[Watchdogs] Tesar and promises

[Robert Mokry]

I just joined a couple weeks ago. Is there any prohibition against  
direct mail to PEC shareholders that promotes your views? Just curious.

Thank you,

Robert Mokry
LightParts Inc.
robert at lightparts.com
512-873-7106 office
512-727-2885 fax
512-751-1042 mobile

On Feb 14, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Douglas Mink <douglasmink at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree. It's a very narrow way of thinking to base a vote on a  
> promise to return earned salary, and to now base opposition to Mr.  
> Tesar on the same issue.
>
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Clyde Doyal  
> <clydedoyal at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >From all accounts it appears that Tesar's performance as an advisory
> director has been exemplary and he deserves to be re-elected.  While I
> oppose compensation for directors I find it difficult to fault Tesar  
> for
> taking the compensation even though in theory he is opposed to it.   
> Having
> one director refuse to accept the compensation package does not  
> solve the
> problem of a policy of paying directors as if they are employees  
> which in
> essence is what it amounts to. Changing the names of directors does  
> not
> solve the problems of the PEC.  Changing the way they do business is  
> and as
> long as decisions on how the business is run is left in the hands of  
> people
> who have a direct financial interest in how the CO Op is run then  
> there can
> be no true reform.  Based on what I hear and see from various  
> comments that
> have been made about the situation our there is that only a few  
> people are
> really trying to do something about cleaning up the mess and quite  
> frankly I
> am not optimistic about any real reform being made as to how this  
> outfit
> conducts its business.  It would appear that most members of the CO  
> Op are
> only interested in whether the lights come on when a switch is  
> flipped.
> Paying 10 or 20 per cent more for electric service than warranted just
> doesn't seem to be that important.  Clyde Doyal  Lakeway
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: watchdogs-bounces at pec4u.org [mailto:watchdogs- 
> bounces at pec4u.org] On
> Behalf Of Bill Christensen
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 3:13 PM
> To: watchdogs at pec4u.org
> Subject: [Watchdogs] Tesar and promises
>
> Weighing in on the "no compensation" campaign promise...
>
> I have to agree with Dale.  I like Tesar and I like what he's done as
> a Board member, but he made a promise to not accept any compensation.
> The choice to accept/not accept was entirely within his control, and
> nobody else's.  No one forced him to make that promise.  He should
> have stood by it.  At the very least he should have publicly ammended
> it when the first check was deposited in the bank.
>
> .
>
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