By voting any BOD in, the membership trust them to take care of the membership business, following the membership wishes within reason. There is a clear understanding of where the Nationals should be held, with location, dates, even airports. The outcry has to do with yet another change that, if we are to be perfectly honest, clearly goes against what the membership wants, and what the P&P calls for. You are right. It is not all black and white. A financial deficit of 50 to 187 plus thousands is mind boggling to say the least, and if does affect board decisions. I am just not convinced that going from Colorado to St Louis is going to be as profitable as the board hopes, considering the amount of entries that are going to be missed due to the fact that is not safe to drive from the west coast to St Louis in November and the amount of dogs that will be able to be flown in or out is going to be drastically limited. JMO * Ileana * Inquest GSD's, Home of : 2 x Sel EX AM CH & Sel CAN CH Karizma's Cacique of Inquest TC, aka DEXTER Kaleef's Expensive Date (major pointed) aka JACKIE In a message dated 2/3/2011 2:58:11 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, tanbarkgsd@xxxxxxxxx writes: By voting in the board, we give them the right to make decisions. Every organization has a governing body, usually a board of directors, and they make the decisions. We hope they make their decisions in favor of the memberships desires, but it's not all black and white. They also have the financial aspect to deal with, and I think that right now, is a HUGE consideration. ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2011. 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/ ============================================================================