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,
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