<VV> Bob's (typically different) viewpoint on 100%

[Kent Sullivan]

This becomes mostly a moot problem / point if "local" is redefined as "any
chartered CORSA sub-group". So, if you don't live near a chapter or don't
like the one that you are near, you could join Corvanatics, or the '69
Group, or the Stock Corvair Group, or (insert names of other special
interest groups that could be created to fill the need).

I understand why CORSA is the way it is--namely, that some of the chapters
pre-date the national org and therefore didn't want to be subservient to it
at the time it was created--but there are a lot of organizations, both in
the car hobby, other hobbies, and professional organizations, where 100%
chapter membership has always been a given--and that doesn't stop them from
being healthy organizations. And the members never complain about it, at
least not the ones I belong to.

I am not sympathetic to the "We've never done it that way" / "It will never
work" / "Corvair people won't stand for it" arguments, especially given the
situation we have been discussing overall about CORSA needing to consider
some fairly radical new ideas in order to survive.

--Kent
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Subject: Re: <VV> Bob's (typically different) viewpoint on 100%

I knew that it would take only a couple of minutes for the "suppose you 
live far away from a chapter" argument to arise.

That argument does not impress me in the slightest.  If you, the local 
club member, must join CORSA, then it is only fair that you, the CORSA 
member, must join a local club.  Which of those clubs is up to you.

First off, where, exactly, is a local club situated?  It is the club's 
mailing address as listed with CORSA?  Is it where the club holds 
meetings?  Is it where the club holds shows-tech 
sessions-tours-dinners-whatnot?

Or is it the collective geography of its membership?

If you join a local club, even one that appears to be not near you, you 
will at the very least begin to receive that club's communications, be 
they digital or printed or both.  You will begin to interact with other 
members of that club -- some of which likely live much closer to you 
that you think.  As the geographic distribution of the local clubs' 
membership evolves over time, so will the "home base" of those clubs.

There simply is no valid reason to not require all CORSA members to join 
a chapter IF we are going to require all chapter members to join CORSA.

Are you 100% advocates telling me that we must rend our local clubs 
apart by imposing a you-must-join-CORSA edict, without CORSA 
reciprocating and telling CORSA members to join a local?  There's a word 
for that, and the VV rules prevent me from using it, but it implies 
bovine waste.

--Bob