Re: Greenberg law firm has to go, cut to the chase and back Wexler Bil
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To go with Berge's concern, we still don't have an answer Im comfortable with when people ask me, well who/what is the PPA.
Its going to come back to haunt us, and maybe we don't need to go as far as Mason wants, but we need to be fully transparent and transition swiftly to a democratic board.
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IMO the kind of transparency especially the financials would likely hurt more than help anything. Because it is my opinion that it would show the amount of money raise from other than industry sources is pretty poor relative to the totals.
Call it a Field of Dreams moment in an organizations evolution. "They have built it", were are the point where it is up to us to "come." If we the regular members step up and do what needs to be done, then the issue of the amount of seed money to the organization goes away.
IMO the PPA is at fault for not providing a nice enough field or atractions to the park before things like the DC fly-in to over come this "are they worth it" common objections. It has also been somewhat lacking in using a number events to spark member motivation and involvment. I will not belabor this point, but there have been quite a number of issues where little sparks could have been helped into nice little brush fires of activity.
But the PPA currently is at a point where we and it has to decide what it wants to be, either an industry funded lobbying group that calls itself a grassroots organization, or a grassroots organization that has execlent lobbing and consulting help.
But I do place an equal share of blame on the members and non-members. Politics isn't rocket sicence, but it is hard work. Done right it can be a lot of fun. Too many people in this country are accustomed to sitting on the sidelines or barely participating and simply bitching about the system and the result they get from minimal participation.
This standoffisness has been all to evident in the almost 2 1/2 years of the PPA. Not building beyond the freeroll stage of membership has been the key problem IMO.
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