From: Bob N (notmanr7@comcast.net)
Date: Mon Jun 20 2005 - 10:43:13 PDT
Mike, not joining the MVPA? Well, you can never change the organization if
you don't belong. This behavior, I believe, has happened because not enough
caring members have joined. To many, me included, thought of this just as a
magazine subscription. Then I started going to events. I never seem to
have the time or be in the right place while I was in the military. Now I
find the time to take an interest in the organziation that I have belonged
to since 1982 I have strated writing articles for the publications.
I would really like not to see this organization fail. There is a lot of
unrealized potential. If we can ever just get the momentive going and keep
out of distraction like these stupid board fights or trying to change the
MVPA to be everything to everyone (going away from our core of collecting
military vehicles).
At this point even if you WERE a member you right to vote against or for Jim
has been usurped by the board with lame and vague allegations. It's a
shameful event. It's also shameful that we have not heard from board
members that can claim not to have participated in this ill-advised event.
I too would like to have an itemized list of what Jim said here. Was it
really just that he told you some FACTS that didn't stack up against your
BELIEVES. Did he ask you one of his favorite questions--get 'em every
time...."But how do you know?"
Bob n> MPVA #4249
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Davidsen" <mike@aspirationsoftware.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] To any and all concerned MVPA members and future members
>
>>First, I am not the member who complained and Mr Gilmore may be being
>>railroaded but I have to agree with the MVPA's position here. He has said
>>things on this list which I feel are inappropriate for an MVPA Director. I
>>for
>>one won't miss him. I guess I'm sorry I won't get to vote against him.
>>Jeff Symanski
>>MVPA #10 thousand and some change.
>>
>>
> I am not an MVPA member, but I have to disagree with you. I have known
> Jim for over 5 years, and have known him to be a very knowledgable and
> honorable man. He has never seemed to me EVER to be a man to say anything
> inappropriate about ANYBODY. He has opinions about things like anybody
> else does. Odds are, everyone is going to rub someone the wrong way
> somehow, else we wouldn't be human. Is anybody here on this board perfect
> enough to say that they would NEVER say something inappropriate, about
> anybody or anything? I think not. If there is, then that person must be
> a politician waving his own flag for his own election. I feel, however,
> that Jim is being railroaded just for the sake of getting a good man out
> of the way, to make room for a worthless bureaucrat(s) on the MVPA board,
> probably someone who shouldn't be there in the first place.
> If this is the kind of infighting that is present in MVPA, backstabbing
> and railroading for the sake of membership on the board, just like the NRA
> seems to do every board election time, then let me be the first to say, I
> WILL NOT BE JOINING.
> Mike Davidsen
> mike_davidsen@yahoo.com
> 1967 M-725 Jeep ambulance
> 1964 M-416 1/4-ton trailer
>
>
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