Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Column 468
Where’s there’s smoke there’s fire!
Smoke is billowing about the private ADO “empire” like at Hamas House on a crisp mid-summer’s eve.
There are embers too. Lots of embers. And there’s a crowd around the campfire…
A few are trying to keep the embers cool, attempting to stop them from bursting in to a raging fire. What do they want to hide?
Others are pounding my e-mail in-box with information about ADO goings-on. The information – much of it still not corroborated – is astonishing.
It has now been 24 hours since I sent the following message to the ADO’s chief financial officer, Lloyd Hoover. I also posted it to the Darts Discussion Group so that others – particularly ADO officials – would be aware. There has been no response, not from anyone in authority. Perhaps Hoover is on vacation. Perhaps his e-mail is on the fritz. Perhaps he has been told not to reply. In fairness, 24 hours isn’t a lot of time…
August 5, 2014
Mr. Hoover… Respectfully, as CFO for the American Darts Organization might I ask that you e-mail me a copy of the most recent financial statement for the organization? I am working on a column for September 1 and would like to refer to the most recent numbers available. Thank you.
Paul Seigel (aka Dartoid)
When more than one person knows a secret – or many secrets – it is only a matter of time before everybody knows. The money trail is often illuminating. How much is the ADO taking in? How are they spending it? Why won’t they say?
Are funds missing?
Again, my e-mail is buzzing. Some of those who ADO officials may think – may have long thought – are protecting secrets, and friends, are not.
My aim is not to bring the ADO down. My aim is to see it fixed (and I still firmly believe that current president, David Hascup, is trying). But I fear his efforts are being thwarted by some of the very people with secrets to hide.
Let me also be clear: I also have no reason to believe Lloyd Hoover has anything but the best of intentions. I do not know him but I am told he is an honest stand-up guy.
I feel the same about Hascup.
But if the ADO cannot be fixed I submit the organization should be dismantled and reconstituted via fair and representative elections with a governing body and squeaky-clean financial transparency – which represent all of the dues-paying members (not just the handful who chase points) and leagues the way they should expect to be represented.
For background, take a moment to read the following two columns:
- http://dartoidsworld.net/2014/07/column-465-can-the-american-darts-organization-be-saved
- http://dartoidsworld.net/2014/08/column-467-if-i-were-president-of-the-american-darts-organization
Then, if you care and have information, I encourage you to get it to me. Your name will be held in the strictest confidence.
My e-mail address is: Dartoid1@hotmail.com.
From the Field,
Dartoid
