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my Brenneman quit her seat on the Screen Actors Guild's national board on Monday to clear the way for Ned Vaughn, a SAG official told TheWrap.
Brenneman stepped down with one year remaining on her three-year term without explanation. Fellow Unite For Strength coalition member Vaughn was elected Monday as SAG's first VP and Hollywood Division Board chief, replacing longtime incumbent Anne-Marie Johnson, a leader of the rival Membership First party.
Without Brenneman's open seat to step into, Vaughn would have remained a national-board alternate and would have thus been ineligible to replace Johnson.
"There's nothing underhanded about it," noted one SAG official. "That's just how it's done."
Brenneman was elected to SAG's national board in 2008 with a landslide vote.
