{"id":189017,"date":"2010-06-08T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/08\/ok-this-is-weird-3\/"},"modified":"2010-06-08T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T22:19:00","slug":"ok-this-is-weird-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/08\/ok-this-is-weird-3\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, This is Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got a call from Caterpillar regarding whether I got my proxy statement, and how I would be voting on the measures their annual meeting, which is tomorrow.<\/p>\n

It appears from reading the proxy statement<\/a>, that they are worried about push-back on their executive compensation\/bonus package, though it might be that they want to beat back a change to their board election procedures: It’s currently triennial, and there is a motion to make it annual, or a shareholder proposal for an independent Charmain of the Board.<\/p>\n

I’ve gotten snail mail on such things before, but getting a phone call is a new one for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just got a call from Caterpillar regarding whether I got my proxy statement, and how I would be voting on the measures their annual meeting, which is tomorrow. It appears from reading the proxy statement, that they are worried about push-back on their executive compensation\/bonus package, though it might be that they want to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1067,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-communications","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}