Rules Committee meeting

Written by: Melissa Lindberg on May 19, 2006 3:16 PM EDT

So, we had a Rules Committee meeting last night -- the charge of this group is to figure out rules for governing our group. I was annointed the "leader" ("conveener"? "scribe"? "organizer"? "Grand Pooh-bah"? we do not have a rule about what titles go with what jobs) of the group, so I get to make postings about the meetings, try to gather the group for meetings, and take the flak for what we come up with . . . thanks.

What we accomplished last night was to make a list of the issues that we feel need to be addressed by "Rules." We did not find solutions last night: we just listed issues. Feel free to add to or comment on the issues that we thought about:

1) Terms of Leaders (Organizers, Steering Committee)
2) Election of Leaders
3) Replacing mid-term loss of leadership
4) Rules for voting members
5) Percentage of votes needed to pass non-endorsement issues (including rules . . . )
6) Revisit candidate endorsement - adoption limits
7) Rules for different types of elections: should the rules differ between primary, general, non-partisan election cycles?
8) Thoughts about money and how the group should manage it (or not)
9) Liaisons for campaigns and events
10) Committees should post meeting notes on the blog

The last is a strong suggestion from the Rules Committee that could be implemented now, even without any votes :) Live by sunshine rules . . . . open democracy . . . anyway, you get my drift.

So those are our notes from our meeting last night. Feel free to comment, suggest, critique (but kindly), etc . . .

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Location: Chicago, IL 60640