Yes. I agree with the point generally. In fact, I found out because I ran into you in the hall this morning, but I would say that in an emergency situation, I like things to move. Perhaps the clerk can call members on their cell phones and get agreement that way, but there's no way that a lot of us would have been in our office at nine o'clock even to find out about this. All of us have a BlackBerry or cell phone, and in an emergency like this I would be happy to come if I actually knew. We can't know through an e-mail to our office, because our offices aren't necessarily open that quickly, so to me it would be an acceptable alternative in such emergency situations to make things go and make it easy for the witnesses.
On November 1st, 2007. See this statement in context.