[SIERA] Pacific Division Vice-Director

[Dick Flanagan K7VC]

In the next few weeks ARRL members in the Pacific Division will be 
receiving ballots so they can cast their votes for 
Vice-Director.  Both candidates, including incumbent Vice-Director 
Andy Oppel N6AJO, are honorable men, but in one critical area they 
are worlds apart.

The challenger has never held any elected or appointed ARRL office or 
position.  He has no experience with the internal or external 
functioning of ARRL, yet he is asking to be one heart-beat away from 
a position of determining national ARRL policy.

Andy Oppel, on the other hand, has spent over two decades working 
with ARRL, as both an individual contributor and leader.  Having 
served as an elected Section Manager and then Vice-Director, Andy is 
intimately familiar with all aspects of the ARRL, both locally and nationally.

I could go on to enumerate a dozen more reasons incumbent Andy Oppel 
is the best candidate for Vice-Director, but the issue of ARRL 
experience is so overwhelmingly in his favor that I'm reluctant to 
take any more of your time.

Please join me in voting to retain Andy Oppel N6AJO as Pacific 
Division Vice-Director, where experience not only counts, it is 
vital.  For more information about Andy, please see 
http://www.andyoppel.com/N6AJO/

73, Dick Flanagan K7VC