OS Members Plan to Filibuster Another Expansion Measure

-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-They just won't go away, will they?

Yet another in a string of ridiculous, logistically unwieldy proposals to add a second Feast Fest event to Thanksgiving Day, making for a Thanksgiving for FF chefs that would have them cooking for nearly fourteen consecutive hours and which would approximately have the official score come at midnight, is planned to be filibustered by event purists when it comes to a vote Monday.

Mike Leary, Lois Jenks, Pete Wilco, and Dana Retheaulia will spearhead the filibustering efforts. Jenks was part of a filibuster effort for an extremely similar proposal in November 2011, which was successful. That proposal would have had the change made in 2013; if this one passes, the expansion will come in 2014.

Although recent polling showed opposition to the proposal to be holding a slight lead, that's not enough for the purists filibustering it. "This is too close of a call," Wilco said. "We can't risk it going to a vote. We must take action now.". Wilco, however, seemed to be ignoring the fact that even should it pass the 50-member, Organization Senate, it would then have to clear the 10-member Executive Board, and while support is more or less split among the Organization Senate, the EB is much more likely than the OS to vote against the proposal.

"We need to send a message," Wilco said. "A strong message saying we need to get rid of these sorts of proposals."






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Wholehreh Wins NCA's Best All-American

-New York
-Keith Wholehreh has won his first NCA's Best All-Americsn Award.

Wholehreh claimed first with 23% of the vote. Fellow Feast Fest chef Johnny Stevenson, who has a long record with this honor, having won it six times, including in 2011, was relegated to third. But he wasn't holding any grudges: "Knowing and working with Keith, I am ecstatic to see the torch of this award passed down to him," Stevenson said.

In 2011, the two chefs' placements were reversed: Stevenson won, with Wholehreh at third. Wholehreh placed fourth in 2010 and did not podium in 2009.

Wholehreh's win Saturday was an upset. It was predicted that Stevenson would win his seventh, with Wholehreh being the runner-up at second.

Stevenson got 12% of the vote.






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