On 26-Feb-2007, at 15:43, Martin Hannigan wrote:
I'm saying that you don't
have to have a meeting somewhere because someone will pay.
It's not practical to hold a meeting somewhere that we don't have a
host.
I'm not surprised that you resorted to the strawman argument. I
think it's legitimate to suggest that you can say "no"
to a potential sponsor because of location. But you know
this.
I think it's legitimate to say no for many reasons, including
location, yes.
Can you make a case of what benefit from a meeting in
the DR and who? If you can, I'd be sold, if it was determined
to be in NA.
I can, but I'm more interested in hearing from other people.
To be clear, the exercise here is not to try and sell the idea of the
Dominican Republic to anybody; the goal is to identify whether
holding a meeting in this particular location would be a problem for
many people (recognising that *every* location is a problem for
someone).
Joe
