Why be a delegate?

Edited transcript of remarks at a meeting

Alright, we’re ready now.  Not all issues

are black and white.  Not all issues

are about how to fight.  But the facts

are: this one’s different.  We’re not it.

A creature marries.  Is reborn.  It

marries again.  The history, thus,

lives on.  A moving feast.  Our structure:

it’s ad hoc, sure, but improving.

And can I just say?  Can I just?

Say that they have to, now,

building and strengthening, building

our networks, some of our members.

The structure grows.  It goes thus:

you’re at the coal-face.  You are,

you are our members, a structure

that informs and helps us grow.

Growth is systematic activity,

and it relates to our peculiar

structure.  Over time, this devolves

into a kind of third party activism.

You look!  They pay their fees.  They

expect their — what are they going

to do?  You look, and we’ll review it.

Unpack it.  Finesse it even.  Of course.