[TheForge] ABANA

[George Dixon]

"Couple that with a potential for savings and pretty you have a good 
reason for pursuing competition.  Besides, good job or not, the Board 
would be remiss if it didn't periodically investigate other publishers.  
After all, competition is a good thing.  This is a normal and healthy 
business practice."

True....only if there was a good faith intent on the solicitation of the 
bids.  A forgone conclusion (for apparently "wrong" reasons), 
subsiquently misrepresented to the dues paying membership is neither 
"competition" nor a "good thing".
If the $25,000 "savings" was a false justification, as in there never 
was any potential for savings with a known $6k higher alternative, then 
it's a moot point.  The true point then would be the apparent duplicity 
by those who seem to have have mislead the membership  as well as those 
who try to 'smoke screen' for them.  The first cracks in the stone wall 
of the ABANA Board came with Mr Fiorini's 'mea culpa'.  He has now 
passed it off to ABANA President Doug Learn, in whose court the ball 
truly is now.

The board of ABANA needs to settle this openly and honestly.  

The next step should be to continue to ask the Board, in writing, to set 
the record straight.
Only then will this go away.

George Dixon