I asked the same question some time ago. The answer is that they do what we want. The membership does not want the VPs to write about AMA issues. The membership wants pictures of friends and their planes, and information about clubs. Each of the VPs told me that after they were elected, the first order of business was to be better communication. The wrote a column or three about things they belived the membership wanted to know. Within weeks the complaints come in, wanting pictures. As a result, the VPs give their district members what they want. I even ran a poll in this forum a year or so ago, asking what people wanted. It showed they wanted pictures and club info, not AMA info. There really are very very few of us that care about how the AMA is run.

Don’t forget that the AMA is a non-profit EDUCATIONAL corporation. Education, in one form or another (things like a build and take for kids at a trade show), can always use more money. The building fund retirement plan is still in force (have you bought your brick?), to name a couple. Of course, some donations have specific use attached to the donation. Certain projects at Muncie are always in the works and generally run behind since they appear to be the first projects cub back when there is a financial strain. LOL, not amazingly, there is NEVER enough money. The ongoing day to day business of the AMA is also budgeted into the mix.

The only difference between you and I is that I spend $2 a month on phone calls to the AMA leadership. The rest of your description fits me to a tee.

JR