[TheForge] ABANA - long

Wed Jul 3 19:49:00 2002

Chris-

The contradiction is right where I copied it in... "No I did not receive 
it"... "Yes I signed for it, but I didn't open it."

If he didn't open it, fine... but at least have the decency to treat us as 
something other than children and tell us the truth the first time. The 
involvement is simple enough that a straightforward response a week ago 
would have settled this. Instead, he simply gave more fuel for the fire, 
and damaged his reputation in the eyes of this member. Since I don't know 
Bill other than via this medium I can only judge him by his actions on this 
forum. He made a statement a week ago and the one this week is a direct 
contradiction. With that as my only measure of the man, I must say the 
measure is not looking too good at this point.

And if you don't like us talking about the organization we belong to and 
have a duty to look after, fine. Set your filters to ignore these threads, 
or simply hit the delete key. What we're having here is an exchange of 
information designed to bring to light the facts of certain allegations. If 
there is nothing to be found, so be it. If there is, we will be informed 
and can make decisions based on that information. Until then we are simply 
uninformed, and can be written off as whiners. After that point, if we do 
nothing, than we can be written off as lazy.

Aaron Silver

At 07:22 PM 7/3/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>What is the contradiction?????
>Bill just stated that he signed for a PACKAGE that he did not open! That 
>is not
>signing for a bid!
>You read what you want into this bullshit, comment on it endlessly, and it 
>will
>continue for another two years.
>Perhaps George Dixon can start a Whiners column in his publication, and 
>move this
>off the list, where it seems to be attractive to only a few  responders.
>
>Chris
>Alexandria VA
>
>Aaron Silver wrote:
>
> > Well, I AM a member, and I've been passingly interested in this. I find it
> > interesting that a previous question posed to and responded by bill is
> > directly contradicted here:
> >
> > Wed Jun 26 18:22:00 2002
> >  > Darrell,
> >  > I fully understand the question.  I did not sign for a bid.  Bids or a
> >  > better word proposals were presented to the total ABANA Board for a 
> vote.
> >  > If you are a member of ABANA you can get a copy of the minutes of that
> >  > meeting and read for yourself.  This is about all I have to say on this
> >  > issue.  I am no longer on the ABANA Board and you should direct your
> >  > questions to  one of the present board members regarding this issue .
> >  > Bill
> >
> > Wed Jul 3 14:53:00 2002
> >  > >The only thing that I will reply to was the so called bid.  Yes I 
> received
> >  > >the package, signed for it and passed it along to Doug Learn.  I 
> did not
> >  > >even open the envelope.
> >  > >Bill
> >
> > Now this is a direct contradiction. I'm not a conspiracy theorist so I'm
> > going to assume that this is not part of a larger sinister plot to hide the
> > truth. I will say however that this is disturbing, and if this is how the
> > membership and the watching public has to drag information out (i.e.
> > provide proof that the previous statements are lies before the truth is
> > admitted) then I for one am not ready to dismiss any future statements
> > against the board out of hand.
> >
> > I understand Bill wasn't the President of the Board when the vote was taken
> > and claims to have not even opened the bid, however I must say my being
> > able to believe his statements at face value have gone down-hill with this
> > latest round of emails.
> >
> > Aaron Silver
> >
>
>
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