WISEMILLER’S – After rumors began circulating that it was exploring another bid for GUSA presidency, the popular Wisemiller’s sandwich Chicken Madness announced today that it will not run in the 2015 election.

“After careful deliberation and much soul-searching, I have decided that I will not pursue the GUSA presidency again this year,” the former candidate told members of the press. “I love Georgetown, but this is a young sandwich’s game. I am looking forward to retiring to private life and spending my days in the saucy embrace of my beautiful trophy wife, Hot Chick.”

Supporters of Chicken Madness will fondly recall the 2014 campaign, when the candidate’s commitment to vegetarian reeducation and its “Sizzlin’” platform brought in a groundbreaking 3% of the vote.

Chicken Madness says that it still remains committed to these lofty ideals.

“The decision not to run again for GUSA presidency does not mean that Chicken Madness is any less committed to the ‘Sizzlin’’ message. After discussing with its financial advisors, it believes that there is an even greater opportunity to promote these values outside of politics through a brand new Chicken Madness Foundation,” a spokeswoman for the former candidate said.

Some commentators suggest that Chicken Madness has a more prosaic reason for dropping out of the race. In a field saturated with younger candidates bringing fresh ideas and flavors to the table, they believe that Chicken Madness would be hard-pressed to secure even the food nomination, let alone the GUSA presidency.

“Chicken Madness has had its chance. At the end of the day, voters want a candidate who can deliver a win, not a sandwich whose buns and platform have just been sitting in the deep freezer for the past year,” GUSA political analyst Jane Kuo (COL ’15) said.

Richard “Dicky” Mittens (MSB ’15), chief statistician for The Hoya, agrees that for Chicken Madness, the writing is on the wall.

“If you look at the early straw polls, you can see that upstart sandwiches like Capriotti’s ‘the Bobbie’ are eating into Chicken Madness’s core constituency,” Mittens said. “And in the long run, a white meat sandwich is going to have a hard time winning votes from an increasingly multicultural student body that is shifting to Chipotle burritos.”

Yet whatever the reason for Chicken Madness’s retirement, politicians from across the GUSA spectrum universally acknowledge that this marks the end of an era. The office of GUSA President Trevor Tezel (SFS ’15) issued the following statement in praise of the sandwich: “President Tezel and the entire GUSA administration wish Chicken Madness all the best as it transitions to private life. Chicken Madness and the President may not always have seen eye-to-eye on every issue, but its devotion to GUSA and the student voice on campus has been firm and unwavering. With its Gus Hall-like determination to run year after year, Chicken Madness has been an inspiration to us all.”

As the 2015 GUSA election draws near, Chicken Madness plans to depart Washington on a joint speaking tour with Ralph Nader so as not to influence the results of Georgetown’s decision.