RE:Emailed Bruce AgainTrevor thanks for sharing. I have really enjoyed reading your posts and find your contributions to this board to be of tremendous value.
In reading this post, however, I am not sure that this would be the right way to elicit a response from Bruce. We don't know what he was doing today, but even if he wasn't getting rid of John today, I think he deserves the benefit of the doub. I get it that we are all frustrated but I think that maybe saying he abandoned us could have been rephrased as well as calling the t-shirt thing a publicity stunt. If I was Linton, I would be a bit defensive, whether it was warranted or not. I may not respond to anything more inquiries.
I think that since Bruce made himself available, it may have been wiser to phrase things more constructively. Rather than saying he abandoned us, perhaps an alternative is, "this stock really suffered and felt the effects of your absence, which we hope to see re-established". Also the part about the reputational damage etc. could have been restated as "many of us bought this stock as a result of your association and reputation and we don't want to see any adverse effects of this company's current position tarnish that".
Then again, I could be wrong and maybe he needs to hear it directly. But I don't see any evidence that he has just given the shareholders the finger. I would give him a little bit more grace and time to get this figured out.