Re[2]: [ga] Immediate Action (Was Re: Recall of GA Chair)

[William X Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>]

Thursday, Thursday, October 04, 2001, 12:40:02 PM, technizmo wrote:

> --- Dan Steinberg <synthesis@videotron.ca> wrote: 

>> Just in case, if I have something to report that
>> requires immediate action by the
>> GA (like consensus on an issue), can I count ou you
>> all for a quick turnaround?

> Dan,

> As precedence shows, the GA can switch subjects and
> address the issue on a moment's notice, but consensus?
 

> I'm not sure the GA has reached an agreed-upon
> consensus on any issue, ever.  

> Immediate discussion, yes.  Immediate action, maybe
> not.

And with a new Chair, who views the position not as a bully pulpit or
his election as a tacit endorsement of his agenda and advocacy for
that agenda, this would change.

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William X Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>
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