re: Meet the next LSU student body president and vice president

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All because the Student President gets a vote on the LSU Board

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Iirc. They broke the election rules and got removed from the ballot. They the Gov and Ad stepped in and ordered they be added back. All because the Student President gets a vote on the LSU Board and Landry wanted that one in his corner. Thus the lawsuit.

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All four lawsuits have been settled outside of the University Court with no campaign being disqualified.

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…Since then, four of the five campaigns have been involved in lawsuits for violating the Election Code.

On Tuesday, Tyhlar Holliway and Gabreyela Gonzalez of the Heart ticket filed two suits against Benjamin Barousse and Anna Katherine Harrell of the Home ticket.

One suit involved a claim that the Home campaign went over the food and drink spending limit allowed for campaigns. It also claims the ticket submitted inaccurate spending and donation reports.

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The second suit the Heart campaign filed involves a member of the Home ticket’s legal team, Jackson Hardman, who allegedly threatened James William III of the Heart ticket to prevent the campaign from filing a financial suit.

On Tuesday, Hardman reached out to Ava Ryder, the campaign manager for the Heart ticket, to talk about “some election stuff,” according to submitted evidence.

In this conversation, Hardman allegedly brought up a case from last year’s election involving twice-disqualified presidential candidate Alex Foret, which prompted intervention from three Louisiana state politicians.

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This is who filed lawsuit or complaint or whatever it is


Would love to know what these two losers thought was worthy of a lawsuit.

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involved a claim that the Home campaign went over the food and drink spending limit allowed for campaigns. It also claims the ticket submitted inaccurate spending and donation reports.

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Each campaign is required to submit a spending report that includes all goods and services used by a campaign that would impact how a voter casts a ballot. The donation report must list the name of each donor, the amount of money they donated and the date of donation.

According to the suit, Holliway and Gonzalez alleged that the Home ticket reported a total of $621.55 spent on food and drink items listed as perishable, which is under the set limit.

However, the suit claims the ticket did not include the “PJ’s Coffee Package” from the donation report in that cost and listed this item as nonperishable.

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Holliway and Gonzalez submitted photos and videos of Benjamin Barousse and Anna Harrell campaigning in Free Speech Alley on March 16 with “at least 7 gallons of iced coffee, 2 four-gallon carafes of hot coffee, and 2 large pump bottles of syrup (one vanilla and one caramel)” along with various creamers and sweetening packets.

Photos and videos of the scene were posted to the Home campaign’s Instagram as well as Barousse’s personal Instagram.

The Heart ticket says the total cost of these items is $450.50 based on the catering prices for PJ’s Coffee in Baton Rouge, which the campaign argues is still a “conservative estimate” that does not account for tax, cups, creamers or sweeteners.

This would bring the Barousse-Harrell ticket’s expenditures on food and drink to $1,022.05, perishable items to $1,227.19 and total expenditure cost to $2,775.62. Each of these totals violate the spending limits set in the Election Code.

The suit claims that the alleged excessive campaign expenditures gave the Home ticket an unfair advantage over the Heart ticket. It also argues failing to accurately list the cost of donated items constitutes a separate violation under the Election Code.

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Two whites, not what I was expecting

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