J_R

Your correct about the percent of caring members.

It is the same with our US government, only a handful of people vote, and some, maybe most , are uninformed voters. Some cast their vote for the person that is handsome/pretty, some for the incumbent, some to support their own agenda .Seems to be the same across the board in all organizations.

Even this church group I'm talking about most likely operates the same. The whole 170,000 or whatever do not show up Its just that they put the word out way ahead of time, and get it very organized then execute their plans to the max. Its the organization that seems to be key.

As far as who should vote and uninformed voters. Is it up to the officers to educate/help the members? We all have voting rights, but personally, I will not vote if uninformed. But who is informing/communicating. Not much activity in the campaign department.

Now for the last part that I seem to believe there are problems, corruption etc.. That mostly comes from what I have heard at the club and what I have read on RCU. If you read replys from Red and others, you get the felling all is not well in Muncie and some districts.

I really hate to say this, but personally I have NEVER viewed the AMA as anything other than the provider of secondary insurance.
The only other area I knew they had input in was contest rules and some safety guidelines. But most of this was established before AMA existed ... correct. So they just had to copy and paste and print. Then modify as necessary. Not much for an organization to handle is it? Then came frequency issues, and they coordinated that pretty well. But that is the most contact I have had with them. The remaining is more observation and curiosity that anything. I personally do not have issues. But I am just an average modeler flying with my own bunch of guys, and we need insurance to use the land owned by another. If nothing else, to cover our butts if something happens to a spectator. To my knowledge, most of the accidents to members have been covered by their own medical insurance.

But $58 bucks is OK for me. I read the mag to see what other clubs and members are doing. But I don't pay a lot of attention to the political, just some.

One thing I noticed in the Sept. mag was that District V was the only report that did not list Associate VP's. They don't have any ... or an omission? Odd!