[statecom] [adcom] Explanation for actions

[NOLNG]

Hi John,

Could you please use my personal email address, peacenik46 at yahoo.com, instead of the nolng1 at yahoo.com address for further communications.  Thanks.

Joe Carvalho


--- On Wed, 5/21/08, John Andrews <jandrews166 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Andrews <jandrews166 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [statecom] [adcom] Explanation for actions
> To: "State Committee Official Business" <statecom at green-rainbow.org>
> Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 5:38 PM
> The main point Merelice is making is very important.  We
> should all step
> back a minute and consider the course of action that Grace
> is proposing.
> 
> On April 12 I co-sponsored a proposal that was adopted by
> consensus by State
> Committee.  It made two final changes to the Delegate
> Selection Plan and
> instructed the working committees and officers of the Party
> to implement
> that plan as written to the best of their ability.  The
> State Committee is
> the author of the Delegate Selection Plan.  The AdCom does
> not have the
> authority to defy State Committee.  AdCom is not a
> policy-making body.  It
> is supposed to implement policies developed by more
> democratic organs of the
> Party.
> 
> Any member of AdCom who cannot find it within them to
> implement the plan
> should either recuse themselves from its implementation or
> should resign
> from AdCom.  Trying to defy the will of State Committee is
> an extremely
> arrogant and harmful action, and amounts to a breach of
> faith with the
> Party.  It would certainly be cause for immediate removal
> of the persons
> involved from AdCom.  I don't relish the thought of
> going down that road.
> But if necessary, I hope that State Committee would defend
> our
> decision-making process from these very harmful attacks.
> 
> - John
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