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>Don.- Its clear that only the candidates were entitled to purchase
>labels for their campaigns. As far as I know, Joel Channing, Robert
>Tanner and Greg Shahade did not order labels from the office. You may
>say that you acted on Joel Channing's behalf, but this is
>inappropriate.

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>
>You may disagree, but this underline your conflict acting as USCF
>Secretary in charge of the election and campaign manager for al least
>one of the candidates.

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>In previous Internet postings and e-mails you criticized me for
>endorsing candidates. However, you fail to recognize that I do not
>have anything to do with the decision making process in connection with
>the election. My only involvement was after we found out about the
>problems with the first ballot and I did never cross the line to make a
>recommendation or even tried to influence a decision, my only interest
>was the fairness and transparency of the process.

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>I have being very open to accept that the Natrol deal was my mistake.
>In fact, I apologized to the scholastic community for it.

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> Having said
>this, its not fair that you and Bill Goichberg have been embarking in a
>campaign to accentuate on this mistake without recognizing that the
>USCF would it had file for charter 11 if Tim Hanke and I were not
>elected in 2003.

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> You and Frank Brady supported us, the USCF should be
>thankful to you for this. BUT the plan for the financial recovery of
>the USCF was engineered by Tim Hanke, Leroy Dubeck, Stan Booz and
>myself. My job was to make it happen. Many people at the time told me
>"do not be disappointed if things do not work out, the USCF does not
>move fast enough to implement these measurements as fast as they are
>needed." Well, you know well that I worked day and night towards the
>goal of saving the USCF.

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>Bill Goichberg was against the outsourcing deal, this is the reason why
>I agreed to accept his offer to become USCF Executive Director. This
>forced him to be the one who needed to implement this decision. You
>and your friends continuously said that Bill Goichberg was the we' ve
>ever had. Well, I disagree. Bill deserves credit for being the most
>prominent chess organizer in the USA. However, he has no vision and
>people's skills. God save us from having him to become the next USCF
>President, this will be a disaster.

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>For the record, I am not seeking nor I will accept any important
>position in the upcoming board even if we win the election and we have
>a board majority. I have done enough.. Hopefully the USCF will survive
>Bill Goichberg's leadership is you manage to get a board majority. As
>for me, I will finish my term in the board, and concentrate in my own
>life.

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>I truly hope that our membership will support Randy Bauer, Steve Shutt,
>Elizabeth Shaunessy and George John in this election. As for the other
>candidates, Robert Tanner and Gregory Shahade, they will be also good
>team players.
>
>Bill Goichberg and Joel Channing are going to follow your foot steps
>and bring this organization into a more polarize situation.
>
>Beatriz Marinello

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>I do know of one non-candidate who told me that he attempted to order labels and was told that only candidates could order them.> George John

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>
>
> Sam Sloan wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> Sam Sloan is unsuitable for any USCF office for one simple reason;
> he crossposts articles about USCF politics into newsgroups that are
> supposed to be dedicated to computer chess. That alone shows that
> he has poor judgement and is unable to get along with others in a
> civil society by obeying simple and sensible rules. Who can tell
> what his next inappropriate behavior will be? Does he also consider
> himself to be above the rules concerning not stealing USCF money?
> Does he also consider himself to be above the rules concerning taking
> a shit in the bathroom instead of squating "over the board?" We simply
> cannot trust someone who refuses to respect basic newsgroup protocol.
>
>
> Our new campaign slogan:
> Dump Sam Sloan before he takes a dump on you!!!
>

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>The following letter contains a series of bogus allegations by Beatriz
>Marinello, as follows:
>
>On 30 Jun 2005 16:33:15 -0700, beatchess@aol.com wrote:
>
>
>Anybody may order USCF mailing labels for political reasons. There has
>never been a rule that only candidates may order mailing labels. For
>example, in the last election, Jim Eade ordered mailing labels to do a
>bulk mailing attacking me personally, and Eade was not a candidate.
>
>
>Another bogus claim: USCF Secretary is a political office and as such
>the Secretary has always endorsed a slate of candidates. Rachel
>Lieberman was secretary for at least six years and her husband was
>secretary before that and they always had candidates they supported.
>In no instance has a secretary in office not supported candidates for
>election.
>
>
>Not true, for several reasons. Beatriz Marinello used the USCF Office
>Computers to send out a bulk mailing endorsing her slate of
>candidates. Never before in the history of the USCF has this happened.
>
>Also, Beatriz instructed Glenn Petersen not to publish my candidates
>statement in the April Chess Life, after reviewing my statement and
>seeing that it was critical of her. This has never happened before in
>the history of the USCF.
>
>Now, in the most egregious interference of all, Beatriz Marinello
>moved to remove Don Schultz as Secretary to be replaced by two of her
>lackeys.
>
>
>Where is this apology? I have not seen it and I believe that nobody
>else here has either.
>
>How much money did you get paid for the Natrol deal?
>
>
>Not true. While the USCF faced serious financial difficulties, it was
>nowhere near to filing for Chapter 11. You apparently are not even
>aware of the legal requirements for filing Chapter 11.
>
>
>You spent your time doing nothing but bad things, harmful to the USCF
>and unauthorized by the by-laws, while gaining revenge on your
>enemies.
>
>
>Your "people skills" consist of lying all the time, as in this posting
>for example.
>
>
>We will try to hold you to that, as we are fairly certain that you
>want another two years as USCF President.
>
>We only hope that you go back to Chile and leave the remainder of the
>USCF's money here that has not been stolen.
>
>We remember that you promised to step down on January 1, 2005 but
>reneged on that deal, so naturally we assume that you are lying again.
>
>
>Nobody has brought the USCF into a "more polarize situation" than
>Beatriz Marinello.
>
>Can anybody remember any time in the 66 year history of the USCF when
>it was more polarized than it is now?
>
>Sam Sloan
>
>P.S. This is a real posting by me, Sam Sloan. There have been dozens
>of fake "Sam Sloan' postings in the past few days. I will state,
>however, that I do not believe that Beatriz Marinello or anybody
>connected with her is behind these fake postings. I have my own ideas
>as to who is doing it.

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> On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 03:42:53 GMT, sloan@ishipress.com (Sam Sloan)
> wrote:
>
>
> I hope you all realize that the above posting is not from the real Sam
> Sloan. I have great respect for Beatriz and am looking forward to
> working against her after I am elected.
>
> You all thought I would lose in Chicago; and you all think I will lose
> this election; and you all are completely wrong.
>
> Sam Sloan
>

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>I hope you all realize that the above posting is not from the real Sam
>Sloan. I have great respect for Beatriz and am looking forward to
>working against her after I am elected.
>
>You all thought I would lose in Chicago; and you all think I will lose
>this election; and you all are completely wrong.
>
>Sam Sloan

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> On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 22:35:56 +0200, Sam Sloan <sloan@ishipress.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> The above posting is not from me either. This one is especially
> dangerous because it looks like it really came from me. Even I would
> think it came from me if I did not know that I did not write it.
>
> It appears to have been posted from an email address in Germany. Look
> at the time zone above GMT +0200

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>Nice try.
>
>Last time I checked, Sloan doesn't live in Germany.
>
>I guess this person thought that if they used the same Usenet reader
>Sam uses (this poster used Forte Free Agent 2.0/32.652, as opposed to
>the version the real Sam Sloan uses, which is 1.21/32.243).

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>You all thought I would lose in Chicago;

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>and you all think I will lose this election; and you all are
>completely wrong.

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>I believe that this is a new and different fake poster. He even says
>things that I might actually write. It is becoming harder and harder
>to tell the real ones from the fakes.

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>
>
>
> Sam Sloan wrote:
>
>
> You got it wrong. We all think that you are a loser.
> Winning a game doesn't change your loser nature.
>
>
> You are unqualified to hold the office. It requires someone who is
> willing to follow the rules of polite and civil society. The fact
> that you keep filling a computer chess newsgroup with political
> posts proves that you don't care about anyone but Sam Sloan.
>
> Who can tell what your next inappropriate behavior will be? Do
> you also consider yourself to be above the rules concerning not
> stealing USCF money? Do you also consider yourself to be above
> the rules concerning taking a shit in the bathroom instead of
> squating "over the board?" Why should we trust someone who
> refuses to respect basic newsgroup protocol?
>
> Our new campaign slogan:
> Dump Sam Sloan before he takes a dump on you!!!
>
>
>

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>In 2001 when I sent out my recall petition against Tim Redman and the
>Redman Gang, George DeFeis at first refused to sell me the mailing
>labels. Redman correctly overruled DeFeis, to his credit because
>Redman knew that I weas going to use the mailing labels to send a
>letter demanding the recall of Redman.

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>Re the buyimg of labels IN THIS ELECTION. I called the USCF Office and
>was told by Traci Ponds that only candidates could buy the labels ---I
>could not. That is a fact. What happened in prior elections does not
>matter. Those were the rules I was given when I tried to buy a set of
>labels. Apparently the rules did not apply to Secretary Don Schultz. If
>he received a more complete membership list than the Chess Success
>candidates could buy, this gave his slate an unfair advantage because
>some of the voters only received the Schultz/Goichberg mailings which
>contain numerous factual errors or distortions.That was an enormous and
>unfair advantage for them.

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>The assertion that Rachel Lieberman campaigned for anyone while USCF
>Secretary is also simply untrue. The Schultz/Goichberg team is doing
>yet more character assassinations.

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>Vote for the team that will continue USCF on the road to financial
>recovery--Randy Bauer, George John, Elizabeth Shaugnessy and Stave
>Shutt. Dr. Leroy Dubeck, Past President USCF

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>Re the buyimg of labels IN THIS ELECTION. I called the USCF Office and
>was told by Traci Ponds that only candidates could buy the labels ---I
>could not. That is a fact. What happened in prior elections does not
>matter. Those were the rules I was given when I tried to buy a set of
>labels. Apparently the rules did not apply to Secretary Don Schultz. If
>he received a more complete membership list than the Chess Success
>candidates could buy, this gave his slate an unfair advantage because
>some of the voters only received the Schultz/Goichberg mailings which
>contain numerous factual errors or distortions.That was an enormous and
>unfair advantage for them.

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>Another option would be to have our mailer handle all mailings rather
>than send the names and addresses to 3rd parties, so that the names
>and addresses of our members, possibly our most significant asset,
>remain under our control. However, I doubt that organizers, who often
>use only the labels they want rather than all of the labels ordered,
>would like that option.

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> Is it then the criticism that Don Schultz used labels in the
> same fashion as Leroy Dubeck or Helen Warren or Tim Redman or Jim Eade
> or Steve Doyle (when he was president!) or Woody Harris (when he was,
> ah, secretary)?

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>Beatriz recently sent out an Internet campaign mailing that included
>Hugh C Paulk on the send to list. I'm not making any accusation here
>but am curious about how this name appeared on a mailing coming from
>Beatriz - simply very strange. There also was an earlier mailing by
>Beatriz that included another name that was equally strange. I have
>been asked as to how use of these names was possible. This name
>certainly was not on any of the mailing lists we used.

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>Mike Nolan said: "There's no Hugh Paulk on the USCF's mailing list."

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>That makes sense since he doesn't play chess or is part of the USCF or
>any other chess organization as far as I know.

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> "chessdon" <chessdon@aol.com> writes:
>
>
> There's no Hugh Paulk on the USCF's mailing list.
> --
> Mike Nolan

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> Mike Nolan wrote:
>
>
> With every order for labels, insert a few with fake names to addresses
> that you control. That way, if any further use of the mailing list
> happens, you have evidence for your lawsuit.

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> Beatriz recently sent out an Internet campaign mailing that included
> Hugh C Paulk on the send to list. I'm not making any accusation here
> but am curious about how this name appeared on a mailing coming from
> Beatriz - simply very strange. There also was an earlier mailing by
> Beatriz that included another name that was equally strange. I have
> been asked as to how use of these names was possible. This name
> certainly was not on any of the mailing lists we used.

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> "chessdon" <chessdon@aol.com> writes:
>
>
> There's no Hugh Paulk on the USCF's mailing list.

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> I understand there are a couple of Hugh Jasses, though.

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> Stan Booz asks:
>
> "How did you manage to get that restricted list?"
>
> Anyone reading this would, if they believe Stan, think I aksed for and
> received a restricted list of some nature.
>
> But I didn't.
>
> So why does Stan ask questions this way?
>
> Is it to deceive?

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> Stan made the charge just as he did when he implied I was somehow
> involved in the Natrol matter by saying "Ask Don about it!" and
> following up with a joke (his characterization) that I claimed USCF
> would get $50,000 from the Natrol sponsorship..
>
> Is this also a joke this time?

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> I have a difficult understanding how someone can ad nauseum make
> unsubstantiated allegation after allegation after allegation after
> allegation moving rapidly from one to the next without ever
> demonstrating any substance to any of them and yet seems to retain some
> support here in rgcp.

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> I've already explained that it would be stupid to even want to use such
> a list because it would lose votes.

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> There is not one iota of proof other than Stan's allegation yet he
> insults everyone's intelligence here by giving, as the basis of his
> allegation, the answer that my answer was: "too pat." Anyone who can
> believe such nonsense, has, IMO, a problem. .

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>Up yours Sam. Beatriz is the best thing for the USCF. It's time for
>assholes like Don, Bill, Larry and you to get lost.
>

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>Everyone needs to read the return email addresses before assuming that
>a poster is who he claims to be.
>
>Sam Sloan