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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Caitlin,<br>
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I looked back after my last communication with Tim to see exactly
what you had said about Scott and his new attitude and willingness
to learn...."I now think he would be a beneficial member of our
internal teams."<br>
I remembered the gist, but not the wording.<br>
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Now, to your whole message here, I say <u>Amen to this message</u>.
As usual, you are very clear with your facts about the course of
events and your recommendations about future handling of
disputes. I think direct, respectful interviewing of the
participants would have done much to resolve things sooner,
without all the drama and misunderstandings.<br>
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Patricia Norris<br>
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<div>Scott may have introduced himself to Shannon and Peter but
he was given a specific request by me to not attend our final
day of Democracy School for the following reasons that I don't
think Shannon or Peter were aware of:<br>
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Several days before the third day of Democracy School, Scott
sent an email to the whole group advising that we abandon our
rights-based ordinance and instead focus on supporting an
anti-fracking ordinance the County Supervisors were working
on. This made it clear that Scott did not understand what a
rights-based ordinance was despite his education and
experience. I emailed Scott directly at that time and
explained this as the reason for the Cienfuegos prerequisite,
that rights-based ordinances are completely different from
regular ordinances and that one needed to learn about this
before attending the last day of Democracy School. He
responded with his resume informing me that he had plenty of
education and did not need to attend Cienfuegos or the
educational portion of DS. Based on this response and his
attitude at that time I understood that he was not qualified
to attend our third day of Democracy School and for good
reason. <br>
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DS was exclusionary in the same way an advanced chemistry
class is exclusionary, requiring prerequisites. The reasons to
hold to this standard, as set by CELDF and Shannon from the
beginning, (and probably learned from the experiences of many
Democracy Schools and ordinance craftings) were important and
reasonable, so that all involved were on the same page, moving
forward with an advanced understanding.<br>
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Even though Scott attended our last day of DS, in spite of my
request which was of concern to me, in the last few days I
have been emailing Scott the links to articles and videos that
Paul Cienfuegos has been sending us. Scott has been receptive
and responding with ideas that show he has taken the time to
absorb the new information. Based on Scott's new attitude and
willingness to learn I now think he would be a beneficial
member of our internal teams.<br>
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In the future, it is critical, to my mind, that each side of a
dispute be interviewed directly in a respectful and unbiased
manner so as to be able to provide a reasonably accurate and
fair analysis and resolution. This was not done in this case.<br>
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Caitlin Alexander<br>
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