Interesting how you have to completely distort the process in order to make your point. Allowing your own members to see the opener and be updated every step along the way is a healthy process, and it has nothing to do with "negotiating in public". In 32 years, I never remember a single time when it wasn't that way. This will be the very first time.

This must be the latest talking point from DALPA about why they can't show us our own opener. The first talking point was from the Council 20 chairman where his rationale was: "that would be like showing your hand in poker." Evidently, I wasn't the only one that thought it one of the worst attempts at justification I'd ever heard, and now the new defense is to characterize keeping your own members in the loop as "negotiating in public". Ridiculous.

Carl