Do you trust MEA?

I was appalled when I read Tuckerman Babcock’s defense of why the Matanuska Electric Association ballot packet wouldn’t contain any information about the proposed bylaw change except for the bylaws committee’s recommendation that it be rejected.

After all, why would anyone want to know why all these people worked to petition to change the bylaws in the first place? Shouldn’t we all just take Babcock’s word for it?

MEA is using our member dollars to tell us not to vote for something that got more than 620 signatures on a petition in just a few days when only 300 were needed. It wants us vote down something that to so many just makes sense. They are using our money (again) to advertise to us about how we really should all be good and vote the way MEA management tells us.

Babcock says that amending the bylaws to seat board members within 15 days of election will “hurt the association.”  How? We used to do it in three days for decades and did just fine. How will seating the elected board members in a reasonable time hurt our association?

Babcock says MEA has a fiduciary responsibility and that’s why only one side of the story can be told to members. The fiduciary relationship, above all, is one of good faith, loyalty and trust. Are you feeling the good faith, loyalty and trust here?

Marilyn Wilson,

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