<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 3, 2016, at 23:02 , Bope Domilongo Christian <<a href="mailto:christianbope@gmail.com" class="">christianbope@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 May 2016 at 13:06, Owen DeLong <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" target="_blank" class="">owen@delong.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 3, 2016, at 17:57 , Bope Domilongo Christian <<a href="mailto:christianbope@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">christianbope@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">Speaking on my own capacity,<br class="">
I also think it is proper for Board member to let the Nomcom officially release the slate of the candidate before campaigning for XYZ candidates. </p></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div></span>Would it have had better optics if Andrew waited, yes. Does it matter? Not really…</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm partially agreed with you Owen. I think waiting would the best option. Since there is a debate about that it matter. <br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Really? In what way does it matter? What negative impact could it possibly have? What difference is made by waiting or not other than perhaps some minor perceptual issues and the unnecessary stirring of the pot over those minor perceptual issues?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I see this entire debate (over Andrew’s timing) as much ado about nothing. If you have a different opinion, please describe some consequences (other than the creation of this unnecessary debate) that could or have occurred.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class=""><span class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">As a Board the community might think that Board is using is privileged of accessing to confidential information and used for is personal interest (hiding behing speaking on my own personal capacity). </p></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div></span>This is patently absurd. Not because Andrew made it clear he was speaking in his own capacity and not as a member of the board, but because no privileged information was needed or used in his communication. Did you really think that Mike would consider a nomination or submit the necessary information to be nominated if he didn’t first discuss his intentions with Andrew? I can’t imagine that would be the case.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I do not have any doubt of Andrew talking with Mike. Do you think all the community are aware that Andrew and Mike might talk before or both might work from Liquid Telecom? For those who knew that is fine. What I'm sure of all the community members know that Andrew is a AfriNIC Board. <br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I don’t think it matters. What matters is that there’s no evidence Andrew used privileged information and no need for him to have done so in order to post what he did. It’s widely known and pretty clear that this is the case. Any community members that don’t know Andrew didn’t commit malfeasance in his posting at first surely know by now (at least any who care).</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class="">At least in theory, the board should not have privileged access to the nom-com process.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Board does not have any involvement in NOmcom process. However the Board approved the slate of candidate propose by the Nomcom in terms of Bylaws section 12.14(i) </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>OK, but even with that information, Andrew didn’t need that in order to make his post.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class="">Therefore, any community thought in this direction makes no more sense than a community thought that Alain Aina is planning to use AfriNIC funds to sponsor a manned trip to Mars next week. (Just to be clear, I have no privileged information, but to the best of my knowledge, he has no such intent).</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for information. I personally think the main problem is to clearly differentiate the line between Board and members of the community and I think we should all do our best to avoid that confusion.<br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I’m sorry, but I wasn’t aware that someone stopped being a member of the community when they joined the board. I was unaware of the section in the bylaws that strips one of their rights and responsibilities as a member of the community upon admission to the board. Could you please point me to that section? I haven’t been able to find it in my search while writing this.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>It doesn’t exist? Oh, then what is the basis for this supposed clear differentiation you propose? It seems that you are suggesting this differentiation prevent a member of the board from acting as a member of the community. (Since there’s nothing to suggest a member of the community has attempted to act as a member of the board).</div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class=""><span class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">Furthermore members of the community may think that some information from the NomCom have been leak if yes by who? I think the community at large deserve clarification.</p></div></blockquote></span>Again, this is ridiculous. No nomination committee privileged information was needed, nor is it likely any was obtained, let alone leaked in this process. Andrew and Mike know each other. They work for the same organization. They probably talk on a somewhat regular basis. I’d be stunned and amazed if Mike had not first discussed his candidacy with Andrew prior to participating in any nomination process.<span class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I personally respect your opinion.<br class="">I do not have any doubt of Andrew talking with Mike. Do you think all
the community are aware that Andrew and Mike might talk before or both
might work from Liquid Telecom? For those who knew that is fine. What
I'm sure of all the community members know that Andrew is a AfriNIC
Board. <br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think the main question we should asked is knowing that NomCOM is black box and totally independent. Using the common sense the candidate should wait is nomination approved officially by the Nomcom before starting the campaign. <br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Sorry, you said something about a main question, but I didn’t see a question in there.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I see no reason a person who expects to be a candidate should wait to start their campaign. Further, that’s not what happened here anyway. The candidate didn’t start the campaign. Andrew is not the candidate. Andrew started the campaign.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class=""><span class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">I do not have problem of Board campaigning for others. The problem is the manner is actually done.</p></div></blockquote></span>You’re upset because Andrew talked about a candidate before the slate was released on the basis that Andrew knows the candidate and knows of his intention to run. Fine. But really, what is the basis for your concern? Given that your reasons above are patently absurd, what else do you have?<span class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let not personalized the discussion to one person. Why I should? I can clearly see you seems like really frustrated about my mail which just ask some basic and principle question.<br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I’m not at all frustrated by your mail. I think the word you’re looking for is bored. I fail to see the point in continuing to harp on an issue which you, yourself have admitted is irrelevant.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>You didn’t ask any questions, really. You made a lot of accusations. Claiming that an accusation is a basic or principled question doesn’t make it so.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class=""><span class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">The campaign is purely and simply propaganda with full of political argument to get vote by forgetting that AfiNIC has 10 years history not 1 year.</p></div></blockquote></span>You’re certainly entitled to your opinion, but this statement doesn’t parse for me, so I’m not really sure what you mean by it.<span class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></blockquote><div class="">AfriNIC community at Large agreed with the statement. <br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class=""><span class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">Last and not the least all my appreciation and respect to all AfriNIC former Board, Chair and CEO for their outstanding work to building this organization.</p></div></blockquote></span>Let us not forget the efforts by the current board, chair, and CEO in righting the troubled ship they inherited from the former board, chair, and CEO as well.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Humm, the organization has 10 years history and everyone are bringing is stone in the construction. I do acknowledge the work done by the current Board and the CEO including all former Board, Chair and former CEO. <br class=""><br class="">It seems to me like AfriNIC do NOT have history it started just last year.<br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I think that’s true. Do you think I was claiming otherwise? I was not. I consider Adiel a long-time friend. My intent here was not to cast stones at the past, but to point out that while we are giving appreciation and respect, we should include the present as well as the past.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Owen</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My 2 cents<br class=""></div><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><span class=""><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div></font></span><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">
<div class="gmail_quote">On 4 May 2016 5:41 am, "serge ilunga" <<a href="mailto:sergekbk@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">sergekbk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Hello Andrew,<br class=""></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br class=""></p><p class="MsoNormal">I think that it is not a matter of objectivity.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Board members shall adhere to a code of conduct which
protects organization and not expose it all the times. </p><p class="MsoNormal">AfriNIC operates for the public Interest and it must be with
Public trust.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br class=""></p><p class="MsoNormal">Kind Regards.</p>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 9:08 PM, Andrew Alston <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com" target="_blank" class="">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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How should the community ask anyone to act in the best interests of anything, while telling them to remain neutral and silent when they believe that one course of action will strengthen the organisation and another could potentially weaken it?</div>
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should we cherish “objectivity”, as if ideas were innocent, as if they don’t serve one interest or another? Surely, we want to be objective if that means telling the truth as we see it, not concealing information that may be embarrassing to our point of view.
But we don’t want to be objective if it means pretending that ideas don’t play a part in the social struggles of our time, that we don’t take sides in those struggles.</span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,serif;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">
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it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests – war against peace, nationalism
against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism – and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts.” </span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold" class="">From: </span>Hountomey Jean Robert <<a href="mailto:jrhountomey@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">jrhountomey@gmail.com</a>><br class="">
<span style="font-weight:bold" class="">Date: </span>Tuesday, 3 May 2016 at 9:56 PM<br class="">
<span style="font-weight:bold" class="">To: </span>Andrew Alston <<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com" target="_blank" class="">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com</a>><br class="">
<span style="font-weight:bold" class="">Cc: </span>Badru Ntege <<a href="mailto:badru.ntege@nftconsult.com" target="_blank" class="">badru.ntege@nftconsult.com</a>>, abel ELITCHA <<a href="mailto:kmw.elitcha@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">kmw.elitcha@gmail.com</a>>, "AfriNIC RPD MList." <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" target="_blank" class="">rpd@afrinic.net</a>><br class="">
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<div class="">A board member endorsing a candidate like this is a concern. </div>
<div class="">How should the community trust board members' objectivity and commitment to put the interest of the Global public interest as a whole in front of any particular interests. </div>
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<div class="">So, pray tell, what privileged information Badru? </div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold" class="">From: </span>Badru Ntege <<a href="mailto:badru.ntege@nftconsult.com" target="_blank" class="">badru.ntege@nftconsult.com</a>><br class="">
<span style="font-weight:bold" class="">Date: </span>Tuesday, 3 May 2016 at 9:04 PM<br class="">
<span style="font-weight:bold" class="">To: </span>Andrew Alston <<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com" target="_blank" class="">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com</a>>, abel ELITCHA <<a href="mailto:kmw.elitcha@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">kmw.elitcha@gmail.com</a>>,
"AfriNIC RPD MList." <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" target="_blank" class="">rpd@afrinic.net</a>><br class="">
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<div class="">we may not see eye to eye on every other issue but as hard as it may be lets show a touch of humility and respect for the community. As board member you have access to privileged information that one can clearly see you used wrongly here. </div>
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<div class="">Please give the community some respect and offer an apology. NOMCOM has not yet released the slate you of all people should not be sending this out to your lists. Unless you also know the outcome of NOMCOM.</div>
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<div class="">this is tantamount to abuse of office but then again someone will ask under which bylaw. My answer is under the un written rule of common sense and mutual respect, and fairness for all candidates.</div>
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<div class="">Admit that you errored its only human to do so.</div>
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<b class="">Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 03, 2016 8:38 PM<br class="">
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<div class="">Yes, I advocated for candidates. If you notice I clearly stated, I do not know who is on the slate. I do not have a final slate. However, I know who the candidates are that I support. I have every right to lobby for those candidates at any point.
Just as any candidate or any other person has the right to lobby for their candidates.</div>
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<div class="">I did not send that email as a board member, I sent it as a personal individual. I stand by what I said, and I stand by those endorsements.</div>
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<div class="">As for the allegations about people being paid. That is completely false and a libellous allegation that was investigated and found to have no merit, as resolutions published will attest to. </div>
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<div class="">I stand by every word I said in the below email, and I will not, and would not retract a single word of it.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold" class="">From: </span>abel ELITCHA <<a href="mailto:kmw.elitcha@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">kmw.elitcha@gmail.com</a>><br class="">
<span style="font-weight:bold" class="">Date: </span>Tuesday, 3 May 2016 at 8:33 PM<br class="">
<span style="font-weight:bold" class="">To: </span>"AfriNIC RPD MList." <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" target="_blank" class="">rpd@afrinic.net</a>><br class="">
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<div class="">I got to see the mail below from a board member. It concerned me as i raised some importants points:</div>
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<div class="">1- While according to the election timeline (<a href="http://www.afrinic.net/en/community/elections/bod-election/process" target="_blank" class="">http://www.afrinic.net/en/community/elections/bod-election/process</a>), the NOMCOM is evaluating the candidates and
has not yet announced the slates, the board member started the campaign to </div>
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<div class="">4- I recalled that it is the same board member who admitted in 2014 that he influenced the elections by paying for people to come and vote for him. The disclosure of which caused two board members to resign for breaching NDA.</div>
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<div class="">Hi All,</div>
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<div class="">I’m going to take a bit of an unusual step for me here, as promised in</div>
<div class="">earlier emails, and I am now ready to officially endorse certain</div>
<div class="">candidates for the AfriNIC elections.</div>
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<div class="">I state openly that I do NOT yet know the entire slate, however, due</div>
<div class="">to time limitations and knowing what I know about the candidates I</div>
<div class="">refer to below, as well as at least some of the candidates running</div>
<div class="">against them (which I have heard from those candidates running</div>
<div class="">directly), I feel I’m in a position to take a strong and unequivocal</div>
<div class="">stance here and am ready to state to the community at large my views</div>
<div class="">on this.</div>
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<div class="">Hence, in the next AfriNIC election, there are three seats open, one</div>
<div class="">independent seat, one north african seat and one west african seat.</div>
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<div class="">On the West African seat, I am endorsing Sunday Folayan. Sunday is</div>
<div class="">the current chair of the AfriNIC board, and despite many trying</div>
<div class="">circumstances in the year and half since he has taken the chair,</div>
<div class="">AfriNIC has made tremendous progress. Indeed, in Pointe Noir we were</div>
<div class="">credited with giving the community transparent information and</div>
<div class="">financials for the first time in 10 years. Sunday and his leadership</div>
<div class="">played a huge part in this and his institutional knowledge and the way</div>
<div class="">he has run the board have been critical to the improved situation we</div>
<div class="">are starting to find ourselves in.</div>
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<div class="">On the North African seat, I am endorsing Hytham Ek-Nakhal. Hytham is</div>
<div class="">currently the deputy chair of the board, and again, in the year since</div>
<div class="">he took that position, he has proved very capable and also carries</div>
<div class="">deep institutional knowledge from a prolonged tenure on the board. I</div>
<div class="">have found him to be fair, reasonable and willing to both have his</div>
<div class="">views and debate the views of others in the search for a consensus</div>
<div class="">approach. Hence, I strongly believe that his tenure on the board</div>
<div class="">should continue.</div>
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<div class="">On the Independent seat, here I am endorsing Mike Silber, who many of</div>
<div class="">you know. I do not know if the current board member for this seat is</div>
<div class="">going to be running again, but irrespective of that my endorsement</div>
<div class="">will stand, due to specific skills I believe the AfriNIC board</div>
<div class="">requires. Mike has many many years in the industry, and his work with</div>
<div class="">ICANN and within the addressing space is well documented and well</div>
<div class="">respected. In addition to that, Mike is legally trained and that is</div>
<div class="">something we desperately need within AfriNIC as we look at the bylaws,</div>
<div class="">as we move into an era where there is a governance committee, there</div>
<div class="">are bids of control and various other issues. It is that legal skill</div>
<div class="">set that we are missing directly on the board (yes, we have legal</div>
<div class="">council, but it is a very different thing to have someone who has that</div>
<div class="">kind of legal knowledge actually sitting on the board).</div>
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<div class="">I need to also point out, in the event of the board losing both Sunday</div>
<div class="">and Hytham, and the independent seat going to a weak candidate,</div>
<div class="">AfriNIC will be in serious trouble. Firstly, I personally do not</div>
<div class="">believe that the board has anyone who is anywhere close to as capable</div>
<div class="">as Sunday or Hytham for the positions of chair and vice chair</div>
<div class="">respectively, and whoever comes in could not take those positions no</div>
<div class="">matter how strong, since those positions require institutional</div>
<div class="">knowledge that comes from time served on the board. My reasoning for</div>
<div class="">endorsing Mike is made plain above.</div>
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<div class="">As such, for those of you who are opting to issue proxies and wish to</div>
<div class="">issue proxies to myself or via myself, this is how I will be voting.</div>
<div class="">Those of you who are voting electronically, I encourage you when the</div>
<div class="">slate comes out to study each and every candidate – but I am confident</div>
<div class="">that what I have said above will ring true, and I ask every member of</div>
<div class="">this list to get out there and use your vote, either for one of these</div>
<div class="">candidates or otherwise one of the others when the slate comes out –</div>
<div class="">but please, make sure you vote, either via proxy or via online or in</div>
<div class="">person. I cannot stress how many critical issues are going to come up</div>
<div class="">in the next year or two, and without a strong and independent board we</div>
<div class="">could face serious issues.</div>
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<div class="">Please feel free to address any questions to me. As stated in</div>
<div class="">previous emails, as soon as the proxy generation system is open, for</div>
<div class="">those that wish to use that route, I will supply details on how to use</div>
<div class="">it.</div>
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<div class="">Thanks</div>
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<div class="">Andrew "</div>
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