"It's not brain surgery," Leonard says of running the council. "It just takes dedicated people."
Leonard says he and Tenney have watching the council for a while. And they didn't like what they saw there--representatives "bogged down in internal politics," as Leonard put it.
The two joined the council enthusiastic to learn more about it; Leonard took first place in Kirkland and Tenney took second place in Adams in this fall's elections. But after watching this semester's council activities, Tenney describes the body as inefficient and irrelevant to student life.
So the two friends--they met in the spring of their first year, working at the business school--decided to go ahead with their candidacy.
According to Tenney, their friendship is one of the ticket's strongest features.
"We work well together," said the New Hampshire native, a self-described "Martha Stewart enthusiast."
Leonard went even further.
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