What Mr. Christopherson said made a fair amount of sense. The difficulty that I think all of us experienced in previous meetings was when there was something remotely germane to the topic at hand and a motion was pulled out of the blue calling for witnesses that nobody knew anything about, and so on, or was presented to us with no background on it, and we were all asked to give some sort of informed judgment or opinion on it. Sorry, that's not the way good decisions are made.
If we think back to those circumstances, we can agree in almost every single case that there would have been no problem with the 48 hours' notice to deal with these matters. The steering committee people could have looked at these things and dealt with them in some rational, logical way, and there would have been no injustice to anybody. It maybe helped individual people get a headline or a story out of it or something, but it sure didn't help anybody on this committee make sound, informed judgments, and sometimes it just led down a path to nowhere when we actually got into these motions. I think I can understand the gist of this motion--that it has to be darned relevant to the things that are at hand, and not some remote thing that nobody knows anything about except the person making the motion.