Can a residents' group call itself nonpartisan when its organisers belong to one party?
PoliticsI took "nonpartisan" out of our draft invitation. The secretary put it back.
We are setting up a residents' group to discuss upkeep of the town centre. Several organisers know one another through the same political party. The proposed group isn't asking members to join that party, and the secretary wants people with different views to attend. But the chair hopes it will improve the public picture of their local politicians too.
I don't think shared party membership automatically makes every discussion a campaign meeting. I do think the invitation should describe how the group will work, rather than rely on a reassuring word.
What would we need to agree about the agenda, decisions and use of the group's name before that label was a fair description? Or would a plain invitation saying who organised it be better than trying to settle the word first?