parrthenon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> JOHN HILLERY VS. SAM SLOAN
>
> In the exchange below between Sam and John
> Hillery, we have the essence of the struggle between
> status quo guys like Hillery and Sam.
>
> Sam wrote that the USCF paid a ludicrous legal
> bill of $4,800 for some legal letters about ways to
> stop Sam from taking office after his election to the
> Executive Board.
>
> Hillery's response: the USCF paid a ludicrous
> legal bill of $4,800 to find out what would happen if
> the Delegates tried to stop Sam from taking office.
>
> Hillery: 48 to the 12th power; Truth: zeeee-ro.
>
> We now have confirmation that what Sam told us
> was the essential truth, and let's have the legal
> opinion made public, shall we? I reckon that Sam's
> account is closer to the truth even in the area of the
> legal opinion.
>
> NEXT TIME AROUND AFTER SAM GETS ELECTED AT SOME
> SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE: Sam writes that the politicians
> spent $11,486.42 of USCF money on a ludicrous legal bill to prevent
> him from taking office. Hillery responds: "The figure was
> $11,468.24.
> Dyslexic Sam can get nothing right. And, moreover, the money was
> spent not to 'prevent' him from taking office, but to 'stop' him from
> taking
> office. Sam 1, Truth 0."
>
> I admit that when Sam first got elected that I
> worried about him being coopted and I wrote exactly
> that. As matters turned out, Sam proved a very
> pleasant surprise. For the first time in many years,
> we had a Board member who constantly exposed the inner
> games and crookedness. Sam's re****t on the status of
> the USCF building in Cross-to-Bear has brought to
> light what none of us would otherwise know. His
> minatory statements about the cost of the move, while
> called lies earlier by the same types as Hillery,
> proved to be UNDERESTIMATIONS.
>
> How these politicians hate Sam!
>
> Yours, Larry Parr
>
>
>
> jkh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> > 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.
Larry, haven't you learned yet to keep your mouth shut when you are
ignorant of the subject? Sloan's description of the events of August
2006 is a ludicrous distortion. I don't believe I ever made any
statements about the cost of the move to Crossville or the
construction of the building. (When I don't know about a subject, I
refrain from self-im****tant posturing. A lesson to be learned.) I
certainly criticized the cost of Sloan's idiotic lawsuit, and his
fairy story of all records being dumped in a landfill, and ... but the
list is too long to repeat.
Once upon a time you were a journalist, Larry. The first duty of a
journalist is to re****t the truth. "1984" was supposed to be a
warning, not an instruction manual.
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