MCC Board No-Confidence Vote, Updated
Recently, we wrote about how the MCC Faculty and staff held a no-confidence vote, where 546 out of 553 voted no-confidence in the MCC Board of Trustees, because of all the political shenanigans surrounding the repeated attempts to appoint Monroe GOP darling Bill Smith. I wondered aloud:
My suspicion: the 7 voters that thinks the board is doing an awesome job are
- related to someone benefitting from this political patronage, or
- among the <25% who still think George W. Bush is a great president (it has to be wayyy lower than 25% in NY state)
- all of the above
A reader wrote in to clarify the results of that vote:
There are not ANY faculty or staff who approve of the board’s handling of the presidential search. There are 7 faculty and staff who felt that the vote of no confidence was not the way to express their displeasure. That is very different from even 7 having confidence in the board. I assure you, none do.
I would suggest that ALL of the nearly 800 faculty and staff appreciate the tremendous efforts by VanDusen, Warshoff, Nucitelli, and Ladwig. All on the board should appreciate Flaum, who saved them the public embarrassment of having SUNY slap them down when they tried to appoint Smith.
Seven of those who felt that the hard work of certain board members should not go unrecognised voted against the no-confidence vote.
Credit where credit’s due– it was nice seeing those few members of the all-GOP board stand up to the local party and do the right thing. Now if we could just get one or two of the GOP majority in the county legislature to stop putting party over people, party over county.
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