[quote="seki"]The current Maor of LA made an insane list of often contradictory
campaign promises to get himself elected. At his first press
conference as Mayor, he was asked when he would begin implementing his
fantasy wish list.

His reply? "I didn't promise to do them all in my first term"

Sam didn't promise one million scholastic members in his first term.
We lost a great opportunity by not giving him a second term. [/
quote]

I personally believe that I could get one million scholastic members
by 2009 (which was my campaign promise) and I would have done that if
I had been elected along with three others who share my vision.

The basic steps of my plan a

1. Get elementary schools to buy blocks of 100 memberships (at a
discount of course).

2. Send bundles of Chess Life for Kids magazines to the schools for
distribution to their student members.

3. Teach teachers how to run USCF rated tournaments.

4. Make videos and DVDs of our National Elementary Championships and
send them to the schools for promotional purposes and post them on
youtube.com

These steps, fairly easy to implement, would have brought us a million
members over time in my opinion. I made the above proposals several
times when I was on the board and they were voted down every time.

Instead, the new board has suggested no new ideas. The only thing the
new board had done in the one month that has passed since taking
office is debate on how to bring about "civility" on the USCF Forums
and how stop any criticism of them.

Sam Sloan

"samsloan" I personally believe that I could get one million scholastic
members
by 2009 (which was my campaign promise) and I would have done that if
I had been elected along with three others who share my vision.


The main problem with anything Sam plans is that everyone else on the Board
hates his guts and nobody ever votes with anything Sam proposes. So every
Sam idea went down to defeat 5-1.

No one hates his guts. They just think he's an asshole, a jerk and a
dick head. You're welcome!

samsloan writes:
1. Get elementary schools to buy blocks of 100 memberships (at a
discount of course).

2. Send bundles of Chess Life for Kids magazines to the schools for
distribution to their student members.

3. Teach teachers how to run USCF rated tournaments.

4. Make videos and DVDs of our National Elementary Championships and
send them to the schools for promotional purposes and post them on
youtube.com

This is a good plan except for step 1, where I think Sam imagines a
discount that is nowhere near deep enough, and step 2, which attempts
to propagate yet another of USCF's useless publishing ventures.

On Sep 8, 12:12 am, Paul Rubin wrote:
samsloan writes:
1. Get elementary schools to buy blocks of 100 memberships (at a
discount of course).

2. Send bundles of Chess Life for Kids magazines to the schools for
distribution to their student members.

3. Teach teachers how to run USCF rated tournaments.

4. Make videos and DVDs of our National Elementary Championships and
send them to the schools for promotional purposes and post them on
youtube.com

This is a good plan except for step 1, where I think Sam imagines a
discount that is nowhere near deep enough, and step 2, which attempts
to propagate yet another of USCF's useless publishing ventures.

For those readers who do not know Paul Rubin, I need to explain the
above posting.

Paul Rubin thinks that USCF membership should be free or at the most
$5 per year. He wants to abolish Chess Life magazine or reduce it to
an ezine. He believes that the USCF should get its computers by going
dumpster diving. He has not been a USCF member for 15 years and his
last rating was 1282.

Fortunately, the USCF has never adopted his recommendations because,
if we had, the USCF would have been out of business years ago.

Sam Sloan

samsloan writes:
Fortunately, the USCF has never adopted his recommendations because,
if we had, the USCF would have been out of business years ago.

What is fortunate about the USCF still being in business?

"Paul Rubin" What is fortunate about the USCF still being in business?

Why is Sloan still posting his moronic plans and ideas regarding the USCF??

When he was on the board, not a single one of his plans was ever approved
because they all hated his guts. Now that he is a total nobody, what
attention will anyone give to Sloan's ideas??

Why waste the bandwidth Sloan?? You are done.