[Northkeep] Principality Poll to robert fitzmorgan

[Sandy mensik]

 well said.
> >
>
> The Following is just my opinion,  I'm not speaking
> for the Crown or for
> Northkeep,  just Robert.
>
>        A change in status, whether it is from shire
> to barony, or forming a
> principality or becoming a kingdom, requires the
> support of a strong majority
> of the paid membership of the group being changed.
> Not just a majority of
> those who vote but a majority of all the paid
> members.  At the time of the
> poll the Northern Region had 343 paid members.  152
> of those members voted,
> or 44%.  The survey results that were posted do not
> list the number of paid
> members who voted yes or no.  It does say that just
> over 25% of those who
> voted said no.  If we assume that the percentage of
> yes to no votes was the
> same between members and non members then that would
> suggest that 105 of the
> paid members who voted, voted yes, or about 30% of
> the paid members in the
> region.   If we assume that all 141 of the people
> who voted yes were paid
> members then that is still only 41% of the paid
> members of the region.  We
> don't have strong enough support for forming a
> principality at this time.
>
>        I've talked with some of the people who are
> against forming a
> principality right now and they have all said the
> same thing.  The reason
> they are against it right now is because we don't
> get along with each other
> in this region.  Many of them have said that if we
> were unified in this
> region, if we got along with each other and played
> nice then they would
> support a Principality.  But we don't get along in
> this region right now.  If
> we are to have a principality that is the proublem
> we have to solve.  That
> means working alongside and playing nice with the
> people we disagree with.
> It means putting an end to the fueds and the name
> calling and the finger
> pointing, and working together to resolve our
> differences.  Until we are
> ready to do that we are not going to have the
> support for a principality.
>        I think that almost everyone on both sides of
> the principality debate
> would agree that we need to stop the fighting and
> learn to get along.  If we
> can accomplish that THEN we will be ready for a
> Principality.  If not then
> Principality will be just another thing to fight
> about.
>
> Robert
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