| Sam Sloan 2007-01-30, 8:20 pm |
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parrthenon@cs.com wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> WHERE'S THE BOARD MOTION?
>
> <Both Bill Goichberg and Beatriz Marinello called for Tanner's
> resignation on November 27.> -- Vince Hart
>
> There is a pathetic quality to Mr. Hart's advocacy.
>
> I may yet be proved wrong by the Board which, as I wrote,
> I hope to be so proved.
>
> But the call by President Goichberg and Beatriz Marinello for
> Robert Tanner's resignation is not a Board resolution
> voted on by the majority. I am still correct in what I wrote.
>
> Sam deals fairly adequately with the egregious
> Bill Brock's attempt to defend Robert Tanner's blatant
> and delicious dishonesty by changing the subject to
> Sam Sloan.
>
> Still, the fallacy in Mr. Brock's attempt to
> equate Sam Sloan's claim to have reached a master's
> rate with Robert Tanner's serial efforts to use his
> accreditation as a USCF tournament director to raise
> his rating by several hundred points is evident enough.
>
> Even were Sam's claim dishonest and wrong, which
> has not been demonstrated, it would not amount to a
> National tournament director corrupting the tournament
> directing process by repeatedly plotting through devious
> measures to advance his own rating. Mr. Tanner's cheating
> was not done in haste or in heat. It was serial, it was
> prolonged and it was devious. By any normal
> reckoning it speaks to the man's personal character.
> It speaks to whether he may be trusted to remain
> accredited as a USCF tournament director or as a
> member of our FIDE "team."
>
>
> Vince Hart wrote:
I agree with Larry Parr. I'm the most honest chap in chess. I've never
lied before in my life. Vote for me and I'll go after everyone else in
my next term. My goal is to get rid of Shahade, Polgar and Lucas.
Sam Sloan
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