So our College Democrats are supporting a Republican. WTF?

[Lethe]

http://star.txstate.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2070

The president of College Democrats resigned Wednesday amid controversy and pressure from outside democratic organizations.

Eric Heggie, international studies senior, had come under fire for his open support of Republican candidate Judge Jim Powers. As president of the College Democrats, his decision presented a potential conflict of interest.

“I had a conflict of conscience,” Heggie said. “I’m a citizen and a student first and a party member third.”

Heggie ignited the controversy when he sent out a mass e-mail to the College Democrats, telling members they could get paid $10 an hour to block walk for a candidate. Although he did not mention the candidate’s name in the e-mail, Heggie told The University Star the block walk was for Powers.

“I’ve not used the organization to help out Powers except for that one time,” Heggie said.

I don't really care that he supports a republican, be he shouldn't be using the College Democrats to campaign for the guy.

[warrens]

1. WTF?

Is this idiot kidding? It would be bad enough if it was a green or a libertarian or something, but a FUCKING REPUBLICAN???? What happened, no one from the KKK available to support?

[tk2kewl]

2. kid must be a freeper. he can't even count.

“I’m a citizen and a student first and a party member third.” :freak:

[bleedingheart]

3. The kid is a moron. If you work for an organization, you don't

help your competitor or your opponent unless you are a moron, a sniveling jerk, or a shameless self promoter hoping to get something...

He deserves to be kicked out.

[ElboRuum]

4. A conflict of conscience my ass...

OK, I am now going to officially debunk this rhetorical bullshit he threw.

"I'm a citizen and a student first and a party member third."

Putting aside the obviously rhetorically-challenged way he phrased it, he trips over this puerile construct.

What is he implying, that he can't be all three simultaneously? A person who is the president of the College Democrats who decides that he's going to support the Republican candidate over the Democrat doesn't have a conflict of conscience, he has a conflict of interest. The appropriate thing to do, if his conscience determined that he could not endorse the Democratic candidate, would be to not endorse either, instead he chose to use his position as president of this organization to not only openly support the Republican candidate but conscript the assistance of other members (surreptitiously, initially) to assist that candidate.

The College Democrats, like the College Republicans, are strict partisan organizations... hence the party in the name. It's membership has a reasonable expectation to endorse their party's candidate.

[Lethe]

5. yep. conflict of interest, not conscience.

if you are the president of an organization that is affiliated with a political party, you should not use that organization for electing the opposing parties candidates.

personal support doesnt enter in to the equation IMO.