| samsloan 2006-11-19, 9:05 pm |
| Chess One wrote:
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> Leadership passes into empire;
> Empire begets insolence;
> Insolence bring ruin.
> /William Carlos Williams
>
> I would like to comment on two aspect of recent postings by board member =
Sam
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> Sloan. During the election his supporters hoped he would bring some glasn=
=F6st
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> to the boardroom which would air our futures in a healthy way. But I note
> that there has been a certain concentration over past events, and of cert=
ain
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> personages in particular, which prompt me to point out that the future is
> 180 degrees in the other direction, and that Mr. Sloan's motives for 'just
> noticing' some materials are possibly confusable by naive persons with
> settling personal accounts from the past.
I know that many think that I have sold out and you seem to think that
I am using my position on the board to gain revenge for past misdeeds.
Neither is the case.
Ever since the day that I won the election, efforts have been made by
those who opposed my candidacy to either stop me from taking office or
to neutralize or remove me once I got in office.
Thousands of dollars in USCF membership dues money have been spent on
attorneys fees in an effort to sop me from attending to my duties as a
board member.
The private confidential BINFOS which the outside world is not allowed
to read have been filled with vicious personal attacks and even threats
against me.
The president ordered the editor of Chess Life to remove my name from
an article to be published in Chess Life which had casually mentioned
my name and a chess game I had played.
Meanwhile, I have tried hard to be a "good boy". For example, the
president asked me to stop posting here and so I did. This is the
reason you have rarely heard me for the past two months.
The president asked me to take the picture of me with a prominent chess
personality off the home page of my website, and so I did.
The president asked me to do a lot of other things and I did so.
I was not given any committee assignments, and yet I did not complain.
So, I have gone far out of my way to accommodate the president and
other board members who have been attacking me.
I did this hoping that the attacks would stop and we could attend to
the serious problems facing the USCF, such as the mounting financial
losses.
My hopes have proven unfounded. The president and certain other board
members continue to attack me. They seem to be obsessed with me, as
though I am in some way responsible for the problems they created even
before I was even elected.
I have not done everything the president asked me to do. For example,
he demanded that I delete my entire website. This is not a reasonable
demand and I refused to comply, especially since it was my website that
got me elected in the first place.
The end result is that the board is on the verge of a total breakdown.
Almost all meaningful discussions have stopped. There is silence on the
lines. Board members, other than myself, have almost completely stopped
sending emails to the other board members.
I am just letting you know that the honeymoon is about to end. Unless
there is immediate improvement in the situation, the next step will be
war.
Sam Sloan
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