I'll leave it to the people who were involved in those conversations to explain their result.
That said, the possibility that Cynic's confirmation would leave a Senate seat vacant for nearly a month was the subject of considerable angst among members of our party for several weeks, and our leadership did everything that they could to prevent it from happening.
Well, at the very least, I'm glad to hear that others were aware of the developments. I was sorely disappointed to see this happen after it appeared no one noticed and after we worked to minimize the chance of this occurring.
We were aware of what was happening. We did speak with Cynic about his decision. Those of us in the leadership would obviously have preferred to not have it happen the way it did. But in the end, the call was Cynic's and I had to respect the call he made.
