"Clearly, the two resolutions we sponsored were not the type of legislation you would need to wait a week on," he said. "The executive board, which included members who had nothing ever to be gained by this, clearly recognized this as an issue where it wouldn't hurt to wait another week."

McFadden disputed the charges, pointing to conversations with Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and former Digitas president Jeff C. Tarr '96 as evidence that his bill was ready to be docketed.

But Albert criticized McFadden for failing to inform the executive board of these conversations.

A Personal Grudge?

Blais, however, had a different perspective. He said that the executive board vote against McFadden's bill was more personal.

"I don't think it was because of the campaign, but the perception was that it wasn't really important and Chris is doing it to get something out for publicity. That was in the back of people's minds," he said.

"I think that [a personality conflict] is probably a bigger reason than the campaign," Blais said. "The majority of the executive board don't like Chris. That's manifested in this bill."

But Rawlins in turn accused McFadden of making the issue personal.

An e-mail sent yesterday morning by McFadden to Rawlins, and forwarded to The Crimson, reads simply: "For what it's worth, all you people on exec. board can go screw off."

Grimmelmann, a member of the Election Commission which is overseeing the campaign, said this is not an issue the commission plans to investigate.

Under the council's constitution, the executive board is required to docket bills within two weeks of their passage in committee.

Because the bill was not docketed this week, it must be docketed next week, and can then be presented to the council