April 2011: AOA House of Delegates Voting Procedure {2}

Editor:

I had hoped that this issue of voting at the POA delegate strength at AOA meetings had been put to bed so I was surprised that Dr. Tony Diecidue wrote in the November/December 2010 issue of the Keystoner that he had been polled by the POA president for his vote at the 2009 AOA meeting.

Dr. Diecidue may have been “polled” but others were not, particularly, at least, not I or three young ODs from Eastern Pennsylvania who were standing in the first caucus next to me.  I was not polled and when I objected to that process I was told by the President that he would handle this matter “his way,” whatever that means.

Just not democratic!

Irving Bennett, O.D.
Beaver Falls