Having served on the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Judiciary and Senate, I know what it means to help lead student groups. I know about meeting budgets and having constituents. And just as I've always looked for candidates who have the right balance of experience and ability to listen, I think I've found one this year in Tomas Garcia.
When I first read Tomas Garcia's campaign platform, I realized that he was a different kind of candidate because he has taken the time to listen to the student body's ideas. He has realized that Jumbos love Tufts and that they are ultimately the best resource for ideas on how to implement the changes that this school needs and that its student desire.
What makes me confident about Tomas' campaign is that his ideas have been your ideas and the TCU Senate's ideas. What my time at Tufts has taught me is that there's no way for one president or for one Senate to come up with a vision for an entire undergraduate population - especially one as diverse as what you find at Tufts. Tomas has not only taken ideas from the Senate and made them his platform, but he has already encouraged and will continue to encourage every member of the TCU Senate to engage with the students they represent. Tomas is going to empower the student body to tell the TCU Senate what they want.
Tomas Garcia is a candidate who has not only the students' vision at heart and the students' best interest at heart but the knowledge, experience and leadership to make that vision a reality. He's right that we have an opportunity to transform life on the Hill. He offers us an opportunity to do it, and the "us" of which he speaks is not just the Senate and not just the leadership of Senate but the entire student body in a school where every student is taught to be a leader.
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