<VV> Board Bashing - Please Stop!

[corvairs]

kaczmarek at charter.net wrote:

>Bill
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>Bottom line is that anyone who's been around long enough to know how things go may not  want that kind of mess in their lives. I want a car club to be FUN, not political battles about this and that.
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         And that is actually one of few true observations that has been 
on this topic so far. This is far different than giving the impression 
that the Corsa Board  is horribly out of whack  and to avoided at all costs.

> Or, as I have seen happen--the BOD does it's best to look the other way and hope issues go away,
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         Once again - which board, when, what issue? Is this the way the 
Corsa board has always operated with all issues?

>  so they don't have to make a decision that might be unpopular, or attract unwanted personal attention to be brought to them. 
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          In my other hobby as "citizen activist" I usually want to puke 
when I hear that an elected official is a great guy because "he makes 
the tough choices" - what that usually means is that he's willing to 
front for ideas for special intrests that go against the grain of those 
he's supposed to be represening. As a general rule, as a representative 
body we should not have the arrogance to "make unpopular decisions".

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       I've had personal experience getting them to make a decision. It 
was NOT fun getting them to do it. I had to threaten one of them to 
defend a position he took, and then he later voted against my proposal 
for it.

>  "Them", "It" "he"  come on now Hank. See the comments I posted some moments ago.
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>I have lots going on in my life, I don't need to clutter it with that. 
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> I'm SURE there are members out there, who aren't as busy, 
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       Yup, that's me all over....................Lon