I have just posted the following note to all of my CCs in Maryland and Delaware. If any of you would like to copy it, in whole or in part, to your own CCs, you may feel free to do so. ============================ I want to let you all know the results of the recently-held poll in which we were asked who we'd prefer to be seated in the vacant Southeast/Mid-Atlantic CC Rep positions. Out of 151 net votes, the tally went like this: Wood 53 DeGeorge 29 Rayfield 20 Courtney-Blizzard 16 Daniels 13 Matthews 10 Parker 10 Bettie Wood was the top vote-getter, with almost twice as many votes as the runner-up, Heather DeGeorge. Since the bylaws actually state that the AB must appoint replacements, the National Coordinator, Richard "Isaiah" Harrison, called for nominations. Previously, it had been the practice of the board to nominate and appoint the top vote-getter in the poll. SW/SC CC Rep Jana Black nominated top vote-getter Bettie Wood. NE/NC CC Rep Jan Cortez nominated Heather DeGeorge and Kelly Courtney-Blizzard. NW/P SC Rep Don Kelly nominated Angie Redfield (sic - correct spelling is Rayfield). Ms. Courtney-Blizzard subsequently asked that her name be removed from consideration. Voting went as follows: SE/MA SC Rep Tim Stowell (tstowell@chattanooga.net - term ends 8/31/03) - Heather DeGeorge (2), Angie Rayfield (3) Archives Rep Vicki Shaffer (tngibson@att.net - term ends 8/31/03) - Bettie Wood (1), Angie Rayfield (3) Rep at Large Teresa Lindquist (merope@radix.net - term ends 8/31/03) - did not vote NE/NC SC Rep Tina Vickery (tsvickery@adelphia.net - term ends 8/31/03) - Bettie Wood (1), Heather DeGeorge (2) NE/NC CC Rep Robert Bremer (bremerr@oclc.org - term ends 8/31/03) - Heather DeGeorge (2), abstain NE/NC CC Rep Jan Cortez (cristian@netonecom.net - term ends 8/31/04) - Heather DeGeorge (2), Angie Rayfield (3) NW/P SC Rep Don Kelly (donkelly@grovenet.net - term ends 8/31/03) - Heather DeGeorge (2), Angie Rayfield (3) SW/SC SC Rep Larry Flesher (lflesher@fidnet.com - term ends 8/31/04) - Heather DeGeorge (2), Angie Rayfield (3) SW/SC CC Rep Phyllis Rippee (wchs@getgoin.net - term ends 8/31/04) - Heather DeGeorge (2), Angie Rayfield (3) SW/SC CC Rep Jana Black (janab@websweweave.net - term ends 8/31/03) - Bettie Wood (1), Heather DeGeorge (2) ----------------------------------- AB Reps who voted for those nominees with the *fewest* votes from those they would represent (us - here in the Southeast/Mid-Atlantic Region): Tim Stowell (SE/MA SC Rep), Jan Cortez (NE/NC CC Rep), Don Kelly (NW/P SC Rep), Larry Flesher (SW/SC SC Rep), Phyllis Rippee (SW/SC CC Rep). Robert Bremer (NE/NC CC Rep voted for the 2nd place finisher, and abstained for the 2nd opening). I urge you to remember these folks and their lack of consideration for those they represent at election time. AB Reps who voted for the 2 top choices of the CCs in the Southeast/Mid-Atlantic Region: Tina Vickery (NE/NC SC Rep) and Jana Black (SW/SC CC Rep). If you have a county in of the regions these ladies represent, I urge you to return them to office in July). I am CCing each AB member who did NOT vote for the SE/MA CCs' top choice with this note, and would ask that they each answer a question: Why in the world would you go through the trouble of having a poll conducted to see who we'd like to represent us, and then ignore our wishes? Shari Handley Somerset Co. MD CC Wicomico Co. MD CC Sussex Co. DE CC Maryland State Coordinator Delaware State Coordinator ===============================