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Barbara said:
It says that he is a lot more forgiving than I am. You are full of lies Barbara. No one was harrassed at all. I also have the emails to prove it as well as the taped conversations. Would you like for the public to hear the wonderful language you and your husband use? Would you like for everyone to hear how you conduct your business? No, I don't think you would. Yes, you were threatened with a lawsuit. That is what happens when you screw with someone else's business. As I said to you MANY times though in the several HOURS of conversation we had, I was only interested in working things out so that there was no need for a lawsuit. You just wanted to ***** about what YOU felt was Kelly and Val's partnership.
As for "threatening and harrassing the other player" you are so full of it. I dare you to put up the PM's I sent to the other player so the world can see that she was not threatened in any way. I dare you. This is why email is so nice - there is a verifiable trail. I asked you, I pleaded with you to discuss this with the other player so I would not have to contact her and you refused to do so. You instructed me to contact her if I wanted to. I did and explained the situation and where it was heading. I know that you and the other player are good friends so don't try and sugar coat your answers.
I extended my hand to your husband when he came to the booth and I attempted to make nice with you all. I was nothing but polite with you in an attempt to keep the issue from going to court. You are the ones who got nasty. You are the ones who said, AND I QUOTE, "Valerie should get a job at McDonalds to support herself."
Your husband is the one who made the scene at our booth 3 months later.
It is your fault that the situation ended up as it did. No one else's but your own. If you weren't being vindictive then you would have picked up the phone and tried to contact Valerie to verify her message to you rather than going around trying to find people who agreed with what you claim you heard. Besides us, there are dozens of people who knew how to contact Valerie while she was in England. Most especially, the WPBA knew how to contact her, which they did immediately when you took the invitation away and contradicted Valerie's statement of intent to them.
And as far as that goes, I have a statement from a well known person with a similar accent to Valerie's who says that she also heard "WILL" and not "WON'T", but you conveniently forgot to include her opinion in your statements to me about your "many attempts" to decipher the message.
As to your speculation of why Valerie would or would not take the spots, you also conveniently forget that Valerie has a sponsor. Furthermore it's none of your business how she will or won't pay for the tour spots. You were informed that a mistake was made and you had the power to correct it. You declined to do so, apparently out of pride and vengenance.
If you were at all sincere about finding out whether Valerie abdicated her spots or not then you would have made the attempt to contact her. You did not. Beyond that you passed over the number 2 position and offered the spots to the number three position instead using the flimsy excuse that you had been informed by the WPBA that the number 2 position on your tour had taken the invitation earned on another tour. You were ALSO informed by the WPBA that the invitation awarded for YOUR tour was accepted by Valerie Finnie and yet you persisted to attempt to deny her those spots.
If you persist in slandering Kelly and Val's names then you will find that your behavior is considered to be unprofessional and unethical at best and criminal at worst. I am sure you would be pleased if I posted the information I have but I will save it for when it can be most beneficial to our case. Your attorney can ask for it at discovery.
Yes, I suppose that a person who lives in denial would not want to have any responsibility for the result of their actions. I guess that by you saying that Valerie did not deserve the spots, that she cheated to get them would not add any pressure playing in the WPBA.
Why don't you post up the brackets of all of your 2004 tournaments? Show us how all the games went down and let the board make the judgement based ON THE RESULTS whether Kelly was any signifigant factor or not? Let us see who else DUMPED to Valerie to get her on tour.
Lastly, I would rather be pond scum with integrity, than a pair of liars such as you and your husband are. You conspired to cheat a good girl out of something she worked very hard to get. Then you continue to malign her and her partner as much as you can. You are just pissed off that you were thwarted in your heinous attempt. Count your blessings that you have some friends with integrity and honor. Maybe some of it will rub off on you both. Sorry Mike, you can erase this if you like but I won't have this woman spreading her viscious lies and slander without reply.
And Barb, before you try and use the WPBA Amateur Nationals as an example I would like you to tell me how it is possible that Valerie Finnie literally destroyed all of her opponents by huge scores until she played Kelly where she won by two games if she is such a bad player who needs help from Kelly. That day both of them were playing BRILLIANTLY and they would have made the top two spots no matter what.
John Barton
