From: MV (MV@dc9.tzo.com)
Date: Mon Jun 20 2005 - 08:18:08 PDT
Looks like it is getting pretty ugly.
JEFF HAIN-MATSON wrote:
> Here is an update on the events over at the G503 list:
>
> http://www.g503.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=71
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> And below is Jim Gilmore’s response:
>
> Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 11:35 am Post subject: Conduct Unbecoming?
>
> Concerned MVPA and Gee members;
>
> I would first like to say I did not ask for this conflict. I did not
> start it. I was not the first to post on this site about it. Two
> Directors of the MVPA (one the President) posted statements about me on
> an open forum before I had a chance to hear from the head of the
> Nominating Committee as to why my name was not to be on the ballot in
> the next election.
>
> I do not seek to hurt the MVPA. I have tried to settle this with the
> head of the Nominating Committee before it spiraled out of control. He
> was not concerned and was "comfortable" with the decision of the
> Committee.
>
> I am not someone who walks away from a fight when I believe I am in the
> right.
>
>
> The controversy going on right now is about wrong and right. The MVPA
> Board through the Nominating Committee is hell bent on getting me off
> the Board even if it means hurting the Association. They know that I
> will win re-election and this is the only way they can stop me. They
> have gone on the G503, on an open forum, open to anyone and slandered my
> character and had not given me the courtesy to answer the charges
> against me.
>
>
> They have posted that I am not allowed to run because of "conduct
> unbecoming a MVPA Director".
>
> The President of the MVPA has stated on a public forum that I am guilty
> of "......inappropriate comments and behavior...." that I have "....
> acted in a manner unbecoming a director on more than one occasion...."
> and that "..... it was in the best interest of the MVPA to not place his
> name on the ballot....."
>
>
> This is a vague innuendo and it would appear that I had done a very
> awful thing.
>
> I spoke to Art Pope by phone twice now and here is what he said the
> "conduct unbecoming" is ( I had someone listen in and transcribe so that
> I would be correct in my quotes) ........One complaint (which they will
> not show me to prove it actually exists) was received. He stated that
> said I "..downplayed the upcoming MVPA convention in Duluth..".
>
> In addition, they received one complaint over a year ago from a vendor
> that was unhappy with a comment I made about canvas.
>
> This is, according to Art Pope, all they had and then they went out into
> the public forum and said that this is conduct unbecoming a Director!
>
> Art Pope also said (in both phone calls I made to him) that I was "
> ..not the kind of person we want on the Board right now..." . This is
> an exact quote and I think sums up the actual reason for not allowing my
> name on the ballet.
>
> It's not up to them to decide who will remain on the Board. It's up to
> the members to decide this and they have taken the right for the members
> to vote away from them.
>
> Should I walk away from this fight? Should we let them do this to the
> next member that has to guts to say when they are wrong?
>
> I think not. I think the members will see that it was an attempt by the
> Board to control the election and I am sure they come out and fight for
> what is right.
>
> The G-503.com is the only forum where members can express their outrage
> at the improper actions of many of the MVPA board who seek to take
> members rights away and decide for themselves who will run the MVPA.
>
> In the election where I ran and won a seat on the Board I had the
> highest vote total of everyone running, even the incumbent Directors
> that were up for re-election. More members who were concerned enough to
> vote, wanted me to represent them on the Board than anyone else.
>
> Is it right that they cannot vote for me to keep representing them?
>
> Is it right that they have had their right to vote for the person they
> want taken away from them?
>
> Is it right that 6 MVPA Directors will decide who the 10,000 members
> will be allowed to vote for?
>
> All because of one member and one vendor complained? What about the
> 9,998 members that did not?
>
> Who's club is this? The MVPA Board's or the 10,000 member's? Who should
> decide who runs the MVPA, the current Board of Directors or the members?
>
> Concerned members should make their voice heard and use the power of
> their vote to regain control over their club.
>
>
> Jim Gilmore
>
> Director, MVPA
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