Hi,

I joined the candidate CSG as soon as NCSG charter was approved and offered to help it become a constituency.  
I got no traction.  I am still a member of the moribund candidate constituency.

Before the NCSG charter was finalized, there was no push back, speaking form my POV as the Chair of the NCSG Exec at the time, from the NCSG.   We accepted the candidate constituency and gave it seats, which it still holds, in the NCSG-EC and PC. What I saw, was 2 two competing strong POVs that each wanted to create a constituency that could not come to agreement on this particular single constituency.

avri


On 24 Oct 2012, at 15:11, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> I think that was the PoV of the people who were trying to create the (since abandoned) Consumer Group Constituency a few years ago. I was close to (but not a part of) that effort, and found a resistance that, at the time, took me by surprise. So long as diversity of power within the NCSG is seen as a zero-sum game (ie, anything new must come at the expense of influence of the NCUC) such resistance will exist. The wearing down of the CGC attempt into oblivion (my PoV) has not been good sign to anyone else on the outside seeking the diversity that Avri advocates (and with which I personally agree).