Vin Lananna wins his grievance against USATF, CAS rules he be put back in power immediately!!

The tea is so good tonight...

My constitutionally protected opinion is that Mr. Miller seems to act like a jackass.

Decertify USATF, dissolve it completely, and start over with a new NGB with Lananna in total control for 4 years. He should be given a chance. Things couldn’t get much worse even if he turns out to be a disaster. These other clowns are pathetic losers who are simply out to grab some power in a dying sport, just to make themselves feel important.

If course it’s a political power grab. These people could care less about the sport as a whole, only the world qualifiers and their sponsors lining their pockets.

Nearly a genius wrote:

My constitutionally protected opinion is that Mr. Miller seems to act like a jackass.

Decertify USATF, dissolve it completely, and start over with a new NGB with Lananna in total control for 4 years. He should be given a chance. Things couldn’t get much worse even if he turns out to be a disaster. These other clowns are pathetic losers who are simply out to grab some power in a dying sport, just to make themselves feel important.

Lananna should be given a chance??? He swore a loyalty oath over a year ago to help set up a conspiracy to control USATF with himself as one of the leaders. Only a year later when his co-conspirators failed to uphold their end of the deal does he then file this grievance?

The grievance itself shows he is willing to make backdoor deals to hold onto power within a select group, rather than through a fair and transparent board.

My story:

https://timesofsandiego.com/sports/2019/02/25/usatfs-ousted-president-alleges-pressure-to-warp-bylaws-extend-terms/

what's the story with the bribes paid to Kitzhaber to get public funding for the worlds bid? That's the story I want to hear.

TrackCEO wrote:

My story:

https://timesofsandiego.com/sports/2019/02/25/usatfs-ousted-president-alleges-pressure-to-warp-bylaws-extend-terms/

This article says that he "rejected" the proposal, while his grievance suggests that he agreed with the proposal.

Drainthefecesswamp wrote:

TrackCEO wrote:

My story:

https://timesofsandiego.com/sports/2019/02/25/usatfs-ousted-president-alleges-pressure-to-warp-bylaws-extend-terms/

This article says that he "rejected" the proposal, while his grievance suggests that he agreed with the proposal.

My bad, it does say he rejected it.

The Oct 2017 resolution seems to lay out exactly how Vin should act in times where one of his conflicts came into play. Isn't that needed?

We seem to be ignoring the fact that Vin had a LOT of conflicts of interest when he became President. He no longer has them because he's been ousted from everything except his U of O spot (has anyone asked why??). But being the TrackTown President was a conflict of interest, as they are an entity that bids USATF to host championships and gets paid money to do so. USATF agreed to pay $6 million to TrackTown for hosting 2021. (That agreement happened before he became USATF President, but it shows you how money goes from USATF to TrackTown and thus a conflict of interest).

Jeff Porter has been the only one trying to find resolutions when the powers that be on the board just want to find any reason to fight. The athletes have been VERY frustrated that they can't get items on the agenda because of all the fighting about Vin. Vin is not an angel, and neither are Miller/Conley/others on the board. They've done nothing but stall progress for the entire organization the past year plus.

Everybody is so busy fighting for power. Vin mismanaged funds and was ousted from TrackTown, and now the USATF Presidency is what he is holding onto.

Miller tried to get his term extended, but guess what, the board wasn't having it. It wasn't just Vin that rejected that; the board did.

If Vin should so surely be reinstated, why didn't the board, with all its new members, vote to do so last weekend?

Everything is not black and white. Open your eyes.

Wejo, I really hope you start digging in as a journalist, because so far, the articles that have been written are one-sided and rely on "USATF activists" and other people holding on tightly to some kind of relevance, who haven't been in the room for many of these discussions and are just set on defending Vin and yelling about things. They are also speaking for athletes when they don't represent them and are not in contact with the AAC.

Call the USOC and ask what they think. Call the Oregon DOJ. Call the State of Oregon. Call Phil Knight.

Figure out why Vin was forced to resign as head of TrackTown? Do you really think it was for him to be able to "focus on the future of the sport" as he claimed?

We all love Vin for what he has done for the sport, but this issue is extremely nuanced.

LookAtFacts wrote:

Miller tried to get his term extended, but guess what, the board wasn't having it. It wasn't just Vin that rejected that; the board did.

But the Board was OK with Jackie and Mickey voting to extend their own terms on the Board. That wasn't a conflict of interest.

Then when it was pointed out that the Board did not have the power to vote to extend the terms of independent board members, they lied and said it was just an advisory vote. Weldon and I were both there (June 2018). It was never presented as an advisory vote. I have the audio and typed up a transcript.

Now they don't want audio recordings at board meetings, go figure.

"nuanced" - polite way of saying that there seems to be more than enough culpability to go around. And thus the push to oust them all and start from scratch. It seems most all have been tainted to some degree or another. Has our sport made any 'gains' in the last 5 - 10 years or been 'advanced' at all?? Hard to solve a long standing problem or set of problems with the same pieces that helped create it.

I'm the only "activist" being quoted in the press, and I have been in the room for most of the discussions that were public. I cannot attend meetings held in executive session, and that is where most of the discussions have occurred. Weldon was in the room as well at the Board Meeting last summer.

Curt Clausen was quoted in Ken Goe's article a few weeks ago. He served as AAC rep on the BOD for 8 years.

If there was a valid reason for Vin to not serve as President, the Board should have have either called a special meeting of the membership last summer, or brought it before the membership at the annual meeting in December.

If there was any substance to the DOJ investigation, they would have interviewed staff at USATF by now, especially Max, because they were intimately involved in the bidding process. That is not an implication of any guilt, that is simply how investigations work. If the DOJ has not bothered to speak with anyone else in the past year and a half, they are clearly not very concerned about the issue.

I try very hard not to claim that I represent athletes and I especially do not ever claim to represent AAC in any fashion.

I can tell you how AAC voted at the June 2018 Board Meeting. Lauren and Curt voted in favor of re-opening the discussion about Vin, and Jeff P. and Ryan abstained. The nay votes won, the discussion was not reopened.

This issue is not all that nuanced. If there is a valid reason to remove Vin as President, the membership is the only group with the power to do so. The Board has had a year to bring this issue to the membership and they have not.

Mike Conley forced Vin to file the grievance by canceling the promised January meeting, and scheduling the next meeting for a date that would be past his 1 year deadline for filing a grievance. Then that grievance was used against Vin.

USATF is a mess. They have Robin Beamon working as an employee despite the AAU findings against her.

Everyone knows Max Siegel has a private security team, right? Also paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to have a badge entry system to get into the building, etc.

now we know why former board member Steve Miller was listening in on the reinstatement debate by phone...

this is all pretty demoralizing to me - Max Siegel was supposed to represent professional management, but its actually just Miller, Hightower, Siegel, Conley and a few others working together to line their pockets. (They will shortly have a meeting with Willie Banks to bring him into the circle like they did with Vin)

what's really sad is USATF is a sinking ship, so there is very little loot to divide up. at least if the sport was growing a bit, the corruption would be worthwhile.

I'm now going to boycott all things USATF, which will drop US Track fans from 38 to 37.

He had literal death threats against him by a psycho. Not a fan of his, but the guy who stalked him is certifiable.

mjr wrote:

He had literal death threats against him by a psycho. Not a fan of his, but the guy who stalked him is certifiable.

Whom many believe the initials of are "BT."

polevaultpower wrote:

I'm the only "activist" being quoted in the press, and I have been in the room for most of the discussions that were public. I cannot attend meetings held in executive session, and that is where most of the discussions have occurred.

Michael Conley emailed USATF membership today stating, among other things, that “Executive session discussions are privileged and confidential.” Becca, can you or anyone explain then why Caprioti was allowed to be present in the Executive Session?