Re: World's Most Preferred

[renegade12@juno.com]

The offer was made in a two-part motion:  1) To make the AERC NC a dual AERC/FEI ride and, 2) that the FEI portion would be funded by the UAE (in some form).  I personally did not care one way or the other about the FEI addition -except how that might affect the format of the ride- but I was very upset that the board so easily accepted underwriting (call it sponsorship or whatever you like) from another country.  This is the American Endurance Ride Conference National Championship and I believe we can finance our own events without funding from another nation .  By Sunday a majority of the Board felt that way, too.

 

Randy

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 20:57:14 -0800 navion <navion@lightspeed.net> writes:
> Randy,
>   Was the sponsorship, or funding they were willing to give related
> to the
> whole ride, or just the portion necessary to make a FEI ride
> available to
> those who wanted to enter at no additional cost to the competitors?
> And
> isn't the ride still going to have an FEI contingent now?  Who is
> paying for
> that?  I hope we aren't being bought by some other interest.
>
>    Jim Mitchell
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <renegade12@juno.com>
> Subject: RC: World's Most Preferred
>
>
> > Anyone who read my President's columns over the last two years has
> a
> > general idea of my thoughts on the UAE's influence in the
> international
> > field and with FEI.  But, did you know the UAE offered to
> underwrite part
> > of the 2001 AERC National Championship Rides thru a motion made by
> Jim
> > Baldwin at the Thursday night Board Meeting?... The AERC Board
> approved
> > the motion to accept the UAE money on Thursday night! 
> Fortunately, the
> > Board reconsidered that acceptance and voted at the Sunday meeting
> to
> > reverse that decision and not accept the UAE money to help
> underwrite our
> > AERC National Championships.
> >
> > Randy Eiland
> >
> >
> >
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