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<div>The issue is very simple. A number of us find an irreconcilable conflict of interest in Lance Hinds's SoI. This is apparent only once the election was in course. </div>
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<div>Simple. No rhetoric needed.</div>
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<div>Alejandro Pisanty<br>
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<b>Enviado el:</b> jueves, 23 de julio de 2015 16:03<br>
<b>Hasta:</b> lac-discuss-en@atlarge-lists.icann.org<br>
<b>CC:</b> Albert Daniels<br>
<b>Asunto:</b> [lac-discuss-en] This Tiresome 'Irregularity' Claim Against At-Large Staff<br>
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I am trying to live a long and useful life. Engagement with LACRALO is debilitating.</div>
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I am not communicant - I gave it up since I was 14 years old - so cannot depend on a 'good' God for my salvation. So for objective, I do what I must by avoiding vexations to my spirit.</div>
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But the bullshit - I hope the word translates well to Spanish - is just too much and I must break my silence. </div>
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In case the translation gets mangled, here is what I mean by bullshit: </div>
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It is misleading, even dishonest, to allege misconduct by At-Large staff in this instance and I will tell you why.</div>
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Jacqueline has already pithily outlined the classic case but I will repeat it here for effect. </div>
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In parts of the world where rules for [s]elections are established and where this exercise of democracy is routine, a candidate satisfying all other criteria and nominated for a position unopposed is duly [s]elected. </div>
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But this is LACRALO where our collective understanding of the process is, well, let me be generous and say uneven, at best. </div>
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We simply don't understand that you cannot disavow or subvert the nomination portion of the process without calling the entire [s]election process into question. </div>
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So, we walk extra miles to give those who don't understand time to come along, slowly. That is the basis for the consensus poll - notice it is a poll - and why we in the Caribbean bothered to go along with that in the first place! </div>
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As At-Large staff would have told all of you, this is not the same for other RALOs. They have matured in both thought and action.</div>
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Why does this bother me, you ask? Because it gets old and tiresome after trying for so long. And since it vexes my spirit, I run the real risk of reducing my life and its quality the longer I caucus here.</div>
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Now, to the hypocrites. I ask your forgiveness for not being a good Christian. I simply detest hypocrisy. </div>
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In the selection for a NomCom candidate this year, our esteemed colleague from Brazil and incumbent, Sylvia Leite Herlein, was nominated unopposed. I enthusiastically supported her candidacy, not just only for the fact she had performed in the post. But I
truly believe that a single 1-year term does not give the region the benefit of her service and expertise nor allow the region to build the influence we need in very important ICANN councils.</div>
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I personally discouraged - yes, discouraged - other nominations to muddy the path to her re-selection. We went along with Jacqueline Morris being de-selected after a single year. Maybe that was the wrong thing to do then.</div>
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With Sylvia's unopposed [s]election, no consensus poll took place. And the At-Large staff notified the world in the same way as they did for Lance Hinds.</div>
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It was not that we in the Caribbean did not notice. Rather, it is because we have never felt any such poll was necessary in the first place.</div>
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Contrast then to now. There was not a whimper of complaint from our now erstwhile friends of LACRALO propriety, not one allegation of 'impropriety' raised! </div>
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So now, I ask you, what is the difference here? We can either assume the guardians of LACRALO propriety were off busily thumb-sucking, even asleep at the switch.</div>
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Or, in this case for Lance Hinds nomination and selection, other operating conditions are applied.</div>
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Go figure.</div>
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-Carlton Samuels </div>
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