The following is the latest in the saga about getting a copy of my club's newsletter to the District VIII AMA VP. Read it and consider your AMA leadership.
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Gentlemen,
Complete copies of this communication are being made pubic, as the correct mailing address for Dr. H. Sanford Frank must be to be in accordance with AMA by-laws. I do not enjoy being threatened again in this cowardly manner by an AMA official. If you gentlemen feel that is proper, the AMA has a problem.
The reported address Dr. H. Sanford Frank uses and that I have discussed resulted in a returned mail, a picture of which is attached. Whatever story he uses to justify his rumored residence and employment in Muncie, Indiana is meaningless if he were to be interested in discussions about AMA business from AMA Leader Members within his district.
He is not responsive to attempts at normal conversation and has refused to speak to me in the presence of witnesses even when I invested my time, effort, and money going to a his called District Meeting. Mr. Koranda, you may assume that this is official notification of an AMA VP's refusal to speak to a club officer about AMA business while visiting his district. There were other club officers from other clubs who witnessed the incident in Georgetown, Texas.
Again I restate the original request. Please publish a truthful and valid mailing address rather than one that results in postal refusal. Failure to do so is an admission that Dr. H. Sanford Frank does not have the best interests of the AMA or its membership in mind, rather his own ego.
Jim Branaum
AMA 1428
-----Original Message-----
From: Dr.Sandy Frank [mailto:
[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 12:14 PM
To: Don Koranda; James G. Branaum
Cc: 'Crash Siegel'; Dave Brown; Sandy Frank
Subject: Re: Re: [D8-L] What it really IS ALL ABOUT !!!
Importance: High
Hello, All,
I have JUST been called a LIAR
by: Jim Branaum AMA 1428
1. My official AMA address has not changed in the past 25 years
and still is Texas.
2.My IRS domicil also has not changed in 25 years.
(and is Texas)
3. I am registered voter in Texas.
4 My drivers license is from Texas.
5. My Homestead tax exemption if Texas..
I could continue with another 25 instances of my Texas residence.. but I will not do so...
I own 3 homes two of which are in TEXAS...
My legal residence is Texas...
If Jim Branaum
AMA 1428
persists in calling me a LIAR in the face of these facts..
I will MOST assuredly turn this over to MY PERSONAL Lawyer
(who is in Texas.) for CIVIL ACTION!
and I will seek formal charges towards the revocation of his
AMA Leader Membership..
======= At 2005-05-20, 11:55:00 you wrote: =======
>Dear Mr. Branaum,
>
>It is out understanding that Dr. Frank retains his physical address as
>indicated in the email and that he is a legal resident of Texas. This
>is the same address we have for him in our membership records. We have
>not been informed of any change of legal address although we are aware
>that he spends time in Muncie during the NATS.
>
>We are not aware of any complaints from his district regarding
>contacting him. Dr. Frank is one of our more active VP's with respect
>to communicating via email. If you have any information to the
>contrary, please let us know.
>
>I should note that per the AMA standing rules, the only requirement
>with respect to an address is that a candidate for office must be a
>legal resident of the district. Interestingly enough, the rule is
>silent on where the incumbent must retain their residency in order to
>continue as the VP.
>
>I hope this information is helpful.
>
>Don Koranda
>Executive Director
>
>
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>On 5/20/05 9:14 AM, "James G. Branaum" <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Gentlemen,
>> Below is an e-mail that Dr. H. Sanford Frank has sent out with what
>> he is claiming to be his address. Since the forum where he is
>> telling this falsehood is controlled by Bill Lee and Doug Powell, no
>> corrections to that information will be accepted.
>>
>> The president of my club wrote the District VIII AMA VP an email
>> confirming a phone message that claims the official address is the
>> same as AMA Headquarters. Last time I talked to Bernard, he had not
>> seen a reply.
>>
>> Since we have definitive proof that address being given out in public
>> is invalid, I request that the general AMA public be officially
>> notified of his real address rather than allow this lie to continue.
>> There are many who claim he now lives in Muncie, but that is not the
>> issue. His refusal to speak AMA members he disdains but is supposed
>> to represent stinks and seems less than an AMA official is supposed
>> to be.
>>
>> Please take immediate effective action to open the lines of
>> communication with the AMA and District VIII. Let us build rather
>> than destroy as this person has begun doing to our organization.
>>
>> Jim Branaum
>> AMA 1428
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dr.Sandy Frank [mailto:
[email protected]]
>> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 6:56 AM
>> To: AMA D-8 Modeling List
>> Subject: [D8-L] What it really IS ALL ABOUT !!!
>>
>>
>> Hello, ALL,
>>
>> RCCA (an AMA SIG) Supports the TROOPS in IRAQ.
>>
>> Please review this story... by: Ed Kettler
>> of the North Dallas RC Club.
>>
>> it will remind all what it really IS ALL ABOUT !!!
>>
>> see at:
>>
>>
http://web2.airmail.net/sfrank69/IRAQ/may05.pdf
>>
>> Best regards.
>>
>> District VIII Vice President
>> Sandy Frank
>> 105 N. Brazos St.
>> Weatherford, TX 76086
>> (817)599-7131
>>
[email protected]
>>
>> 2005-05-19
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Best regards.
Dr.Sandy Frank
[email protected]
2005-05-20