Cheryl: Your comments do not address the main points of the post. The issue is why are you supporting the creation of a Consumer Constituency when it has no real support among consumer organizations, and when NCUC has requested that the charter issue should be resolved before new constituencies formed? No one asserted that the RALOs were being "coerced" or "bullied". I said that a vote was being organized and pushed by you, which it is. I want to know why you are so interested in pursuing a confrontation over the charter and getting an unready constituency recognized when it destroys our chances of reaching a consensus around the NCSG charter. OK, so Beau was elected rather than appointed- that was indeed a mistake. But neither that nor anything else you said addresses or contradicts the real issue here.