The task of writing a candidate statement for this year is made both simpler and more difficult by my experience of the past year. It is made harder because having held the position of an arbitrator necessarily means that some people will have been dismayed or angered by decisions me and my colleagues have made (or did not make) over the past year, and that some will choose to show their displeasure by campaigning or voting against me.
Yet, making those unpleasant decisions is what my duty was; I would have breached the trust the community placed in me if I skirted that responsibility for the vain hope to ease a future election. I believe my record speaks for itself, and that examining it will see that I have been diligent and conscientious during my mandate, doing everything I could for the project. Perhaps not always successfully — not all problems have a clear and infallible solution available — but always to the best of my abilities.
I believe I, and the committee as a whole, did a fairly good job during the past year — even if unarguably imperfectly so — and that I still have much to contribute. I would like the opportunity to do so for the next two years.
