[TheForge] ABANA - long

[dann]

Geroge,

I just read your ABANA long.  It saddened me.

Clare Yellin, as your former employer at Samuel Yellin Metalworkers, 
apparently had an axe to grind.

Basically what I read is that  Dorothy  Stiegler and  Clare Yellin
demanded and received censorship  rights  over both your submissions  and 
your advertisements.
 From your text,  this was not required of any other contributor / advertiser.

Jim McCarty , then publisher of the " Anvil's Ring"
forwarded that email information / documentation of the censorship to you, 
which you then used to blow the whistle to the ABANA board.

The ABANA board acted.  Instead of resolving the censorship issue, the 
ABANA board struck back at the whistle blower, and especially at Jim 
McCarty as Publisher of the "Anvil's Ring".  Your documentation appears 
to  show that the ABANA  Board acted to find a new Publisher, by whatever 
means.

It is the kind of people politics that we have all come to loath 
about  Government  at all levels.  Even though this is "Water over the 
dam",   now that you point it out.  there remains  an unpleasant 
smell,   and a good lawyer could probably sniff out a lot of trouble for 
the ABANA board.   There is every reason to believe that the "lack of 
loyalty" of the former publisher,  McCarty is the reason for the change, 
and the change to a new publisher had nothing to do with bogus savings, or 
submission date of the proposal.

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To G Dixon from Jim McCarty:
 >Reply from Dorothy:
 >Thought you'd want to know.
 >Don't forget to send me the new ads.
 >
 >Jim McCarty
 >Editor, The Anvil's Ring
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 >From: Dorothy Stiegler <anvilart@jps.net>
 >To: jimmac@socketis.net
 >Subject: Fwd: Re: Ad
 >Date: Sun, Jan 16, 2000, 11:46 PM
 >Jim, Regarding the GD ADD, run it as is, I have this from Clare:
 >
 >Dorothy
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 >>From: Clyellin@aol.com
 >>Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 18:00:22 EST
 >>Subject: Re: Ad
 >>To: anvilart@jps.net
 >>X-Mailer: AOL for Macintosh sub 147
 >>
 >>Dorothy,
 >>For now using that title in the ad is satisfactory.
 >>Clare
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{Clare's "For now" use of "that title" refers to the use by George Dixon of 
his resume line item of "Former Head Blacksmith at Samuel Yellin 
Metalworkers" in his advertising}.
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