Updated: April 21, 2025, at 4:50 p.m. The message is simple, plastered on Student Government Association campaign posters and stickers across campus: “Vote Rat.” Each spring semester, while the variegated tulips bloom in GW’s green spaces, multicolored SGA election posters crop up around campus. Each new election cycle boasts its own range of newcomers and familiar faces running for a seat in the governing body, and since 2023, one fuzzy, aspiring politico has become a recurring candidate.