4.5 Nomination of Candidates for Youth Coordinator

[Vladimir Drkulec]

In order to vote accurately in the coming election I wish to know more about why the parties involved are unhappy with the others and what they would do differently. WIth respect to past performances I would appreciate the discussions limited to actual actions and events.

The people who were previously involved in the youth committee with Michael Barron all refuse to participate unless there is some assurance that he cannot participate again because he used to attack people for any perceived opposition in the youth committee on chesstalk.

Then there was the situation with Jiaxin Liu where a very talented girl became a pawn in his struggle to show who was boss.

As an executive he was cut out of the conference call at a meeting of the executive because he was being so disruptive and they wanted to actually get some work done.

At the Windsor CYCC from 2010 John Coleman jokingly told me he was alternatively driven to suicide and homicide by the actions of Michael Barron. His solution to anything is to ask someone else to do it for him. In the case of the Ontario Open it was Bryan Lamb who saved his bacon at the last minute when he dropped the ball on organizing the tournament until it was almost too late. Putting this master of organization in charge less than two weeks before the end of CYCC and the extended deadline for registration for WYCC would not be prudent in my opinion.