It's funny. I gather some people on Elections Committee think I'm biased even most of them know me well. But how can I be biased when reporting fact? Last night, Maddy fined Stefan 'Pinocchio' Baskerville a further 5% of his budget after he "disseminated a misleading statement" (in English, that's lying) at a recent hustings.
When answering the question "how many posters have you put up of the members of your slate?" Baskermate answered "very few" when it appears the correct answer was none. Baskermate's feeble excuse for lying was that he claims not to have been told by his campaign team. Maddy rejected his dubious contention with great gusto:
"Mr Baskerville is responsible for his agents’ behaviour. ... it [the rule] does imply that candidates are responsible for whatever agents do, whether or not the candidates know about it. Therefore the contention that you didn’t know what your agent was doing should never be an excuse."
The delicious irony is that the answer of "very few" is now even more likely to be true.
Hackdaq's view: sell Baskerville, buy Medland (if you don't know what Medland's running for it is probably because he does not have any posters up. Or maybe he just has "very few"...)
Not long now till the OUSU-Union hack-a-thon...
xoxo
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