LostNFoundNTx
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as has been explained the camera was put away, and we made a motion, however, the temp chair completely disregarded roberts rules of order and would not hear any motion.
Everyone else disregarded the rules as well. The rules specifically cover in detail the orderly process of the membership overruling the chair when it comes to a violation of the rules. On the video, I heard a number of instances of foul language, speaking without privilege, and more. Here's what people don't realize:
At any point where the membership disagrees with the progression of the meeting according to the rules in effect, there should never be more people speaking than there are differences in opinion. This means that in considering a yes/no situation, no more than 2 people should be speaking at once. From the point where the chair ignored the point of order regarding an incidental motion to suspend the rules blocking the usage of cameras, everyone who wished to suspend that rule should have silently listended to that person standing in place of the chair taking a vote on the issue. To maintain order, that person could have even called it as a standing vote. After this vote was validly taken according to the rules, 1) edit** see below, 2) the room would have been quiet and in-order, and most importantly 3) it would be obvious to everyone in the entire room that the chair was being the disruptive voice in the process.
Edit: Originally I stated 1) cameras would then be allowed. Actually, since the point of order was that the chair did not give the floor to the person making the incidental motion to suspend the rules this should have been 1) the person making the incidental motion to suspend the rules would have the floor to make that motion, which could then be quickly followed by a majority vote covering it since suspending a standing rule is not a debatable motion.
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