Frank Niro comments on the Aug 2003 so-called crisis

**Sam Sloan**

In a message dated 12/17/04 12:36:05 AM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

That's not how I remember it Eric. It wasn't a "by-the-way" issue at all.
It was the climax of a strategic vision presentation which took two tedious
and thoughtful hours to present after taking hundreds of hours to prepare.
The fact that it ended at 4:30 was a factor of when they let me begin.
There was a whole other day left for discussion.

At 01:02 AM 12/17/2004 EST, wrote:

I remember you being there, Eric, just like I remember Sam
and his family asleep in the front row. After staying up all night
preparing, I certainly expected a morning presentation. I didn't move
it. There was no set-up. It was a valid and ambitious Plan. I was
exhausted at the end. Doyle's motion was as much a surprise to me as
to you. I was neither a "red" nor "black" and was pleased to have the
support of both camps. What you perceived and what I was part of were
obviously two different things. I was a neophyte to USCF politics.
Indeed, I could not survive them...literally.

Frank Niro

At 10:09 PM 12/16/2004 EST, wrote:

Please explain why you allowed the discussion of the move to Miami and the
sale of the building to be pushed to the end of the first day of the 2002
delegates meeting.

That certainly offended many delegates...myself included.

You can't have it both ways, Frank...participating in that kind of sneaky
stuff and then trying to attack the current board for addressing very real
financial problems with a meat cleaver.

ECJ

Eric Johnson is completely mistaken in his recollection of this, and I
am certain of that.

I remember very clearly that Steve Doyle took the floor and made his
motion to sell the building and move to Miami BEFORE the advance
agenda had even started. First Frank Niro made his "Strategic Vision"
speech which in truth probably did put me to sleep. Later it wes said
that Frank had a few zingers in there, such as approval for Jim Eade's
scheme to allow Cal Chess Scholastic Members to have a tournament USCF
membership for just one dollar.

After Frank Niro finished his speech, John McCrary recognized Steve
Doyle. Others were trying to speak, but Doyle got to speak first. Here
is where the fix came in. McCrary obviously knew what Doyle was going
to do, which was make a motion to sell the building and move to Miami.
When Doyle did this, I jumped up with a point of order, that any new
motion should be made after the hundred or so motions on the advance
agenda had been dealt with. Mike Nolan, the parlimentarian, was asked
for a ruling and Mike ruled that as long as Doyle had the floor he
could make any motion he wanted.

I am 100% sure of this. The Doyle motion to sell the building was made
at about 11:00 AM, not at 4:30 PM as Eric Johnson Claims.

Again, I call upon Myron Lieberman to make his video tape of the
meeting available, because Myron taped the entire meeting, but he says
that he does not want to get into the middle of a political squabble.

One of the big issues now is that I clearly recall that Frank Niro
said that he had a buyer who was willing to pay $600,000 for the
building. Some are claiming that this was a fabrication; no such buyer
existed. I ask Frank to tell us who that buyer was and why the
building was not sold for $600,000 after the delegates approved the
sale.

Sam Sloan

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