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| Chess One 2005-02-27, 6:48 am |
| >> Gentlemen,
quote:
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> My comment is that LARRY PARR -- a NON-MEMBER...has no right to receive
> it.
> He has no right to repeatedly flood this forum with requests for it.
CRUX-VILLE
As ani fül no, the national government only has responsibility to those
states who voted it into power, and to give kick-backs to all those
individuals who paid contributions to the republican party.
Isn't USCF a governance organisation for chess? Therefore USCF should only
award contracts to those who support the majority slate, and not tell the
general membership anything, in case 'the other side' get to know something.
This is the model, no?
USCF is purported to exist under its non-profit status, to expand chess into
the greater community. Eric usually argues, truthfully, that it actually
exists to administer the ratings system to some 2,000 clubs, and it
shouldn't spend a dime on anything else.
Paradoxically, and here is the crux, Larry Parr the non-member argues that
USCF attends to its mission statement, and Eric the proud member resolutely
rejects that in preference to privatising chess politics, as a sort of
para-military organisation, using similar terms as 'right to know' and so
on.
CROSSVILLE as CROSSROADS?
There is no need for these 2 correspondents to actually agree on the
subject!
But there is a need for USCF to give up its non-profit status to promote
chess development in the USA and as coordinator of international chess
events, since it does neither.
It can function exactly as it does now, with a 30-some peopled office
running the ratings system, and whatever else they're all going to do down
south.
Meanwhile the likes of Larry Parr could join a new organisation which is not
ethically challenged by taking money from highly objectionable regimes which
exist on the slave-wages of peasants.
He could join an organisation that did nothing else but develop chess in the
USA, and, I for one, feel optimistic that a few millionaires would applaud
this venture by the greatest form of appreciation possible, by check.
Cordially, Phil Innes
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| parrthenon@cs.com 2005-02-27, 5:48 pm |
| <My comment is that LARRY PARR -- a NON-MEMBER...has no right to
receive it. He has no right to repeatedly flood this forum with
requests for it.> -- Eric Johnson
<Does LARRY - PARR -- a NON-MEMBER, who has no right to receive it,
asking the question at any time permanently insulate the Board from
ever having to answer the question to any of its tens of thousands of
members?> -- Israel Silverman
As Eric Johnson knows full well, the issue is why ALL OF THE MEMBERS
HERE cannot receive information about the cost estimates. The reasons
given why MEMBERS cannot know the estimated costs of the move to
Crossville are that I am a non-member and that I am a dirt farmer.
MEMBERS cannot know whether Harry Sabine knew of the overcharges by
the Crossville architect or whether that architect is a friend of Mr.
Sabine's because I am a non-member and because I am a dirt farmer.
Thus far, those are reasons adduced for why MEMBERS cannot
receive this information. Eric repeats that I am a non-member like a
mantra, though MEMBERS also cannot receive the information.
His answer and his pretense are deeply dishonest.
We were told there was a pressing need to sell the land and building
in New Windsor mainly because of a "parking problem" even though we
were assured when the mortgage was paid off that it would remain the
permanent headquarters of USCF chess.
We were told the new building in Cross-to-Bear would cost
between $300,000 and $350,000. Now we are informed it probably will be
in closer to $550,000 -- more than the building in New Windsor was sold
for.
The main reason cost estimates of the move are not being revealed
is that they have skyrocketted beyond what the board majority imagined,
though we are assured all is honest and above-board..
A precedent was set when the USCF president was hired to supervise
the move for "expense money" annualized at around $60,000. Yet we are
now told these figures cannot be released, though the board is anxious
to do so.
Members have asked for the information. They do not receive it.
Randy Bauer offered as the reason that I am a dirt farmer. In any
normal not-for-profit company these clowns would be tossed out of
office.
And so it goes.
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<parrthenon@cs.com> wrote in message
news:1109528164.581458.308190@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
quote:
> A precedent was set when the USCF president was hired to supervise
> the move for "expense money" annualized at around $60,000. Yet we are
> now told these figures cannot be released, though the board is anxious
> to do so.
How do you release what doesn't exist? But, wait! I'm wrong! It exists in
what passes for Larry Parr's mind.
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