How dare you blame Landis Zimmerman for the absence of No. 3 toys at the Louisville show!  The stocking of the trailer for the show is the responsibility of the individual who has the trailer or is in charge of the display.  When a person is preparing for a show, they inventory the trailer and restock according to the needs for that particular event.  It’s called planning.  The person responsible for that show, our president, has been in charge of that job since November 8th when this was discussed at the board meeting.  There was plenty of time to restock the trailer.  The Promotion and Publicity Chairman can’t possibly know what to send unless he’s notified, especially since the trailer is 8 or 900 miles away.  

Toys are stocked at two different locations: eastern Pennsylvania and eastern Iowa.  Since the trailer was sitting in western Illinois, it would only make sense to me to get the stock from the souce in Iowa rather than ship them half way across the US.

I can guarantee you that Landis Zimmerman would much rather have those toys sold without having to ship them.  Your accusation that he witheld the toys so that his family might profit off the shipping is absolutely ridiculous and anyone that knows that man will agree.  The Zimmermans are in the crawler business, not the shipping business.  If he has to shut down his business, which is his bread and butter, to ship toys because no one else will help sell them, he should receive some compensation.  

Aside from all that, Landis resigned from his position at P&amp;amp;P Chairman prior to the Louisville show. Even though he requested to be allowed to see the NO. 3 toy project through, the board refused to let him.  His hands are wiped clean of everything.  

Louisville would have been the perfect opportunity to sell the bulk of those toys, especially since AGCO didn’t have an Oliver show tractor this year.  If the persons in charge really wanted this project to succeed, they would have taken at least a handful of toys.  But “success” is not a word they want associated with No. 3.  

But to blame Landis for this – SHAME ON YOU, ANDY.