"Deny others the privilege of voting"....?? When did I say that? Why would I want to do that......?? Taking away or making faults in our Breed Standard LESS of a fault is not lowering the bar?? Do you feel the same about light eyes, bad ears...ring tails...white legs..no saddles on black and tans?? NONE of those affect their health or work ethic...but just have to do with the appearance of a German Shepherd Dog. The two are OK...the others not? Definitely time for me to give it up..... Carolyn marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.marhaven.com -----Original Message----- From: Anne Utter [mailto:rautt75@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 1:43 PM To: marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; showgsd-l Subject: Re: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re; waste of time speaking up.. & faults. Why not just let the membership decide? That is the democratic way. you say you are speaking for yourself but you want to deny others from their privilege of voting? It may be that the majority will agree with you but "lowering the bar" is subjective and I'm sure there are many opinions. Anne, GA Sent from Anne's iPad > On May 21, 2014, at 4:07 PM, "Carolyn Martello" <marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Kathy; > I TOTALLY respect the Board and I DO KNOW how difficult their > job is. Wouldn't you think they WANT to hear from us?? > > SO...Please help me out here. What would you suggest I do...or > any of us do ..if we STRONGLY disagree with an action taken by > the Board that we truly believe will NOT be good for the Breed > nor the GSDCA membership?? > > IMO going backwards is never a good thing. Attempts to increase > Club membership and entries on the tails of a fault is not going > forward with this Breed nor this Club. Why these two faults?? > I Love this Breed and I do not like the direction of a 'lower bar' > on faults being set, and I see no way it will help this Breed for > its future? Speaking for myself...I feel obligated to speak up! ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2014. 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. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. 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@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION: http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================