COMensarations
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Diversity in Leadership: Comments on a public forum
The PCC Forum on Diversity in Leadership was a succesful event, despite an attempted hijacking.
Last night I attended a “Leadership Forum” event at Pueblo Community College. The specific event was titled “Diversity in Leadership” and the blurb in the Chieftain specifically stated that “Pueblo’s political diversity will be the topic of discussion...” The blurb listed three panel members.
Before the event I called and asked the young lady who returned my call (I think it was Tamara, President of the Student Senate) exactly how they were defining political diversity and were the three panelists a Democrat, a Republican and an Independent or maybe a Libertarian? She didn’t really know. She said “diversity” was kind of up to the panelists to define and they’d tried to pick a variety of people.
It turns out that using the word “political” was probably misleading, since, with one exception, Pueblo’s politics weren’t really discussed. Don’t get me wrong. I’m glad I went and several of the speakers had some very valuable and thought-provoking things to say.
Louella Cruz, however, attempted to hijack the forum into a political rally for herself. She is petitioning to run as the Democratic nominee for Pueblo County Clerk, since she wasn’t accepted as the candidate at the Democratic County Assembly last weekend. She openly asked people to sign her petition, and openly described her goals if elected as County Clerk. This is electioneering and is unacceptable in such a setting unless the other candidates have been given the opportunity to be present and participate on an equal footing.
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Someone’s Been Reading Tom Clancy…Again
This time, it’s Rainbow Six.
As the new quip goes, “The gene pool could use a little chlorine.”
The question is WHO is going to administer it? These Horizon Corporation types of Clancy’s John Clark novel? Or the Rainbow guys from the same?