Audrey Denney rallies students
Audrey Denney giving her speech about what her campaign is all about, at a rally held Wednesday Photo credit: Yaritza Ayon
Audrey Denney was at the Student Success Center Plaza, Wednesday, encouraging students to vote, as well as to register to vote if they hadn’t already.
This event was hosted by student organizations, Central Americans For Empowerment and Leaders Educating for the Advancement of Dreamers.
Denney and her campaign team got together with students to inform and answer any questions they had.
Many attendees asked Denney what made her decide to run for Congress. She responded with the story about a car ride she had with her sister. There, her sister told her that women in their 30s are running for Congress for the first time and how that gave her chills and she had a gut feeling that she had to run for Congress.
“It’s really important that we have representation in the house of representatives that’s more reflective of our communities, and that includes women representatives as well as people of color and the LGBTQ community,” Denney said.
Later in the event, Denney gave a brief speech about why she’s campaigning and what this election is about. She then held a Q&A session with students.
“This campaign is about education, this campaign is about healthcare, it’s about getting money out of politics and making sure that we elect representatives who aren’t bought and paid for by corporations” Denney said.
Students came out to show their support and share why they’re voting for Denney.
“I support her because of her stances on education, healthcare and agriculture,” Chera Kirby, Psychology student, said. “ A lot of our basic programs are getting cut, our EOP programs are getting cut, grants are getting cut for students who cant financial afford school.”
The last day to register to vote in California is Oct 22.
Yaritza Ayon can be reached at [email protected] or @ayon_yaritza on Twitter.
Ryan // Oct 22, 2018 at 11:49 am
This is the first time I’ve seen this site. I’m new to Chico. Not everyone deserves a voice on your site. Different opinions are one thing but abusive language and name calling should be moderated off the site. This has all the markings of a paid troll, especially considering the content, probably even a Democrat. Anyway, my two cents are, a) limit the displayed post length for comments with a “read more” so people to can filter noise out easier. b) When you have stuff like this it might be fun to follow up with the CS department and see if this generic user is real or not. (hint: the IPs are logged) c) You don’t have to keep posts that belittle people, that is there only to anger people.
Good luck with the paper!
Antonio L. Garcia // Oct 21, 2018 at 10:00 am
Do only libtard morons with no common sense or the ability to think for themselves go to Chico State ? You have a candidate come to campus who says that she wants to get tax dollars out of politics and stop politicians being bought by corporations, but yet she supports a 1.3 billion dollar gas tax increase? You people must be blind, or just really stupid (yes, even educationally smart people can be stupid !!) !! If you truly support this candidate, then you are a hypocrite in this sense. Furthermore, aren’t student newspapers supposed to be impartial/non-biased? Because I can tell you empirically, that I know which political party your rag supports, and which one funds your endeavors. You, and 99% of the students at Chico State, are a bunch of libtard morons, and sheeple, blindly following the next idiot in front of them. I’m so glad that I quit going to Chico State. Student organizations and students like you are some of the reasons why educational systems in this country are going to s**t. Your tagline says “Celebrating 40 years of excellence in journalism at Chico State.” You might want to consider changing that, because there isn’t any excellence in any of your journalism, not to mention anything in terms of excellence coming out of Chico State, unless of course you count the destruction of the college experience with the indoctrination of liberal hippie douche crybaby snowflake rhetoric, and that’s all Chico State is is a liberal indoctrination center !! WAKE UP PEOPLE !! LEARN TO THINK FOR YOURSELVES !!
Alex Grant // Oct 21, 2018 at 2:10 pm
Hi Antonio,
Thank you for sharing your opinion.
In my humble opinion, there is no such thing as a totally impartial or unbiased news source, but here at The Orion we all are learning to try to report and write in the most unbiased manner possible. (Opinion section is biased because it’s people’s opinions but we try to link sources to make these opinions stronger.) I believe we’ve done a good job the last two semesters at keeping news articles objective and fairly balanced.
We are students, however, so we do make mistakes. If you can show me which articles and which parts of articles are biased or unethical, could you please let me know, so we can issue corrections or clarifications? (My email is [email protected])
We covered Audrey Denney for this article because she came to campus to talk to students. If Doug LaMalfa or any other incumbent/candidate came to campus then we would fairly report on their visit as well. For example, we covered John Cox earlier this semester because he came to town: https://theorion.com/75059/news/john-cox-tour-stops-at-chico/
We’re also working on a city council candidate article that talks about all of the candidates, not just the liberal or conservative ones.
Ever since I became the managing editor this semester, I’ve spent just about every day, week and month trying to make sure The Orion stays as objective as possible. I take objectivity very seriously so please don’t hesitate to let me know if there are areas in our news coverage that are biased. I’m sure there’s several spots we can improve on and I look forward to hearing some of your constructive criticism so we can report the facts better.
Thank you for your comment and I hope you have a nice day.
-Alex
Thetos Spohr Munn // Oct 23, 2018 at 12:05 pm
This looks delicious. I think I’m just going to dig right in and tear this sucker apart…
Let’s start by gently taking a gentle slice and separate this comment into individual sentences so we can truly savor the unique brand of ignorance that will surely be a sign of our times.
Let us begin.
“Do only libtard morons with no common sense or the ability to think for themselves go to Chico State ?”
Right off the bat we have the use of the word “libtard” which I a dead giveaway that you have been successfully brainwashed by propagandists as their nonsensical rhetoric has not only saturated your brain but your vocabulary as well. Furthermore, your sentence structure is off to a weak start. Sadly, it only gets worse. The irony in the comment is palpable. Also, what is with the gratuitous addition of a space before punctuation?
“You have a candidate come to campus who says that she wants to get tax dollars out of politics and stop politicians being bought by corporations, but yet she supports a 1.3 billion dollar gas tax increase?”
I really don’t understand what you are trying to complain about here. Getting money out of politics has nothing to do with taxes. I’m starting to wonder if alcohol is a factor in this argument…
“You people must be blind, or just really stupid (yes, even educationally smart people can be stupid !!) !!”
Flag on the play, ad-hominem! Also, “educationally smart people” is just an amazing use of the English language. Did you learn to write like that at Chico State? I also love the exclamation points inside and outside of the parenthesis. Gotta give it that extra MMMPH!! (let ‘em know you’re mad!!)!!
“If you truly support this candidate, then you are a hypocrite in this sense.”
What does this even mean?
“Furthermore, aren’t student newspapers supposed to be impartial/non-biased?”
You have to actually read the paper to know what is in the paper… Jut sayin’.
“Because I can tell you empirically, that I know which political party your rag supports, and which one funds your endeavors.”
Using one of them college words you learned at Chico State before you quit, eh? I’m sure you have quantitative data to support your claim. You can just leave that in the comments below whenever you have time. Or you can just fax it to me. People still use fax machines, right?
“You, and 99% of the students at Chico State, are a bunch of libtard morons, and sheeple, blindly following the next idiot in front of them.”
Here’s the money shot. You are calling people sheep yet your use of the word libtard indicates you have been listening to right wing propagandists and picked up on their terminology and it is now part of your vocabulary. You are just regurgitating, or at least attempting to regurgitate, their rhetoric for them. You’re the sheep who cried “sheep!”
“I’m so glad that I quit going to Chico State.”
I love that it just keeps going. This one is actually my favorite. If I am not mistaken, you are saying you are happy to be a drop out. Let me guess: school is not for smart people. I’d be interested to hear what you have done with yourself post university sans graduation.
“Student organizations and students like you are some of the reasons why educational systems in this country are going to s**t.”
Not sure if you had to censor yourself in order to pass a filter or if you just do it for flair. Either way, it’s hilarious.
“Your tagline says “Celebrating 40 years of excellence in journalism at Chico State.””
This sentence is all good. Right on.
“You might want to consider changing that, because there isn’t any excellence in any of your journalism, not to mention anything in terms of excellence coming out of Chico State, unless of course you count the destruction of the college experience with the indoctrination of liberal hippie douche crybaby snowflake rhetoric, and that’s all Chico State is is a liberal indoctrination center !!”
That’s one sentence. Holy Christ! Did you quit or did they kick you out for failing to understand basic sentence structure? Your inability to articulate your thoughts tells me you don’t need to be at a university, you need to go back to high school.
“WAKE UP PEOPLE !! LEARN TO THINK FOR YOURSELVES !!”
Seriously though, you are embarrassing yourself. Just put the Keystone down and go to bed.
The only sheep here is you. The fact that you run around crying that others are sheep is so absurdly hilarious that I thought I might try and let you in on the joke. I don’t think you’ll ever get it though.
The best part is that everyone knows this but you. We all realize how ridiculous you are but you never will because you’re completely blind to your own ignorance. No one takes you seriously. You are lucky they even responded to you and you are blessed by my criticism.
You are welcome.