"Apparently I'm not getting the message you're trying to send. What have you heard from the MEC Chairman and the MEC that you consider to be "condescending"?"

Are you serious? I have been told the MEC Chair and the MEC know better than myself and the membership what is good for us. They don't trust me to do the "right" thing so they decide for us. If that's not condescending then I don't know what is. I sure as Hades know it's wrong..