In the motion by a Pagosa Springs Town Council member, during a meeting last week, to remove without cause a member of the Town Planning Commission… when you think about the words — remove without cause – what do they actually mean?
I can’t help being wonky about words. That’s in my DNA, having been in the communications business for several decades. So, hearing that someone was being removed without cause — Bill Hudson, a volunteer serving the community — when you’re wonky, those words seem rather confusing.
So I looked them up. I’ve heard the term, remove without cause, used, occasionally, over the years, but realized I wasn’t that familiar with the meaning of the term.
Basically, in dictionary definitions, remove without cause describes “the action of forcing a person out of an official position in a company or organization when they have not done anything illegal or against… regulations.”
Does that make sense? Really?
Removing someone without cause?