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More GP-US Steering Committee Rumors
Posted by Roger Snyder | September 13, 2005
More false rumors are being spread on the aftermath of the GP-US Steering Committee elections and the defeated proposals to deal with the election problems. From Ken Sain’s blog:
“I’m told that New York delegate Roger Snyder is trying to convince the other delegates it means Kristen Olson was elected instead of Tom Sevigny, but few are buying that.”
As readers here know, that is untrue. I have done nothing of the sort, and there is no evidence that I’ve argued such.
I have asked several times that Ken get more reliable (or just more) sources, and/or check his facts before writing them. Folks that want to know what I am really doing (Ken included) can just ask me.
I have, both on Ken’s blog and here on my blog, argued that “I continue to think that seating both Tom and Kristen was the most equitable solution and a politically reasonable compromise.” The majority of National Committee members who voted seem to agree with me.
What the National Committee majority did say by majority vote is that it rejected seating just Tom, and it rejected having a vacancy which which would lead to a new election for that seat.
The NC also did not achieve the 2/3 supermajority vote needed to seat both Tom and Kristen.
So the NC did reject both declaring a vacancy, and the seating of Tom under either case.
What it didn’t do, as pointed out by another delegate, was even consider the seating of just Kristen. I don’t think that is the best alternative, but if this possibility is raised my voting support would be guided ( as usual) by the input I receive from the Greens I represent.
Also from Ken:
” The SC is trying to work out what it means and have not yet reached a decision.”
Unfortunately, the Steering Committee keeps forgetting that it does not have the power to decide elections, nor the power to overrule the National Committee. I think if the SC would attempt to at least partially act in the open and transparent manner that we demand of our government bodies (see Green support for Sunshine laws, etc.) and not just attempt to foist their decisions on the NC, we all, including the SC, would be better off.
– Roger
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