This is the Letter I would like to submit to magazine. 
I have e-mailed Chris a couple of times concerning the post by Luke Rizzuto and from his answers, I am led to believe the B.O.D. would have to approve Luke's to be published.
 If Luke's would have to be approved (censored) by the B.O.D. I can only guess where mine would end up:

  July 4, 2004

  Since the Winter Get Together several members have been trying to get some answers to questions concerning the club, the HPO Foundation, and past actions by the board. We have been submitting posts to the forums on the clubs website. and we have e-mailed the club President with no response to the questions. Even after he said he would be happy to in a e-mail to Danny Tabor dated June 13. We have posted numerous 
times on another website that another board member frequents to sell his wares. We asked the President to join the discussions, but to no avail.
It is almost like everyone has been told to ignore us and we will go away.
For some of us, unfortunately that is about to happen. We will not renew our  memberships.

Mr. Allen in his e-mail to Danny did say that he had been to the forum, but it seemed "rather stagnant". Since the WGT, there have been 38 different subjects posted in the "HPOCA FORUM" as of 07/03/04. In that span of time, 317 replies have been posted and those subjects had replies  viewed 28.366 times. In our opinion, that is hardly stagnant.
We all all sure it would be even more lively if board members would enter the discussion.

Since Mr. Allen will not answer our email, we would like our questions presented in the magazine as food for thought for the membership in hope that we would finally get some answers.

1. At the Winter Get Together the directors approved the by-laws of the HPO foundation (Pres. letter May/June 2004). All that was passed around at the meeting was a draft. At no time did we see any by-law as to how the board members would be filled or appointed. The reason we know this is that several of us discussed who would be good candidates and if they would run. We all assumed there would be an election of the board. Please explain how these appointments came about?

2. When will the HPO foundation by-laws become public? Will they show up somewhere in the magazine? If not, why?

3. Is it a conflict of interest to have the President and other HPOCA directors appoint themselves to the HPO foundation board? This was after the President and the Board recommended giving up $10.000 to HPO.

4.  Doesn't it seem strange that all new HPO board members DONATED
$1,000 to the HPO upon appointment?

5. How much will the HPOCA be able to afford to give the HPO Foundation this year?

6. Who do the directors of HPO Foundation answer to? Does HPOCA have any say in actions of the foundation?

7. If there was a split or failure of either the HPOC or the Foundation, what happens to any assets?

8. How is the foundation going to raise money? Will any fundraising interfere or compete with HPOA fundraising?

9. At the WGT, actions by some board members boardered on violence.
Many of us were quite disturbed by this. Do you guarantee this will never happen again?

10.  Luke Rizzuto wrote a very disturbing post in the club forum (HPOCA
Governing Board; 5/26/04) about the events leading to the dismissal of the former editor of the magazine. If these are true, it has left the club open to a law suit. Would you please comment?

11. Many members since the WGT have stated they would not renew their membership. What are you prepared to do to keep these members? How do we increase membership?

12. What has been done to fill the Promotion and Publicity position? What have you done as far as raising funds? We understand past vendors of belt buckles and show books have not been contacted this year. Why?

13. What is the HPO goal other than to build a museum?

14. What are the proposed by-law changes to HPOCA?

15. It has been rumored that YOU are not running again as President and that a decision has been made among the board as to who is running for each post. If true, is this not a slate? When will it be announced so others have the same chance to run a camp against them?

Several of us were going to sign this. I am sure it will not be published, so take it for what it's worth.

Keith