Rogue
Sturgis Freedom Fighters
Motorcycle Hall Of Fame Member 2005
From: FRANKIE KENNEDY [mailto:swchief2000@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 8:50 AM
To: swchief2000@yahoo.com
Subject:
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 8:50 AM
To: swchief2000@yahoo.com
Subject:
Greetings, Fellow ABATE members, hopefully you are all well and in good health.
My name is Frankie Kennedy, past longtime president of the Southwest Chapter, as many are aware I was again nominated for the state president’s position. This is the reason for this writing, It is my hope that after sending this communication to all the chapter presidents around the state, that they will share the information in it with their members.
I am 54 years young, I have been self employed most of my adult life, I have been founder, owner, and operator of many successful businesses in my life and was fortunate enough to retire back in 2004, I went back to work last year as the lull in the economy cost me dearly, as it did to many around the country.
The opportunity for me to bring my experience and expertise to our organization is timely; one of the first orders of business would certainly be membership. It is my thought that this states MRO is lacking desperately in membership, in my opinion as a grass roots organization the first line at gaining membership is to have qualified, informative, people in place to help promote our MRO. Some of the ideas over the years included groups of chapters getting together and doing very large events to help promote our cause, If planned properly these large state events will bring in membership in very large numbers, we just did an event here in southwest Florida in December 2011 it was a one day event and it brought out over twenty thousand people.
We have also done the 5 Star Event for the past nine years and are currently planning the tenth year event this event includes the Gator Alley, Peace River, Estero River, Caloosahatchee ,and Southwest Chapters, and as of last year we took on a sixth chapter and included the West Coast chapter. We currently have a handful of group chapter events around the state these events will become a priority for me as your state president.
Other concerns include our MSAP, again as many are aware the Southwest chapter has been a premier chapter in bringing our MSAP to the Lee county school system, I would like to make this happen around the entire state and am willing to travel around the state to make this happen.
Another opportunity that was offered to ABATE a few years ago was for our people to write the section of the Florida driver’s handbook on motorcycles and motorcycling, this too is a wonderful chance to attach our name to motorcycle safety and awareness around the state. This too is something that in my opinion should be a priority of the new state board under my leadership.
It is my plan to get as much good public relations as possible using these methods I sincerely believe that after we establish some of these programs our membership will grow exponentially
Communication is imperative and I will lend myself to be available to all the chapters around the state as well as travel to your events and participate with those of you that are giving so much to our MRO. We have over thirty chapters around the state and it will be a priority of mine to join with you personally at both your events and chapter meetings.
My understanding is that many are unaware of my part in a TV interview nearly two years ago that aired on the east coast at this time I would like to alleviate any concern of any ABATE member of any wrong doing on my part. I was interviewed and the entire interview consisted of my defending ABATE of Florida’s MSAP program, However my interview was never aired simply because I didn’t say what the interviewer wanted to hear, anyone that knows me personally will tell you that I eat sleep and breathe ABATE and would never do anything to diminish the importance of our states MRO.
In closing I would like to add that I will bring my many years of corporate management and professionalism to our great organization I will strive to make ours the premier MRO in the country. It is my goal to make ABATE a household name in our state and to enlist the expertise of all of our states residents motorcyclists as well as non motorcyclists. Our mission is to save lives and bring awareness to those that are currently unaware of our cause.
Any questions and or response can be sent to swchief2000@yahoo.com and will be answered upon receipt.
At your service ride safe Frankie
Ride safe,
Frankie
Frankie
Frank M. Kennedy Sr
(cell) 239 849 9065
(fax) 239 772 3320
(cell) 239 849 9065
(fax) 239 772 3320
