Rep. Lee Nerison’s AB353 Vote Undermined Democratic Cooperative Principles — Empowers Corporations, Weakens Member Rights
Remember. Remember come next November — Lee Nerison’s betrayal of our democratic, member-run cooperative principles. Lee Nerison voted for AB353 which will allow up to “20 percent of your co-op’s board seats to be turned over to non-members (including outside investors)”* and remove “members’ rights to review certain cooperative records. Because all voices are equal in the co-op model, we can be certain that ideas can be discussed; that no ideas are silenced.”* Lee’s vote served “to alter that ‘one member, one vote’ co-op model that gives voice to all members as equals, regardless of where their farm or…