As time for the annual TLC Election of Officers comes upon us, it is also time to reflect that some of you may be new to the TLC, or due to any number of factors not familiar with all the candidates and their specifics. The TLC has established and provides a special election information area named “Election BIOS” on our web site for candidates to post information about themselves: http://www.tlc-brotherhood.org/Election%20Postings.htm . The TLC can assure its members that the information posted on the web page election bios page is factual. The same may not be true with a back channel transmission you receive from someone promoting their special candidate. The TLC suggests if you have any questions regarding information and statements made in a b/c message you may wish to contact a board member, committee chairman or other knowledgeable TLC person (preferably not one running for named position) to clarify information and statements made for factual content http://www.tlc-brotherhood.org/tlc_brotherhood_officers_new.htm .  If the person doesn’t know the answer he can maybe forward question to someone who does.

The TLC list server regulations specifically state “no current politics” on the Mission and Brotherhood list servers. There are guidelines posted in the regulations outlining the description of “no current politics”. The fact is, the regulations state no current politics, period, TLC or otherwise.

   In late 2003 the TLC introduced a third server to the members. The server is called the “Official server, or “Board” server by some, and was created to give TLC management an avenue to post official announcements to the membership. A sizeable group of TLC members chose to monitor only the Official server and not receive the standard email traffic posted on Mission and Brotherhood, and the list has the most subscribed members of any TLC server. Coverage on the Official server runs about 80% of the members which quite remarkable when you figure in a good portion of the remaining members are permanently off-line. The Official server is available for posting by all board members and committee chairman. The TLC owns and operates a web site and is part of the world wide web. The TLC publishes its own quarterly newsletter called MEM which reaches all members.

1)     Any candidate for a TLC office who wishes to post a bio(s) to the membership explaining who they are and their stand on issues, etc, shall contact the Communications Chairman, or any board member who will then forward the request to the Communications Chairman for posting to the membership.

2)     The Communications Chairman will then review the request for content and if acceptable will then post the bio(s) on the official server, twice. Once at 30 days before the election and a second posting 15 days before the election.

3)     The bio(s) shall be posted on the TLC web site in a special election section by the Web Master.

4)     If available by issue deadline, bio(s) shall be included in MEM along with the official ballot which will address the problem of off-line members.

5)     Flaming and derogatory statements toward other candidates shall not be allowed.

6)     Any posts regarding current TLC elections on the Mission and Brotherhood servers will be dealt with as server regulation violation by the Communication Chairman and the appropriate action will be taken.

7)     These directives (Numbers 1 through 6 above) shall be posted on the Official Server 30 and 15 days prior to the elections and permanently included in the server regulations and in the election section on the web site and will also be given to all nominators and nominees by the Nominations Committee Chairman immediately upon nomination of a candidate.     

   Members can politic b/c all they want and the TLC doesn’t really have a say in the matter. By establishing the above election motion we will at least be able to control what goes across our servers and attempt to make TLC election time a more pleasant and fair experience for all members. This motion provides a set procedure, and explains what is acceptable and what isn’t. Membership interest in the annual election is dismal and hopefully we can add a touch of class back into the election and maybe generate more membership participation.

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