In a message dated 10/2/2007 4:19:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, sharlen@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes: Hello Julie, Quote from Lew Bunch's email to the board. 'Due to the recent ruling by AKC that we can in fact redo the election without any suspension to the Bylaws I am calling a Special Board Meeting for either Friday, September 28; Saturday, September 9; or Sunday, September 30'. The problem with the special board meeting Lew called was he wanted the board to vote to redo the election. He also did, in fact suggest other issues such as the Canadian voters. But his main purpose for the meeting was to redo the election. Many of us felt this was wrong, against the by-laws and many other reasons. If we had a special board meeting and it was indeed voted to redo the election we would be in an even bigger mess today than we already are. Sharon Allbright Just because Lew said that the AKC would allow a new election, doesn't mean that is what would have HAD to happen in the board meeting. The fact remains that all of these issues could have been dealt with MUCH sooner if a special board meeting had occurred. Then discussion could have occurred on what the best options would be. Perhaps there would have been a vote to NOT redo the election, then how to REPAIR this election to make sure that votes are counted could have then been discussed. As it is now, everything was just put on hold. Perhaps a new election would have been the best way to make sure that everyone's votes were valid and counted. I don't know....no one really does. We can just suppose. It is my opinion, tho, that not having a special board meeting and "waiting" 10 days was a mistake.....especially when people are now screaming for action to have occurred yesterday. Julie Degen _www.caissonkennels.com_ (http://www.caissonkennels.com/) "A well-balanced German Shepherd has a title on both ends!" ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2007. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - www.showgsd.org ============================================================================