Douglas Sick made several valid points in his letter to the editor Monday (“Legitimacy of court ruling in question”). We agree that the matter before the Court was one about law, not about specialty seats. However, the law must be applicable to a case, not merely random citations that suit one’s needs.

We cannot agree that the Supreme Court violated Iowa law in accepting the case. The sections of Iowa Code that Sick cited are not applicable to the Harvey matter.

Iowa Code regulates the elections from presidential electors and congressmen all the way down to county officers; GSB elections, and moreover GSB student referenda, are outside of the purview of this application of the Code of Iowa.

If you accept Sick’s argument, then GSB elections would need to be run in conjunction with the county auditor, county sheriff and the Iowa secretary of state.

Also, the sections cited pertain to the contesting of elections. Mr. Harvey never claimed that election should be contested, for he agreed with the results. He argued to the court, and it agreed, that the GSB Election Commission simply announced the wrong outcome. No one disagreed with the vote tallies or how they were attained.

The court is not above Iowa law. The government holds the conduct of the justices of the GSB Supreme Court to the same high standard as all other judges in Iowa as stated in the Iowa Code of Judicial Conduct.

Sick is simply mistaken, for he did not correctly apply the law. The ruling by the GSB Supreme Court, although displeasing to some, is legitimate.

Gregory Tew

GSB Chief Justice Pro Tempore

Alex Olson

GSB Chief Justice

T.J. Schneider

GSB President

Anthony Luken

GSB Speaker of the Senate