National event chaos?

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

Has anything in NHRA,s business structure (other than the attitude) changed to where it would make it not possible for us to want and get our membership voting right returned? Many of today's members weren't even born when it was "signed" away. This must be looked into!

Billy,
My guess is that since the membership voted to cede control to the board of directors, the board of directors would have to vote to cede control back to the rank and file membership. Not likely to happen. NHRA is obviously being operated far outside the spirit of the original charter, if not the letter. I suspect that once control was ceded to the board, the charter was modified to make it nearly impossible, if not completely impossible to revert back to the way it was. It would probably require a long, difficult, and expensive legal battle, if it is even possible. Perhaps the best option is probably the IRS investigation into violations of the not for profit charter that Bruce told us about. Alas, that went silent a while back.

NHRA operates under a 501(c)6 non profit charter requiring it to act specifically and directly in the best interests of the rank and file membership. As such, it would probably be necessary for a group of members to retain counsel and prove that they have standing, and then that they have grounds to claim that NHRA has acted in conflict with the best interests of the rank and file membership, and then provide evidence to support that position. It will be neither cheap nor easy, nor is there any certainty in getting the desired result.