LAST CALL, NOW OR NEVER. (AMA)

Two posts stolen from RCU (Go see for yourself @

As the campaign season for AMA President draws to a close I'm writing to thank everyone who has supported me for the time and effort you've put in on my behalf. With a little over a week until ballots must be in the mail the perception is that we may come up a bit short.

As in virtually any campaign name recognition plays a huge role in the outcome. I believe this is a factor here. Tradition in an AMA election is that many of our members either choose not to vote, or vote for the incumbent primarily because they recognize his or her name.

I'm asking for your help in making one last attempt to reach out to these members. Please consider sending an email to your modeling friends in your address book, especially including members of your club who are true sport modelers and make up the vast majority of our membership. Ask them to visit my website at

Please ask them, if they like what they see, to consider supporting me not only with their vote but by forwarding your email to their modeling friends. By doing this I believe we can reach many members who have not yet exercised their right to vote. It's important to point out in your email that ballots need to be postmarked by no later then next Friday, November 12, 2004 and will only count if they're mailed to the address on the front of the ballot. Renewing your AMA membership for 2005 is not required to vote.

Regardless of the outcome I want to thank you for your help. It's a nice feeling to have so many friends who have enough confidence in me to support my effort to lead AMA.

See you somewhere soon, Dave Mathewson

Ummm here is what I know..... The third party handling the voting and ballot tally is hired by the AMA. I have been told by two people inside the AMA and three outside that anyone high ranking in the AMA can essentially see how the tally is going so far and see early tally results. Whatever the outcome of the election the only people who will be surprised at the results are us, because we will be the last to know and are the only group that does not have the insight into the results as others do.