There's a saying, apparently, from the legal community - never ask a question if you don't know the answer.
Today at the USTA meeting Jason Settlemoir put forth a motion that the USTA ask its membership the feelings on a question regarding slots and marketing. In a nutshell, it asked if a percentage of slot money should go into a slush fund to be spent on marketing and ancillary items to promote and grow the sport.
When the 54 director votes were tallied, the score was 47 to 7..... against.
Yes, the leadership of an organization voted down, in a landslide, asking the grassroots membership a question.
Sure this seems super-silly, but why they did it, I think, is an easy one. They knew that if they asked the question the answer would be a resounding "yes". Then all hell would break loose. They'd have to try and get that done.
If harness racing is afraid of the answers to questions, they don't ask them. That seems to be the mantra of the sport. And it's probably a big reason why its growing more and more irrelevant.
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