<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 20, 2021, at 7:49 AM, Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" class="">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 20 Feb 2021, 10:56 Owen DeLong, <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" class="">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We should seek qualified co-chairs, but qualified should be in the judgment of the electorate.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Obviously</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div class="">We should not abdicate this authority to some arbitrary group enforcing some set of subjective criteria.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Dude....What is this group which enforcing criteria you are talking about? </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Some have suggested that a committee should choose a slate of candidates based on a variety of possible criteria.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>If I am unmistaken, you are among those that have made such a suggestion. One such committee that was proposed</div><div>was the nominating committee.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">I thought this was an open free forum and as such ideas and discussions are allowed the very definition of bottom up...</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Yes… And some people have proposed ideas that I oppose. My expression of opposition to those ideas is not and should not</div><div>be construed as a claim that they should not express them.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>To be clear, I encourage anyone to express any idea that they think is good for the community.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I will continue to do so.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I will also continue to express my dissent to ideas which I believe are bad for the community or otherwise misguided.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I will also continue to accept criticism of ideas I express.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>So what is the problem?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Owen</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>