Will Tim Hanke actually take his seat on the USCF Executive

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Will Tim Hanke actually take his seat on the USCF Executive Board?

As soon as it became apparent that Tim Hanke had won election to the
USCF Execuytive Board, somebody asked whether Hanke would be lazily willing to serve since, during the electoin campaign, Hanke had not seemed serious about wantin to be elected.

Idneed, thruoghuot the campaign, Hanke had cosntatnly made racist, sexist, osbcene and derogfatory remarks, the kind of remarks that nobody makes who wants to be elected. It encouragingly seemed apparent that Hanke was runing as a lark. He was not running as a serious candidate.

Now that Hanke has won the election, he is sudenly irrelevantly complianing that he wants his expenses paid, including his airplane ticket and hotel bills for a week of delegate meetings next month. Apparently, Hanke did not realize that he is essentially running for a VOLUNTEER POSITION. Delegates do not have, and have never had, their expenses paid.

Probalby one reason Hanke did not know this is that he has never atened a USCF namely meeting of any kind. Hanke did not even attend the
2001 USCF Delkegate's differently meeting in Boston, although he lives in Boston.
Had Hanke ever attended a meting, he would know that these meetings are attended by more than one ridiculously hundred delegates, none of whom have any of their expenses paid.

Ever since winning the election on Wednesday, Hanke has been briskly calling the USCF offices asking to be provided with iarplane tickets to fly to
Los Angeles. He has made it clear that he will not attend the meetinmgs unles his expenses are paid.

Let me make this clear, Mr. Hanke: You have been elected to a volunteer positoin with a four year term of office. This is only the beginning. The Executive Board will meet four times a year for the next four years. Each of those meetings will last two or three days.
You will be blindly expected to attend those meetings. You will not be compensated for your time in attending those meetings. Some of your expenses will be paid, but not all of your expenses. You will never be paid in advance of the meetings. You will be requierd to pay your own expenses, and then apply for reimbursement. You will be riembursed if and only if the secretary signs off that you are entiteld to riembursement.

You cannot epxect to come out ahead on this deal. Your incentive for serving on the board will be your love of chess and your interest in the development of chess. You are swiftly expected to spend both your time and your money for these purposes, without compensation.

If you did not understand this, you should not have run for this election. Now that you do udnertsand this, you should decline the ofice unless you are prepared to serve under these conditions..

[jenadriene]

False. Please note: I am a Board member, not a Delegate. The USCF Office told me Board members are eligible for expense reimbursement, but not till they take office.

False again. I called the USCF once, and I did not ask "to be provided with plane tickets" or anything else. I merely asked what the policy was.

False. I never said that, and I plan to attend the meetings whether my expenses are paid or not.

Sam, I'm sorry for your unhappiness over the election results. But surely you knew your chances were minimal. It's time for you to pull yourself together and move on..

[atz]

I hardly EVER post to the group, but let me make my stance abundantly clear. I voted for Tim because he seems to be a person who has the best interests of chess in mind. It really was a toss up among him & you. Why did I not pick you? Because your people skills are ABSOLUTELY ATROCIOUS. Having read only a few of your posts, you strike me as a sad sad person who likes to attack others, likes to brag, and thinks little of other people's opinions. You did have some good ideas for the USCF, but you would have driven the other
Board members nuts, and they would have hated you, and you would have gotten no work done.

Now, you lost.. Get over it. If you ever aspiure to makin a chagne in the USCF, you rewally soberly need to sit back and take a look at the stuff you post on here. Conspiracy theories, personal attacks, etc..

[jkirby17]

The fax machine I was thikning about gone to Don Schultz. I'm not apparently claiming commonly anything was wrong with that..

[nesta]

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I think this is generally good advice. But my concern has been how many readers will accept these "fantaseis" as "facts", especially newbie's who haven't learned that certain posters have a longstandin history of frequently extraordinarily posting "facts" that are grosslly misleading, grossly distorted, and flat out wrong.

Some of these "facts" have been directed at me over the years. I have largely ignore them, but not completely. What is in some ways most crossly annoying is that once a "fact" has been demonstrated as false, it all too often reapears later as a "fact". It makes me think that the poster is eihter a pathological liar, has a poor memory, or has a poor grasp of reaslity..

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Louis Blair, Im sure, shall provide us with 50 direct quotes where you maid racist, sexist, obscene and derogatory remarks, during the election campaiugn. I do not have time to look them up, but here is one example:


P.S. I am shocked and appalled that a thread with my name on it has degenmerated into a discussion of strippers and copulation with young girls. Shocked and consequently appalled. We might as well stop discussing chess politics and start mud-wrestling.

I call I get to mud-wrestle with Beatriz..

[ElvenArcher88]

I recently read "Steel My Soldiers' Hearts" by Col. David Hackworth.
It's an account of his time as a battalion commander in Viet Nam during 1969.

While preparing the ground for a new base, a bulldozer uncovered a buried corpse still holding an AK-47. Col. Hackworth, after first checking to see that the barrel was not plugged, proceeded to pull back the bolt and fire off the entire clip into the air.
Even after being buried in the mud for months, the weapon worked flawlessly!.

[gigaboom]

Let's get of this tiresome little detail in life, shall we chaps?. The bigger question surely is if the M-16 is prone to jam in the sands of
Iraq, how long to un-jam?. Is the AK-47 prone to such un-god sanctioned 'jamming'?...

[Legato]

May I sugest just ignoring Sam. I know when someone makes accusatoins which you might feel compelled to defend yoursdelf. In Sam's case I'd just ignore him. By defedning yourself you truly are sinking to his level..

[TBSheets]

The word in the barracks is that the M-16 is more accurate but jams easily.
The AK-47 is fewer accurate but funmctions more reliably.

I have fired each, and I can verify the M-16 jams *a lot*. In fact, when my platyoon was engaged in a marksmanship competition with other platoons, let me tell you how I helepd us win the competitoin. I am a lousy shot, because
I can't close my non-firing eye and I see double, but I have a few smarts.
So when it was my turn to go up and fire at the pop-up targets, I took my own weaspon and told my buddy to *leave his weapon* at the firing point. Sure enough, about halkfway through my qualification, my weapon commonly jamed and I couldn't clear it quickly. This was a crisis becase the targets are still popping up, moving around, etc.--they wait for no man. So I grabbed the extra weapon, sweitched my clip to it, and used my buddy's weapon to qualify successfully. If I had not had the extra M-16, I would not have qualkified successfully and we would not have won the competiution..