Darryl Brackeen Jr. ’10 – FUSA President Hutch Williams ’08’s nominee for the Senate’s secretary of communications – was refused confirmation last week for the position.
In the weekly Sunday evening FUSA Senate meeting, the Senate voted 15-12 against Brackeen, with five abstentions.
The Senate used its executive privilege to close the vote to the public.
According to Senate Chair Tim Rich ’08, the discussion involved FUSA personnel matters. The votes were kept anonymous.
Brackeen, who is the current diversity director for IRHA, was presented to the Senate by Brittany Fusillo ’11, to replace the position left vacant by Kara Ackerman ’08, who resigned.
Since Rich was on the six-member review committee along with Ackerman, Vice Chair Ashley Close ’08 presided over the meeting.
The committee consisted of the two Senate members, two judicial branch members and two executive members, one of whom was Williams.
“I believe the Senate felt that Darryl didn’t have enough experience,” said Williams.
When nominating Brackeen, Williams said he was “looking for someone to motive the Web site [and] we felt that Darryl had those qualities.”
Williams said that Brackeen was fitting for the position because of his personable demeanor.
Brackeen said he was surprised by the vote because he felt that he was “qualified, if not over qualified.”
“Back home I was the assistant director of communications for my church, and I feel I would have been a good fit here because of my relations to different groups,” he said.
Brackeen said the nomination process was fair but that he should have been able to represent himself in the Senate meeting.
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