Desire for Change in AML

From what I have been told, there are already approximately 30 candidates for AMC who have submitted their paperwork to the Nominating Committee, and almost all (if not all) of the races already have at least two candidates. (I don't have a full list. It might be possible to get that directly from the NomComm.) There will surely be others, like myself (running for Secretary) and Alan Baltis (running for Chairman), who will only be using the petition process for various reasons.

Given how many people are running and contesting (nearly?) all of the positions on the AMC, it should be fairly obvious that there is a large desire for change. What the change is that each individual wants, and how compatible those various visions are with each other, is another story. And something that will hopefully play out meaningfully over the next several months.

To that end, there is a new yahoogroup (yep, ANOTHER list) that is dedicated solely to the current AMC election cycle: M-US-Elections. Any current AML members who want to subscribe to it, just send an e-mail to M-US-Elections-subscribe@yahoogroups.com -- the plan is for this to be an area where the candidates can both proactively describe their vision, background, etc., but also for members to ask questions of the candidates that go beyond the standardized questions that are part of the Candidate Information Forms.