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The USPA Chairman’s Cocktail Reception is scheduled for tomorrow night, Wednesday, April 16, at the Museum of Polo in Lake Worth, Florida.

Delegates will be plied with alcoholic beverages and spin in order to lull them into a false sense of well-being.  The fact of the matter is that the USPA is in trouble and each and every responsible delegate will ask the officers and management what is being done to correct the current situation!

For decades, the membership has been stagnant.  An artificial spike was created under former Executive Director Cummings when he recruited grooms to join the association for insurance benefits.  Smoke and mirrors.  There was no real increase in playing members, but we were told that the membership increased-and in fact by numbers, truthfully, it did.  The problem is, the playing membership did not increase.  We ended up selling insurance, not polo.

It is time you asked how the association blew its budget, why the committees are not responsible for producing any results, why the marketing committee has no budget, what the long range plans ARE, why we change the rules EVERY year, why polo matches are now lasting two hours, what charging every foreign member an additional $50 accomplished, why the size of the USPA office staff has increased while the membership has not, why the US no longer participates in international competition (Camacho Cup, Westchester Cup), why our FIP team did so poorly after practicing as a team in Florida all last winter, when the Nominating Committee is going to bring some young blood into the hierarchy, where the Properties money is going and what the long-range plans are for those funds, and if it is true that Chuck Weaver offered PTF or USPA financial incentives to delegates’ clubs if they voted for him for president.

Lots of questions to choose from, or you can make up your own laundry list of complaints or unmet expectations, but now is the time to let the USPA “leadership” know that you’re fed up with the way it is being run and you want CHANGES .

Now the ball is in YOUR court.  You (Delegates) can either decide to sip your cocktails and watch the Open and take your souvenirs home with you, OR, you can decide to make a difference.  REMEMBER what your job is this week.  It is not to see how many shrimp you can eat or how well you can still drink.  It is not only to represent your club to the best of your ability, but also to look after the best interests of the USPA.  It is time to step up and be counted.  It’s character check time.  It’s YOUR time.

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