Sad

This makes me sad:

Valla steps down

Granted she's been a tough leader, but she has also been a very good leader of LO.
I have not read every piece of media coverage on this topic, simply because I knew the minute Ingunn Yssen went to the media with this that hunting season would now have began on Gerd-Liv Valla. As there have always been elements within LO (no wonder, there are after all 800 000 members) who have wanted Valla gone, the same can be said about parts of the Norwegian media. And of course, as LO is a stronge partner of the socialistic political parties, the right wing parties must be rejoicing at the chaos that this has managed to create within LO.

Ingunn Yssen very early on said that she never meant for LO as an organisation to be hurt by this. Oh, well, who the hell is she kidding? I will assume that someone who achieves the position of internation secretary in LO will at least have a minimum of brain capasity, and will realize what will come of something like this once media is told about it. And still she said she didn't want to sue LO or Gerd-Liv Valla for harassement. It would have been a lot better if she did. That would have been to address this thing through the correct channels and would've been a proper way for Gerd-Liv Valla to be able to defend her actions and her role as a leader as well.

As it is now, she has been publicly executed by Yssen helped by the Norwegian media. I can't help but wonder if Yssen was afraid that if she had taken this to court that she might have lost...