Trustee to vote for.......

Hey folks I don't often do this but I am asking anyone in the South east region of the country to be looking to vote in the next ama election. The vote will be for trustee in that region.
A highly recognized road racer name is running against an incumbent that I have worked with for over 5 years at ama and think he should remain on the board of trustees.

Carl Reynolds it the guy I would like you to vote for.

I am sure anyone in the south east region most likely knows of Carl and his contribution to motorcycling. I have seen this guy work at AMA during congress and seen how he has conducted himself.
He is a class act no question.

I personally live in the north central and can not vote in this election, but you will recieve a ballot in your American Motorcyclist magizine in the next month or so...........please vote for Carl if you would.\

one last point, many times these trustees on the ama board are voted there with LESS THEN 1000 votes!!! so your vote will be very very very! important. fill out the ballot and vote!

thanks
wardy

ps not sure if this is the correct forum hmc but if it isn't let me know.

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this in the light a while longer!

thank you

well looks like you have read all the prop....

I happen to be the part of that ama that is so "terrible". I work with them as a congress delegate. Have worked on many committee's and Know Carl personally. I currently am on a committee with Carl and others pertaining to National advancement system and new sign up procedures.
I think he has done a great job and in the many years that i have seen what he has done, I haven't seen the things that has been said buy the others being done by him.
I do think of course AMA needs to update and change like any business.

But if you think the split with cce/pace and ama is a total bad thing you need to research it a little. SInce that announcement CCE has made big headlines and big promises to increase purse and more for the riders..........do you think for a minute that would have happened with out the split announcement?

Clearly Ulrich and his boys have a BIG soapbox to yell from (his own magazine), I am telling you its very easy to stand there and yell how bad everything is and the terrible gloom and doom of the AMA. What is so dam frustrating is that there are a ton of people that bust there butts to do a great job with that AMA for the tracks, riders, etc. Little is heard about that or them. Ulrich has chastised everyone on the board and senior staff, his two followers basically are clones of his press releases. Just what AMA needs at this time is 3 guys coming in with their own agenda.
I said it above and I will say it again, Carl is a stand up guy who in my mind has done alot of work for the AMA. SO far all i have seen from these guys wanting to be trustees' is alot of mud slinging.

wardy

i won't get into this

on a word to word basis. Your post strongly implied that ama wasn't headed or working well for its memebership. hence "terrible" was inserted.

here are some truths for ya,
bottom line maybe that lawsuit wasn't handled properly, and yes ama dues were increased at the same time. but you know ama fees were at the 29.00 price a long time. Sanction fees increased, you bet after.......... ten years.

insurance increase's???????........ you can't honestly tell me that you think that was AMA 's fault???? The insurance for amatuer MX events hadn't change in TEN YEARS! but yet all of a sudden its the AMA's fault? You talk of facts, better look at that one again. Its pretty simple, the economy as a whole dropped. hmmm did your car insurance stay at 1992 prices?

Lash out? I have read the agenda of the 3 "white knights" who are going to come in and save the day? Like i said before its easy to sit back and critize all the things they have. But there is alot more to AMA then what they seem to feel in thier own statments are important to talk about.

All i am saying is I know Carl, I also know how he works. I think he is the guy to stay in that job.

In my humble opinion the whole pro deptment, cce, jam, pace, sx, npg and the rest can go play there big money, power games elswhere. They never have worked with the amatuer deptment worth a darn and all you have to do is look at the Pro-AM -sport stuff to see that. There isn't enough memory on this site for me to type how i feel about that issue! 95% of all the screwups in management of AMA in my mind isn't coming from the amatuer side. I get very tired of defending AMA as a whole when it truely is the pro side that seems to fight continually.

I have seen this type of stuff in AMA for a long time and any organization has it, but from a person who does a job and trys to be a positive influence in the fight to make things better, I will get real defensive towards people who in my opinion don't share what i feel is important to our sport.

I don't have time to read any other boards, as it were this board is the one I choose to help and be a part of..kinda like the ama...... but if other congressman are doing what you say they are they shouldn't. period. it don't help the situation.

I guess it comes down to this in a way, i know that there are things in committees, and progress is being made on all kinds of issues (amatuer side), and I really after 3-4 years of work hate to see that lost due to this election.
the people in place to help with a whole process that has started, are valuable and hopefully that don't change.

one thing for sure hopefully the membership in these regions will or are paying attention so they can make an informed vote.

I think this kinda applys here, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, for that matter people wishing to move into that house shouldn't be throwing stones either. it usually ends with the same result.

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wardy

I hoped i wasn't the only one to see that......

when i read their stuff. My opinion is that its very cool that they or sombody picked up the ball on the air fence when Ama either didn't or decided to wait and see. I think ama has made mistakes in fact that law suit was a real big one. But I also have seen that AMA has bent over backwards to work with promotors only to get back doored hard also. it some times isn't pretty out there in the real world! But ya know my main concern was with the trustee that I know, and have worked with. and hope to finish what we are started on at this point! Not to mention I guess its clear that i trust and believe this guy is true.

The air fence is a great thing for the motorcycle racer, but ya know there is a lot more to it then that. Some people get impatiant with the process that AMA uses, but I have seen rules and things be placed on the books only to be a BIG problem 3 months down the road because it was rushed.
So there are all sides to it, I just hope to be part of the solution.


wardy

just to put it to rest also we are working on a national advancement system, magnetic striped cards for faster and better sign process's. Also electronic signatures and data storage to eliminate all the paper. There is a task force working on this now since congress. Our hope is to have this in place by 03-04? We are going to utilize some of that system here in D-17 this season to run it through the ringer so to speak.
Once I get permission from the insurance company I plan to utilize a electronic signature process at my riding park to see if that will hold up to long and multiple uses.
Oh and no I am not getting a dime out of this just trying to make my job easier and mainly my wifes paperwork alot less time consuming! Cause if the wife is happy, then i get to ride more!@ LOL.

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yep it looks that way

course i was shown this today.........it was posted by ulrich on a flat track board....


Man, I sure wish they'd notify the candidates before it shows up on a website! And I sure hope you're right! So far all I've gotten when I've asked repeatedly about the results is a bunch of stalling, which I see as typical.

If this is true, if I have won, the first thing I'm gonna do is get a john.ulrich@ama-cycle.org e-mail address and invite all members to personally contact me with:

A. Details of any problems they've had with the AMA, included names of AMA staffers involved (if known);

B. What problems they have that the AMA could and should help them with;

C. What is the first thing they would do if they had just been elected a Trustee.

In other words, how can I help them and in the process make AMA better and more responsive to member needs and problems.

As Don Potter always puts on his posts, God Bless America!

And I hope I did win!

John Ulrich



now i don't know about anyone here, but one thing i do know. Lets start a new position asking for "dirt" on anyone in the organizaiton and then lets ride in on our white horse and save the day.......going to be interesting to see how this goes.

wardy

thats and easy thing to see

what was going on was a very popular magazine and web site which has blasted AMA for better part of a year, and all or most all of its people. Against 3 incumbent trustees ( trustee's are volunteers) without those types of avenues to run an election by, sure something is going to happen. Then as you see above, the first order of business is to come in on our white horse and save the day.......well lets see what happens.

I do know one thing when your the loudest in the room and get all the attention, it is time to perform.
There are going to be alot of people interested now on the new way, and how much better it will be..............


its going to be interesting.

wardy

ps look at the election results above, did people get voted in because they have proven themselves to work in that type of atmosphere, or simple name recognition. Numbers above plainly show that.
hey! vintagedirt, they probably will do just that, BUT they will find out i will suspect real fast that things are not as bad as it seems. Furthermore if they do disrupt things a bunch, and cause alot of problems then they will be doing Exactly what they have complained about. guess it easy to sit in the room and complain, now they are at the head table, now they have to perform, lets watch and see.......