[Lnc-business] discussion in favor of motion to fill vacant At-Large position by email

[Tim Hagan]

Jim Duensing also sent a self-nominating e-mail to the LNC members.

Tim

On 9/21/2012 7:18 PM, Ruth Bennett wrote:
> Dear LNC members,
>
> In thinking about filling this position and seeing the names of the 
> folks self-nominating, I realized that there is no logical reason to 
> ask anyone interested to spend the time and money to fly to D.C. to 
> make their case to us. I would much rather that we make our selection 
> and then urge the others to make a donation of the money they've saved 
> to the NLP or the Johnson campaign.
>
> Realistically, most of us have probably made our decisions or at least 
> narrowed it down from the list.  I am just proposing that we make the 
> decision now, let the new member get all the necessary reports and get 
> up to speed.
>
> Please, also remember, that we have such a limited amount of time 
> together and it seems like a mis-allocation of those limited hours to 
> make a decision that most - likely all - of us have already made.  
> Let's say that we have just these 8 candidates.  If each is allowed 
> just five minutes to make her/his case, that is 40 minutes at best.  
> Plus wrangling over a voting system and voting and counting ballots.  
> We will have spent a minimum of an hour and a half out of our total of 
> 12-14 hours together - about 10% of our meeting! It just does not seem 
> like a good use of our time - when we can have a decision in the next 
> couple of weeks.
>
> Currently I have these names - and more are likely coming: (in no 
> particular order)
>
> Carl Perrson                Paulie Frankel Am I missing anyone?
> David Blau                  Mark Hinkle
> Bill Still                       Gary Johnson (TX)
> Gigi Bowman               Guy McLendon
>
> So please vote AYE on this motions as quickly as possible and we can 
> proceed to a vote on our new At-Large member.
>
> Thank you for your consideration.
>
> Ruth
>
>
>
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