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FALSE ASSUMPTION As a candidate for the District 8 House seat, I had intended to resign as Democratic vice chair of HD8, to avoid any appearance of "insider trading." In fact, the whole reason that I am in this race is to publicize the "insider trading" that has tainted the selection of the last two lower House members representing Lane County during the last two Democratic PCP nominating conventions. I had told several persons that I would do so at the March 18 Central Committee Meeting, so I was very surprised to learn that, at the March 11 Executive Committee meeting I had not attended but had asked to be excused from, I had tendered my resignation as vice chair. Had I known that I was going to resign, I should have made a point of being there. However, the DPLC Chair, who, not coincidentally was deeply involved in both disputed nominating conventions, has assured me that I resigned, even though no letter of resignation was ever delivered from myself to the chair. So it seems that the Executive Committee is in unanimous agreement that I have resigned, even though I don't recall resigning — mostly because I learned that it was traditional to take a leave of absence. Still, the psychologists and telepaths of the DPLC Executive Committee have absolute conviction that I meant to resign. Still, although their opinions are influential, I must insist that I did not resign. But it is their word against mine and I am only one. Hart Williams, HD8 Candidate NOTE: Nothing whatsoever has been said, except that the final minutes of the March Meeting AND the April Minutes CANNOT BE FOUND! The entire incident, it seems, has been erased from the collective memory of the DPLC Executive Committee. What my status is, I am not certain.
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