Reapplication for Membership in Blogpower, Andrew Allison ---A Conservative View

It gives me great pleasure to announce that Andrew Allison of Andrew Allison --A Conservative View has applied to rejoin Blogpower. Most of you will know Andrew very well but for those of you who do not please take at look at his blog. Andrew is very involved in the campaign to re-elect David Davis so there are some very interesting posts at his blog.

Please make your wishes known in the comment section.

The Next Step

In the recent vote we had in Blogpower, regarding putting a limit on the number of members, the decision in favour of doing so was passed by a slim majority of one vote. With that in mind the three of us have looked at the situation and since the membership had been as high as 70 at one time, in fact the heading of the blogroll in the sidebar says "We happy close to six dozen", and we all dealt with it satisfactorily, we have decided to make this the new limit. In addition 22 out of the 37 who voted wanted either 70 or more or no limit so we feel this number will be acceptable to the majority.

Currently we have 56 members on the blogroll, so we will be accepting new members once again. During the voting procedure we had an application from a former member to rejoin and a new application for membership from a writer/editor who is a former editor of the New Statesman, who may be of interest to many among us. We will contact them now and confirm that they wish to proceed and will be asking you to vote on them as soon as we hear.

JMB Ian Grey Colin Campbell

Important Vote ---Ballot form on its way

For those not on the mailing list this is to notify you that we are conducting an important vote within Blogpower during the next week. It concerns the issues in the post below plus several more raised in the discussion on the mailing list. You should receive an individual email immediately which includes the form and using the reply function you will easily be able to fill in your preferences and send it back to be tallied.

Please let me know if you do not receive the form and I will send it to you immediately.

Important Issues

We apologize for the delay in addressing some of the issues which arose recently in the mailing list, surrounding the vote for membership for acceptance of some new blogs.

It seemed to Ian and JMB that there was some considerable support for a limitation on the number of members in Blogpower from those who spoke up and obviously this has to be put to a vote of the general membership. Something that also ties into this is establishing who are the current members of Blogpower.

Since the beginning of the year we have had some formal resignations but while others did not officially resign we are not sure that they are still members since they are not displaying either the banner or the blogroll in their sidebars. So we have decided to include in the vote for limiting the membership a request for a reconfirmation of membership, so that we can reconcile the blogroll with the actual membership. We will not remove anyone who does not contact us for the moment, since we want to be sure that we reach everyone, including those who are not on the mailing list and not everyone has an obvious email address, but we do hope to catch everyone with this.

We would also hope that the membership would agree that anyone who has been a member of Blogpower could rejoin on application without another vote required. So if we were to decide on a restricted number of members it could be merely a guideline, since we might have more than that number at times. Should there be a decision to restrict it to a number lower than the current we would not accept any new applications until the number had dropped to that level.

A voting form will be sent to all members in a few days time. We encourage you to discuss this on the Yahoo groups mailing list for Blogpower since comments will be closed on this post.

Some members have not joined the mailing list and we encourage those who have not to register with Yahoo Groups and follow the link below and ask to become a member. You will be confirmed as soon as possible so that you can take part in the discussion.

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