Evidently, according to some pretty reliable sources, the latest foolishness involved CUNA attempting to deny a couple of unfortunate comments ("bloated and inefficient") Jm Nussle made publicly at a recent CU convention. CUNA tried to claim it didn't happen, while CUTimes [Here's the link!] and 400 delegates said: "Oh yes it did!"
Word has it that CUNA was so inept in attempting to suppress the story, that veteran editor Sarah Cooke lost patience and returned fire by actually publishing the verbatim transcripts of the speech, which CUTimes had "watered down" a good bit in the first story.
So, "bloated and inefficient" became this:
If CUNA Central's message managers are using these extraordinarily "amateur hour-ish" techniques, afraid to imagine how well CUNA "plays" on behalf of credit unions, in the real money-ball games up on Capitol Hill.
Who knows??? But, according to the current head knocker at CUNA, what is known for sure is that your multi-million dollar dues checks do buy...
... "a bloated, top heavy, siloed, inefficient" trade association!!
Sounds like a real bargain for your members !
[Hey, perhaps CUNA will announce a dues cut!!! So that you can buy into a bloated, top heavy, siloed, inefficient trade association for less! That would make sense, wouldn't it?]
[Hey, perhaps CUNA will announce a dues cut!!! So that you can buy into a bloated, top heavy, siloed, inefficient trade association for less! That would make sense, wouldn't it?]
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Hopefully the CUNA Board will just reject Nussle's assessment out of hand like they did with the Task Force Report.
If you can ignore your members you can ignore your CEO.
"Smilin' Jim" Nussle, Donald Trump's running mate?
This has been my point. CUNA's political advocate Ryan Donovan wilted like a cheap shirt when I challenged him on the baggage claim ad. Their PR/ Media guy Douglas Kiker is afraid to return my call. How are these guys going to advocate for CUs against the real lobbyists from Chase, B of A and Wells Fargo? CUNA has hit an iceberg called History and they are still serving oysters and champagne to their VPs and Red Baron microwave pizzas to their members. Oh, and CUNA is launching a show that will air the same time as ours. Of course, most people listen to our show after we broadcast live so it does not matter. Wait...maybe we are the iceberg!
Sarah Snell Cooke said in the article very accurately about CUNA:
"The hardest part is creating the value that members feel is worth paying a dime for. So far, CUNA has shot down the recommendations handed to them after months of hard work by the task force gathering information about what the members wanted."
That is what is so amazing to me, that we as credit unions pay over $26 million a year to an organization that has no true value proposition. We create value for our members to come to our CU, but CUNA produces little to nothing. A task force tells them what the members are wanting and they shoot it down. In the end it will only hasten the end of their existence.
Kings such as Cuna, Nafcu, Patrick lapine thinks CUs report to them.
Much the same way congress thinks we report to them.
Cuna, Nafcu and CUs will,only be free when it is realized, discussed for impact and solution(s), debated and decided...
...that the only solution for credit unions of size is to accept federal taxes. Congress won't give us relief and the trades are both powerless to stop it and compromised by our dues that pay them handsomely, to admit it.
We can continue to whine, point fingers, blame everyone but ourselves...or we can deal with what seems like a reality.
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