Can a member nominate him or herself for an elected position (Vice President)?

[Guest JPS]

Can a member nominate him or herself for an elected position (Vice President)?

[Edgar Guest]

Yes. Some here (not I) like to refer to it as "volunteering".

 

We're told that General Robert (the first "R" in "RONR") described nominating oneself as "indelicate".

 

From a purely political perspective, it would be better if this person could find someone else to make the nomination. 

[Guest Guest]

Edgar A. Guest, can you tell me where I can find this, so that I can quote it? Thank you

[Hieu H. Huynh]

You won't find it in RONR. RONR does not address a member nominating himself or herself for an elected position.

[Guest Guest]

 

We're told that General Robert (the first "R" in "RONR") described nominating oneself as "indelicate".

 

 

 

The first "R" in "RONR" is "Rules".

[Edgar Guest]

The first "R" in "RONR" is "Rules".

 

So it is. That's what I get for trying to be clever.

[Edgar Guest]

Edgar A. Guest, can you tell me where I can find this, so that I can quote it? Thank you

 

As Mr. Huynh suggests, there's nothing in RONR that prohibits a person from nominating himself. So if someone says that there is, the burden of proof is on the person making that claim to produce the rule.

[Guest Nancy N.]

The way you might look at it is, being a member entails having the right to nominate (RONR, 11th Ed, top of p. 3, where it says "concomitant" to encourage us to go back to law school finally), and RONR ("Robert's Offspring Never Relaxes"), gives no restriction on whom a member may nominate.