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SGA presidential candidate Isaac Hill recieves the final election results over a phone call. Hill will face a runoff against other candidate Daniel Pae. Voting will take place next week.
SGA presidential candidate Daniel Pae speaks during Monday’s debate. Pae will face a runoff election against Isaac Hill next Monday.
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The first contested SGA presidential election in years will continue into next week, as no candidate was able to earn a majority of the student vote. Daniel Pae and Isaac Hill both earned at least 40 percent of the 2,062 votes and advanced to the runoff next week. Julia Depew finished in third place and cannot continue in the race. The runoff election will be held Monday. The vote total was a significant increase over the amounts in previous years, was was a result of the election being contested, said Abbey Taylor, chair of the SGA election board. “(This is the) first time in
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a number of years for a contested race,” Taylor said. Pae, an economics and political science junior, and running mate Michael Lutter, an economics and letters junior, were the closest to claiming the majority with more than 46 percent of the vote. The pair was just 99 votes shy of a majority. “It’s another opportunity to go out to more organizations that we didn’t have the time to fit in the last two and half weeks, so Daniel and I will be back on that horse tomorrow,” Lutter said. Lutter was not worried about the possibility of a
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“I’m not upset about it. I wish the both of them good luck.” JULIA DEPEW, SGA PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
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Group to protest Boren’s proposal OCPA Impact will demonstrate against penny tax
OU President David Boren’s penny sales tax proposal tomorrow morning in Oklahoma City. OCPA Impact is protestAndrew Clark ing Initiative Petition 403 — assistant news managing editor Boren’s proposal — because @Clarky_Tweets it believes the petition uses unconstitutional language, A nonpartisan advoca- according to Dave Bond, the cy organization will protest
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organization’s CEO. “Regardless of the pros or cons of a policy proposal, it’s important that constitutional guidelines and restrictions be respected and adhered to,” Bond said. “And so the protest we will file Thursday morning will merely be related to that.”
Bond would not expand specifically on what language in the petition is unconstitutional, but said that the group will discuss this at a press briefing tomorrow during its protest. B o r e n ’s p e n n y s a l e s tax proposal would add one cent on the dollar to
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Oklahoma’s existing sales tax rate of 4.5 percent, and the revenue created from it — about $615 million for one year — would go directly to educational funding. Education Week’s “Quality Counts 2015” report ranked Oklahoma’s educational system 48th out of the 50
states and the District of Columbia. In October, Boren said he believes he could have the funds to stop increases tuition and fee costs at OU if the proposal passes. If the proposal fails, he said the Norman campus could face SEE PROTEST PAGE 3
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