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Message: [QUOTE="AJ Waggoner, post: 222189, member: 16665"] Something that often comes up and the vast majority of AMA members and particularly non-members dont realize: an AMA membership card- is to the American Motorcyclist Association- a national non profit organization dedicated to the overall sport of motorcycling and its membership.All it districts are run by volunteers. all the congreesman that guide the direction are volunteers.Most of the trustees are former congressman or District officers, and are elected by the general AMA membership for each region.Keep in mind none of these individuals are paid for thier time, they do this for a love of the sport and to try and "give something back " to the sport they enjoy. AMA pro racing - a for profit promoting group that has had several names, Paradama etc..It is run by a paid staff. and while attached at the hip to the AMA - its goal is to promote national professional race series - for profit. This requires it to be a seperate entity , even by tax laws. Unfortunantly ..its "mistakes" with a 12 or 16 race Professional series, since it is in the extreem limelight of the press , can give the whole organization a black eye and jade many people to the fact that [i]thousands[/i] of events are run well each season on the amateur side.And those are the events the vast majority of the membership participates in and the AMA is dedicated to. Also most dont realize that the guiding forces as well as politics of the media and other promoting groups behind AMAPro Racings motives for the direction they operate , has little to do with the much larger amateur side of the AMA that you are likely a member of. [/QUOTE]

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