticism, but constructive criticism and a solution to the problem which was very serious(when there was a spate of attacks around the town)

Along with the fact that you've made 16 posts on this forum in the last 3 and a half months, 15 of which have been today looking for votes. I think this shows that I will not expect our "bitching"(suggestions) on ents to be heard on this forum at least.

Also something else which would not exactly endear me to your politics is this, "I voted no in for the Lisbon, simply because the government told me to vote yes!" .....


Although I hear you are a jolly nice person(honest) and I hope there will be no hard feelings, I will not be voting for you because of these things which have happened in the past.

Good luck in the elections, By the looks of the poll you have a good chance

princess_calico

Effluo wrote: »

I made a jokey kind of post before about the whole "Don't bitch about us debacle", but that was before I realised you were really canvassing here.

I'm not trying to "come out and get you", but I just wonder why you think anyone who posts on this forum think should vote for you after this,
"You all give out about the SU, but what have you done? In case you forgot, the SU is run for students BY students. Tell us what you want us to do! Don't b*tch about it on an online forum."(full post) http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=62732474&postcount=52

I responded like this;
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=62752540&postcount=82

And I still feel the same way about the whole thing. You actively ignored not criticism, but constructive criticism and a solution to the problem which was very serious(when there was a spate of attacks around the town)

Along with the fact that you've made 16 posts on this forum in the last 3 and a half months, 15 of which have been today looking for votes. I think this shows that I will not expect our "bitching"(suggestions) to be heard on this forum at least.

Also something else which would not exactly endear me to your politics is this, "I voted no in for the Lisbon, simply because the government told me to vote yes!" .....


Although I hear you are a jolly nice person(honest), I will not be voting for you because of these things which have happened in the past.

Good luck in the elections, By the looks of the poll you have a good chance

I do want to apologise, and I did (as far as I know???)
I didn't ignore the criticism, but I went straight to Brian about it, and told them all about the students' opinions on boards.

Because as a non-voting member of the exec, although I have often suggested using boards.ie as a form of communication for the SU I have never had a say in it and it has been shot down a number of times. I'm going to be completely honest, when I logged onto boards today I had no intention of canvassing, merely lurking and having a peep, because as you said I haven't been on in aaaaaaaaages but when I saw the forum open for it, I decided to use it like other people are too.

About the Lisbon thing, I see my political stance as a positive one. Because I am not affiliated with any political party whatsoever, I feel that this allows for a better judgement of what benefits the student body more. My judgement is not clouded by my political views, but rather open to what is best for students and other matters at hand.

Thanks for your good luck wish though, I really do appreciate it. I'm sorry we haven't seen eye to eye before on stuff, but I really do appreciate your comment!

L x:)

Michellenman

princess_calico wrote: »

I do want to apologise, and I did (as far as I know???)
I didn't ignore the criticism, but I went straight to Brian about it, and told them all about the students' opinions on boards.

Because as a non-voting member of the exec, although I have often suggested using boards.ie as a form of communication for the SU I have never had a say in it and it has been shot down a number of times. I'm going to be completely honest, when I logged onto boards today I had no intention of canvassing, merely lurking and having a peep, because as you said I haven't been on in aaaaaaaaages but when I saw the forum open for it, I decided to use it like other people are too.

About the Lisbon thing, I see my political stance as a positive one. Because I am not affiliated with any political party whatsoever, I feel that this allows for a better judgement of what benefits the student body more. My judgement is not clouded by my political views, but rather open to what is best for students and other matters at hand.

Thanks for your good luck wish though, I really do appreciate it. I'm sorry we haven't seen eye to eye before on stuff, but I really do appreciate your comment!

L x:)

Other than saying 'about the Lisbon thing' you didn't actually mention anything about why you said that.

Tbh I would have severe reservations about voting for someone who not only has such an immature opinion about such a serious topic but who openly admits to it.

princess_calico

Michellenman wrote: »

Other than saying 'about the Lisbon thing' you didn't actually mention anything about why you said that.

Tbh I would have severe reservations about voting for someone who not only has such an immature opinion about such a serious topic but who openly admits to it.

I'm really sorry that I came across as being immature about the whole thing, but I had genuine reasons for voting no. I assure you that my judgement was not based wholly on that- it was a joke. Sorry if it wasn't to your taste.

Effluo

princess_calico wrote: »

I do want to apologise, and I did (as far as I know???)

I don't remember it.

In actual fact you recommended that we stop posting about the college su here and posted on the Dead discussion part of the nuim facebook page.
You'd imagine then that we might get some kind of response then, but there wasn't!

Also on the whole Lisbon thing, I really hope that was a joke

declan06

irish_goat wrote: »

Can someone explain Declan Meenagh's polling? Holding more Bar Ex's and making the SU carbon neutral don't strike me as matters which really fall under the Finance Officer's remit.

On the free bar ex,
It costs 300 euro for a licence and 300 euro for staff,
If we had a free bar ex with 3 euro drinks and a theme like 70s, and an exec DJ, we would make money from the bar or at least break even.

On the carbon neutral union, it's something to aim for, and if we could let a geography student do a project on it then we could make an impact.

In general, there isn't a lot in the remit:

11.4 FINANCE OFFICER
(a) Shall ensure that the accounts for the Union are maintained satisfactorily, and are presented to the Union Council at least once per year.
(b) Shall advise the Union Council on the financial state of the Union.
(c) Shall have the right to examine all requisition forms and cheque books at any time in liaison with the Student Activities Officer.
(d) Shall form a liaison with the Executive and in the direction of Union finances.
(e) In the absence of the Finance Officer, the President shall perform the Finance Officer's duties.
(f) Shall conduct a price survey comparing Union services to equivalent competing services and present the results to Union Council.

There's not a lot of scope there, so I got creative.

The other two things I want to do are promote special events funding and work with clubs and socs officers to make a sponsorship handbook for clubs and socs.
For more info go to www.declanmeenagh.com
Sorry for the rambling nature of this post, but I'm sleep deprived.

Michellenman

Can I just mention, Declan...

You have the coolest flyer things EVER!! The dollar bills are savage!

princess_calico

Effluo wrote: »

I don't remember it.

In actual fact you recommended that we stop posting about the college su here and posted on the Dead discussion part of the nuim facebook page.
You'd imagine then that we might get some kind of response then, but there wasn't!

Also on the whole Lisbon thing, I really hope that was a joke

Argh I hate technology... What's wrong with a chat, a cuppa cha and a few rich teas?

banquo

Declan's dollars are indeed savage.

Thwip!

Michellenman wrote: »

Not being bad but I'm not gonna vote for ya just cause you're a member here.

true, voting for pat...known him for 7 years and know his work ethic and what he can potentially do for entertainment in maynooth and that alone already guarantees my vote for him

barleybooley

Nision wrote: »

Im a Rob man myself, but to be fair, in the interest of openness i feel i should point out that its Robs Girlfriend (Who is actually a real person) who's saying this. Hardly Neutral.

Edit: Totally, 100% wrong. My bad.

A classic example of putting 2 and 2 together and getting 5. And you doing Finance, for SHAME :P

Is it just me or does Shelly seem to be the only one out campaigning today?

leopoldbloom

barleybooley wrote: »

Is it just me or does Shelly seem to be the only one out campaigning today?

I'm out!! Getting my Vote f:)r me thing on

irish_goat

Spotted Aengus between Arts Block and JH.

Lydia was around South Campus yesterday and had nice buns*, so she might be around there today. Tuohy was about there too.





*iced ones.

banquo

My posters are up.

Michellenman

I hope to see the one I made up in force. Capeesh?

PrivateEye

Mugabe would be happy with Presidental Election results like that

princess_calico

jpcarlow wrote: »

true, voting for pat...known him for 7 years and know his work ethic and what he can potentially do for entertainment in maynooth and that alone already guarantees my vote for him

He seems like a really nice guy- he's definitely getting my 2nd

TheManHimself

Hmm...Have to say I'm surprised at the VP Welfare poll result.

barleybooley

Ah, Rob's posters are up and don't they look just lovely?*









*not a biased opinion

Duddy

Deadly posters!