{"id":6545,"date":"2015-11-03T11:32:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T16:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=6545"},"modified":"2015-11-03T18:07:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T23:07:41","slug":"us-tag-176-leaders-cash-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/us-tag-176-leaders-cash-in\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Seconds After Election, Palmes Starts Speaking Engagements with TAG Leaders Who Nominated Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next week&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/asq.org\/conferences\/quality-standards\/2015\/program\/\">ASQ International Conference on Quality Standards<\/a>\u00a0trots out the usual gang of\u00a0\u00a0US TAG 176 leaders and consultants, leaving almost no room &#8212; as usual &#8212; for anyone else to put anything into the public discussion on ISO 9001:2015.<\/p>\n<p>The keynote is by newly-minted, and already troubled, TAG Chair Paul Palmes. Alongside him on the program are\u00a0Alka Jarvis, Dale Gordon, George Hummel, Denise Robitaille, Denis Devos, Mark Ames, and JP Russell.<\/p>\n<p>Not-a-surprise # 1: JP Russell and Alka Jarvis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/us-tag-176-election-update-same-names-different-seats\/\">hand-picked Palmes<\/a> to be on the ballot for TAG Chair, dumping others (such as Boeing&#8217;s Alan Daniels) from electoral consideration\u00a0without any explanation. Now the three of them are reaping the financial rewards of their decision, only a few weeks after the election.<\/p>\n<p>Not-a-surprise #2, George Hummel, who defended the leadership&#8217;s undemocratic nomination practice by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/and-us-tags-hummel-doesnt-want-to-hear-from-other-tag-members-either\/\">complaining<\/a> when TAG members dared to discuss the elections among themselves\u00a0and refused to just\u00a0shut up and vote as instructed, was rewarded a speaking slot, too. It pays to be a toady.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, steam is building up\u00a0in the investigation that the TAG used its ASQ functionaries to curb the speaking events of non-TAG leaders, and the evidence that the TAG is engaged in profiteering and cronyism is just piling on. The challenge now is for ANSI to step in and stop it, but it&#8217;s not clear they have the courage to do so. We will see.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US TAG 176 leadership is already cashing in by giving an ASQ event on ISO 9001, with keynote speaker Paul Palmes joined by two of the Nominating Committee members who put him on the ballot, Alka Jarvis and JP Russell.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[287,226,18,43,14,446,238,42,41],"class_list":["post-6545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-alka-jarvis","tag-ansi","tag-asq","tag-iso","tag-iso-9001","tag-jp-russell","tag-paul-palmes","tag-tc-176","tag-us-tag","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6553,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions\/6553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}