I chuckeled when I read a few of these. The danger of regimes taking control of a club, forming clicks and running the club with an iron fist for better or worse, is only too real.
In some cases, it works out for the better. I have seen the opposite. Presidents take control, and they believe, because they are President, and were a successful doctor, homebuilder, car dealer, etc., they can adapt, and run the greens committee.
The greens superindendent strokes them, and overnight they become geniuses.
They appoint all their clicky friends to the greens committee, no one under a 12 handicap.
When our club selected new sand for the traps, they put a soft sand in trap #1, and a softer sand in trap #2. I remember a 26 handicap arguing with me at the top of his lungs that the softer sand was the best since it was easier for him to get out of it with his Alien Sand Wedge.
When I told him that both sand were way too soft, he called me a golf snob, and walked away.
That is how clubs are run, and guess what, they put in the soft sand. Go hit your head against a wall, you get better results.