I see that your open letter is addressed to the MVPA Board of Directors by way of the mil-veh list. I would like to point out that e-mails posted on this list, while being downloaded by MVPA HQ, have not been distributed to the full Board of Directors. According to two of the Directors I have spoken to about this, none of the e-mails that have been sent to the MVPA HQ have been relayed to the Board members.
I called and spoke at length (1hour, 45 minutes!) with MVPA President Lee Holland two days ago about the election controversy, hoping that we could come to a solution (more on this in a separate posting) In the conversation he did say that HQ was sending him copies of the postings and noting if the sender was a MVPA member or not. If not, the posting was discarded and if the sender was a MVPA member it was retained. I gathered (my opinion here) that he is not pleased with the postings and the mil-veh list and that e-mails did not have the same impact that an actual letter would have. Lee did mention that he has only received two letters on the subject (of course, the majority of the membership do not know about it......yet).
I say this here so that Jack Lee and others that want to make their voices heard to the MVPA Board realize that unless you WRITE and MAIL a letter ADDRESSED "to the Board of Directors" (via MVPA HQ) it may not be taken seriously and may not be forwarded to each them.
As an aside, One of the Directors who is on the "right to run" side of the election controversy has asked me to post a question.
Has anyone written a letter about the controversy (pro or con) and sent it to the Board of Directors, care of MVPA HQ?
He is concerned that he may not have received copies of any such letters. If so, please contact me off list about it. I would also be interested in knowing if any list members have received ANY response from the MVPA to their letters/e-mails.
PLEASE NOTE; This posting should in no way be taken as a complaint about the job the hard working staff (Kay, Krystel and Tracy) at MVPA HQ do their job. They are the true backbone of the Association and without all their hard work the MVPA could not function!
" Remember Lee, every MVPA member was once a non-member"...... Jim Gilmore to MVPA President.... 8/5/99
--Jim
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