ORIGINAL: mr_matt
I was at that meeting. The cost of the building was mentioned and it was taken as a joke by the ED and the EC. Like 2 orders of magniture more than was expected.
If people want to make hay of it fine. I am neither an AMA apologist nor a detractor, I am just saying that I was one of the 20 or 30 people in that room and I know what I heard. No one in the EC is considering anything like that AT ALL based on what I heard.
Mr Matt:
In our last several discourses there was a time when I was going to nominate you for President of AMA. Then you displayed that you knew absolutely nothing about the AMA membership classes or what the AMA President qualifications are.
That thread was entitled "Qualified to be AMA President??" or there abouts. Of course, since it quickly disappeared, I'm sure you have a Budd here that accommodated you. At least I don't see it anymore.
Now here you come around telling all about your attendance at an EC meeting and relating your knowledge of what was said there. I gather you have been an AMA member for some time, yet you know not what a Leader member is or what or where to find the qualifications to be an AMA officer. Therefore, I question you about how much you may have failed to retain from any conversation to which you were witness.
You further discredit yourself by speaking only of the EC meeting you attended. My post in the AMA thread concerned an email I received where the EVP wanted other information passed to me via a 3rd party. You are correct and I must say that the subject information definitely was not stated in your presence. Remember: "I received this email." Remainder is in the AMA Forum under the, "..... Newsletter" thread.
Just to add a note, I well remember when AMA published the fact they were moving from Reston in a westerly direction. I remember doing a 20 page+ dissertation on where AMA should relocate. Sure, it was filed in the circular file 13. However I did try to do something. After Muncie came into being, thousands whined that no one ever told them about what AMA was doing. Pure BS, because the whiners simply never listened to what was said. In that respect, I am simply adding to your opportunities to be informed.
As I said in the post if you like it tell the DVP or tell him if you don't.
Perhaps you and the B. Bum can just cry on each other's shoulder.