samsloan wrote:
> During my one year on the board there were constant problems with
> this. Bill Goichberg would use his position as USCF President to do
> things without even telling the other board members. It started right
> after I was elected but before I took office when Bill Goichberg wrote
> five letters without board approval to the USCFs litigation lawyer
> asking for ways to stop Sam Sloan from taking office. The legal bill
> that the USCF had to pay just for responding to these five letters was
> $4800.
False. They asked for a legal opinion on what would happen if the
Delegates tried to block you from being seated. Sloan 1 - Truth 0
> Later, Bill Goichberg did other things like deciding on his own
> without asking the board that there should be four women players in
> the US Champion****p and when only two women with reasonably high
> ratings accepted Goichberg when down the list as token woman after
> token women declined until finally two women were accepted who were
> rated below 2200.
No one on the Board except you objected. If they had, four members
could have voted it down. Of course, it would be hard to find three
people who could stand the shame of voting with you. Sloan 2 - Truth 0
> Worse than that, Bill Goichberg decided on his own to make the
> formerly prestigious US Champion****p into an open Swiss tournament
> where anybody could play. The entry fee for a rank beginner was
> $20,000. Although no rank beginners accepted, this got many people
> upset as it demeaned the prestige of the US Champion****p.
Since AF4C ran it as a Swiss for the last decade, I assume your
complaint is _only_ about allowing players to buy in. Since the
result was a modest increase in the prize fund, I doubt any of the
players would agree with you. I don't recall you making any
counterproposals to fund the tournament. As I recall, _your_
suggestion was that the USCF turn down the $50K donation and run it as
a round-robin in New York with a prize fund of $14K (which the USCF
did not have). Sloan 3 - Truth 0.
> After this kept happening, I became so desperate to somehow get Bill
> Goichberg removed as president that I even offered the USCF presidency
> through an intermediary to Joel Channing, who I thought was a terrible
> person.
Since Channing regarded you as a lower life form, I doubt you got much
of a response.
> I am calling on the board to vote Bill Goichberg out of office right
> now.
And I'm sure this will have just as much effect as Mad Marcus's calls
to the State Department. Face it, Sam. Nobody cares. (Well, you're
nobody, and you care.)
There are a lot of things on which I disagree with Goichberg, and I'm
not convinced by his new proposal, but he does have one major asset.
You. As long as you're his opposition, Bill looks awfully good.
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