To know me is to love me, then you'll get me. It's well worth the effort, ask the voices in my head, they will agree.

You are missing the big picture though, this really isn't about a discount. This is about him...and what he wants.

I'm equally puzzled that you would advocate for less dues being collected when you're one of the most vocal opponents of what the AMA does with every penny they have. Yes, I have no issues whatsoever with youth memberships being given away, I consider it the best investment money the AMA "spends", but in reality it doesn't really cost them much, if anything.

I think Franklin's approach is flawed. Now before anyone goes off all half-cocked, I'm not against military folks being recognized in some fashion for what they do. I just think there is a better way to approach it, and to possibly fund it. Not just asking for something....working for something!

At the core, I think allowing for discounts for one group will open to the door to other groups asking, then getting ticked off when they don't get their way. We can already see that this is where this request is going, here he said:

"but I could care less if they vote it down, but it bugs me that they won't even vote and go on record"

This is a temper tantrum, and it reads to me like the real goal here is to get a rejection, this time an actual one in writing rather than taking someone's word for it like he did last time. Rather than start slowly, gather some data, try to get some buy in and build some consensus, he launches his salvo here, and goes right for a "finding". Oh, and of course asks others to join in too. No lessons learned from the last write-in failures I guess. No finesse, no statesmanship, no due diligence. For someone who purports to have such in-depth experience with non profits and government agencies, his approach is like a bull in a china shop.

So he really doesn't care if it gets voted up....that says it all right up there there. After years of dumping on the AMA at every single turn, he now wants something from them. And by golly...if he doesn't get it, well, he'll have lots more to complain about. The more I read it, the more despicable and selfish it sounds, that he would leverage this issue...a discount for active duty military, all the while not caring if it's voted on. He just wants a "no" on the record. Absolutely disgusting, I find it dishonorable.

I've noted above what I think could be one step in series of steps to try to put something together. It requires actual work, not just hiding behind an RC forum and knocking out e-mails, and asking random anonymous people to do the same thing to support him.