[External Relations] Re: [statecom] CC Resolution: My Final Plea

[Owen Broadhurst]

David Rolde wrote:

"Out of all the bad things going on in the GPUS this year, I don't 
understand why you chose this as the one thing that the GRP should consider 
disafilliating over."

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The GRP would not disaffiliate in any case, I'm certain. However, the 
question of precisely what our relationship to the national party should be 
given its present trajectory happens to be one I consider well worth 
exploring. Sudan, Iraq, the platform, and convention floor rules are one 
thing, but things that - as abominable as they are- could be said to have 
had at least some democratic process behind them. This would mark the first 
time that the CC has assumed authority to translate national party bylaws 
without even a feeble, token attempt at consensus- a situation I find 
alarming in a national party where the Steering Committee creates working 
committees in contravention of national party bylaws, where CC delegate 
dominated working committees have petitioned the BRPP to find means of 
expelling dissenting working committee members, where Steering Committee 
members have interfered in internal Caucus affairs, and where the fetish for 
secrecy threatens accountability.

This is a subject I think worth discussing in depth, perhaps by convention 
time.

Owen R. Broadhurst