Two days after his beautiful wedding ceremony in 2006, Brian Moore whisked away his new bride on a romantic getaway to the Island of Tahiti, French Polynesia. The Springdale Chamber of Commerce graciously picked up the $8,605.40 tab.Moore, former chairman of the chamber's executive board, told Richard Massey of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette he has no apologies. Moore insists he earned this trip as well as the $10,436.88 anniversary cruise to Istanbul, Turkey a year later "volunteering" to peddle advertising for the Chamber on a 15% commission basis.
There's something just not quite right about being a volunteer and yet paid commissions at the same time.
The 2009 Chairman, Blake Hanby, gave us a different scenario with his explanation to reporter Steve Caraway for the Morning News. Hanby claims that trips were paid for by the Chamber and then reimbursed by the traveler.
I don't know which is the case here, but the fact that Moore was able to volunteer enough of his time to earn such high dollar trips makes me wonder when he had time to do his regular full-time job.
UPDATE: The previously posted wedding photo has been removed at the request of Mr. Moore. Our intent was simply to show the correlation between the date of the wedding and the date of the Tahiti trip.
There's something just not quite right about being a volunteer and yet paid commissions at the same time.
The 2009 Chairman, Blake Hanby, gave us a different scenario with his explanation to reporter Steve Caraway for the Morning News. Hanby claims that trips were paid for by the Chamber and then reimbursed by the traveler.
I don't know which is the case here, but the fact that Moore was able to volunteer enough of his time to earn such high dollar trips makes me wonder when he had time to do his regular full-time job.
UPDATE: The previously posted wedding photo has been removed at the request of Mr. Moore. Our intent was simply to show the correlation between the date of the wedding and the date of the Tahiti trip.