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Originally posted by Dave Fulson:
This is indeed a tiny, disgruntled group of dissidents that are seeking to disrupt the current success DSC has worked so tirelessly to achieve in recent years. They are trying to achieve their former positions of power through intimidation, non-truths,and thinly veiled accusations. I say this as a VERY involved Life Member of this fine organization, and my deep understanding of the hearts and motivations on both sides of this issue. Read Larry's response of warning to this group, he is reading the tea leafs with great clarity...

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I love DSC and respect the guys at the top, even if many are the same faces. They have the drive and motivation to VOLUNTEER and bust their asses while doing so.

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Originally posted by Wesheltonj:
Only a non-voting Associate Member, could someone PM me the 13 pages?

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Originally posted by TxGunny:
SAVE DSC

A significant group of Dallas Safari Club life members, former directors, convention chairs (and with the endorsement of FIVE Past DSC presidents) have decided that the only way to get the wonderful and talented members in control, and deeply in to the operation and direction of the Club to ensure ethical, honest, legitimate and transparent governance, is with fresh leadership, innovative initiatives and by revising the structure of the club via functional by-laws.

The fresh faces and by law changes will bring the VOTE to the members. The structure would allow the MEMBERS to truly select the Officers and all of the directors. Currently the members do not get to vote for the officers. The directors are picked by a small ever constant group of people and the membership is in essence told to ratify them. This has led to significant indications of stagnation and corruption. The same few rotate over and over.
The new bylaws would open the club to vast numbers of participants via term limits and new opportunities that would not exist otherwise.

SAVE DSC presents you with just a few reasons why improvement is imperative.

I. DSC has gone without a critical audit for 38 years. The DSC treasurer, not elected by the members, is at the same time the president of the foundation that receives the vast amount of its money through DSC.
II. DSC, an International multimillion-dollar club, does not have so much as an ethics handbook much less a Comprehensive Ethics Code. One may surmise that has caused some shameful things to simply pass by.
III. It is time to have a bylaws with teeth, limitations on financial returns of board members, directors’, officers, and employees , etc., DSC desperately needs rules which prohibit officers of the DSC, DSC Foundation and the DSC Frontline foundation trading places year after year, to the near complete exclusion of members. This exists in spite of truly gross conflicts of interest.? Why would anyone not be for members voting and ethical, honest legitimate transparent government?



IV. DSC should have background checks for Board members, officers and award recipients so no one under investigation for wildlife crimes should attain status much less governance in the Club? Why be opposed to this?
V. Board Meetings be open to ALL members? Why the secret society?
VI. There should be free and fair elections with spirited debate not a presentation of three people of the controlling network.
VII. Our past president removed an ethics committee member while this past president was under investigation. Only one man stood against that. The complaint was eventually brushed away. How does one support that?
VIII. DSC should cause benefit to its members who should determine how it is operated and regarded. We should make changes that bring democracy and a representative republic. How can one be opposed to free and fair elections and in favor of some five men dictating all of the decisions.

IF YOU BELIEVE THAT ALL THESE THINGS NEED TO BE PERMANANTLY CORRECTED THEN YOU KNOW WHY THESE LIFE MEMBERS BEGAN “SAVE DSC”.

DSC has been a respected leader in the conservation world. Atrocious conduct brought on by defective bylaws not serving the members, and excessive concentration of power have corroded the reputation of DSC .

SAVE DSC will, with your help and support, be the world’s most respected member controlled and involved club on the planet but only with YOUR help and support.

The way to do that is with good honest leaders with new perspectives, a structure which has terms limits, voting rights and avenues for new people to be deeply involved in the club and not shunned in favor of a power elite.



If you have questions or wish to financially support and or help in this quest for improvement please send them to: savedallassafariclub@gmail.com

If you are a voting member of DSC you will have gotten a packet with the entirety of the new bylaws a ballot where you can vote for highly qualified members for the board of directors, instead of entrenched people who toe the line and most of all YOU NOW HAVE an opportunity to vote for bylaws that will take DSC to a very HIGH level through great ethics, honesty , legitimacy and transparency.
Please support this!

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Originally posted by Lhook7:
I’ve been a board officer, including treasurer, on a few non-profits. In the non-profit realm there are three different types of financial reviews: Compilations, Reviews, and Audits. One of these must be accomplished each year. Last year I was board president of an organization that has been around for over 20 years and never conducted an audit. This is not at all unusual, but it does serve to inflame the people who do not know about non-profit financial review regulations.

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Originally posted by TxGunny:
SAVE DSC

I've thought about this post and decided to respond with the facts of the matter, first and foremost this attack is not new, it began almost two years ago and was defeated but the board lacked the resolve to revoke the miscreants at that time. That attitude has changed. Please see my responses to Txgunny's post after each of his points, which are enclosed in italics, and I want to stress that my responses are mine and mine alone and may or may not reflect the opinions of other DSC board members or employees.


"A significant group of Dallas Safari Club life members, former directors, convention chairs (and with the endorsement of FIVE Past DSC presidents) have decided that the only way to get the wonderful and talented members in control, and deeply in to the operation and direction of the Club to ensure ethical, honest, legitimate and transparent governance, is with fresh leadership, innovative initiatives and by revising the structure of the club via functional by-laws."

Here are the facts of the matter, and to those who would like to see their supposed grievances and "new" bylaws, PM me an email address and I'll send them to you, along with the facts of that matter as well. I agree with one respondant that anything accusatory that lacks a name also lacks credibility. The original poster failed to say that some of these "wonderful and talented" people are much less than that.
1. One of the Past President's was caught selling conterfiet videos at the DSC convention.
2. One of the former director's failed to pay an Alaskan outfitter (and DSC donor) for a bear hunt. The same person "borrowed" a large amount of optics and firearms (albeit Blasers) from another DSC exhibitor and donor to impress potential clients and failed to return the equipment or cash to the supplier.
3.One of the Convention Chairs and former director received a rifle from another hunting organization (a perk for DSC sponsoring a table) that rightfully belonged to DSC and later "donated" the rifle as a convention donation so he and his wife would get credit in the auction catalog.
Wonderful and talented, yep.


"The fresh faces and by law changes will bring the VOTE to the members. The structure would allow the MEMBERS to truly select the Officers and all of the directors. Currently the members do not get to vote for the officers. The directors are picked by a small ever constant group of people and the membership is in essence told to ratify them. This has led to significant indications of stagnation and corruption. The same few rotate over and over.
The new bylaws would open the club to vast numbers of participants via term limits and new opportunities that would not exist otherwise."


1. Their "bylaws" will increase basic membership fees from $75.00 to $175.00, Student or Youth membership will increse from $25.00 to $125.00, Life Membership will have 3 levels, what currently costs $1500.00 will cost $2500.00 for a Life Member "C" membership, Life Member "B" costs an additional $1500.00 and Life Member "A" will cost an additional $2500.00 for a total of $6500.00 to be a Life Member "A". I don't see any additional benefits in their bylaws that are not now available to all Life Members.
In their list of grievances they decry the fact that the current DSC policy (as set forth in bylaws) presents a slate of 3 directors to the membership for approval, with spaces for members to write in names, their very own ballot does exactly the same, sort of hypocritical to me.

SAVE DSC presents you with just a few reasons why improvement is imperative.

"I. DSC has gone without a critical audit for 38 years. The DSC treasurer, not elected by the members, is at the same time the president of the foundation that receives the vast amount of its money through DSC."

DSC has been undergoing a comprehensive review for several months, this group was notified of this action months ago, the report is supposed to be complete next week and I believe there will be a report to members at our annual meeting next month.

"II. DSC, an International multimillion-dollar club, does not have so much as an ethics handbook much less a Comprehensive Ethics Code. One may surmise that has caused some shameful things to simply pass by."

Article 6 of the current DSC bylaws is the section regarding ethics, and each board member receives an orientation packet outlining ethical and fiduciary duties and responsibilities. Each member signs an acknowledgement page.

"III. It is time to have a bylaws with teeth, limitations on financial returns of board members, directors’, officers, and employees , etc., DSC desperately needs rules which prohibit officers of the DSC, DSC Foundation and the DSC Frontline foundation trading places year after year, to the near complete exclusion of members. This exists in spite of truly gross conflicts of interest.? Why would anyone not be for members voting and ethical, honest legitimate transparent government?"

The current DSC bylaws have term limits in place for directors and some officers, I'm not sure what "gross conflicts of interest" Txgunny is referring to, maybe he will respond with his concerns.



"IV. DSC should have background checks for Board members, officers and award recipients so no one under investigation for wildlife crimes should attain status much less governance in the Club? Why be opposed to this?"

DSC is not opposed to background checks, all officers and directors must submit a multi question questionaire prior to board service, one question specifically asks about game law violations. Award recipients are not required to complete a questionaire.

"V. Board Meetings be open to ALL members? Why the secret society?"

Board meetings are currently not open to the general membership, but any member is entitled to request attendance, such visitation is at the discretion of the President and has happened three times in the past 10 months.. The reason for this policy is to be able to conduct club business in a timely manner and the presence of a possibly hostile visitor tends to intimidate some board members. I allowed many visitors to board meetings, most of the time the visitors were openly hostile, not conducive to getting things accomplished.

"VI. There should be free and fair elections with spirited debate not a presentation of three people of the controlling network."

As I mentioned earlier, this "Save DSC" group is proposing the exact same thing and he doesn't say how big the group was that picked their slate of three.

"VII. Our past president removed an ethics committee member while this past president was under investigation. Only one man stood against that. The complaint was eventually brushed away. How does one support that?"

I am the past president referred to in this point, the gentleman (term used loosely) was not on the ethics committee during my term, the bylaws require the new President to form an ethics committee and have that committee approved by the board. This had not been done at the time I informed the person in question that he would not be on any committee. The person in question is a member of this renegade group and was discussing their takeover plans right in front of me, hence the discussion about serving on a committee.


"VIII. DSC should cause benefit to its members who should determine how it is operated and regarded. We should make changes that bring democracy and a representative republic. How can one be opposed to free and fair elections and in favor of some five men dictating all of the decisions.

IF YOU BELIEVE THAT ALL THESE THINGS NEED TO BE PERMANANTLY CORRECTED THEN YOU KNOW WHY THESE LIFE MEMBERS BEGAN “SAVE DSC”.

DSC has been a respected leader in the conservation world. Atrocious conduct brought on by defective bylaws not serving the members, and excessive concentration of power have corroded the reputation of DSC .

SAVE DSC will, with your help and support, be the world’s most respected member controlled and involved club on the planet but only with YOUR help and support.

The way to do that is with good honest leaders with new perspectives, a structure which has terms limits, voting rights and avenues for new people to be deeply involved in the club and not shunned in favor of a power elite.



If you have questions or wish to financially support and or help in this quest for improvement please send them to: savedallassafariclub@gmail.com

If you are a voting member of DSC you will have gotten a packet with the entirety of the new bylaws a ballot where you can vote for highly qualified members for the board of directors, instead of entrenched people who toe the line and most of all YOU NOW HAVE an opportunity to vote for bylaws that will take DSC to a very HIGH level through great ethics, honesty , legitimacy and transparency.
Please support this!

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Originally posted by Dutch44:
The term "Critical Audit" seems to imply no audit when, in fact, an audit may have been performed within 38 years just not this authors (whomever he or she may be) "Critical Audit". Semantics are the games our current Democrats/animal rights and other disreputable people use to obfuscate and mislead.

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Originally posted by Dutch44:
The term "Critical Audit" seems to imply no audit when, in fact, an audit may have been performed within 38 years just not this authors (whomever he or she may be) "Critical Audit". Semantics are the games our current Democrats/animal rights and other disreputable people use to obfuscate and mislead.

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Originally posted by DCS Member:
I’m almost thankful, as these documents helped get my fire going.