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Re: [RC] Making a difference (was: AERC joining, etc.) - Truman Prevatt

Actually I think you are right Kat. One also has to separate the issues of supporting endurance riding with supporting the AERC - they are NOT the same. Even if I decided to not rejoin, I would still join and support local and regional organizations and support rides and ride managers. Another words I have no issues with endurance riding. I actually have no issues with the directions the present and past AERC presidents been trying to move the AERC over the last three years. I feel Mike and Stagg before him have done a good job.

Like it or not being on any BOD is a political job. Like any political job a director will often find themselves in a fishbowl - and be "held accountable" by members they may not personally agree with. That's part of the job. That just goes with the territory. If one thinks this is a new phenomenon - recall Harry Truman's statement, "If it's too hot in the kitchen - then get out." He was not referring to baking a pie ;-) .

The statement:

"Bottom line, if you don't like it, live with it,
don't do it, or get involved! But don't berate
those who are volunteering their time to make
a difference!"

brings back shades of the 60's and early 70's to the classic "Love it or Leave it" in referring to the Vietnam war protest. Not only a pretty narrow view but also fairly non-productive.

Truman

k s swigart wrote: 

p.s.  I am personally of the opinion that people should attempt to
effect change by voting with their feet (i.e. refuse to join) MORE
quickly rather than as a last resort. Volunteers or anybody else who run
an organization can ignore people who are willing to live with it or who
are willing to act futilely to effect change from within, but if they do
that to people who vote with their feet, they will rapidly find
themselves powerless because they have no constituents.




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“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong” Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate in Physics


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