Originally Posted by
myrkridia
Ancman I think your beef is less with the way MEC Chair gets elected and more the unilateral authority they have to settle grievances and how this most recent case went down. In my view making the MEC Chair an even bigger popularity contest solves nothing, and if anything it could invigorate the winner to believe the merit of reaching such status entitles them to make decisions against the will of the MEC. I'd be more interested in further limiting their power rather than giving them justification to consolidate more of it.
I’m absolutely in favor of further limiting the chairman’s unilateral authority. I would even agree that those changes are more important than changing the election bylaws.
But I maintain that opening the position to membership vote would be a further check against the cronyism that has produced such “leaders” as Moak, Donatelli, and to a lesser extent, Hartmann.