DH: Alexander amends motion re: firing Robinson

I have one question: Did Meadowbrook know about his misreading of the statute beforehand, or did he really find out when the DH ran the story the first time?

Either answer's not good - the former means that he was playing politics in a bad way, and the latter means that he's not all that good at his job (or that he was in such a rush to get the request in before the break and while Robinson was gone that he didn't take the time to do all the research he should have).

On the other hand, apparently the complaint is very straightforward, far more straightforward than Alexander has been at board meetings:

In the complaint, Alexander says he wants to move that the board not renew the superintendent’s contract under ORS 342.513 “unless that action would violate” the contract.

The suit also says that Alexander is worried that if he goes ahead with such a motion, Robinson will sue him and anyone who votes for it. He is concerned, the suit says, “in part because Robinson sued plaintiff in this court last year ... for alleged contract violations.”

I'm disappointed. He gave away the game - not only does he say he wants to get rid of Robinson by any legal means (having discovered that he does not, in fact, have the power to do so illegally), he throws in the irrelevant sop about being sued (and the DH falls for it - by merely noting that Robinson eventually dropped the suit, it does not acknowledge why he filed or why he dropped, reasons that I file under the category "important context.")

Rick's running out of tricks, I think. He'd better hope he can manufacture a crisis again soon. Maybe it's time for Josh to step up to the plate...