BM why don't you as RED. He will give you information on anyone. He uses his position to freely post and e-mail anyones AMA # and information to just about anyone that wants it. How he gets away with it is beyond me. That information should and I think is private info. So therefore he is being corrupt in doing as he does with our personall information. And he has done this to several RCU members that I know of. He is not a good AMA person at all. IMO.
IF you would got to the Mark Smith forum and ask him what perks or other benifits he recieves from his position. I will bet his answer would be NONE. Does that surprise you. Those companies are nothing but lobbyist using the AMA for there own benifit. You tell me what other reason they would have to be on a committe at all. They should not be involved at all. That is a direct conflict of interest clearly. Mark Smith helps them do this. That is no secret. Also if the committe members of any committe are not supposed to be revealed so they can be approached by AMA members, to hear complaints, or ideas, and then present them to the entire committe what good is haveing one to begin with. That is how things are supposed to be done. You don't start at the top and disregard the members of the committes. You talk to a member and give them your suggestions and have them present it to the head Chair person and other members, then they ALL decide wether it is a good idea or complaint or whatever. IF you have to go straight to the Chair and he decides on his own that something is not worth the time or effort then the members have no idea of what could or should have happened. This is giving ONE person the power and only ONE. This is a democracy here in the US. or so i thought. But by your posts you would rather it be a dictatorship style AMA. IF you think Mark does not get anything out of this then your blind. I don't know what he gets but even if it is a free plane or a battery then he is being persuaded by them. Same as the guys that do reviews of planes. You don't ever see one say a plane is junk don't bother with it. The give is a good review and maybe a couple I would change this if I were doing it. Get a clue. This is politics same as any other. I will do this for you but what can you do for me that looks legal or that won't look to bad. The two main dealers on a committe that they directly benifit from is going to do what is best for them and only them. They would not say hey this is not working AMA save your dollars now would they? ON the other hand say hey YOU keep losing you will get it back someday but right now we are raking it in off this program and we are the ones that benifit, We think it is working good cause we don't do anything but gain from it. And Mark is right there beside them while they do it. But Mark is for us. Give me a break he is for himself and only himself. You said that Hoss dances around questions. You go to Marks forum and see how many questions he answers NONE he will talk though, just not really about the questions he is asked.