Dirty Tricks?

There as been a lot of discussion about the student vote. Do you think that we are seeing,

A) Political dirty tricks ;
B) Political maneuvering maybe a little slimier than we are accustomed to but a picture of our future;
C) Common now, this is politics, what do you expect;
D) It was a brilliant move;
E) it probably was not intended as political maneuvering.

For those who are not aware of what has happened. Before the election started Mayor White had an item placed on the consent agenda to move the ballot box from Post Oak Mall to the MSC. This passed without objection. Next, the Mayor and the developer candidates started making appearances on campus. Some would say they were pointedly agitating the students about efforts being considered to control problems with some renters. This was not a new issue; Bryan had already passed in ordinance allowing neighborhoods to vote to limit houses to two unrelated residence. This passed without a peep from the students. It appears that the students may have been coached into indignation. These students in fact passed a good deal of totally false information such as that students would be kicked out of their homes if this passed, when, in fact, all existing rental property would have been grandfathered, not just while those students lived there, but even beyond that. There was no attempt to correct this bad information even when they knew for sure that it was wrong. Many people feel that the developers knew that they could not win in College Station after their attempt to place a super Wal-Mart next to neighborhoods on the east side. They needed to try to get students, who have never voted in any significant number, out to vote. The only way they could get the students out to vote was to convince them that they were being threatened.