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The few hundred of us active on this List have no clout whatsoever to do this. We could whistle Dixie...... -----Original Message----- From: Charles T. Meyer, M.D. <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> Date: Friday, December 04, 1998 3:58 PM Subject: Re: Michael J. Fox - Should he be exclusively NPF's spokesman? >Carl- > >You make too much sense. > >A year or 2 ago I posted the same question/idea. I actually got a phone >call from an attorney representing one of the organizations gently trying to >convince me that it wasn't a good idea. That call convinced me even more >that I was right. Then the issues regarding the development of the >(patient) alliance came up. I floated the idea that it could be sponsored >by all the organizations. That triggered a lot of hard feeling in spite of >overwhelming support by the list. > >The issues appear to me to be turf, power and control as well as financial. >I personally would favor a movement to insist that the major groups work out >a merger or if they don't bargain in good faith we boycott- but if I did >make such a suggestion I likely would get calls from 4 or 5 lawyers!! > >Charlie > >Carl Miller wrote: > >> Why not resolve this problem once and for all. We have need for only one >> Parkinson's organization. NPF and APDA and any other organization should >> merge for the good of fighting the disease instead of bickering among >> themselves, or worse, causing conflict in the Parkinson community. The >> way it is now each research institution is lined up with either NPF or >> APDA but not both. This is not good. >> >> I know that some people in these organizations will lose jobs in a >> merger i.e., one president instead of 3 or 4. one office and associated >> overhead instead of 3 or 4, etc.; but darn it every business merger goes >> through this and bites the bullet. If jobs are lost in such a merger, so >> be it. Our contributions and fundraising will do far more good in one >> org than in several. >> >> Carl Miller >> Atlanta, GA > >-- >*************************************************************************** *************** > >Charles T. Meyer, M.D. >Middleton (Madison), Wisconsin >[log in to unmask] >*************************************************************************** *************** >