samsloan wrote:

Famous last words.

How about making a bet?

If you are wrong, you drop out of the election race, and if you are
right, I drop out.

Fair deal?

Well... okay, I guess. If you think you can beat me with that
bizarre Damiano suicide thing of yours, I pledge not to run for
USCF office, ever. But if I win, I don't want you to drop out. Oh
no! What I want is half the revenues from your Web sites --
ka-ching! After a couple of years, I can just buy the USCF
outright, and once I institute my new Perpetual ratings-Inflation
Super-System [****], membership numbers will likely double.
After that, it's nothing but black ink all the way.

Oh, wait -- were you by chance talking to Randy Bauer?
He's kind of busy right now. The regular Santa Claus fell ill
and they needed somebody to stand in, and since he already
was "in the red"....

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