AMA EC votes for term limits

In all the clubs I've ever been in, you selected the officers from a small pool of candidates that had the word "sucker" tattooed on their foreheads. The challenge wasn't to limit terms, but rather to scrape up enough folks to vote in an entire slate every year -- in fact, officers were had the highest motivation to seek out new members, because those would be the folks who hadn't yet realized the level of work vs. the level of thanklessness involved in being involved.

But then, I've never been involved in anything as big as the AMA...

Term limits are favored by those that wish to circumvent the will of the voting membership. The membership should have the ability to vote, or not vote, for folks as many times as they wish, as far as I'm concerned.

Ed Cregger

Occasions arise where the voting membership has dwindled to the point that only a few even bother to vote anymore for whatever reason (alienation, apathy, tired of dealing with single mindedness, unwillingness to tolerate change, etc.) and those that do are able to push their own agenda or those of their cronies. In Southern parlance, the "good ol' boys" get to run the show for as long as they want. Term limits, at the very least, offer the opportunity for some members to think there might be changes in the future rather than a single path to the same thing.

Chris

Consider this when thinking about term limits. There has been ample opportunity to dump the good old boys as evidenced by the number of time setting members of the AMA EC have run unopposed. Your excuses for not voting (alienation, apathy, tired of dealing with single mindedness, unwillingness to tolerate change, etc.) omitted one very important factor. Negligence on the part of the electorate to become informed and then take action!

Red Scholefield AMA 951 Dist. V Leader Member/CD

consider also that it is DAMN hard to vote someone OUT when they run unopposed.

the ballot needs a "n>Consider this when thinking about term limits. There has been ample

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Obviously, there is no one perfect answer to suit all situations. I was for term limits for a long period of time in my life and the "good old boys" syndrome was the reason why.

I spoke with a much older and wiser club member who was against term limits. He convinced me that it was the lesser evil of all of the alternatives. I can't articulate exactly why I changed my mind, but I have.

A club that my wife belongs to, and which she has been president of three times in the last five years, faced a the situation of having no one running for president when my wife decided to back off and do other things. She simply did not have the time to babysit everyone and think of new projects for them to work on. The membership consists of very nice and talented people, all of whom would have been a suitable president for one or two terms. Finally, with a bit of a push from my wife, someone was talked into running, but it very nearly didn't happen. The club would probably have disbanded had not this one person come forward and volunteered to hold the office of president. It's pretty sad, but this is what we get when religions emphasize that one should lack pride (confidence) and should not be competitive or assertive. Fortunately, the men down here do not seem to suffer from the same malady.

Ed Cregger