I will have to admit I always did want to use that title.
Some time back our Co Chair decided to educate us.
He made this statement
Can I also sugge...st that criticism is not an accomplishment. Criticism does not become an accomplishment when taken to another forum. Or another meeting.
Now it is true that he took a passage from the Constitution and the ByLaws
V. OFFICERS The officers of this Central Committee shall be a chairman, co-chairman, secretary and treasurer, and such other members as the County Central Committee in its by-laws may provide. The Central committee shall organize following each general election, but no later than the following April 1.
V. OFFICERS The officers of the Central Committee shall consist of a Cahir, Co-Chair, Secretary and Treasurer whose terms shall be for a period of two (2) years and the same shall be elected immediately following each general election, but no later than the following April 1. The Central Committee shall elect either from its’ membership or otherwise a chair, co-chair, secretary, treasurer and other officers as it may determine. After notification of an election, any vacancies in said offices shall be filled by the County Central Committee.
It seems that the organization required by April 1 following each general election?
Is the Election of OFFICERS.
Not the complete destruction of the structure of the Body.
If that were the case there would be language in the Constitution and Bylaws in the Sections pertaining to the Body saying so
There is not.
But the did create a Faux Crisis.
We HAD to change everthing! We did not have any time left there would be no other meetings before April Fools Day!!!!
They told the body that Robert's Rules of Order SAID that ALL motions etc made before an Officers Election were voided by that Election!!!!!!!!!!!!
The problems with that is that it is comepletely Untrue.
They know that.
They asked the Official Online Robet's Rules Disscusion Forum that same question and were told NO
About 7 weeks before the Election.
There WAS one small bit of information that was True.
In the Motion that they made the Night of the St Patrick's Day Massacre.
There is a Statement
Discussion of motion. • Questions and discussion concerning the charters and previous committees. • The Chair explained that the Iowa Code, the Republican Party Constitution and Bylaws and the Linn County Republican Party Constitution and the Linn County Republican Party Bylaws require that the central committee re-organize by April 1st following each general election. All that survives are the Advisory Committee, the Executive Committee and the Central Committee. The Chair explained that David Chung, Paul Pelletier and Richard Bice had been contacted in regard to parliamentarian review. • A question was raised concerning the elections of Credentials Committee members at the 2014 Caucus. The Chair indicated she would followup and report. • Calls were made to a wide variety of members. • Motion by James Knox (CR04) "Call the Question". Motion Failed • Gary Ellis reported that there are signup sheets to allow people to volunteer for teams
Now everyone ASSUMED that this portion
The Chair explained that David Chung, Paul Pelletier and Richard Bice had been contacted in regard to parliamentarian review.
Meant that those 3 men supported the Chair and the Executive Committees Claim
Turns out in the Case of Daveid Chung
That was NOT True
I understand he not only told them that Robert's Rules of Order and our Documents not only did not support that claim
But that what they were planning was not a good idea.
We jump forward in time and ss late as the May Meeting the Chair was STILL making the Claim
That an Officers Election Voided all Motions make prior to it
When I member tried to enter into the record the portion of Robtert's Rules of Order the refutes this
Page 111 footnote at the bottom of the page
Which by the way is the SAME section that the Official Robert's Rules of Order gave them to explain why an Officers Election did NOT void all previous Motions and Decisions
The Chair Stated that the Exectutive Committee would take the subject under advisement and deliberate,.
That being the May meeting maybe we will be told what their deliberations determined in the September meeting?
In a cute posting recently the Co-Chair in effect accused me of being Divisive.
If speaking the Truth is Divisive?
I stand guitly as charged
Someone has to do it
And it makes a nice counterpoint to all the things we are told in Meetings that are NOT True.
Updated: Friday, 28 August 2015 7:13 AM CDT
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