When I was trying to explain this to my wife today, she was "Effing Bewildered" when I told her that we don't directly vote for the MEC Chair, out LEC reps are supposed to take our input, but more than a couple of us have our reps running.

(For the record, I think my rep will do fine as MEC chair, but if given a vote, I'd probably ask more questions and lean towards Ryan unless I heard some WTF answers to questions, if only because he's closer to my peer group and there are generational differences)

But the fact that we can't vote directly made my wife basically like this for the better part of an hour:



Yes, my wife, when mad/excited/awake sounds like angry Fran Drescher.