CalASUC thinks it has an exclusive on the ugly APPLE Joe-purge of last semester. And that's kinda true. Let me tie up the loose ends, tho.

The background, which Joan misses, is the level to which APPLE's Senators disliked Joe at that point. At least two, and another was considering, were going to leave APPLE if Joe became Party Chair. The reasons why are complicated, but centered on his way-high level of intensity and perceived inability to build coalitions. And personal factors really got involved.

I was anti-Joe, but at least had the balls to explain why. Here's the e-mail I sent to him at the time:

Hi Joe,

I don't intend on speaking at the meeting on Tuesday, but I will be voting
for Kenny.

My reasons why;

1. I don't believe you can unify the party. By the end of last year all
three APPLE Senators were alienated from you. Already, one of our Senators
will quit if you become Chair.

2. I'm still unhappy with last year's legal battles. I disagreed with
taking a hard legal tack at the meeting in AEP last year and saw it backfire
in our faces. This carries over into this year's declarations that you'll
'shut down' the ASUC with your three loopholes.

3. Kenny has more ties outside the ASUC. He has large ties to Engineers,
Ravers, etc and etc. Inside the ASUC, he can work with SA, Cal-SERVE, and
Independents without a history of partisan wrangling.

By the time of the Election, it was pretty obvious that APPLE's elected officials and more involved members, with the exception of Jimi Hendricks, would be voting for Kenny.

I don't understand where Daniel's speech gets so important. Daniel says a lot of things. And 'Hours of Talk' didn't follow. Maybe 30 minutes. Jimi was never running APPLE-Engineering; that was Anthony. Any 'walkout' was held after the vote, with Jimi and Joe. Brandon left the party, but he didn't walk out at the time and came back. The 2/3rds issue was fudged.

Following that, Kenny tried to reconcile the split by offering Joe a co-chairmanship in order to keep him in the party, something I bitterly opposed. Joe eventually turned that down and offered his resignation letter, a mistake on its own, since it was pretty bitter. It led to Matteen's infamous resignation letter, later appearing in the Daily Cal out of context.

Hmm... who leaked to Joan?
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