[Foundation-l] Future Board election procedures and guidelines

[Delphine Ménard]

On 7/14/07, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> To take a perfectly hypothetical case. Let us say the foundation
> board members are worried that notorious troublemaker Tweedledee
> is going to run for board of trustees membership. And despite his
> tendency to rouffle feathers, or perhaps because of it, they fear
> Tweedledee might easily do well in the elections, maybe even get
> in.
>
> So the trustees have a bright idea! They hire Tweedledee,  as an
> employee in charge of paperclips and hand him a red stapler
> giving him a desk at the basement of the foundation office.
>
> Now, there is a rule that there is an X month quarantine
> during which former employees may not run for elected
> office.
>
> So,  X minus one months before the election, they fire Tweedledee,
> ensuring that Tweedledee may only run after X minus one months
> plus the term between elections.

What about Tweedledee's free will and intelligence? When Tweedledee
accepts the paperclip job, he surely has weigh the pros and cons of
getting hired, it's not like it came as a surprise.

Delphine

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