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Originally Posted by jet

Did James say he did it to 'teach him a lesson and punish him' though? I just heard him say he was nominating him because his "behaviour was wrong" which it was. Not any different from what the other 3 who nominated Austin said...
James and Austin are sort of seen as joined at the hip and a 'pair'. If one person of a pair behaves horrendously and the other says nothing, it looks as if they condone it and then it kind of reflects on them too. So they speak to the other person and hope they listen...but they ignore them...so they speak to them about it once more and are ignored again....and so on....really I think James was between a rock and a hard place. If he'd said nothing to Austin people would be saying he was a suck ass or not a good friend!

Don't get me wrong. I actually like James and agree with his feelings about how Austin behaves...and loved when he took Austin up on his behaviour. That is what moved James up to my top 2 favs.

I'm just responding to the op's question of motive. I think he really thought he was teaching him a lesson rather than making a strategic move.