As I mentioned yesterday Gage claims he signed up "the AIA Chapter CEO in Virginia" there's still no sign of him or the 40 odd missing architects including one who is also a structural engineer, but I digrees.
One note about the Virginian, John W. Braymer, Ph.D. he doesn't seem to an architect.
- He is an "honorary" member of the AIA.
- No one with his last name is licensed to do anything in Virgina
- A local paper reported, "Before his work with the VSAIA and the Virginia Foundation for Architecture, Dr. Braymer served as a Senior Legislative Analyst with Virginia's General Assembly and was Assistant Professor of English at the University of Richmond."
Despite the fact Gage spent thousands of dollar to go to the AIA connvention and claims that their booth was "the busiest booth around us by far!" and that he signed up 50 new architects, the out seems to have been a misrable failure since he really only signed up 1 - 6 new architects.
Let's look at the numbers he claims that 20 - 24 thousand architects attended and that he and his group spoke to "hundreds of them", that "about 80%" were supportive and that "about 50" signed the petition but the number of architects and engineers in his group increased by 6 or less in the last 2 weeks. Thus, even assuming all the newbies were from the convention, among attendees his sign up rate was about 0.003% and of those he spoke to about 1 - 3%.
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