Monday, October 08, 2007

Half of the Ballot is Complete - Mission Accomplished

Our friends over at Concerned Tennessee Baptists have released their slate of officers nominees for the upcoming Tennessee Baptist Convention meeting. We could save the convention a lot of time by getting on-board with this slate, prayerfully considering them, closing the nomination process, skipping the nomination speeches, taking up the ballots, and getting straight to the acceptance speeches and the covered dish supper. George Jackson, VP at CTB offers his full support to the following:
President: Tom McCoy
1st Vice-President: Tim McGee* Tim McGehee
2nd Vice-President: Todd Stinnett

Mr. Jackson also is, "asking for the (TBC) executive director to announce his retirement...for the good of the convention." We should all be shocked that this is happening.

I commend the CTB group for being organized enough to pull together a slate of officers to do the bidding of conservative causes. But please, do not dodge the thought that some might view this as being a bit political.

What is missing here is an opportunity for a non-Concerned Tennessee Baptists group (Unconcerned Tennessee Baptists?) to offer up a slate of officers so that open and honest debate about TBC issues (and agendas) could see more daylight. You know, something like making the candidates for office accountable for their positions.

I would like to nominate myself for a newly created post of 4th Vice President. My only official duty would be to run blind taste tests of the favorite banana pudding recipes for each of the candidates running for office in the TBC. You can tell a lot about a man from his taste for banana pudding.

*see comments below

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do you find it funny that CTB doesn't even know how to spell the name of its candidate for 1VP? Is that supposed to be Tim McGehee, the erudite author of the article on words?

Will said...

Well, I'll confess that when I started looking for information on Mr. "McGee" that I was a little surprised to find nothing that made any sense. I'll make the correction in this post. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Anonymous said...

So strange that no women appear on that list!

Will said...

Anon.,
It would be stranger still, if CTB ever nominated a woman for a leadership position in the TBC. *smiles*