"FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK"

UPDATED:  JULY 1, 2021

TODAY IS JULY 1, THE FIRST DAY OF MORE WARM SUMMER DAYS.  LONG DAYLIGHT HOURS THIS TIME OF YEAR.   I SIT HERE IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI WHERE THERE IS NO CLUB FOR 120 MILES. WHAT A SHAME!  WHEN I TOLD THE CLERK AT WALMART ABOUT MY RACING PIGEONS SHE REPLIED, "O' I NEVER HEARD OF THAT BEFORE!"  THIS IS A VERY COMMON ANSWER!

MAN PRESERVES THE WATER IN THE STREAMS, THE AIR, THE LAKES BUT PIGEON RACING HAS NO PRESERVATION.  IT IS SLOWLY DYING BECAUSE THE NATIONAL BODY DOES ZERO, LARGE ADVERTISING.  THE AU HAS A EMPLOYEE NAMED DEONE ROBERTS.  HER TITLE IS PROMOTIONAL PERSON.  EVERY YEARS SINCE HER EMPLOYMENT BEGAN THE AU HAS LOST MEMBERS YET SHE IS STILL BEING PAID WEEKLY FOR THAT POSITION.  HOW MUCH IS SHE PAID?  THEY WON'T TELL BUT WE WILL DISCOVER THAT IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC A HEARING ON A MOTION WAS SCHEDULED IN OKLAHOMA CITY.  I COULD NOT ATTEND DUE TO COVID.  THE COURT WAS TOLD BUT SOMEHOW THE HEARING CONTINUED.  MY CASE AGAINST THE AU WAS DISMISSED BUT CAN BE REFILED.  AT A LATER DATE I WILL SUBMIT A QUESTIONNAIRE TO THE AU.  IF THEY REFUSE TO ANSWER IT, I WILL REFILE THE CIVIL LITIGATION. 

DURING THIS PERIOD OF 2020 I RECEIVED A LETTER FROM AN ATTORNEY HIRED BY THE AU.  HE STATED THAT THE AU HAS 6,200 MEMBERS.  AS YOU KNOW THE CURRENT DUES ARE $30 FOR AN ADULT MEMBER.  IF ALL 2600 ARE ADULTS THEN THE GROSS INCOME FOR THE AU IN DUES IS $186,000.  ALSO IN THIS LETTER THE ATTORNEY STATED THAT MS. KAREN CLIFTON OR WHATEVER HERE NAME IS, (SHE HAS A DIFFERENT NAME ON THE AU'S IRS TAX STATEMENTS) IS PAID $1400 PER WEEK PLUS STIPENDS SUCH AS RETIREMENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE.

FIFTY-TWO WEEKS TIMES $1400 EACH WEEK EQUALS $72,800. SUBTRACT THAT FROM $186,000 EQUALS $113,200.  FROM THAT AMOUNT MS. ROBERTS IS PAID,  PLUS AN OFFICE SECRETARY IS PAID, OF WHICH BOTH EMPLOYEES SALARY IS KEPT HIDDEN FROM THE DUES PAYING MEMBERS. 

THE AU IS A CORPORATION REGISTERED IN THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA.  THE OKLAHOMA ARTICLES OF CORPORATION STATE THAT ALL MEETINGS OF ALL CORPORATION MUST BE KEPT IN MINUTES WHICH MUST BE MADE AVAILABLE TO ALL DUES PAYING MEMBERS UPON THEIR REQUEST TO VIEW SUCH MINUTES.  THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SECRET MEETINGS (EXECUTIVE SESSIONS) ALLOWED.

THERE IS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF INFORMATION OF THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE AU THAT IS BEING KEPT FROM THE DUES PAYING MEMBERS WHICH I BELIEVE IS ILLEGAL.  IT MUST BE STOPPED!

HOW MANY OF YOU DUES PAYING MEMBER HAVE A COPY OF THE MINUTES WHERE THE HIRING OF AN ATTORNEY TO REPRESENT THE AU WAS DISCUSSED.  I THINK I CAN ANSWER THAT FOR YOU, "ZERO!

LETS GET BACK TO THE DUES.  FROM THE $113,200 MS. ROBERTS IS PAID AND THE OFFICE SECRETARY IS PAID.  I WILL MAKE A EDUCATED GUESS THAT EACH GETS $20,000 ANNUALLY WHICH IS ANOTHER $40,000  PAID FOR THOSE TWO SALARIES IF NOT MORE.  THAT LEAVES A BALANCE OF 73,200.  THE AU TELLS ME THRU THIS ATTORNEY THAT THE AU HAS NO MONEY INVESTED OR INVESTMENTS.  THIS MEAN THAT $73,200 SITS IN A BANK DRAWING $0.025 INTEREST.  ITS AS IF THERE IS NO CAPTAIN OF THE SHIP ONBOARD!

I DON'T MEAN TO BE DISRESPECTFUL OR CRITICAL BUT I MUST MENTION ONE OTHER TERRIBLE MATTER.  ONE OF THE AU DIRECTORS LIVES ON ABOUT A QUARTER ACRE LOT.  I WON'T TELL WHO, WHEN OR WHERE, BUT IT IS A TERRIBLE SITE.  HIS BACK YARD IS JUST ONE HUGE JUNK PILE OF LOFTS.  PIGEON DROPPING ARE WET AND ALL OVER THE PLACE.  IT HAS NOT BEEN CLEANED IN WHO KNOWS WHEN.  THERE MUST BE EIGHT OR 12 SMALL LOFTS ON THIS MAN'S PROPERTY, ALL VERY POORLY BUILD EXCEPT ONE OF THE SMALL LOFTS.

MY POINT IS IF A NEW MEMBER SEES THIS TYPE OF SETUP HE MAY CHOOSE NOT TO GET INVOLVED.  HE MAY GET THE WRONG OPINION OF PIGEON RACING.  IT IS A DISGRACE TO HAVE A NATIONAL DIRECTOR WITH SUCH A TERRIBLE BACK YARD OF DIRTY LOFTS ALL CRAMMED INTO EACH OTHER.  I WON'T SAY WHO IT IS BUT MANY OF YOU KNOW THIS GENTLEMAN.

YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING IN THE NEWS ON THIS SITE?  JUST SEND IT TO ME, IT WILL BE PUBLISHED, "FREE."

WHY PAY A NOTIONAL MAGAZINE TO PUBLISH YOUR WORDS/THOUGHTS?

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