The Nexus is retracting its endorsement of Mayela Morales for the position of external vice president for statewide affairs.
The Nexus editorial board published endorsements of all executive candidates running in the Associated Students elections on Thursday, April 19.
On April 15, the Nexus received an anonymous email alleging financial mismanagement by a student during a lobbying trip for students to speak with state and national representatives in early April in Washington, D.C. and in Sacramento in March. The student was running as an executive candidate in the spring A.S. election, according to the email.
The Nexus began to investigate the matter immediately but was unable to confirm which candidate the anonymous sender referred to.
After the Nexus published its endorsement of Morales, the editorial board began to receive other complaints about organizational conflicts during the student lobby visits. These complaints were from three anonymous sources that worked with Morales in preparation for these conferences.
Morales was the internal director of Lobby Corps as well as a member of USSA, which organized both lobbying trips.
While the Nexus editorial board was aware of complaints against an executive candidate prior to writing the endorsement, we needed confirmation through evidence and documentation to retract our choice. Our endorsement of Morales was based on an extensive interview process and a discussion with the editorial board.
Based on Morales’s interview and other involvement on campus, we do believe Morales is the right person for the position; however, our investigation into the lobbying trip conflicts has led us to retract our endorsement.
According to documents obtained by the Nexus, Morales failed to communicate with a colleague about transportation to the Sacramento lobby visit. The failure to communicate with the colleague in a timely manner resulted in a failure to organize the transportation.
Further documents obtained by the Nexus on Tuesday, April 24, revealed Morales’s failure to complete the tasks she volunteered to do for a Washington, D.C. lobby visit, resulting in the untimely scheduling of flights and hotel accommodations.
“From the beginning of planning the conference, I informed the EVPSA that I was having problems with my phone because it had been in repairs for a minute. As I couldn’t afford to buy a new phone, I told everyone involved in planning the conference that I would be providing my support during my individual meetings with them, rather than over text,” Morales told the Nexus in a statement.
“Since the beginning of 2018, due to some family financial issues, I haven’t had phone service which has made communication, at times, impossible. This is something every person I work with has been aware of since the beginning,” Morales added in the statement.
“As colleagues and friends, the other people involved in the planning of the trips were aware of some of the mental health related issues I was personally going through at the time,” Morales also said in the statement.
The editorial board believes it is best to formally retract the endorsement of Mayela Morales for the executive position. We apologize for our endorsement in light of this new information.
Update: This article was updated to include a statement from Morales regarding her communication while organizing the lobby visits.
How can you call some one the “right person for the position” when you follow it with the details of her corruption and inadequacy as a leader in a position similar to the responsibilities of EVPSA?
#justice4all
Because anonymous emails have always been evidence
Because I have screenshots of her lying her ass off about booking everything for the lobby visits, both on FB and her phone with the same exact messages. So is she going to say her laptop was broken now too? Fuck outta here.
Hi Nushi
Hey Nushi!
Wow maybe now I’ll vote yes on the daily nexus’s lock-in fee next year
Wow. IVP’s last president candidate bragged about mismanaging student fees last year. This year, their EVPSA candidate (who originally left their party anyways and tried to get slated with CU but they denied her) is found guilty of financial mismanagement, yet they try to say that CU doesn’t care about student fees??? unbelievable, do better IVP and stop pointing fingers at everyone else
Omg which CU member posted this comment?
CU?? This is clearly a concerned gaucho
Last year Jerel Constantino was the “concerned gaucho” behind the slander campaign that attempted to bring Nawar down
so anonymous people that would only know about the situation if they were in these organizing spaces?
Hi everyone. MAYELA was and always be the WORST candidate for the job. thank you Daily Nexus for the confirmation and REAL news. I love how IVP seems to be all about minoriteies but is so easy to put the hardworking money of so many students at risk. it’s disgusting. IVP is a party of walking hypocrites.
Yeah SHAME on the Nexus for publishing this without evidence, isn’t this slander?
Come on u know it’s all true…
The Nexus needs to learn how not to slander people based on anon emails
This is not slander, many sources working closely with the candidate can confirm.
It’s not really the Nexus’ fault; CU organized this slander article to try to boost their chances at winning. They did it last year to Nawar and it worked because most students don’t understand the inner workings of AS politics
correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t mayelas comment literally demonstrate that she admits to it but is just trying to defend it with bad communication as the excuse? she is not denying it and also a comment on the first comment on this makes it clear that there are multiple receipts of this occurring
1. Slander is for spoken language. The word you are thinking of is “slander.”
2. If you read the article, you will notice two references to documents received by the Nexus. These documents seem to be the cause for the retraction, and not the anonymous email, which was received prior to the Nexus’ original endorsement.
fuck, I meant “libel”
Lmao look at all the CU rats who came flooding to the comments section immediately; it’s almost as if they were ready for this article to come out. Too bad things have been going badly for them that they have to once again resort to mudslinging.
Lmao look at all of IVP running once again to make up any excuse or fabrication to cover their candidates mistakes and blame CU for all their mistakes per usual
nah, CU sucks and the student body is more aware of that then ever before. Save yourself before CU’s dilapidated ship is wrecked by their own current
I believe this information regarding what happened to Mayela during one of her lobbying trips is insufficient for the Nexus to retract their endorsement and therefore imo the Nexus was probably coerced into doing this.
coerced by who? lol CU? thinking logically, if CU could coerce the nexus, why wouldn’t they coerce the nexus into endorsing their whole slate in the first place?
Because it didn’t work out for them this year! The Nexus endsorsed their entire slate last year and the year before (with the exception of once EVPSA candidate iirc). They haven’t been as successful and it doesn’t help that their president is pushing a project so asinine it’s unpopular to even the most apathetic of constituents
Not true. The Nexus endorsed Menelik Dagnachew for EVPLA in 2017. In 2016, DN endorsed Alejandra Melgoza for president (independent and running against CU), Nushi Yapabandara for IVP (independent and running against another independent) and Steven Abdalmalik for EVPSA (The Response running against CU).
Wasting student money because you didn’t do your job properly seems like a perfectly good reason to retract an endorsement.
why does CU always have to slander IVP when they feel threatened?!?!
I’m sorry, but have you seen the meme page, free and for sale, overheard? I’m not part of either party, I’m really over both, but in terms of slander, all i ever see anymore is IVP shitting on CU and their candidates personally and acting like every member of their party is actually just Hieu, its kind of sickening and overkill tbh
Don’t conflate the general student body with IVP. People are unhappy with CU and it’s being brought to light. I don’t care for either party and even I can see that CU is the only party putting any actual effort into bringing their opponents down by any means necessary; ethical or not
Im referring to people in ivp/supporting ivp with ivp profile pics which is why I said ivp and not the student body. i also have had multiple IVPs try to get me to vote by verbally shit talking CU at their tables on campus
When you feel so threatened you might lose that you have to resort to pettiness. Good job CU, your true colors are showing.
Love how all the CU people are reposting this shit with derogatory comments like damn we really out here for students!
Thank you for saying what we have all been wanting to, but couldn’t.
All of us who were waiting for that bus at SLC know this is true. A broken phone is no excuse when we are out there waiting for 3 hours
Did you ask Kristin why your bus wasn’t booked in time? I thought she was EVPSA?
Hey Nawar
Ask Spencer, he’s the one who had to pick up her slack on SLC, not Kristin.
Is Spencer also IV’s active rapist?
Wow, now I’m even more upset about that wait. If her phone was broken she could have contacted the bus company through email or asked someone else to contact the bus company. No excuses
maybe the fact that she’s also a rape apologist?
Wait is that rumor actually true?
Yes.
Not true. Just another person trying to bring down Mayela because they feel threatened.
LOL @ CU Rats being like “Is that rumor actually true” so they can confirm it themselves
I feel like people should just vote for those who they talk to one on one instead of listening to this shit
If you’re reading this, please find a more interesting hobby than campus politics
also CU is stupid and a waste of effort
IVP Is also stupid and hypocritical
CU is by the far the absolute worst. It’s just OPP rebranded
Ok, so when are you going to rescind your endorsement of Pimental for saying the N word??
Seriously though Pimentel literally said only Christians have morals and DN is okay with that?
Derp
As a fellow journalist I’m disappointed in the Nexus for not vetting their sources prior to this retraction. Your source is bias and faulty. Your source is out for vengeance and not truth. I vetted the same information you received and did not make any rash judgments. I believe an apology to the candidate publicly is in order and I believe the public deserves to know what materials were used to conclude this decision. Respectfully.
Honestly it’s disgusting, can they be sued for this?
#Vote4PAC
Mayela’s excuses for not communicating ……LMAO
my 5 year old brother can come up with something better than that