Lahtigate: Perkins accused of packing presidential vote with pals
The presumption is that the six voted for their countryman Stan, who famously won by a single vote. But the doc says proof of these Aussie athletes being delegates from other nations is in an attached document, which I haven’t seen.
Such a “list [was] furnished by the WMA Secretary to the WMA Council on July 13, 2009,” the memo says.
In other words, Secretary Winston Thomas of Britain has the delegate list. The 2009 GA booklet doesn’t list delegates by name. But Rex, as WMA stadia vice president, would have had access to this list in 2009 as well.
So lots of questions emerge in Lahtigate® (which I’m trademarking).
• When was it realized Aussies were posing as delegates from elsewhere?
• Why wasn’t this issue raised at the 2011 Sacramento General Assembly?
• Why haven’t impeachment procedures begun, assuming Stan is behind this?
• What did Stan know about the delegate issue and when did he know it?
• Is Winston cooperating with the effort to dethrone Stan?
• If Rex is the author of these accusations, why not come clean and admit it?
The athlete who sent me this memo also wrote: “This will be raised at the WMA candidates forum.”
But of course.
Stay tuned while I query the candidates on this issue.
5 Responses
Matt - October 17, 2013
Maybe Stan should pay back all the money he spent on flying around the world on the WMA?
Cassandra Smith - October 17, 2013
I am an Australian athlete and if these accusations are true, there should be serious repercussions on those tainted with fraud. If they are not true similar serious repercussions should be visited on those making false allegations. This matter needs to be thoroughly investigated and the truth uncovered.
Quick Silver - October 17, 2013
Gee, I sat next to the delegate from the Cook Islands at the Lahti General Assembly. She was definitely an Ocker and was chatting in Strine with another Oceania delegate from some other obscure island who didn’t look or sound as if he had spent much time there. I never thought anything of it because I assumed they had signed proxies from those countries. I didn’t realize that WMA doesn’t allow proxy voting.
But of course, I don’t actually know who they voted for.
Quick Silver
Hong Kong
Bill - October 18, 2013
Cook Island or Crook Island?
Ken Stone - October 18, 2013
Just FYI:
I’ve written to officers of Australian Masters Athletics and state masters groups Down Under. Basically, I asked them to forward to the named athletes the link to this page and my email listing several other questions.
I suspect these are upstanding athletes who got snookered into voting as delegates from other other countries. If you happen to know any of the six athletes, please have them contact me at TrackCEO@aol.com.
Thanks for your cooperation.
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