On March 2nd, the ASB class held an Assembly for the Election of McClatchy’s student body Treasurer, Secretary, Vice President, and President. Each of the current cabinet members gave a brief speech introducing themselves, and welcomed the running candidates onto the floor.
Following speeches by the uncontested cabinet candidates (Graciela Cobb, Olivia Herrera, and Mia Johnson), the presidential contestants each took the floor. Zach Gee, Lincoln Sabini, and Kira Comfort made individual statements, and when they were finished, Paige Blazevic asked them to answer a series of questions for debate.
Kira walked out on the court with a band of dancers. Her short Rihanna performance excited the crowd. Although there were a few malfunctions with the sound, she never flinched for a second until it was her moment to perform. She kept a big smile on her face all throughout the presidential debate.
Kira spoke on her ideas to have more student involvement in a campus cleanup project. As well as making sure all students even outside of ASB get their ideas heard about events that are put on for all the students. She also piggybacked off the idea of contributing her focus on cleaner and functioning bathrooms for the students. Her experience in various roles in leadership and her commitment to three sports teams here at McClatchy are what she says qualify her as a good candidate for the 2023-2024 presidency.
Lincoln Sabini brought up some significant points in both his personal statement and his responses to the debate prompts. His main arguments revolved around the importance of social connection and accurately representing public opinion in the new rules.
He noted that he is not a HISP student as all of the members of the class of 2023’s student government have been. A key subject of Lincoln’s proposed policy changes was enabling the student body to access restaurant lunch/outside food sources during lunch time. Though this brought many questions about how he intends to put that idea into action, he did claim that he will do everything in his power, including reaching out to the district administration, to allow students to order food through doordash during lunchtime.
Lincoln has been involvement in ASB, legion events, and athletic teams.
Zach Gee presented his big plans for wise use of ASB dollars, better and more expansive homecomings, and most notably, bathroom renovation. A twice previous president for his class, Zach has raised large amounts of money and has been influential in ASB in past years. He stressed this point when asked about his leadership experience, and received extensive applause in response.
His main selling point revolved around the cleaning up and renovating of the bathrooms.. This included access to soap, locks, and clean private spaces, a topic that the other hopefuls were quick to catch up on.
He mentioned in passing an idea that would involve filling in potholes in the student parking lot, and promised that if the ASB did not have the power to fulfill these promises, he would take the matter up with the district itself.