A debate between the Veishea 2004 parade committee and the ISU College Republicans about including the club’s float in the Veishea parade has reignited.

Although the Veishea parade happened more than a week ago — with the ISU College Republicans displaying a float — members of the Veishea parade committee said the facts the group used to reach a compromise might not be accurate.

“We need to get the facts straight,” said Thomas Hill, vice president for student affairs. “There’s a dispute in the facts — one statement [from the Republicans] says one thing, another statement [from the parade committee] says something else.

“We need to figure out who said what,” he said.

The ISU College Republicans and the Veishea parade committee made conflicting statements about the deadline for the parade forms and whether any college Republicans attended the float builders’ meetings, he said.

Louis Kishkunas, vice president of the ISU College Republicans, said he would meet with Hill to clarify the situation.

“Throughout the whole situation, there was some miscommunication,” Kishkunas said. “We’ll have a meeting and get everything out in the open. We want to put this all behind us and start again fresh next year.”

The argument between the Republicans and the parade committee began more than a month ago when the parade committee rejected the group’s float because it missed the Feb. 25 application deadline by two days.

However, when the committee sent the ISU College Republicans the rejection letter, the parade committee’s official reason was the float wasn’t entertaining enough.

At a March 31 Veishea meeting, the parade committee told the group it was rejected for the missed deadline, not from entertainment value. The debate intensified until the parade committee realized it gave the group a wrong parade form that had a Feb. 27 deadline.

The issue was resolved April 7, and the Republicans were allowed to have a float in the parade. The agreement came after a three-hour meeting involving Hill, the co-chairpersons of the Veishea parade committee and Josh Reicks, president of the ISU College Republicans.

Now, some of those facts that led to the original compromise are being called into question.

Matt Bornhorst, Veishea parade co-chairman, said attendance records show the College Republicans weren’t at the float builders’ meeting where they claimed they received the Feb. 27 deadline.

“The whole date issue of how they obtained the Feb. 27 date is questionable, because they said they received it at the float builders’ meeting, but again, our records show they weren’t there,” Bornhorst said.

Hill said he would talk with the ISU College Republicans in order to sort out the situation.

Kishkunas said the miscommunication was unfortunate. He said he would be sure it doesn’t happen again next year.