A Facebook campaign aimed to stop free Pizza handouts during SGA Presidential election is getting lots of attention. As of this afternoon, the event page already has 251 people attending.
The event is called “Expect more Free Pizza/Redefining Bribes (Eat Free Pizza Protest),” a playful title aimed at the two SGA campaign slogans “Expect more” and “Possibility Redefined.”
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The event page states, “During this time rich kids on power trips will try and buy your vote so they can buy their way into office” and calls for student’s to eat campaigners’ pizza. “Starting Monday I implore you to eat as much as the free pizza (and whatever other food they may have) as possible!” it states. “Spread the word and tell your friends!”
“If you can’t beat the system, eat the system,” said Tyler Smith, one of the administrators of the event page.
Smith went on to add, “In short, we are hoping to end pizza politics and the manipulation of student voters through education. We hope to either entice candidates to stop food handouts or to consume their number one commodity. Hopefully, then students can vote for the issues and not the freebies.”
Kyle Schumacher had brought up some of the problems with pizza in the last SGA Presidential election in a letter he sent to KnightNews.com and its readers last year.
“In my three years at UCF, I have seen how elections can be swayed by false promises, appealing signs and infinite slices of pizza… Additionally, the current election process favors those with the deepest pocketbooks and largest pledge classes, not those best suited for being responsible of a $14 million budget,” Schumacher said.
The Facebook event could be found in this link http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136923366376489.
