An Open Scathing Letter to Svend
Submitted by maxh on 9 March 2009 - 1:16am.
Svend, I have a few words for you. "I don't serve the members, I serve ASFAR"? You don't serve the members? Why, then, should we serve you with our votes? Oh, because you serve ASFAR? Well, what is ASFAR? I'd thought that ANY organisation is its members. Sorry, but just because ASFAR has noble goals does not exempt them from the rules of being an organisation. ASFAR is Just Not That Special. You cannot serve ASFAR without serving the members! You botched up on the officer appointments. I still didn't have an issue with you being President, I just wanted the elections re-held to allow it to be done fairly. But saying you don't serve the members? I don't even want you on the board anymore! Lucky for me (and the rest of the membership), you've decided to put removing you from the board on the schedule for the next meeting (we didn't even have to ask!), and you're letting the entire membership vote! I, for one, will support the motion to remove you from the board, and will campaign for others to do so as well, if you do not come up with an explanation for that statement.
I serve the members, not their impulsive demands.
Max, I'm afraid you badly misread my statement. My service to the youth liberation movement and those who serve in it demands that I make decisions that are unpopular at the time. If I bowed to the impulse of the day, I would be enabling a mob to run ASFAR aground. My job in keeping ASFAR afloat requires that I make decisions that are right, whether or not they are popular. Time will tell whether I was right.
I added a motion of confidence to the spring ballot agenda so that disgruntled members like you can vent your frustration with this fact. I am confident that, with all the work that will be accomplished between now and then, I will have enough votes to keep my seat. Remember also that the meeting will be held the third Tuesday in May, not at the next (March) meeting.