Within 24 hours of Mighty Oregon’s grievance of intimidation and harassment against Ducks Like You, the Ducks Like You campaign responded by filing a petition for review against the grievance.

Mighty Oregon senatorial candidate Mack Smith and University of Oregon student Charlie Truxal were among some of the people stated as victims of harassment and intimidation in Mighty Oregon’s grievance. The petition for review responds to those allegations, as well as the others that were presented in the initial grievance.

In regards to Truxal being told “go fuck yourself” by a Ducks Like You volunteer, Ducks Like You representative Lamar Wise wrote in the petition for review that no evidence is proven as to who this volunteer was or if they were wearing a Ducks Like You shirt.

“Concerning the allegation of Mack Smith approaching a student about Mighty Oregon and getting the response ‘Yeah, the campaign with blatant racism and bigotry’ petitioner provides no evidence as to who this ‘volunteer’ was or proof that they were actually volunteering,” Wise wrote. “Just because someone is in a Ducks Like You shirt does not mean they are a volunteer … Ducks Like you has passed out over 600 shirts in the past two days, which means any one of those 600 people could have said such a statement.”

The petition for review states that Wise conducted an internal investigation of the allegations. Wise led the investigation, and according to him, Ducks Like You members did not not tell volunteers or voters that Mighty Oregon was racist.

“It’s more to show that most of their grievance is just hearsay. They provide very little proof with their allegations,” Wise said. “We’ve been experiencing the same issues, but instead we’ve been trying to educate voters, instead of filing grievances.”

“(Ducks Like You) are unapologetic regarding slanderous and false statements made to our volunteers and supporters,” Mighty Oregon campaign advisor and author of the initial grievance Evan Roth said. “We will stand by our decision to protect them from harassment.”

The Ducks Like You campaign did discover during the investigation that Ducks Like You volunteer Tru Mallon did say the phrase, “racist assholes,” but it was not towards Mighty Oregon members Roth, Charisse Gluck or ASUO Senator Josh Losner, according to the petition for review.

“(Mallon) provided a statement saying, ‘I was walking with my debate partner from this year and complaining about judges who don’t like the activism type debate that we do and as I was walking along I was complaining about one specific judge who I particularly don’t like and referred to him as ‘this racist asshole’ at the moment that we happened to be walking past the Mighty Oregon table,’” Wise wrote. “(The) respondent isn’t at fault for Mighty Oregon members mishearing Tru Mallon.”

However, Losner doesn’t agree with how Mallon recalls the situation.

“You would think that if he was really talking to his debate partner he would have said, ‘Sorry, I was referring to somebody else,’” Losner said. ”I was talking with my friend on 13th next to the Mighty Oregon campaign booth and Mallon walked by, looked at my friend (Gluck) and I and called us ‘racist assholes.’ He and his friend looked at me as they walked away and I said ‘what was that for?’ (and he gave) no response whatsoever.”

According to the grievance, Ducks Like You has also experience slanderous remarks from Mighty Oregon. Some of the examples being that Mighty Oregon members will tell freshmen that Ducks Like You want to “defund Greek Life,” that “the Ducks Like You is cutting athletics,” and that “Ducks Like You will only fund multicultural unions.”

The petition for review applied the same election rule violations 9.8, 9.8.1, and 6.8 on Mighty Oregon, which were the same violations Mighty Oregon put on its grievance against Ducks Like You.

“If any of their claims are accurate, we will ensure that all volunteers and supporters are educated on all our stances,” Roth said. “Unfortunately, Ducks Like You is blatantly lying to students”

The petition for review has been sent to the ASUO Constitution Court for review, but there is no word on when the court will make its decision.

Petition for Review filed by Ducks Like You against Mighty Oregon.