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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Would Schultz have still supported Mendez if she'd had enough votes for her motion to pass? Just asking. She's quite good at working the system to make it seem like she's advocating for things she knows won't happen. [/quote]

Yes, she would have.  Did you listen to her speech?  McLaughlin was the one who wanted to pursue it, but had to leave town.  Schultz met with the family (I don't know if it was in person or on the phone.)

This is the problem: you don't think that people who disagree with you can also have good ideas.  I don't think she advocates for things she does not wish to pass.  She advocates and always gets shut down.

All along, she has supported the process on this issue.  Her foes kept changing the process.  Had this been done properly, there would have been less divisiveness.
The people who spoke to the process issue were speaking truth to power.  In this case, the SB kept changing the process to get the desired results.  At every step, it did not work.

What they should have done was come forward initially and said that they needed to change the name.  Then, moved forward with the name change.  Instead, they went to the community to get the power to change the name--and the community rejected it.  So, they voted that it was necessary to change it.  The whole process was  a lie.  Anyone who has watched it knows this.  
People might not have liked changing the name, but had they been honest with their intentions from the start, the pain would have been over long ago.  Instead, they tried to pretend that it was up to the community.  It was never up to the community.

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