[Watchdogs] Bob Glover Candidate, bribing members to attend

[Paul Langston]

Dear Dale:  I find that Cen-Tex Elect. Co-op is about the most straight 
arrow outfit in Texas.

You will probably find that the base cause of all the foul management of PEC 
goes back to lack of interest of the owner-members.  Other Co-ops have the 
same trouble.

You might want to check out Blue Bonnet Elect. Co-op, over in Giddings. 
They have found that they cannot get a quorum required by the Board By-laws 
into a meeting, once a year unless they offer prizes at the door, a raffle 
of prizes and other manners of goodies.  Last year, the grand prize winner 
of the raffle got a tractor.

This is sad.  Who is to blame?  The indifference of the owners is what 
caused all this mess at PEC and many other Co-ops around Texas.  Mr. Garza 
is taking a risk by  offering only   one raffle prize.  Let's just hope that 
member-interest and this prize will be enough to get a reasonable crowd into 
the old Honky Tonk, June 20th.

At the June annual meeting of 2007, the value of the 100 raffle prizes was 
[ my estimate] $5,000.  There was some hooey about the grateful friends like 
Ace Hardware and  Walmart donating these prizes....note that no donation 
amount showed up on the form 990.  Some of the employees almost admitted 
buying the prizes.   One other factor was that about half of the folks 
attending had multiple votes and multiple chances at the prizes.  The 
pre-meeting raffle, the door prizes, the cookies and the raffle got them in. 
The attendance was about 645. Room cap. is 900.  About 100 PEC personnel 
were there as well.

How would like to show up on June 20th this year and there are only about 60 
people on hand?  The teeming crowd at the Monthly Board Meetings, aside from 
the PEC mob is only about 12-20 concerned members.

So, let's not knock the give-a-ways etc. until we have very large groups of 
Watchdogs and old hard-heads,  concerned owners showing up.  Not even this 
Board would try to have a yearly meeting if only a few people show up. 
Let's give them all the benefit of the doubt.

Cheers,  Paul .

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dale Rodman" <darodman at zeecon.com>
To: "PEC Watchdogs" <Watchdogs at pec4u.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:07 PM
Subject: [Watchdogs] Bob Glover Candidate


> Tonight at 5:30 in Llano, if you attend a meeting for Bob Glover,
> District 4 Director Candidate, at the Llano Co High School, you can
> vote and your attendance entitles you to a $10 credit on your electric
> bill as well as a chance for a door price.   This sounds to me like
> old PEC again.  A solution for a lower electric bill ($10).  Vote for
> Bob and get $10.
>
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