[Mpls] Robot calls for McLaughlin: If only robots could vote...

[Dyna]

>Your comment: "Now one would think that McLauglin's major endorsees 
>like the Stonewall DFL board would have raced to the phone banks to 
>support him."
>
>Is more based on the fact that you got ousted and have 'sour grapes' 
>feelings toward the organization

	Lets put this rumor that Stonewall DFL has been spreading to 
rest once and for all. This dispute is about principals, not 
personalities. I came to that board meeting with no interest in 
running for reelection. In fact, I have never really run for a seat 
on the Stonewall DFL board. Rather, like many queer DFL activists, I 
have stepped forward to serve on the board when needed and stepped 
aside to make room for the younger activists when I wasn't needed.

	Now the DFL party has high principals, but sadly Stonewall 
DFL has abandoned some of those principals. A couple of those 
principals are inclusion and gender equity. The DFL is so committed 
to inclusion that we recently expanded our executive board 
membership, and to cut the board membership in half like Stonewall 
DFL did is unthinkable to the DFL. The DFL also insists on gender 
equity, requiring good faith efforts to insure that no gender fills 
more than a simple majority of any DFL body, from precinct caucus to 
the Democratic National Committee. Stonewall again flouted those high 
DFL principals when it passed over 3 qualified women, all former 
board members, when they stacked their board with 10 men and but 3 
women. I was one of the women asked to run to give the board gender 
balance, and would have been happy to see the seat I sought go to a 
younger woman activist.

	This is pretty much moot, given that if I were currently a 
Stonewall DFL board member I would probably be tendering my 
resignation rather than blindly support the receiptients of Stonewall 
DFL's questionable endorsements. I have no plan to run for any of the 
open board seats at the annual meeting and may not even bother to 
attend, Stonewall DFL's credibility having sunk to such lows as to 
make them pretty much irrellivent.

	uncommitted in Hawthorne,

		Dyna Sluyter