Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 13:34:29 -0000 From: pgammill@home.com Subject: [lpaz-govcom] Jason and the Arguenuts:-) To: lpaz-govcom@yahoogroups.com Reply-To: lpaz-govcom@yahoogroups.com
I am placing this onto GovCom and CC; Ernie.
There was a non-govcom letter by Ernie and response by Tim with regards to the 3/4 vote requirement, and the fact that means the deck is stacked.
There are 26 members of GovCom (27 with the vacant State Chair). Jason cannot vote for himself, leaving 25 maximum possible votes present. 3/4 of 25 present is 19 votes to vacate Jason's office. I count 6 probables in Jason's camp: The McDermott's, Sharon Auvenshine, Ted Glenn, Jay Walsh, and Al Fanning. But just because I think this is the way they will vote, doesn't mean that is the way they will vote. It does point to the fact that a 3/4 vote requirement is hard to overcome. AS IT SHOULD BE. And it also points out that ALL 25 members by presence or by proxy must show up for the outcome not to be a lock going into the trial.
Either way, I plan on speaking my objections to having a member of the Inc. governing board on our governing board. And I have faith that the vote will be a damned close thing. Which is as it should be. I am more disturbed by the whining, and doomsaying going on. Especially the threat of members who will desert the ALP if Jason stays or leaves.
The ALP is surviving today, and the ALP will be surviving (and adapting) a week from today. Put it in perspective: You can always walk away from the Party, but personally, I intend to hang around until I have clear evidence that the Party has walked away from me. If Jason remains, it will raise a red flag, and heighten my index of suspicion, but it doesn't mean the ALP is, next week, no longer the useful tool I believe it to be today. Nor is the ALP necessarily on the road to being Schmorged.
I think, either way the ALP will be better for having this discussion of the Jason Auvenshine affair, no matter how it is resolved. Will my position lose. It's 75% likely. But I don't know the outcome. I can only try to persuade 75% of GovCom to see the same problems that I do, and the same remedy. [It is unfortunate that this is happening a week away from the oral arguments in the Appelate Court.]
Powell
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