<div dir="auto">+1<div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 Feb 2017 14:36, "Carlton Samuels" <<a href="mailto:carlton.samuels@gmail.com">carlton.samuels@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">As you all would know, I am unalterably opposed to directed voting whether at the RALO level or ALAC level in all At-Large matters. </font><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif">That said, Leon is without doubt a qualified candidate for the Board and deserves support.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><font size="4">All this aside, I believe the ALAC rule that gifts the vote of a NomCom-appointed elector to the RALO in which that person is domiciled if he/she becomes a candidate for the Board seat is wrong-headed.</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><font size="4">The ALAC is keen to promote the muddle-headed fiction that a candidate for this seat cannot be self-interested. But the substantive result is that the rule fatally undermines the independence of action that an ALAC NomCom appointment intends and, wrongfully disenfranchises that elector. </font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><font size="4">So far as I'm concerned Leon has given a proxy to Fatima. As his proxy and trusting Leon would have voted for himself, Fatima is therefore obliged to vote for Leon. This is the only vote I would consider as 'directed' in this instance.</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><font size="4">To elect and fill that Board seat, all other electors should cast their vote on the proposition that they consider and cast a vote for the candidate that elector considers as best-suited for the seat.</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><font size="4">-Carlton Samuels</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><font size="4">The University of the West Indies</font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-509472548118953278gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br>==============================<br><i><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Carlton A Samuels</font></i><br><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><i>Mobile: <a href="tel:(876)%20818-1799" value="+18768181799" target="_blank">876-818-1799</a><br><font color="#33CC00">Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround</font></i></font><br>=============================</div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Bartlett Morgan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:me@bartlettmorgan.com" target="_blank">me@bartlettmorgan.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On behalf of BIPA, we wholeheartedly confirm our support for the candidacy<br>
of Leon Sanchez.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Bartlett D. Morgan<br>
@bartlettmorgan<br>
<a href="http://bartlettmorgan.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">bartlettmorgan.com</a><br>
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