Spring Break
As the final reckoning nears for the Sales-Griffin and Crain campaigns, Sales-Griffin campaign manager Ben Armstrong said on the hectic day, the campaign had much to do to drive up historically low turnout for a runoff election.
“We’re focusing on meeting as many people as possible and telling them to get out and vote,” the Weinberg Freshman said. “Not for Neal specifically, but we feel that if there’s a large enough turnout than the turnout will be in our favor.”
Armstrong said the reaction he had been recieving was better than he had expected.
“I was surprised at the amount of people who said they had already voted, because I did not see a ton of publicity,” Armstrong said. “I’m guessing between 1,500 and 2,000 (people will vote) and my guess before would’ve been closer to 1,000.”
While Armstrong said he was focused on his own race, he did say Crain’s use of a megaphone at the Rock earlier that morning may have violated Center for Student Involvement regulations on the matter.
“The bullhorn raises some questions,” Armstrong said. “The CSI bans any ‘amplified sounds’ from being at the Rock before 5 p.m. and you need a permit regardless.”
Standing next to Armstrong was campaigner Paul David Shrader, who would occasionally roll off to greet voters on his scooter and roll back to get more stickers to give to them.
The Weinberg Junior, who wore two foot highstilts on Tuesday while campaigning, is merely dressed as a cowboy today.
“If I give them a nice smile and tip my hat, they’ll smile back to me,” Shrader said. “And then I can say ‘Have you voted today and if not, why aren’t you voting?’”
– Michael Gsovski
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