Gansa Campaign Leader Joins "Government Club" as Communications Director

When the Prince first interviewed Will Gansa regarding his campaign to become president of USG, he was joined by friend and adviser Nick Horvath, who identified himself as Gansa’s press secretary, a position invented by Horvath on the spot.Horvath is now USG's Director of Communications. He was appointed to the position last month.His press experience, or rather his leadership of the Gansa campaign more generally, made him a standout to Ella Cheng, the current USG President who defeated Gansa in the runoff election, she said.She was shocked by the success of the Gansa campaign, and saw it as an imperative to shake things up, she added. She thinks Horvath will bring that new perspective, building a stronger connection between USG and the student body, and that he will give her his honest take on what USG is doing. But she added that USG did an extra interview with him, to make sure that he was “taking the responsibility seriously.”He was introduced to the rest of the group as the “king of waffle fries,” during their annual retreat.Horvath agreed with Cheng that the recent election indicated a need for the group to change course, and he said he wanted to be part of it.“If a joke candidate can win by 13% of the vote, either you didn’t do anything or people think you didn’t do anything,” he said.He thinks it is, for the most part, the latter. “There’s a lot of important stuff going on,” he said.Horvath is not the political outsider that Gansa was. He interned with a Congressman in Colorado and worked as a legislative aide for Colorado State Sentor Morgan Carroll. Last year he ran, unsuccessfully, to be one of the Class of 2017’s representatives in the USG Senate.So far, Horvath has primarily been occupied with picking members for the communications team that he will lead, a responsibility that previously was not given to the Director of Communications.  He has also been advertising USG referenda and initiatives on his Facebook page. There are other developments in store – Cheng said USG will be rolling out a new website in March.And as for bike reform, it appears to have also made an impression on USG leaders. “Bike safety, repairs, and rentals,” is among the projects on the docket for the USG 2015 Senate.