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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
I agree. I joined the PCA, but I didn't give them the numbers. I don't understand why they want the info. If it isn't shared - if no one ever looks at it, what value is it to them? And if someone does look at it, who is it and why are they looking?
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Eaxctly!!!
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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
I'm not a fan of clubs. I contributed to the 356 Registry for years and was a dedicated supporter until politics reared its ugly head. As I look back, I'm sorry I wasted my time working for those a-holes. I don't contribute anything to the PCA but dues. No matter how great the people may be now, the politics could change in an instant and you can get kicked in the teeth. I have better things to volunteer my time for.
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There will always be those who feel that way and I can relate. I was on the board of my local BMW motorcycle club for a matter of months till I resigned.
They had all this money, well not really, because you're not really supposed to have any money at the end of the year. It wasn't in any books and it was in someone's account. Anyway, they wanted to spend it of an electric piano for a local hospital...where...wouldn't you know it...the club's president's wife was on the hospital's board.
I joined a motorcycle club for motorcycling reasons; if I wanted to get into fund raising for a charity, I would have joined a charity!!! Needless to say, I resigned and so did about half the membership renewals.
Someone on one of the forums could not have put it better...
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Club A-holes
This is not just a M/C club thing. I also belong to a HAM radio club. The same thing happened at both the HAM and BMW clubs I was a member of. Someone gets elected - usually politician type. He does a good job so nobody challenges him. Over time it becomes "his" club and he always gets his way. The normal folks you like to hang out with either stop coming to gatherings or quit altogether. The club then polarizes into three groups. The prez and his yes men, the newbies that idolize the prez cause they believe everything he says, and the complainers who sit on the side lines and think they can't change anything.
That's why I don't actively participate in either club anymore. I don't like what's going on, I don't like what I become and I don't like the anxiety I have when I leave a meeting. A long solo ride is great therapy to club anxiety!
MarkF
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I just don't have any use for club politics, their agendas and cliques that form.