CV student attends Obama inauguration
Nick Butler, a 10th grade student at Chenango Valley High School, won the lottery — for tickets to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama.
Butler won the tickets through Rep. Michael Arcuri’s office, and credits his studies in Advanced Placement World History with helping him to understand the significance of the event. He developed his love of politics early when his sixth grade teacher would give written assignments about political cartoons.
While not old enough to vote on Nov. 4, 2008, Butler said, “Being able to attend the inauguration makes it feel like I still participated in this historic election.”
“I believe the nation has better years to come under a new administration and hopefully will take a turn for the better, sooner rather than later,” he added.
Press & Sun-Bulletin — February 8, 2009
‘Alien’ bus-stop ads create a stir
“The billboards, benches and websites are a great way to advertise movies, because it gets people talking,” explained Nick Butler, editor in chief of MovieViral.com, which has been following the film’s promotions for nearly a year. “What we see with ‘District 9’ is a combination of real-life experiences mixed in with game experiences that involve websites and Twitter. It is a very successful viral campaign.”
LA Times — June 19, 2009
The new rebel film trailers
“In the case of Cloverfield the trailer started the viral,” says Nick Butler, who runs the site movieviral.com. “People watched the trailer over and over to look for clues, because the whole thing was such a mystery. Some people thought it was about terrorism, or maybe it had something to do with Lost [Abrams’s TV series]. The trailer sent people off to check out the associated website, thousands of people did exactly that and the online buzz grew like crazy. Over the next few months, we were sent all over the internet. In the end I saw the film four times, constantly looking for links between it and the trailer.”
The Guardian — December 17, 2009
CV students have moment with Obama in D.C.
The nine students in Chenango Valley High School’s Political Science Club planned to do some site-seeing during a one-day trip to Washington last Friday. Instead, they would up on the South Lawn of the White House shaking hands with President Barack Obama. […]
On his way to the helicopter, Obama spotted [White House staffer and CV alum] Higginbottom and came over to ask her what she was doing on the lawn, said club President Nick Butler, 17. She explained the reason at which point Obama stopped, greeted each student and shook their hands.
“We were all stunned and starstruck and confused how we got so lucky,” Butler said.
Press & Sun-Bulletin — May 2010
SA Election-gate: VP candidate allegedly violates election rules and regulations
An anonymous tip containing photo, video and text evidence of Butler using his office computer was sent to the ASP. The evidence showed Butler using an SA office computer to print his debate notes moments before the election debates.
The photos show Butler’s speech being accessed at 6:21 p.m. on March 6, and an additional screenshot showed the file still being accessed at 6:47 p.m.
Albany Student Press — March 12, 2013
Sen. Al Franken Rejects 2020 Presidential Run (Exclusive)
A 23-year-old graduate student named Nick Butler created the Super PAC hours after Hillary Clinton conceded the election. If the idea of a former “SNL” head writer to run our country sounds crazy, consider that the guy from “Celebrity Apprentice” is about to take the job.
“For the first few years in the Senate, he would refuse to make a joke,” Butler told TheWrap. “He showed that he wasn’t a joke.”
The Wrap — November 29, 2016
Incident Outside Nationals Park in Washington
Nick Butler, 28, said he had been sitting in the stands beyond center field and had been watching the weather, wondering if the game would be rained out. When he saw fans behind home plate sprinting, he assumed the rain had arrived, but then he noticed that some were ducking and that the players were not in the dugouts.
Mr. Butler said he leapt up from his seat and headed to the center field concourse, looking for an exit, turned a corner and was told by a staff member that he could not leave that way. Then he saw “a stampede of people running in our direction.”
NY Times — July 17, 2021
Crowd gathers outside the Supreme Court after draft opinion circulated that would strike down Roe v. Wade
Another in the crowd, Nick Butler, said people need to recognize “that they have power” to enact change as he urged everyone to consider those “who are going to be targeted” if Roe is struck down.
CNN — May 3, 2022