Petitioning USBF to cease attempts to punish Venice Cup Team Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]

#	Name	Location	ACBL Player Number	Comments
1	Jonathan Ferguson	Austin, TX	P571003
2	Han Peters	Madison, WI	L828548
3	Josh Donn	Las Vegas, NV	J479822
4	Csaba Daday	Romania
5	Scott Waldron	MD, USA	L126374
6	Jeff Goldsmith	Tujunga, CA	m890094
7	Anonymous	Anonymous
8	Argenta Price	San Francisco, CA	2019442
9	John Jones	Hacienda Heights, CA	J999400
10	Eric Mayefsky	Palo Alto, CA	L756602
11	Walter	Hamilton	R907459	Is the ACBL going to pay your lawyers if you get sued. I know ACBL threatened to cut off funds if your didn't act like good Bushies, but I doubt that those funds are close to the cost of a court battle. In the past I've witnessed the ACBL apologize for catching some pro cheating and pay them to make their lawsuit go away. When this becomes a legal matter you can be sure that the ACBL will not be there with monetary support.
12	Jason Rosenfeld	Stoneham, MA	8696535
13	Enrico Paolo Garrisi	Ascoli Piceno - Italia	Italian Fed. code: grc072
14	Angeliki Maglara	Bethesda, MD	8804044
15	Anonymous	Anonymous	K792990
16	Federico	Roma
17	laura ghelfi	brescia ITALY	FIGB -GHL019
18	douglas anderson	quincy,MA	4560779
19	Helene Hoegsbro Thygesen	Lancaster, UK
20	Joanie Gates	Austin TX	2042738
21	Lloyd Rawley	Greenbelt, MD	M612868
22	Anonymous	Anonymous
23	Jason S. Meyer	Silver Spring, MD, USA	J220950	I agree whole-heartedly with this petition. I also feel that these actions on the part of the USBF are tantamount to choosing political sides and this is uncalled for.
24	Bala	Chandran
25	Matthew Dyer	Dorchester, MA	Q714363
26	Ron Zucker	Washington, DC	o251366
27	Mark Rosen	Potomac, MD	q751390
28	Jack Mehoffer	Trenton, NJ	N/A
29	Stan	Schenker	m427114	Please make punishments commensurate with the crime. We are still a free country.
30	rona baroudi	cyprus
31	Eric Bell	Norman OK	K130270
32	Erin M. Cooper	Norman, OK	3332160
33	Jonathan Bittner	Boston, MA	7373848
34	Travis Crump	Wyomissing, PA	O954944
35	Stephen Fischer	Australia	P593430
36	Michael B. Preston	California	N955815	You simply must eliminate any requirement for a "rat" provision. Simply un-American. In fact, those who are in favor of such a provision should be removed from any position of authority as they are clearly beyond salvation.
37	Peter hainsworth	Australia
38	Roger Lee	Arcadia, CA	K772116
39	Henk Uijterwaal	Rozendaal, Netherlands	8314594
40	Hermod Herstad	Norway
41	Georgiana Gates	USA	N591562
42	Richard Willey	Natick, MA United States	8064857
43	Daniel Morgan	Vienna VA	7723113
44	Lorne Anderson	UK		An appropriate punishment is to ask for a written appology and confirm they will not take similar action again at any bridge tournament.
45	Paul Hightower	Lexington, KY USA	2567326	If the sort of excessive punishment we've been hearing about is imposed on any of the players, I will at a minimum boycott International Fund games, and will consider resigning from the ACBL.
46	Patrick Amrine	Seattle, WA	3787222
47	David Caprera	Evergreen CO	K349736
48	Darin Takemoto	Massachusetts	7551053 (ex-member)	The ridiculous overreaction by US Bridge authorities over the legal and reasonable actions by the USA1 Venice cup team remind me of why I quit the ACBL, and are a reminder never to rejoin.
49	Lavern Wiebe	Unit123	O387861	I am appalled at the ACBL actions in this case. I read the sign, they did not even criticize the President of express a crtical opinion, only state the presumably true fact that they did not vote for him. If someone interprets that as a criticism, that says as much about their opiinion of the President as it does about the sign itself. I have seen signs before supporting causes of various kinds (breast cancer research, bridge summer camp, etc.) and unless the ACBL comes up with a policy forbidding all types of discourse it seems vindictive to pursue this particular case.
50	Bill Reich	Branford, CT	0294812	What they did was somewhat annoying and possibly innapropriate. A very mild scolding would be a reasonable response. No actual punishment that I can imagine would be _mild_ enough to fit.