....and here we are-

-nearly at the end of this particular chapter of the bizarrely fractured fairy tale of the Alaska goat community.

The five people expelled were not members, according to Heather Fair. The reason being-and one she testified to in court, as well as to the membership itself: There was no secretary at the time.

No secretary, no processing of memberships. She stated this numerous times, on tape. And in print. And in court.

So then how did we get expelled for cause, if we weren't even members?

And how did people get expelled that weren't even members? As in, the club had not receive their membership applications on the 27th. And what about the person who had their money returned, no explanation-and no letter about being expelled? Yet, subsequent email includes their names......because????


Well who knows!

It will be whatever they cooked up between January 8th and now.

Which leaves the very sticky issue of the other people who supplied completed membership application forms and cash at the January 8th meeting. What are they doing about that?


Don't forget, that's the meeting where Heather Fair has testified that the voting took place-but no one else witnessed it. Seriously. They had to have met in the parking lot, or left to go to some other place to count ballots-if they even did that legally. The board acted to rig the elections in the first place, by expelling people they didn't want involved in the club. Or at least that is a very logical conclusion, based on the events.

The $260 in cash submitted to, and accepted by then President Laura Manary (and acknowledged by both Laura and Heather Fair, by the way) has been held by Heather Fair since. She admitted she still had the money in court on June 15th.

Now, the club has listed a handful of new members once the club website was updated on June 16th. But they have not acted on all the applications-only a very few-evidently those who pass the sniff test for membership. Some may not even know that they are listed as current members, either. The reason I say that is because Heather Fair testified in court that just 7 ballots could be counted on January 8th at their mystery meeting that no one else knew about. Now they have 13 or 14 members on their website.

It could reasonably be argued that the club has *knowingly* defrauded us individually for the funds, since they have had nearly seven months to return it. They have not.

I could see where this could become a bit of a hot potato for the club itself....will they be drug back into small claims? Will someone contact the Better Business Bureau? The Human Rights Commission? No one is saying anything that I know about.

I did give the President a few days to get their poo in a pile and issue me a refund check.

In the meantime there is the very sticky matter of the judge's decision......who knows what is going to happen with that-but I plan on taking action to recover my dues regardless. The club may find itself so busy in court defending their actions, that they have no time to continue thrashing members of the community.

One can hope, anyway :)