| Chess One 2004-11-07, 5:46 pm |
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"Tim Hanke" <timothyhanke@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:b2a11a50.0411011207.cbabc61@posting.google.com...
quote:
> Louis Blair <lblai@blackburn.edu> wrote ...
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> Phil Innes's statement will convey the misleading impression to many
> readers that I knew Pehme and put him up for the editor's job.
"After two long conversations with Kalev, I
feel Kalev is the man we need for the job."
- Timothy Hanke (2003-08-30 10:33:15 PST)
quote:
> I
> believe it was Innes's intention to convey that misleading impression.
Quite a remarkable statement. I presume you have now changed your mind about
Pehme Tim, and consequently its necessary to make Innes a liar by
volunteering your new opinion of Pehme in public. Tut tut! Politics,
politics!
Without Louis Blair's research I would not have bothered to look up your
statements - since I know damn well publicly and privately which way the
wind blows, then and now.
So... you made an impetuous mistake <right?> without doing enough research
on other candidates or on Pehme. Are you doing exactly the same thing with
Crossville? Its exactly the same pattern isn't it?
There is nothing wrong with Crossville necessarily, but maybe there is a
better place, and maybe any move should fit USCF's future plans? Why this
absurd Silence of the Plans?
But how responsible are you in admitting your own mistakes over Pehme? Its
not evident here you take any responsibility for your clear public
statement. Instead you publicly call me a liar, and skirt the issue
entirely.
quote:
> However, I must admit, I cannot read Innes's mind, nor do I always
> understand his posts, many of which seem to be written in a sort of
> pidgin English.
Ad hom from Tim Hanke. God! - I must have touched a sore spot. Now Tim
doesn't understand the issue as I proposed it. I grant him his own views
have always been clear, completely for Pehme and now completely against. It
must be distressing to read anything in the middle, complicated and
'difficult to understand.'
quote:
> Pehme is a friend of Frank Brady's, and by the time I met Pehme, it
> was more or less a fait accompli that he would become interim editor.
Ah... But you also felt he was right on the 30th of August 2003 , since you
had "two /long/ interviews" with him, and said so publicly to deflate other
claims on the positon - now you are practicing distancing rather than
candor.
quote:
> Over the objections of Brady and Don Schultz, I helped pass a recent
> Board motion, opening a formal search for a Chess Life editor. Pehme
> has done yeoman work filling in as editor for the last year, I am
> grateful for his contributions, and he is certainly welcome to apply
> for the job on a long-term basis, in open competition with any other
> candidates who may apply for the job.
Yeah right.
Pehme has pissed everybody off and, almost impossibly, reduced CL to a lower
level than it has ever been.
The new candidate needs be selected with some care, and with some insulation
from politics as we know you, unless you retitle the job Chief Propagandist.
He or She should also be a competent editor, able to stimulate writers to
contribute interesting articles to get people into chess, and the big one,
to keep them there.
Beware anyone who calls you.
Phil Innes
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> Tim Hanke
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