--- In NewPacifica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Carolyn Birden <cmcb007@...> wrote: > Good points about the willful ignorance of some directors: ... > Yet despite a warning > about the possible illegality, they passed - evidently, as Nicole > says, along party lines. ... > I am interested in Nicole's statement about the meeting being poorly > prepared: Hi Carolyn. I wrote all that stuff right after the teleconference....not Nicole. Dan did talk about the election lawsuit, and pretty much he made it sound like the Plaintiffs were way off base and that the Judge was siding with the elections staff and iED. He said something along the lines, and I paraphrase, 'everything is pretty much ready to be settled and the ballots counted, but some stubborn Directors are continuing to drag this out......' Nicole also seemed very (I stress that) in tune with Bob Lederer. She was saddened and dismayed that there was so much distrust between the Board and the staff. The meeting did not have enough open conversation and my most important observation, I think, is that leadership does not exist. The PNB is still being driven from the bottom up and that makes it a free for all between warring factions. The factions have no intention to dialog or find comprimise. That's where leadership comes in. The new Chair runs a pretty good meeting in terms of the procedures, but I'm picking up a general lack of internal cohension or comprimise. It's no surprise that members of the PNB are, literally, involved in an election battle and legal battle. They certainly acted like it last night. It's very important to have all the members at each PNB meeting right now, otherwise this will simply be an arithmatical wipe out every time. The JUC are obviously fighting to the end for control of the NY station and they are using every nasty trick that has been used for at least a decade now. Lederer said at the end of the agenda that you ought to be removed from the board for recording Dan without letting him know. I waited for the Directors to try to "look at both sides of the issue" but that really didn't happen. In other words, no one suggested getting rid of Dan Siegel for interrupting the Director inspection. Nalini