<div dir='auto'>Ms.Ryan brought it up last night that Nick wanted a recommendation. The committee told her that we thought it would be imprudent at this time to take up this issue as there were two different motions on the lnc list currently concerning this. A motion was properly made and properly seconded to postpone this decision until our next meeting and Betty Rose refused to accept that and said that she was not going to allow that vote because Nick demanded that we do it tonight and that she served at the pleasure of the chair and not at the pleasure of the committee. I will sign a sworn affidavit as such.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Last night was an absolute abuse of this committee. We were literally told by the chair of our committee that Nick is making these demands and because of that we are somehow obligated to fulfill his demands and she was unwilling for us to do anything other than that.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto">He does not get to direct the committee like that and she does not get to abuse Us in his Stead<br></div><div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto"><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Erin Adams Region 7 alt.</div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 2, 2020 9:32 AM, Richard Longstreth via Lnc-business <lnc-business@hq.lp.org> wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">I also reached out directly. Thank you
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On Tue, Jun 2, 2020, 06:53 Sam Goldstein <sam.goldstein@lp.org> wrote:
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> Sam Goldstein, At Large Member
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> On 2020-06-02 08:46, Richard Longstreth via Lnc-business wrote:
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> > Region 1 Representative (AK, AZ, CO, HI, KS, MT, NM, OR, UT, WA, WY)
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> > On Tue, Jun 2, 2020, 05:40 dustin.nanna--- via Lnc-business <
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