ORIGINAL: ckangaroo70
ORIGINAL: abel_pranger
Ray-
Are there any issues that can be identified as district-specific? Frankly, I don't know of any AMA District policies/rules where I am, and I don't know of any other districts where any exist. I'm taking advantage of your bringing up the question, as it's one that I have had for a long time. Why do we get to vote only for one DVP in most elections and only for the one in our own district, when all of AMA members are affected pretty much equally by whomever is elected in any district? Don't expect or solicit an answer to that - just offering MHO that a per district forum doesn't work for me. Some DVPs already have such forums, some open and some heavily moderated by the DVP or his hand-picked moderator (i.e, district webmaster) and regulated as to who can participate. Some have web sites that have been dead for years - look at D-X, the largest district. Some unofficial, 'alternative' view forums have existed, as in D-V during the seemingly interminable tenure of McSnuze. AMA members are generally affected by what every member of the EC does so district forums seem an arbitrary partitioning of discussion. Okay, you stirred me up!
Abel
Just throwing ideas around abel, but you are correct about AMA issues being not limited to individual districts. AMA policy does affect each member regardless of district. I just don't know what the answer would be, thats why I am hoping somebody with more thinking power then me comes up with a fantastic idea. You ever sit through an entire episode of Phil Donahue, or Jerry Springer, and then ask yourself why in the world did I sit and watch that stupid show? You ever stand in the grocery line with your wife and thumb through the tabloids? I guess maybe people are just drawn to controversy. I am just glad we are unable to throw chairs at each other.
Ray, you certainly have some excellent ideas, however a few tend to border on idealism. Any subject which different people have different interests and degrees of passion for will bring some definite strong discussions and output from the different levels. Had a few rabble-rousing instigators not been overly (according to most at the time) passionate about their freedoms, then you would be still paying taxes to the King on that little island just off the west side of the European continent. [>:]
BTW I don't have the time to waste on such garbage as you speak of in the post quoted just above, therefore I am not answering that specific post.
I voted for a clean slate. However there are so few people in AMA that have a real understanding of what AMA is supposed to be, versus what AMA is, and where AMA is going that there will always be some strong controversy. Like in our national government, people of honorable character are very difficult to find. People of strong character have to stand and be counted due to the many that are only interested in padding their own pockets versus what is overall better for the populace.
It never ceases to amaze me the number of individuals posting here that have such problems with basic reading comprehension as well as expression of their own thoughts. Maybe it is because their mind is so made up, that they simply refuse to consider other information. Some individuals react to something quoted in a post, then attribute the idea to the poster that simply quoted someone else. So many have not a clue to basic economic terminology they surely were expose to in high school.
The solution is simple: Do not get overly involved in those things one doesn't really understand. I certainly am not getting into discussions about Li-Poly batts. or definitely not computer sciences. I may ask a dumb question, but I have to accept whatever I am told as I DON"T HAVE A CLUE about the subjects along with eons more.
By the same token for all these newbies to AMA politics and model aviation background (not electrics) may I suggest that they ask some questions prior to spouting off about so much they have no clue about. AMA is not an insurance company. AMA's chief functions when all the Bylaws' purposes are lumped together are simply the promotion of model aviation as a science and competition.
In reality, controversy has forever been here and will remain longer than you or I. Those that cannot live with it, better hope they have a good hiding place.
Therefore I can live with wiping the slate clean, starting over and see what happens. I posted an item in another forum as I thought it too important to hide here. Results are S-O-S, Different day.
Good luck however you get it handled.