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Yet Another NAWBA Debacle

Jim Engel    March 2012

In the last week of February of 2012 a dissident group on the NAWBA board staged a coup and summarily removed  President Trisha Harper, Vice President Tim Motley and Past President Cory Hart from the board and took over the organization.

No process at all, no hearings, no pretense at legality. The core conspirators would seem to be treasurer Kathy Dawson who had the money, Karen Trimble who had the passwords to the web site and the Texas Taylors. Why did they do it? Apparently because they could, and I suppose Tim Taylor wanted to make a desperate last grasp at being somebody and was promised the presidency.

The membership was apparently entirely out of the loop, the new "officers" simply appearing on the web site with no explanation at all.

Carla Van Duijvenbode and her minions Kari Hefner and Dana Terry immediately jumped into the throw em under the bus party; Carla was no doubt upset at not being able to run the NAWBA "championship" as her own little private publicity stunt again this year. 

I suppose the cycle is complete, NAWBA finally has the ultimate buffoon as president in Tim Taylor.

Every time these people go through one of these transformations they reset to zero, that is, all records of past activities are lost, all the content of the web site is lost as the new people rush to promote themselves and their particular agendas. NAWBA has become an organazation with no history or records, completely unable to to function in any conventional sense.

The entire board are people profoundly ignorant of the Bouvier des Flandres, working dogs, the history of the organazation or anything else; the sincere and serious people having been driven out years ago.

This whole thing is of course rich in irony, for Harper was pretty much just a do nothing figure head, but that was par for the course over the past fifteen years or so. The question of what Harper had done for NAWBA or the Bouvier except use the office of president as a prop for her personal public relations program and the imagined "prestige" of the office would seem to have some validity, but those with better ideas should have run against her in a legitimate election.

At any rate, here is the Harper side of the story:

If these people had any sense of decency or shame they would simply disband NAWBA and bring the public embarrassment and humiliation to an end.

Jim Engel, Marengo    © Copyright March 2012