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From: "~Richard...~" <>
Subject: Re: [BOARD-L] Board Replacement
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:14:28 -0500
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Amen Shari. Richard...

Shari Handley wrote:
> I don't see that the EC is trying to hide *anything*.
>
> This is what I see:
>
> I see that they are a group of volunteers. Nobody's being paid for
> their work on the EC, no money is changing hands.
>
> I see that this group of volunteers is doing a difficult, often
> thankless job, out of the goodness of their hearts, because they were
> willing to step forward and lend a hand.
>
> I see this group of volunteers trying to do the best they can with the
> hand they've been dealt. If they feel they need to arrange the members'
> regions a little differently in order to better serve the Project, I
> say, "Go for it." The AB approved a slate of people, and there hasn't
> been anyone removed or summarily executed, to my knowledge, in order to
> somehow "manipulate" the EC.
>
> I see a group of volunteers that has never given *anyone* reason to
> doubt their integrity, and yet have had to bite their tongues when a few
> people have publicly questioned it.
>
> This is a hard-working, dedicated group of individuals. I have had the
> pleasure of "listening in" for a short time while I was acting chair of
> the AB last month, and I see the highly principled, orderly way they
> approached the job, and the "can-do" attitude they displayed. We can be
> *proud* of the EC and the job they do.
>
> Unless a person or group has given us reason to think they're up to
> something fishy, they don't deserve to be looked upon with a suspicious
> eye.
>
> Shari Handley
> Rep-at-Large
>


Richard M. Howland
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