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Originally Posted by samsloan
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Originally Posted by Randy Bauer
Stephen
Jones strikes me as a qualified candidate,
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Stephen Jones strikes you as a qualified candidate!! Boy, we really
had to pull teeth to get that one out.
Stephen Jones is the most magnificently qualified candidate the USCF
has ever had. He is a chess master who almost won the US Open one
year. He is a postal grandmaster. He has a Ph.D. in mathematics. He is
a lawyer.
Can't be more qualified than that!
And all you can say is that your election opponent "strikes you" as
qualified.
Sam Sloan |
I am genuinely sorry that I wasn't gushy enough for you, Sam. I'll
leave the gushing to others -- I recall you expressing a similar
gushyness about another candidate. On June 5, 2005, on the chess
newsgroups Sam Sloan wrote:
"In fact, if I am elected I intend to vote for Bill Goichberg for
president, even though this year, as in every other year, he opposes
my election.
Had it not been for the strong opposition of Bill Goichberg, it is
obvious that I would have been elected several times in the past.
Nevertheless, Bill Goichberg deserves the job. Bill has been directly
informed with the USCF for 41 years since 1964. Bill set up the USCF
rating system, which should really be called the Elo-Goichberg System
rather than the Elo System. More than anybody else, Bill Goichberg
made the USCF the organization it is today and nobody has a stronger
interest in the ultimate success of the organization than does Bill
Goichberg..."
Pretty strong praise for somebody you now regularly clash with on the
Board, wouldn't you say? Kind of makes me wonder what you'd be saying
about Stephen Jones in a couple years should you both get elected.[/
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Yes. I wrote that about Goichberg, and I still adhere to it.
I feel that Goichberg was entitled to become USCF President, as he had
wanted to be for decades.
However, I feel that he has not done a good job as president. He had
his chance, and he blew it. I believe that the entire board, with the
exception of his lapdog, agrees with me. I believe that regardless of
who wins the coming election, Bills will be replaced and somebody else
will be president, although I do not know who that will be.
As soon as I won the election last July, Bill started writing letters
to the USCF's counsel asking for advice on how to stop me from taking
office or how to remove me once I had taken office. The legal bills
for Michael Matsler of the Law Firm of Rider, Weiner and Frenkel for
August 2006 was $2,790 and for September 2006 was $1998, for a grand
total of $4788. All of this was for responding to these letter from
Goichberg to Matsler. Thus, Bill Goichberg wasted $4788 in membership
dues money trying to remove a person who had been duly elected by the
membership from office.
The problem with Bill is that he runs the USCF like he runs the
Continental Chess Association, which is a one man show. He just
decides things on his own and announces it. He almost never consults
the rest of the board about anything.
Sam Sloan