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>From: "Carol" <>

>Subject: To the Board

>

>Holly, please forward to Board-L while I send it to State-Coord-L.  If

>anyone else wants to forward it, be my guest!

>

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>

>Dear Board,

>

>I reply to you as a group, yet I am writing as an individual.  In no way do

>I represent the Election Special Committee, although I suspect my sentiments

>would be echoed throughout the committee.

>

>We just spent seven weeks hashing over the things that you are now

>discussing.  The flaws you see in some of the sections, we have already

>seen.  When we said we agonized over that section, we meant that we AGONIZED

>over that section!!

>

>My single motive for being on the committee was to address the problem of

>vote-packing.  I was hell-bent that if nothing else were accomplished, we

>would deal with that one issue and find a solution.

>

>We did.  Read the report.

>

>Some say that they do not believe in the basic goodness of members of the

>project.  As Board members of a volunteer organization, I would say that if

>you can't see the good in people, you should resign immediately!

>

>We all work very hard for the good of this project, CC's, LC's, ABs, SCs,

>NC, and etc.  Do not dismiss our report because you don't agree with parts

>of it.  You can believe that, at the beginning, we didn't agree with what we

>arrived at, either!  Yet, we came to our recommendations after debating this

>single item MORE than any other topic, and spending more time on this issue

>than any other.  We finally realized that the only alternative to vote

>packing was to recommend something in direct oppostion to the Bylaws, and to

>penalize hardworking, innocent people in this project.  In the end, we ALL

>felt that the price for policing the "vote packing" was a price we did not

>want to pay.  Disregarding the Bylaws and penalizing members of this Project

>just wasn't something we could do.  Why do YOU want to?  You can't have it

>both ways.  You either penalize the innocent to prevent vote packing, or

>else you have to start making some very nasty "rules" in this project.  And,

>I do remind you that ths is a volunteer organization, not the local bar!

>

>When you get done slinging insults at us, and use some of that common sense

>you seem so happy to talk about, then maybe you will realize that the

>biggest problems we've had in this project came as a result of someone NOT

>following the Bylaws.  Now, you suggest that we should have disregarded

>those same Bylaws when it suits *your* purpose?  Is this how you view the

>Bylaws?  If so, then you should resign immediately from your position on the

>AB!

>

>Remember that the ESC already discussed these things.  We chose to value

>EVERY member of the project and believe that people were good and honest.

>There is a flip side of that coin that you haven't recognized or considered.

>That is the considerable distrust in this project towards the BOARD!  I was

>one of those in the committee who consistently defended the SCs/AB/NC to

>make sure that the AB's rights were ALSO protected.  Look at our voting

>barometer.  Why do you think half of us voted to disallow the Board from

>even serving on the Election Committee?  Because there is just as much

>distrust towards the Board as the distrust you express towards the cc's who

>are supposedly "vote packing."

>

>Some of you are quick to find ways to eliminate people out of your fear.

>Yet, do you not realize that this kind of attitude is the very thing that

>creates distrust in the BOARD from everyone else in the Project?  So, some

>of you distrust the hardworking cc's, and the rest of the project distrust

>the board!

>

>When does the distrust end?  We believe it ends with YOU!  And, we believed

>it was going to end with our election recommendations.  We did a darn good

>job.  The diversity of our group insured it!   Our reommendations were fair

>to everyone, even the Board!

>

>Some of you on this Board owes the Election Special Committee an apology!

>Then, you can apologize to the hard-working cc's who you are also insulting!

>You don't have to agree with us on every point.  But, I do demand that you

>respect us!  And, I demand that you recognize the hard work and thought that

>went into our report.  A simple "thank you for serving" would have been

>nice, even if you didn't agree!

>

>Carol Haagensen

>Wyoming State Coordinator

>

>

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