"1. In order to become a National Officer such as Treasurer, one must be elected by the National Board (i.e., not a vote among the "common" members of the club), and only those who are Directors at Large or Zone Directors may be elected into a National Officer position (i.e., no "common" member can be so elected). See VCA By-Laws, Article V, Section 9.
2. In order to become a Director at Large, one must be elected by zone members (though the By-Laws position description does not properly state that), and only those who are past or present Regional Officers may be elected as a Director at Large (i.e., no "common" members of the club). See VCA By-Laws, Article V, Section 7; Article VII, Section 6. In order to become a Zone Director, one must be elected by Regional Officers (i.e., not the "common" members of the zone), and it only those who are past or present Regional Officers can become Zone Directors (i.e., not the "common" members of the zone). See VCA By-Laws, Article V, Section 8; Article VII, Section 4.
3. Therefore, one must be elected as a Regional Officer, then be elected as a Director at Large or Zone Director, before becoming eligible to be a National Officer, and each stage of Director elections (though not Director at Large) and National Officer elections are controlled by a very small portion of the club's membership."
This is exactly why it wasn't a good idea to turn VA into a car club. Look at all that BS!! I'd much rather just have small self-organized GTG's than expect anyone from here to try and organize all that shit.
Issues arise repeatedly there, remember my thread about who should even be able to be a member of the club, i.e., just Viper owners? Every so often though the frustration level over an issue rises enough to result in threads such as I started, I'm sure it happened before I was there, and I'm sure it'll come up again.
