[statecom] responsibility to recuse

[Merelice]

Greetings,

If what Grace says is true about no practice of recusing, that is a
HUGE drawback of consensus. And decisions are being made daily by
working committees and AdCom which she should not consider herself
ethically able to participate in, so it does apply here (including
over the weekend).

If we are going to elect people to public office, we better practice
the standards that have been developed to eliminate the bad practices
of elected officials.

Merelice


On 2/4/08, Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com <Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com> wrote:
> Merelice - we don't have a recusal process - and perhaps we should.
>
>  However, as no decisions have been made at statecom nor did adcom make any
> decisions this weekend, this simply does not apply here.
>
>  In general in consensus building, all voices are encouraged to participate
> and biases should be stated as much as possible.  Consensus assumes that we
> all have biases and the issue is to do our best to put out our reasoning and
> the facts that led us to that reasoning and then creatively weave all of
> that information into a position that everyone is okay with - if at the
> point of consensus check I was the only outlier, then that is the point in
> consensus when some folks should take me or whoever aside and ask us to
> check ourselves for our biases.
>
>  Thanks for raising this, it was helpful for me to remind myself, (if no one
> else) how consensus seeks to address biases - Grace
>
>  In a message dated 2/4/08 3:53:13 PM, merelice at gmail.com writes:
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> Dear AdCom colleagues,
>
>  Since Grace is working on behalf of Cynthia McKinney's campaign, she
>  needs to recuse herself from any further decision-making related to
>  how we treat candidates. It would have been appropriate for her to
>  have done so before decisions were made over the weekend.
>
>  If any other AdCom member is actively working for a candidate,
>  obviously the same standard should apply. And the same standard should
>  apply on all the GRP working committees, especially CDLC and any
>  communications related to the candidates.
>
>  Brookline requires that people serving the town in elected and
>  appointed positions take a training session on conflict-of-interest
>  and other good-government issues. Perhaps it would be helpful to
>  establish a similar basic understanding of what is considered ethical
>  in our roles in the party.
>
>  Merelice
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