Notice that in this smear campaign led by Finance Committee
chairman Randy Bauer and his sex-obsessed cohort Bill Brock,
they have not a word to say about chess or Sam Sloan's platform
which he has published on these forums.

The idea is to keep slinging mud until it sticks.

Character trumps platform any day.

Be careful on that soapbox....


You have to trust the person enough to believe what they say they will
do. I do not believe anything about Sam Sloan, other than the truths
that (1) he is a convicted felon who served prison time (2) in an
unrelated matter, Sloan had his securities license revoked for improper
conduct, and (3) Sloan also lost his license to drive a cab in New York
City.

And USCF gave a plum job to a female without interviewing any men for the
position, or even conducting a public search. When asked why they did this,
their best answer was that they were desperately afraid of "losing" her in
the time it would have taken to interview others.

Which is more relevant to USCF operations?


There are plenty of other strange characteristics of Sloan, including
his tasteless posts about his past sexual activities, many of them also
chronicled on his personal website, to lead me to conclude he is not
fit to serve on the Executive Board of the USCF.

Is it USCF policy to pass judgment of off-the-job behavior now? I heard
explicitly to the contrary when I raised concerns about what some of the
board members were doing on this group.

Is USCF admitting to Googling people now to check them out? If so, then
anyone who is a whistleblower would be known to them by virtue of that
search, and that foreknowledge is a key element in proving retaliation.

The problem with trying to judge Sam on anything that isn't related to chess
is that USCF should be consistent if it goes that route. If they don't want
Sam having a good chance at getting elected (I'm tempted to join USCF to
vote for him myself), then they should not give him campaign fodder with all
the secrecy they've been engaging in.


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