A friend of the village timed the speakers and the debate. It turns out that David Israel took 23 minutes of the time to espouse his ramblings. Ed Black took another 5 minutes and the debate was cut short by five minutes.. That leaves 27 minutes for the rest of the village to have their say. David Israel and his team bucket boy ED Black got more time to promote their opinions than the rest of the delegates combined. Does that seem right to anyone ? Worse yet; the debate was cut short by five minutes and a final speaker was not allowed to have his say.
One speaker made the comment that it;'s not the chairman's place to interject his opinion after every speaker, especially when the speaker doesn't conform with the chair's ambitions or goes against his very obvious bias. She was absolutely correct. It is not the chairs place to answer or argue with anyone. The chair gets to conduct the meeting , not fence with speakers, though that's the way it's always been done around here.
It was interesting to note that an association fielded three delegates, who, according to the rules, cast a vote each, but they voted on opposite sides of the question.How does that represent the wishes of their association, They either want it or they don't. How their delegates voted in opposition to each other exposes a fatal flaw in the way the vote was conducted, and in the way business is conducted under the current system.
During the roll call vote, one elderly delegate didn't reply when her name was called to vote. She seemed to be a bit confused and didn't answer after repeated calls. Someone, I'm not sure who, ran over to her and coached her what to answer . How does that work ? This delegate didn't seem to be in tune with the proceedings .We're not sure if she understood what she was voting for. But it didn't look right .
It really is time for the delegates to get some cojones and put an end to the domination of every issue by the chair.
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