Yes, I am still pissed about the SMT’s childish president contacting via PM instead of email and attempting to punish me for expressing my thoughts on the election. A president should be able to take any criticism of his group in stride. I was attempting to save you the indignity of being propositioned by a couple you defined in not so complimentary terms. But, if what you want in your club are two freeloaders who refused contribute in positive terms and only exist to irritate others, fine.
I quit the club. I, a dues paying member, one of the first two people to pony up when this issue was decided on, have received nothing for my efforts. I have paid to hang with what I thought were friends. I would have been happy to chip in for anything as no one should be solely responsible for floating the club financially.
However, with the implementation of dues, dues paying members should get something more than non-paying freeloaders. We have received nothing. Every event held has been open to the public with the exceptions of a meeting to vote out non-paying clingers and the Christmas/Inaugaration/Retirement party where the losers were expected to show up and be magnanimous if they wanted to be involved in the holiday season with this club. What bad taste. I mean, after an election, you don’t force the other candidates to show up and kiss the competitions ass in front of everyone. It should be enough to wish them luck at the beginning and congratulations at the end without it being a public spectacle.
I will remind you it was you and your campaign manager that made the election a big deal. The rest of the members showed very little interest. But, because the mediocrity of this club is such a high priority to the two of you, feelings got hurt.
Hence the cancellation of “Vaderpalooza.” Now, I will state my case, an action long overdue. When I offered our home and land for the Saga Campout, it was my understanding it would just be the members, some friends from Arkansas and, maybe some family. So, imagine my surprise when I see a post on the Southeast Community board inviting all the sister fanforces to this event. The person whose idea this was decided without consulting I or my husband to extend our “hospitality” to these people.
Well I found something out. I found out this person was pissed that a fan force got a write for a big screen but his, which was bigger, got no mention. So, of course, we now have to prove, all 16 of us dues paying members – four shich actually get anything done, that we are the best fanforce. So when I told him I was pissed at his inviting these strangers without my knowledge so he could some off, I was pretty much told that I had an inhospitable nature. Never mind that I or my husband were never consulted. We were the bad guys because “Vaderpalooza” was supposed to be a big showpiece. But this stray fact was only known to the ex- and present presidents. Apparently the rest of us were expected to do without question. It was his “vision” after all and he founded the club.
Needless to say, I was pissed. And I told him so. Through PMs, keeping it off the board. And, naturally when the present president got involved, I was wrong. It didn’t matter that it was our land, our home, our time, our money, and we were in the dark, I was wrong. So I told the visionary no. Find somewhere else. Our idea was a saga sleepover ONLY for dues paying members.
This concept that dues paying members besides parties at someone’s house seems to baffle the current administration. And they are going to be nice. They are lowering dues by five or ten dollars for the next go around. Great, so I save on paying to hang out with my friends.
It was never the money, it was the fact that the people who paid the dues proved they cared about the club. People who didn’t obviously don’t. And by embracing freeloaders, you pretty much say, “Fuck All the Dues Paying Members.”
Well, Fuck You Sal and your cohorts. I was so sick of the petty bullshit by the end of the election, I didn’t care who won. I did notice, however, some of the board-adopted guidelines went lax in your favor. It was my understanding that sock puppets had to ID themselves but your supports could remain safely anonymous. That would be dirty pool. Having the leaving president organize your election was inappropriate. You shouldn’t have asked and he should have said no, particularly after begging your opponent to run when he wanted to keep a third party from entering the race.
He asked me to run for prez, I guess when you turned him down the first time, then promptly embraced your running mate after expressing to my husband he didn’t trust her with money. I couldn’t see why. I thought she was trustworthy.
Don’t worry, I now see what this group is really about, you and your master trying to manipulate the members into bolstering your egos. Only now your master has other interests and you finally feel the pressures of the office. Since you have nothing planned for us, I can only assume you are lonely at the top.
Yes, I have a problem with people who hang and don’t contribute. I have a problem with a couple who had decided that Joe and I were to be their sex toys (at this point, I don’t care if you believe me). I also have a problem with an administration that will not listen to the concerns of any of its members because they may rock the boat. If you keep things status quo, the boat is going to sink.
The biggest thing I have a problem with is being useful enough to not only hem the goods but hock the goods for you and then have you spit in my face because I deign to actually vocals my feelings on my blog that I pay for.
You can choose or not to read it. To tell the truth I was a bit surprised you did as I have received no indication you had before this. But to tell me to edit my words in my space, you are out of line. You’re sick of me, fine, I’m out of the club. But I am disgusted and humiliated that I could even have been associated with you. You are the worst thing to happen to the SMT and it will collapse because of you.