I was watching Stoeger's reaction video discussion posted last night, the one with Austin Leffler and Bill Godbold.
They were saying that there would be special elections this year for the recent kerfuffle in three areas, namely Area 1 (Gary resignation/reinstatement), Area 3 (Arnburg et al), and Area 4 (Rodero resignation)? Is that correct? In other words, these three areas would have interim directors but there would be a members (of the area, presumably) later this year as to the AD going forward?
Stoeger mentioned that with these three, and the two AD's terms that were expiring in 2024 (Oosthuisenm, Steele), there was a chance for a 5 vote swing away from the legacy board members this year.
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.
In an earlier version of my spreadsheet, I had a column that contained a subjective index number as to "Good" or "Bad", in terms of what I thought about who was on which side. I called it the "HM Index". Good was a plus number, Bad was a minus number, the degrees of which were estimated by the value, which ranged from 10 to 100 to 1000. Maybe I should bring that back. It did help me figure out who was who, which was the principle reason I stated to build this name index.
Lately the term I seem bandied about is "Legacy Board Members" being equated to "Bad".
* HM = Howler Monkey
With Strader's letter, it feels like it has reached a tipping point and the old board's days are numbered.
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.
Does anyone know:
Who the current (or interim?) Area 4 Director is, with the resignation of Mel Rodero a couple days ago?
Has USPSA BOD approved a plan to conduct a Special Area Director Election in 2024 to fill the roles of A1, A3 and A4 Directors?
It seems to me that it’s trendy to respond to social media posts on the subject with declarations of dropping membership.
People who are interested in fixing the situation are the very last people who should be allowing their membership to lapse as a “message”. They are the very people who should be preserving their voting rights, particularly given historical precedent in terms of vote margins.
While I agree with what you are saying what good does voting do if the BOD's can vote out who you voted in? The bylaws need to change. It should take a membership vote to remove someone and the life membership criteria to keep the good old boys as the only ones running should drop. They insulated themselves from the membership for a reason.