[amsat-bb] Members Please Read

[Rich Gopstein]

I'm not sure what the issue is.  If the organization was concerned about a
legal issue, they should reach out to their lawyers - it's their
responsibility to protect AMSAT.  Lawyers cost money.  Trying to track
which individual dollars were used doesn't sound like a productive effort.

Rich, KD2CQ


On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 8:15 PM GEO Badger via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> You know, maybe the treasurer will come up on the air and put an end to
> all this conjecture.
>
> This is getting tiring.
>
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> You can say "over", you can say "out", you just can't say "over and out".
>
>     On Friday, July 17, 2020, 04:13:55 PM PDT, Fernando Ramirez via
> AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>
>  So, there's a separate funding source for legal services? The point is
> that
> regardless of where it came from, AMSAT paid for it. And it was a wasteful
> use of the organization's resources.
>
> KF7R
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 3:06 PM Chad KG0MW via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> wrote:
>
> > I like watermelons. The board even has stated that the legal funds DID
> NOT
> > come from memberships dues.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 7/17/20, 3:52 PM, "AMSAT-BB on behalf of Clint Bradford via
> AMSAT-BB" <
> > amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org on behalf of AMSAT-BB at amsat.org> wrote:
> >
> >    Why are you comparing the legal expenditures with membership fees?
> >
> >    Di you discover that membership fees were used in any manner for those
> > expenses?
> >
> >    If not, then why don’t we compare that amount with, say, Apples or
> > Watermelons?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >    > On Jul 17, 2020, at 12:46 PM, amsat-bb-request at amsat.org wrote:
> >    >
> >    >>  Now we learn that the expenditure is over 16k. That is 363
> > memberships, if this retired engineer's math is correct.
> >
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