For sometime the question has not been will our LCRCC leadership violate the Rules of Order,
But how many times in a meeting will this happen?
The June meeting of the Linn County Central Committee had no surpriseds.
Some of my readers might have noticed I have not posted earlier this week as I normally do,
That may be a disspointment for some and welcomed by others.
I have been a tad ill and am still not fully recovered so instead of listing the entirety of Tuesday Nights Transgressions,
I will present the most flagrant.
The single most importand defense of the Body from Abuse of Power from the Chair.
Is the Right to Challenge or Appeal the Decsion of the Chair
It is described in Robert's Rule of Order as
When a presiding officer makes a ruling and a member disagrees, the proper thing to do is to rise and say, "Mr. President, I appeal from the ruling of the chair." If another member seconds the appeal, the procedure is rather simple: The president puts the question to the members, who decide whether to sustain his ruling. But under Robert's Rules, the presiding officer gets to speak first and last in any discussion about the appeal or her decision.
An appeal from the ruling of the chair
Can interrupt a speaker who has the floor.
Needs to be seconded.
Is debatable unless the immediately pending question is not debatable.
Can't be amended.
Requires a majority vote to overturn the decision of the chair.
Can be reconsidered.
That seems pretty simple and straight forward, Or it would be if our Chair FOLLOWED our Rules of Procedure
Rather than IGNORING A Challenge of the Chair's Decision as the Linn County Central Committee Chair Cindy Golding did during the June Meeting
The Republican Party or most of it stands for adherence to Constitutions and Rule of Law
Some of us Walk the Walk,
Some of us just Talk the Talk
Some do not bother to do either,
Unfortunatelu the LCRCC seems to be burdened with Leadership of the latter sort,
To paraphrase a section from Corinthians
Though They speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not Truth, They are become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
I will try to go into this matter in greater detail in a later post
