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...campaign of Andrea R. Flores ’10 and Kia J. McLeod ’10 for the Undergraduate Council’s top two spots was suspended by a unanimous vote of a quorum of the Election Commission late last night for the remainder of the election, which ends today at noon...
Eight years ago, the Verde Valley Democratic Party consisted of three guys who registered with the state party but for years struggled to get a quorum. The group now has hundreds of members and has helped to register thousands of voters this cycle. While there's little chance of Obama carrying Yavapai County, the group hopes it can pull off a good enough showing that, when added to what Dems are hoping will be record turnout in big urban areas, especially in Pima County, the state might swing to Obama. "Then, I'd go out and buy a bigger sign...
...generation of conservative leadership" for the district and his platform includes conservative stands on family and faith issues, low taxes and and cuts in government spending that have some appeal to small businessowners. However, one longtime commentator and analyst of Texas politics, Harvey Kronberg, editor of the Quorum Report, an Austin-based political newsletter, said he has never seen Democrats in the Houston area as organized as they are this year. "Olson is an attractive candidate but it is still a rough year for Republicans," Kronberg said. "Conventional wisdom gives it to the R(epublican), [but] I think Lampson holds...
...attendance characterized the few meetings that were held. The Faculty are entrusted with a tremendous responsibility with the power to vote on all of these issues. If they were willing to commit a few hours every month to issues of such import, there would be no need for quorum to be even as low as one-sixth, let alone one-eighth. The institutional inertia affects not only the issues that were put off, such as the quorum vote, but also issues that have received insufficient oversight from the Faculty this year, such as the General Education program...
...Harvard’s faculty members have consistently failed to hold up their end of the bargain. The vast majority can’t be bothered to attend Faculty meetings, so much so that when administrators attempted to lower the level of attendance required for quorum earlier this year, they were prevented from doing so because they lacked the quorum necessary to change the rules...