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Excellent posting, Dolores, but for one thing. PDF to my knowledge has never publically stated that it was the POPC leader (POPC, as in popsicle, is my acronym for Professionally Organized Parkinson's Community -- including PDF, APDA and PAN). True, by backing Jim Cordy 's creation of a PWP Congress to set the national Parkinson's agenda for everybody, including POPC, and by permitting him to announce this creation aware that Cordy had not approached PAN or APDA for support, the folks at PDF knowingly gave the impression that indeed they had seized the post-Udall leadership within POPC as a fait accompli; you could call that a public demonstration or statement, I suppose, so on second thought, perhaps you are right. You are clearly right in condemning this action. Charles Myers told me yesterday that the overwhelming majority of respondents to his questionnaire did likewise. And so far, there hasn't been a single negative response to my open Internet letter to my friend Jim Cordy in which I joined in the chorus. Indeed, one of the responders was none other than Robin Elliott, who hopes Jim will get the message (and whose weight is a mere 185 lbs, he tells me!). Still no response from Jim himself. To put his superb initiative on hold whilst he seeks neutral headquarters and goes after POPC-wide funding , which I , Robin Elliott, Charles Myers and a host of others are urging him to do, would, at this stage in the game, be an act of statesmanship and courage of the highest order. Were he to pursue it, I would roll up my sleeves and do my damnedest to help him in whatever role he wished to assign me -- or just stand aside and not offer any impediments, if that was his pleasure. And I am moraally certain other present critics would proudly repair to his banner in the same fashion, and that overnight he would create a veritable army of Cordy's Commandos!