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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I belonged through my father beginning in 1953. I could not bring my best friend, whose father was Jewish, through 1971 when I went off to college.[/quote]

501c 7 tax exempt status criteria forbids discrimination. [/quote]

How often are they audited? Unless someone is messing with the paper trail that would show how many families have applied and whether they were blackballed and if there is a discrepancy in race or religion it would show. [/quote]

Blackballing doesn’t happen without the board members approval. So depending on when one applied if they were blackballed they would be able to know who approved it by obtaining a list of board members and membership committee chair at the time.  [/quote]

Not how it works.  I know of a few people who got blocked.  One was a notorious neighborhood speeder.  Hit 50 mph on local streets all the time and was repeatedly asked to cut it out around the kids.   When he applied, one of the folks who had asked him to slow down many, many times simply wrote a note for his file that documented his activities.   He was done.  I know of another person who readily mocked members and the club in social gatherings.  Oddly, he later applied. Many noted his disdain in his file.  I know another who was nasty as can be to staff at another location. His treatment of such folks was documented in his file.  The board sees this stuff but it’s really the other members who deliver the materials that leads to the denial. [/quote]

NP. Interesting I was looking for another thread on racism and of course this one came up about Chevy. In regards to Chevy i have heard from many people in the know that they use creative ways to not admit Jewish or African American applicants and that they still blackball families. For instance 4 or 5 years ago they blackballed a half Jewish family by asking the applicant to withdraw because they didn’t want it to be made public that they were blackballing them. That is a true story and is being looked into. It was known one of them was Jewish because a Chevy board member’s spouse had made jokes in public about the Jewish applicant to the point that they had to apologize. As a 501c 7 tax exempt club you are not allowed to discriminate based on race or religion. [/quote]

I also heard about this. It would be easy to ask the Chevy board members at the time about it. They are listed in the membership directory. It was recent enough someone would have a copy. Also GM Luke O’Boyle was the manager at that time as well. He may be able to answer questions. [/quote]

Any word on the person found dead near this club last night?[/quote]

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