It sounds like what many of you are supporting is “Mob” rule. What is worse; being governed by the “Man” or being ruled by a “Mob”? With the “Man” you know who to vote out; being ruled by a “Mob” is very close to anarchy. A lot of the ideas brought up in this thread sound like good ideas. There are many of them that I hope my club director would have supported. I don’t know exactly how the meetings are run, but the thing I want to know is why weren’t these ideas brought up at the annual meeting? Our organization could loosely be described as a representative democracy. In order for it to work our representatives need to do their work. I think I read that 120 clubs were represented at the beginning of the meeting and only 69 were left when the voting took place. I agree that taking passes away is more of a punishment of the of the kids. I think our leadership let us down on this issue. I just have a different spin on it than most of you. Leaders that I hold responsible are the ones that were not in the room when this was voted on. I don’t hold anything against those who did their duty and attended the voting portion of the meeting. I don’t care how they voted; I think they should be patted on the back either way. They certainly don’t deserve to be lynched by a “Mob”.