The Perfect NCUA Board
by Jim Blaine
The new year 2013 offers an exceptional opportunity for the credit union movement to achieve significant positive change at the NCUA.
Why? Because two NCUA Board seats will become vacant. We all should demand that these important positions be filled with knowledgeable, experienced, and independent critical leaders. It’s for the good of all – including NCUA – if credibility is to be restored.
With tens of millions of U.S. consumers invested in credit unions, as member-owners, and with $1+ trillion of their hard-earned life savings at stake; 2013 provides the opportunity for positive change, a new direction. We can not and should not accept “also rans” or “somebody’s distant second choice” for these important positions. Or else we will, de facto, acknowledge the age old slander of our adversaries that credit unions are little more than “also rans”, “somebody’s distant second choice.”
