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Norm:

I'm sure we have met, but obviously I don't know you very well. I'm sure your intentions are good, but you can ask Jay Negrin about the conversation I had with him some 10 years ago. Ask any of the Rimiccis about what I said for years about the club. Nothing has changed. Nothing ever will.

It's always been that 2% of the membership winds up doing 100% of the work. That 2% is composed mainly of time trials people; and as such, time trials people wind up being the majority of the AROSC board of directors.

Every time there is a vote, the time trials people get to spend what they want on their agenda, even though they only make up a small percentage of the total membership.

Ask Charlie Schwartz about the time Thieriot tried to punch out Dirk Stoehr at a board meeting at Schwartz's house, over a simple disagreement of how the Time trials money should be spent.

As far as the AROC is concerned, ask people who were around when national almost went bankrupt because certain people were allowed to piss away the club's treasury, and overpay friends to produce the crappy national magazine, and on a new computer system and programing.

Until people like Tom Sutter, Phyllis, Hertzman, and the Garretts are gone, I want nothing to do with any Alfa clubs, either national or local, in the US. After 20 years of non involvement on the national board, Pat Braden, the man who had done the most to promote Alfa Romeo in the US, became a board member. He went to the convention, and 75% of the people didn't even know who he was! The general mebership wanted someone like Pat on the board, but Pat couldn't overcome the cronieism, and left after his term was up.

The kind of Alfa people I much rather associate with are people like Simon Moore, Peter Marshall and Paul Gregory and the sadly deceased Pat Braden, Jack Becronis, Luigi Fussi, and on and on......