i used to work for a principal that used to hide behind committee votes. he put together his friends onto the school personnel committee and they would determine if teachers and aides were rehired, if they kept tenure, etc. When the bad news would come to one of us, he'd call us into his office and tell us "the committee decided that . . ." and drop the hammer on us. We all saw through his nonsense but couldn't really do much about it . . . until irregularities started showing up in the school financial reports. that pretty much took care of him, and he ended up being out of work for a couple of years before relocating to florida.
edge: all of us who outlasted him