I am posting a response here, and on your blog, so that I am extra certain you will get it since I'm sure you're confident enough to only bask in the glory of the 70 or so comments you from people who have never worked close with you who completely condoned your self-pity, which, I do not.
You. Do. Cock-ups.
Then you blame other people for them. And get angry when people point them out. Like, seriously? Blue fire? You say that you have learned something these years and now you say that criticism makes you lose your inspiration? That was criticism well used then. Except for the fact that this self-pitying fool who seems unable to get it even when people point it out /very/ clearly (this holds for the €9000, for instance, and for the €150 (or was it €1500? people were /very/ upset about it, but I guessed in your favour)). You gave the same motivation then as you do now. "It was vitally important that the cameras were bought, midimip, otherwise we would have never gotten media." Except we did. With you kissing a 16-year old.
The reason you can sit around and say that there was "formal approval" of the way you spent cash is that you were allowed to make purchases up to €1000? €5000? without asking the board. This was in fact one of the points of criticism that arose on the annual congress in 2009.
A congress which is not yet over btw, because you and your board can't be arsed with paperwork. I notice that while the party had a secretary there were protocols from the meets.
The thing is. You have been a dictator and spent comparatively huge parts of our resources without asking anyone else for approval. It is true that the board does not approve every pencil bought but this falls under a budget called "office material" which is usually not controlle by party chairman. You single-handedly controllen as much as 10% of our total resources and you spent them badly. Do you really see nothing wrong with this?
My money, our money, shared money, good money. Which was, as you yourself admit in your blogpost and subsequent comment on my criticism, used on a "small minority of the members" not the "thousands of activists" that were working on ground level.
In Skåne we had a budget of what? €1000 for the election year? I could be off by €500 or so, but that is not. a. lot. of. money. for. an. entire. district. in. an. election. year. Especially not when €9000 is spent on a "small minority" for a "kick off fest". We had Skåne posters and Lund posters printed on a home printer, despite the fact that there was a annual congress decision on being able to be in local election - a decision you never liked and fought against vigorously (shows in the budget?).
Do you not see anything wrong with this? I agree that you should have realized you had to be more careful - WITH MONEY! WITH MONEY, RICK! You pissed everyone off except the people who did not know for 4 years. Fou! People who don't keep track of what you're doing are quite happy with you. People who do go insane and blubber things about that you're a, well, I should say resource wasting leader. And now you are going to represent me in Europe.
Stop this self-pitying insanity. Just stop. I should be the one pitying myself.
I am posting a response here, and on your blog, so that I am extra certain you will get it since I'm sure you're confident enough to only bask in the glory of the 70 or so comments you from people who have never worked close with you who completely condoned your self-pity, which, I do not.
You. Do. Cock-ups.
Then you blame other people for them. And get angry when people point them out. Like, seriously? Blue fire? You say that you have learned something these years and now you say that criticism makes you lose your inspiration? That was criticism well used then. Except for the fact that this self-pitying fool who seems unable to get it even when people point it out /very/ clearly (this holds for the €9000, for instance, and for the €150 (or was it €1500? people were /very/ upset about it, but I guessed in your favour)). You gave the same motivation then as you do now. "It was vitally important that the cameras were bought, midimip, otherwise we would have never gotten media." Except we did. With you kissing a 16-year old.
The reason you can sit around and say that there was "formal approval" of the way you spent cash is that you were allowed to make purchases up to €1000? €5000? without asking the board. This was in fact one of the points of criticism that arose on the annual congress in 2009.
A congress which is not yet over btw, because you and your board can't be arsed with paperwork. I notice that while the party had a secretary there were protocols from the meets.
The thing is. You have been a dictator and spent comparatively huge parts of our resources without asking anyone else for approval. It is true that the board does not approve every pencil bought but this falls under a budget called "office material" which is usually not controlle by party chairman. You single-handedly controllen as much as 10% of our total resources and you spent them badly. Do you really see nothing wrong with this?
My money, our money, shared money, good money. Which was, as you yourself admit in your blogpost and subsequent comment on my criticism, used on a "small minority of the members" not the "thousands of activists" that were working on ground level.
In Skåne we had a budget of what? €1000 for the election year? I could be off by €500 or so, but that is not. a. lot. of. money. for. an. entire. district. in. an. election. year. Especially not when €9000 is spent on a "small minority" for a "kick off fest". We had Skåne posters and Lund posters printed on a home printer, despite the fact that there was a annual congress decision on being able to be in local election - a decision you never liked and fought against vigorously (shows in the budget?).
Do you not see anything wrong with this? I agree that you should have realized you had to be more careful - WITH MONEY! WITH MONEY, RICK! You pissed everyone off except the people who did not know for 4 years. Fou! People who don't keep track of what you're doing are quite happy with you. People who do go insane and blubber things about that you're a, well, I should say resource wasting leader. And now you are going to represent me in Europe.
Stop this self-pitying insanity. Just stop. I should be the one pitying myself.