Re: The Attack on AOPA

Gingras, Ron

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Title:

Re: The Attack on AOPA

Creator:

Gingras, Ron

Date:

4/22/2002

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They certainly held their hand close to their chests to get the bill passed
that created this dilema and by tshe way let's not personalize these
discussions with if some one is a good guy or in the business 45 years or
not lets talk about the facts. After that slick move they have my
confidence?
Ron

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam E. Hamontree [SMTP: <Email Address Redacted> ]
> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 4:02 PM
> To: <Email Address Redacted>
> Subject: [OANDP-L] The Attack on AOPA
>
> The follow-ups seem to focus on what AOPA's position is or will be
> relative
> to the Negotiated Rule Making process. As I understand the Negotiated
> Rule
> Making process, it is a negotiation among some 15-20 different groups.
> Maybe I haven't been around very long, but let me ask you this:
>
> SINCE WHEN DO YOU OUTLINE YOUR POSITION(S) TO THE OTHER GROUPS PRIOR TO
> THE
> NEGOTIATION PROCESS?
>
> Strange as may seem to some, my experience has shown me that in any
> negotiation, I am far better off not laying all my cards on the table and
> not laying out my position prior to the negotiation. Possibly some of you
> have been involved in more negotiations than I have during my 45 years in
> the business -- but what do I know?? Stranger yet, is that I have the
> mild-mild suspicion that if AOPA's position is laid out in the open
> anywhere
> (and the ListServ I feel, is in the open) then AOPA and thereby the field,
> will be at a disadvantage in the negotiation.
>
> What am I missing here?
>
> Sam Hamontree -- again
>
>

Citation

Gingras, Ron, “Re: The Attack on AOPA,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 2, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/218946.