It was 10 years ago this month...(Part 5)

On May 13, 2006, a month after Phil had offically announced the "revoking" of 4 memberships,
Phil asked the SFABC membership if they wanted to discuss the incidents of the previous month
right then & there or wait until the guest speaker was finished. The membership voted to wait.
After the evening's guest speaker had left,Phil took the floor and said that he stood by what he
did, that the group could not continue as it was, & that he would rather see the group break up
then continue like this. Several people began questioning & challenging him on his actions(I should note that I was not present that evening, but I wish I had been). At that point Phil took
being challenged as a vote of "no confidence" and "resigned" as Director of the SFABC. The original SFABC,which had been in existence since 1984,died that very night. I'm of the opinion that by not granting the people that he had "thrown out" of the club due process, he turned a large contingent of the membership against him. Shortly thereafter Todd and Ann-Marie began making plans to assume the contracts with the Borders chain for use of the stores for meetings
of the new SFSNNJ. Phil challenged this & resumed his position as head of the SFABC. I had
made overtures toward Phil to make peace between the groups at this time,culminating in a
phone call on June 2nd,2006. Phil used this occasion to make bizarre statements & unmitigated
slander against the people he had thrown out. He continued this behavior at a meeting with
Borders representatives 3 days later. On Tuesday, June 6th I declared that henceforth Jim and I were members of the SFSNNJ and would never again have anything to do with the SFABC
under Philip DeParto's direction. Both Steve Herr & Mike Piazza congratulated me for taking
a stand against him. It has been a year and two months since that happened....