VOTF Canidates for Election
Election Information

Canidates for Treasurer
Scott Fraser (incumbent)
Ken Forton

Ken Forton
Unlike many of VOTF's members, I am not a life-long Catholic. I converted to Catholicism for two main reasons: (1) the Catholic church is deeply devoted to justice for all people, and (2) I feel deeply connected to Jesus through the Eucharist. My love of the church even moved me to enter the Jesuits in 1993, though ultimately I left in 1997 to marry my wife.

Having been on the clerical side of things for four years, I believe that the clergy sex abuse scandal was caused by a clerical culture which effectively centers all church power in the priests and bishops. It is now time for us to make a concerted effort to change this culture and take responsibility for the way the church is governed. Only lay people in a concerted, broad-based organization like VOTF can make the necessary changes.

I believe I can best serve VOTF as its Treasurer. I am a Boston College-trained accountant and lawyer, so I am familiar with the systems-including internal controls-required to keep track of VOTF's finances and give its officers the information they need to make sound financial decisions. In addition, I hope to help raise the institutional funds necessary to help VOTF meet its goals.

Scott Fraser

• Served as Treasurer of VOTF since the first "passing of the hat"
• Priorities: keep our nascent national organization financially viable; build strong financial management processes & practices, work with Exec. Dir. to develop reasonable budgets of revenue and expenditure, ensuring accuracy of VOTF financial statements and reporting to state and federal tax authorities.
• Qualifications: Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP. 23 years management consulting experience serving large corporations and emerging companies in No. America, Europe and Asia. MBA ~ Harvard Business School / BA Univ. of Connecticut