I find the language in this posting generally unhelpful to a productive discussion.
When I purchased property earlier this year, I paid a local soils engineer almost $1,000 to do a couple hours work and write a 4 page report, nearly 1/3 of which was canned from other such reports. But I needed to be sure the land would support a foundation for a home, and thus I needed not my untrained look at the place, but a professional with the right skills and background to do the job right. So I paid the fee becasue not doing so might leave me with a very expensive bog.
The NAR and TRA have agreed to pay a professional a fee in order to take advantage of his experience and network in Washington. That experience and network has a demonstrated successful track record in the Congress. I don't necessarily like doing it, but I think it's cheaper than not getting the right counsel and failing. If we try to do this for free or on the cheap, we're adding risk to a process that, I believe events have already borne out, is quite risky.
Dick Embry and I both engage John in extended conversations during the course of the legislative work, and we've debated strategy ,etc with John and adjusted as we thought best to secure an unregulated future for sport rocketry. To have those not directly involved suggest that I or Dick are somehow simply a conduit for how John Kyte thinks things ought to go is totally inaccurate.
Finally, if people think I'm not telling them the truth when I post in this forum regarding NAR action and policy, the least they could do is make that post in clear language. I'm a big boy and can certainly handle NAR members and other calling me a liar.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Mark B. Bundick mbundick - at - earthlink - dot - net NAR President