turning my back on the midwest?
No.
I put on one of the only rider run events in the midwest AND put up over $1000 of my own money to give back to the midwest.  My website is free and always will be, again, to give back to the community and help inspire companies to give back to you the riders.
Use my ski industry connections to ruin him? Nope.
Steve got mad and started messaging me that I was a bitch because I CORRECTLY pointed out that he was wrong as a rep for a company in the ski industry to be statements about LINE that were FALSE.
In the business world this is called slander, and when you are rep for a company you are expected to do just that, rep the company PROFESSIONALLY and POSITIVELY.  Not run around calling people names for pointing out false and discrediting statements.
I run a real business that makes me enough money to ski all over the country almost 150 days a year, what the hell do i know right?