Former SA Insiders Assess this Year's Race

Former SA President Vishal Aswani, former EVP Kyle Boyer, and former (or current) SA insider Elliot Bell Kranser ("EBK") gave WRGW News their thoughts on the SA election.

Vishal told us he doesn't really follow the SA anymore due to his busy schedule, but he said that although he had a few reservations with EVP candidate Jon Binetti at first, "the leadership he's shown outside of the SA (in SEAS and on the inaugural float) made me confident in both his willingness to positively contribute to student life and of his desire to help GW such that I ended up voting for him."  Jon Binetti is an SA senator representing the Engineering School, just as Aswani was before he was elected SA president in 2008.


Kyle Boyer declined to endose a presidential candidate, although he told WRGW News that Xochitl Sanchez's debate performance was "surprisingly strong." Boyer hinted that if turnout exceeds expectations this year, "there could be some surprises." Boyer also predicted a run-off in the EVP race, calling all four candidates "viable," and went on to endorse Rob Maxim by writing, "Rob Maxim is the best for the job.  He knows the nature of the job having assisted me in it [as Senate secretary].  He knows GW having worked on Cabinet, off-campus, and now as a newly-hired house scholar.  He also knows how to work with administrators in a firm but tactful way."  


Elliot Bell-Krasner has endorsed the candidacies of Jason Lifton and Josh Goldstein.  On Lifton, Bell-Kranser wrote, "I believe will be able to work with the GW Administration and get them to take an interest in what the SA does and what it wants to do." Bell-Krasner sees Goldstein as "someone who will do the EVP job as described, which means being objective about legislation, while at the same time working with the SA President on a shared vision. He is quieter than the others, but that isn't a bad thing, because it is not the job of the EVP to be loud and opinionated."  Bell-Krasner went on to predict a Dobson-Goldstein runoff in the EVP race.