It is with jubilation that I write to you tonight. We have held yet
another election and chosen wisely.
Some may ask, "But we didn't even get a name chosen?" True. We didn't,
and that is a good thing. To quote an old friend, "And let me tell ya
why..."
In an effort of best intentions to remedy the name stigma, we rushed to
throw something out onto the table that would suffice for the interim.
My alarmed concern was not that we didn't have any good monikers, we
did, but that this takes as careful a reflection by each of us as the
reasons we're all here together in the first place. Please take a few
minutes to look over the differences between the first poll and the
second. Please. And you'll see what I mean.
I understand that I hit the list with a barrage of caveats and "whoa
mavericks", and I apparently either had the correct suspicions, or I'm a
good lobbyist. Yes, I told you what I was going to vote for, but more
important than that I told you to vote and to really think about your
vote.
what transpired was some serious soul searching on the part of the
participant and the suggestions started coming out of the woodwork. That
kind of participation makes me feel good. We need to know what each
other thinks, and we need to get up and put out what we think long
before we go to the polls.
Although it is most important that we vote, we should also realize that
we also have a voice, and an opportunity for others to hear our point of
view via the list- before coming to the polls. Also, that it can be
quite effective when we speak our mind. It's quite possible that the
people that are reading your post have not thought about that aspect of
a particular issue, and it is up to you to make the difference.
Please understand that we are really pressed for time here, and do not
have the weeks of time to engage in discussions that we will be afforded
later after our steering committee has been elected and seated. Much of
our infrastructure lies in a pile of raw construction material and has
not been erected as the house in which our organization will reside.
That makes it all the more important during the campaign phase to ask
hard questions in public about a candidate and even of those candidates
themselves.
Some people will undoubtedly run for the steering committee because they
want to be on it. Many will have a purposeful mission, while most will
have an agenda. These things cannot be ascertained from a public
statement. Ask the questions. Say what you think. People are listening.
Consider for a moment, how many people could possibly be on the steering
committee. Check out the charter and ask yourself, should I just vote
for some candidates and have no preference for others (which could lead
to quite an uncomfortable number of steering committee members), should
I vote for the candidates whose agendas I support and then categorically
disapprove of the rest, or should I use that no preference box because I
didn't do my homework?
Look to the results of the election we just recycled and the differences
in the potential outcome that you can effect by considering in a
tactical way how your vote can make a difference. You'll sleep better
for it later. I guarantee.
In closing, I would like to add that once the steering committee is in
place there will be a whirlwind of activity in the area of recruitment.
There is strength in numbers. But you will not have the opportunity to
have as dramatic an impact as you do right now. Make that difference now
because we will succumb to the dregs of beauracracy eventually, and you
will have no better time than now to make that difference.
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