As debate continued into the early hours of Thursday morning the conference's chairman, Mohammed Nasser al-Ghanim asked for a "feel of the room" noting afterwards that the resolution had majority support, while stressing that this was not a formal "vote".
He told the packed hearing room that Ms. White served as chairmanof the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, likes to "crack open a cold can of Bud" and was effective on the basketball court as a member of a New York women's basketball league.
In September Zell, who owns 18% of Idine and had become chairman a week earlier, pulled Henderson into a conference room at Miami International Airport and canned him.