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> It is not a question of the board working with or against sponsors. The
> problem is Bill Goichberg conducting negotiations for the US
> Championship in complete secrecy. Bill Goichberg consults with nobody
> and tells nobody what he is doing. He is self-appointed as "THE
> DECIDER".
>
>
> Similarly, Bill Goichberg keeps writing letters to the USCF's attorney
> Michael Matsler (the same attorney who opposed me in court) asking how
> can he get rid of Sam Sloan. However, Bill does not pay for these legal
> consultations. The USCF pays. Your former dues money is being used to
> pay a lawyer for advice on how to get rid of me. The board has never
> voted on or approved paying the legal fees for a lawyer to give advice
> on how to get rid of Sam Sloan, who was duly elected.
>
>
> Right now, the US Championship does not have a firm sponsor. Nobody has
> committed to putting up a dime. Yet, Bill Goichberg keeps running
> qualifier tournaments, leading players to believe that this gives them
> the chance to qualify to the USCF Championship. Now, Bill tells us that
>
> we on the board have a 'Moral Obligation" to allow his qualifiers into
> our championship. I believe that we have no such moral obligation. He
> should not have collected the money from these people once he knew, as
> he did last February, that we had no sponsorship money for the US
> Championship.
>
>
> Now, Bill is saying that I should have objected earlier. However, from
> late August to Mid-September I received almost no emails from the
> board, supposedly because they were making a mistake in my address and
> sending my mail to the wrong address. (Does anybody really believe
> that?) Finally, when I started getting my mail and when I complained
> about that and about the US Championship, Bill Goichberg had me
> publicly censured for complaining.
>
>
> Sam Sloan