[Foundation-l] Will the Board accept the election result?

[GerardM]

Hoi,
After several attempts to get Danny's attention I have gone to the people
who were organisationally in a senior position to Danny. I have skyped and
e-mailed about this issue. There is a sufficient paper trail. This paper
trail should be available within the WMF itself. That should suffice as
"evidence".
Thanks,
     Gerard

On 7/7/07, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As I stated in my prior email, Gerard, I was pointing out to...cbrown
> I believe it is, what the comments were about and where they likely
> came from.
>
> Gerard: I used these comments from your blog:
>
> "So I agree with our "drama queen"; the board can repudiate results
> it does not like. I am known to be of the opinion that Danny should
> not be a candidate in the first place as his behaviour makes it quite
> clear to me that he his hostility towards other board members. Also
> given the statutes of the WMF when Danny were to be elected, he can
> be removed when my misgivings about him prove to be correct."
>
> Danny does not have to answer your question. Certainly because he did
> not answer your question, is not grounds for him to be repudiated.
> It's grounds for you and possibly others not to vote for him.
>
> You asked "Why does Danny stand for election." I think it to be
> obviously answered multiple times: He believes he can make a change
> (my words, not his). You've spent all this time demanding that he not
> stand....on the "questions" page no less (and in the edit you did not
> even ask a single question, only made demands). That, combined with
> your blog posting that the board may repudiate any results that they
> don't like (which I likewise, along with you, agree with Kelly Martin
> about), implies very strongly that you believe that were he to be
> elected he should be barred from the board.
>
> So Gerard, I challenge your statement that you have asked him many
> times: I think he has given many answers: he is campaigning for
> fiduciary responsibility, he believes he can make changes, etc.
> (again, my words not his).
>
> Gerard, you say he's made unfounded accusations against several board
> members. What about your accusation here?:
> "I have had dealings with Danny about possible potential donations to
> the Wikimedia Foundation. These
> donations did not happen because Danny did not bother to do his job.
> He did
> not even contact me when he was told to do so."
>
> Where is the evidence about that?
>
> I agree with you, I think it's bad form for a candidate to speak
> against standing board members in the way that Danny did. I also
> think it's just as bad for a non-candidate to do the same thing to
> that candidate.
>
>
> -Dan
>
> On Jul 7, 2007, at 2:23 AM, GerardM wrote:
>
> > Hoi,
> > Please read what I wrote, I asked Danny Wool to finally answer the
> > question
> > that the refuses to face, the question is and was: Why do you think
> > that it
> > is appropriate for you to stand.
> >
> > I also wrote that I agreed with a point made by Kelly Martin, that
> > it is the
> > board that accepts the election results.
> >
> > There is nothing new here and it certainly does not say that the board
> > should or will repudiate the election.
> >
> > With the process of the election changed as a result of the action of
> > Gregory Maxwell, there is ROOM to ask Danny AGAIN why he does
> > stand. There
> > are great arguments why he should not stand. The best arguments are
> > the ones
> > that he provides himself, his opinions indicate that he is not
> > likely to be
> > a cooperative member when elected. When he resigned from his
> > position as an
> > employee, he did not provide any reasons.
> >
> > So to recapitulate:
> >
> >    - Kelly Martin originally suggested that the board has the
> > option to
> >    use the results as it likes, she is correct
> >    - Danny Wool has been invited several times to answer the
> > question why
> >    it is a good thing for him to stand, a question that he refuses
> > to answer
> >    - Given that the process of the election has changed, there is
> > again
> >    room to ask this question
> >    - Please read carefully because you assume that I wrote
> > something that
> >    I did not.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >     GerardM
> >
> > http://nonbovine-ruminations.blogspot.com/2007/07/election-drama-
> > continues.html
> >
> > On 7/7/07, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> No. It's likely based on GerardM's comments on his blog, here:
> >> http://
> >> ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2007/07/who-cares-about-process.html in
> >> which he suggests that the board should repudiate the results if
> >> Danny is elected.
> >>
> >> -Dan
> >> On Jul 6, 2007, at 11:30 PM, Casey Brown wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm hoping that was a joke.
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
> >>> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
> >>> David Gerard
> >>> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 11:28 PM
> >>> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> >>> Subject: [Foundation-l] Will the Board accept the election result?
> >>>
> >>> What are the chances of the Board ignoring the election result if it
> >>> doesn't like it?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> - d.
> >>>
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