Not to beat a dead horse...but more to just reassure myself that I'm not insane
and rewriting history...I checked and the BFW election policy, as it stood in
winter 2003-2004, was published on the front page of the Wisconsin Bicyclist:
http://www.bfw.org/newsletters/winter2003_2004.pdf
Note the following in the last column:
"Qualified candidates are narrowed down and the Nominating Committee, with the
authorization of the full board, selects individuals to appear on the election
ballots as endorsed candidates. Other candidates may be featured on the ballot
if they so request, or individuals can run as write-in candidates."
A lawyer would hang up on that word "may" (as opposed to SHALL)...but I wrote
the policy and the INTENT of the policy (my intent) was that all persistently
interested candidates would be put on the ballot...so that there would never
again be a debacle like the one that we currently find ourselves in.
Note also that the highest vote getter in that year got 143 votes and the
lowest got 119. The write in candidates were also published in this article
and how many votes that they got. I'm nearly positive (though my memory is
failing) that this was the election that John Rider was convinced not to run
in. Even a half-hearted write in campaign can get 15 votes.
-Dar
P.S.
Many, many things can be said about me...but not keeping a good written record
of the goings on in my life on a daily basis is not one of those things.
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