RE: Re: World's Most Preferred

["Alison Farrin" <alison@innovativepension.com>]

Hmm, I would say a sponsor is a sponsor.  Sounds like it just became not politically correct to have the UAE be a sponsor.  Last time I looked, sponsorship didn't give them any say in how the race is run, so why not - unless its not PC.

 

Or does it stick in somebody's craw that the US is getting financial help from somewhere else in the world - just like we've been handing it out for the last 60 years?

 

Alison Farrin

 

 

The offer was made in a two-part motion:  1) To make the AERC NC a dual AERC/FEI ride and, 2) that the FEI portion would be funded by the UAE (in some form).  I personally did not care one way or the other about the FEI addition -except how that might affect the format of the ride- but I was very upset that the board so easily accepted underwriting (call it sponsorship or whatever you like) from another country.  This is the American Endurance Ride Conference National Championship and I believe we can finance our own events without funding from another nation .  By Sunday a majority of the Board felt that way, too.

 

Randy

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 20:57:14 -0800 navion <navion@lightspeed.net> writes:
> Randy,
>   Was the sponsorship, or funding they were willing to give related
> to the
> whole ride, or just the portion necessary to make a FEI ride
> available to
> those who wanted to enter at no additional cost to the competitors?
> And
> isn't the ride still going to have an FEI contingent now?  Who is
> paying for
> that?  I hope we aren't being bought by some other interest.
>
>    Jim Mitchell
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