By: tophersaint
27 Jul 2003, 01:25 PM EDT Msg. 102173 of 102173
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Re: The Snacks/SKS dinner...
It is absurd and preposterous to think that SKS would have gone to a dinner in San Francisco with the goal of pumping the stock (i.e., making comments in the hopes of manipulating stock price upward.)
Absurd and preposterous.
This idea is so, frankly, dumb... it barely merits attention.
If I were SKS and my goal was, in fact, to PUMP the stock price, the ABSOLUTELY LAST thing I would want is attendance by any Wavoids who post on the DD board.
There's an old political campaigning trick that my brother-in-law, who lost a local election here in Austin about 12 years ago, taught me. His opponent sought out small groups of influential people who had NO press connections or ties to media. In those PRIVATE groups, his opponent indulged in defamatory remarks, innuendo and just out-and-out falsehoods... knowing that RUMOR would be brother-in-law's undoing... as opposed to STORIES that had to be vetted by members of the press.
At a time of INTENSE regulatory scrutiny--and, by the way, if ANYBODY would have bothered to have checked with SEC about proxies, they'd've learned that proxies are being finetooth-combed these days--it is (I'm gonna say this) RIDICULOUS to think that SKS had a dinner with investors (and DD board members) with the goal in mind of PUMPING the stock.
Best Regards,
c m
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