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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	I am a member. However,
	Date:	7/19/2007 2:27:36 PM

I can see your point but my sense from the posts I have seen is that the vast majority of people are very concerned with the lake levels so its probably reasonable for a representative of HOBO to use the term "we", sort of in the "royal we" sense. I would guess there are any number of other issues that would justify the royal we even though not all members agree or view an issue as important. To the extent that HOBO doesn't pretend to have 100% concurrence on an issue but represents a majority view then I would hope the we would not taken as divisive.

Where individuals in an organization begin to pursue their own personal agendas without regard to the broader view of the members it is definitely divisive and we have to guard against that happening. That would constitute grasping defeat from the jaws of victory, something I seem to do all too often on the golf course (i.e., good drive followed by a second shot into the water....aaarrrgghh). I don't know why I had to remind myself about that frustration?!?!?