There is hope in District 30 after all
For a while, I’ve resigned to the likely possibility that District 30’s Lt. Governor of Marketing Blagojevich (not his last name, but no different from the ousted Illinois Governor in many ways – appearance, style and even ethics) will be the District 30 Governor in two years. I was looking at some options in the event the guy becomes the Lt. Governor of Education and Training and then District 30 Governor – not working on any educational awards at all, giving “free” speeches, joining the District 54 advanced club for the sole purpose of submitting educational awards, removing my Toastmaster license plate covers and deny that I’m in Toastmasters, even working to be the District 30 version of Rush Limbaugh by using this blog and other outlets to express hope that this person fails in his job and takes District 30 to the gutter!
Well I just found out today that he is going to have an opponent in the race for Lt. Governor of Education and Training. District 30 had their Nominating Committee meeting last Saturday and they slated a current Division Governor to run against the current LGM for that race. This is the first time in the 10 years I’ve been in Toastmasters that there is a contested race for LGET. I know a little about the Division Governor and met her once, she seems to be a nice person who is willing to do her job properly from my past conversation with her, but all I can say is she’s got to be a much better person than the LGM.
I’m hoping that this will be a real race and that we have someone completely new for the LGET role. I’m hoping that this will lead to change in District 30 that even I can believe in. I’m hoping that this will make me be proud to be a District 30 Toastmaster. Perhaps instead of looking to be like Rush Limbaugh, I could think about getting involved in District 30 again!
March 31st, 2009 at 11:15 am
You can still run even if not a name from the nominating committee, right?
March 31st, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Jessica, yes someone can run off from the floor. In fact the current D30 LGM had a floor candidate last year – who happened to be from the same home club as his!
March 31st, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Hey Will,
Noticed that you put a link to my blog. Thanks!!! Hopefully our fellow Toastmasters can get some extra motivation from http://takethestairs.wordpress.com.
It’s amazing to me how Toastmasters is such a huge organization run purely by volunteers. I know that like all systems it’s not perfect but I sure am thankful for the impact that people like you have had on my life and launching my career.
Hope everything shakes out for the best for your district and that one way or another people come together to get excited about spreading the powerful vision of what Toastmasters can mean!
All the best my friend. See you in the stairwell,
Rory Vaden
http://takethestairs.wordpress.com
April 4th, 2010 at 7:41 pm
[…] The reason for the last statement was that last year (see report) there were contested races for both Lt. Governor positions as well as nine candidates for the six Division Governor positions. This time I was expecting all the top 3 positions to be contested as the current Lt. Governor of Education and Training continued to be very unpopular with many in the district, in fact he was the topic of some of my blog posts such as this and this. […]