AMA Vice President, AMA District II, Dave Mathewson is now AMA President Elect to start Jan. 01, 2008. Mr. Mathewson was reelected in 2006 to serve as DVP for 2007-8-9. His term has two years remaining.
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AMA Bylaws requirements:

Article IX.

AMA Bylaws: ARTICLE X
Section 2.
In the event of a vacancy during a regular term by death,
incapacity, inactivity, resignation, impeachment, removal from office or
transfer out-of-district of any AMA official, the following procedure shall be
used to replace him to fill out the remainder of his term:
(1) The Executive Council may replace a Vice President as follows:
When a vacancy occurs during the regular term of an elected Vice President,
two nominees for his replacement are to be selected by the outgoing Vice
President (or by the Executive Council in the event of the demise,
incapacity, or inaction of the Vice President), one of whom shall be
currently an active Associate Vice President in that district. Any nominee
must be qualified for the office of District Vice President as provided in
Article IX. An election shall be conducted by AMA Headquarters by
mailing ballots to all Open members of the District. A plurality vote shall
elect. A period from date of mailing to close of receipt of balloting will be
established by the Executive Council.
When a vacancy occurs within three months of the end of the current
term of office, or when a Council meeting is called or scheduled during
the nominating and voting period, the outgoing Vice President (or the
Executive Council in the event of his demise, incapacity, or inaction)
shall make an interim appointment from among the active Associate
Vice Presidents in the district.
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Now that an election is required, has it yet begun? Has any D-2 member received a ballot? The vacancy exists some 2 weeks / 2 days from this date>

Mr. Mathewson has selected a frequent poster to this forum as one to leak out the new program to be officially released by AMA next month. [:-]
>>> STL in another thread: "Welp, just got he mail, my DVP was nice enough to send me the entire Park Pilot program package and now it's time to goto work."

In another thread, STL is asked,
ORIGINAL: The Toolman
"Whats in it for you?
Ronnie"

STL answers: "TBA."

So, my question from the above evidence, Will STL become a member of the LEADER AMA Members, and either run for the vacant D-II DVP position against one of the current AVPs or will he become an appointed Assoc. DVP?

OR will the EC just "appoint" STL as an interim DVP under the 3 month option which will be a flagrant violation of the Bylaws? It seems that I recall something like that a few years ago. Could be very wrong about that.

Yet, I do see something building that just may be close to pork barrel politics. [sm=pirate.gif]