Bob
Public companies usually have a sub-committee to attract/vet new board members. AOPA would be best served by having a group of prominent members to recommend new directors.
Keep in mind some some wacky things have been done to the AOPA Constitution:
The rot started when President Munro anointed Mr Hamilton as his protege. Because Hamilton worked for QF the Articles were changed, expressly mentioning Hamilton as being exempted from the provisions of having a professional pilot as AOPA president.
When Bill Pike became president (also a QF pilot) the poorly worded Constitution was ignored. Others have tried to tinker with the Constitution to further some agenda or other, meanwhile Rome burns. The Constitution isn't the problem, it is the behaviour of certain people who are on the committee for all the wrong reasons and the proletariat who are too apathetic or busy to worry about it.
Maybe there does need to be an EGM to sort these issues and to tell the members what is really going on ?
Tachy