July 16, 2008
9:19 a.m.
Ross Rader wrote:
The apparent staff obsession to fund constituencies that don't need the subsidy, at the expense of those who do, is what I consider worrisome.
I don't see this as a staff push. My slightly uninvolved view is that this emanates mostly from the GNSO Council where constituency interests contend that their work is so important that they absolutely must have travel funding. My comment is based as much on the way it was done as the source of the push for it.
The GNSO did not itself have the ability to remove the ALAC exemption from the policy at the Board vote. - Evan