outsider222 believes we should be ashamed our ourselves. hmmm, yes…We should be ashamed of ourselves for mentoring our youth? For helping children benefit from an education. From placing pediateic trauma kits in every volunteer emergency response unit in the state of iowa. For volunteering our time and resourses to aiding the victims of the Iowa floods of 2008? Is this your definition of disingenuous “charity”? I could go on, but I think you get
my point.

I can’t speak to Bangor, Maine – but this is Iowa, and we do things differently around here. We pull together in times of need. Disingenuous isn’t a word in our vocabulary.

Kiwanis does allow for the opportunity to network. As does the church I attend, and the people I meet at my favorite coffee shop. If I’m ever in the market for a service that one of my fellow Kiwanians (or anyone else in my network) can provide, I’ll certainly retain their services. Does that make a person crooked – a “Good ole Boy”? I think not.

As for contacting Kiwanis USA/International, well my guess is you used the same tone you’ve decided to take here on my blog. The tone of a cynical, nay spiteful, individual. I’d say the alias outsider222 pretty much describes your attitude. You appear to be just a bit jaded yourself.

My advice to you, outsider222, is this…don’t label a dozen eggs rotten just because you found one bad egg. To generalize and label all of Kiwanis as such, because of your individual experience shows your inablity to for reason.

- the UB

In Bangor, Maine, for one place, the Kiwanis is nothing but a front – a networking site for crooked “Good Ole Boys” to get together and pull the wool over the eyes of the general populace with their disingenuous “Charity” drives.

http://outsider222.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/recap/

Most of these clowns are just trying to win political offices to do the bidding of their crooked, big money patrons.

I’ve written to Kiwanis USA and Kiwanis international, to no avail; we can assume I’m not telling them anything they don’t already know.

I suppose you are all so jaded that you think you will get away with these sleazy tricks.

But you won’t. What goes around comes around.