Spring break is here… and not a moment too soon. A little R ‘n’ R will do me good, I think. I’ll have my cell phone for the duration, but will probably not have much (if any) access to email until late next week. Sorry kids, thems the breaks.
The arrival of GATC clued me in to the fact that there’s an IBoard meeting coming up. I went to see if I could find the board book to see what the Gods and Goddesses of Circle K will be bothering themselves with this time around.
It turns out they weren’t just out of character in the handling of the UnofficialCKI site… they’re actually just (as a group) completely clueless. Observe!
Elections — Campaign Staff Apparently there’s some huge problem with campaign staffs going into caucus rooms. So the solution, obviously, is to require candidates to register their staff with International. Because that’s going to “fix” the “problem.”
Elections — Running off the Floor In addition to mitigating the huge risk caused by unregistered campaign staffers, the board (in its infinite wisdom) also wants to disallow folks from running for office off the floor. Good idea. It’s obvious there’s already way too much talent on the board, and the delegates surely aren’t smart enough to figure out what a good candidate is.
Elections — Eliminate the Drop-Down Policy Yet another brilliant idea. As opposed to trusting those stupid delegates to know a good candidate from a bad one, it’s obvious that drop-down shouldn’t be allowed. I mean, as was already noted, there’s already way too much talent on the board, right?
Elections — No Confidence Vote …but apparently the delegates are smart enough to know when none of the candidates are qualified… great logic there. Brilliant job.
Revenue — Highway Robbery then we have the poorly justified sanctioned extortion of the membership, and self-gratification of giving the board more power. What, because making up their own policies and membership statuses isn’t enough?
…honestly, where do they FIND these people… and what do they do to them after they’re elected? I think staff has started removing 95% of the greymatter of Int’l Officers to reduce resistance to their crazy ideas. Either that or Indianapolis air just makes people stupid. Hmmm… good thing we’re having a convention there this summer!
smacks forehead
Well considering that they\’ve moved ICON from mid August to July this year (THANKS NETTLES!) and that a lot of Circle Kers have summer school and/or internships, I\’m not sure how much talent will be electable this year. You do have to attend ICON to get elected right? I\’ve yet to reinstall Adobe after the great hard drive crash two weeks ago over here, can\’t wait to see who wrote these and the actual wording of them
Well I downloaded Acrobat and read these things. All I have to say is SLOPPY, SLOPPY, SLOPPY. All elections points said that they\’d measure how these would work based off whether or not they pass the House. That\’s true genius, I can tell they put a lot of work into thinking about the feasability of these. \”We\’ll know how it will go over when it gets voted on\”.
Then the dues increase one had tons of typos including not saying which alternative they felt was better. Also, they said letting the board increase only 5% every two years would keep dues from increasing more than inflation. Now maybe I slept through some econ classes, but last I checked, inflation was not constant. In fact, sometimes it slows down or even becomes DEflation. The wording here would allow a dues increase as deflation occurs. It needs to be changed to read \”5% or the total inflation rate over 2 years, whichever is less. In the event of a negative inflation rate, dues will not be lowered.\”
I\’m not worried because aside from a watered down dues increase, NONE OF THIS WILL PASS HOUSE! NONE!
But they\’re building a better CKI, Sean!
\”And they need your help.\”
-Chris Rock
Call me crazy…but if they make it so that any candidate has to caucus at least once, but not for the position that they neccesarily get elected to…then wouldn\’t that imply they could \”Drop Down\”…yet, they want to do away with the drop down idea. So, if we cannot drop down, the running off the floor deal seems to become a contradiction because we then would have had to caucus for only the position we are running for. Anyone out there care to explain that to me?