I am truly a SMALL business. I run an insurance agency with me and one other employee. I've been in business for 15 years. I network with other business owners and people like myself who depend on referrals. For 12 of those 15 years I was a local Chamber of Commerce member.
That just changed 5 minutes ago.
I'm fed up with being used. I'm fed up with the attitude of fellow members and other chamber officers assuming that if you are a small business then,you MUST be a republican. Many many times I've had to ask salesmen or reps of the NAIB to leave my office after they have tried to get me to join by running down the President, the Dems, and of course-- OBAMA CARE!!!
In my office I have a large photo of FDR, a bust of JFK, a picture of my wife and me with President Clinton, and on another wall a HUGE reprint of
The New York Times front page on November 5, 2008:
OBAMA
Racial Barrier Falls in Decisive Victory
Yet still some come into my office and don't get it. When I called the local Chamber today and asked if they used any member funds for the US Chamber, I was put on hold for 10 minutes and then told that they only use the US Chamber for training and membership tips and only about $2 of my membership fee goes to the US Chamber. In a very polite way I said the US Chamber has used mine and probably millions of other small business member funds to promote the agenda of the Tea Party and the GOP and that I didn't appreciate their unlimited funding of a radical agenda.
I resigned and asked if the local Chamber would please post on its website that it indeed gave member funds to the US Chamber. If you are a member of a local chamber of commerce consider resigning.