April 4th 07, 08:58 AM
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Sam Sloan Candidate's Statement for June Chess Life
On Apr 4, 2:38 am, wrote:
It's tax season; kindly allow me to estimate the question number. ;-)
16. (with respect to Sloan's claims to have had a fiduciary agency
relationship *and* a "not entirely Platonic" relationship with the 17-
year-old Susan Polgar--I had earlier stated "16-year-old", but now
follow Sloan's own revised chronology....)
Larry Parr is on record as having stated that he, Parr, neither knows
nor particularly cares what happened in a home in Budapest two decades
ago. However, Sloan has twice alleged such a prior relationship with
the teenaged Polgar **in the course of his USCF Board service**. One
grants that 17-year-olds are of the age of consent in New York (where
Sloan's revised chronology places the beginning of the relationship).
One also observes that 17-year-olds are minors, and that fiduciaries
owe the highest ethical responsibility to their principals.
Either Sloan is telling the truth in the course of his Board service,
or telling a falsehood in the course of his Board service. Which
possibility, in Parr's opinion, makes Sloan more fit for Board
service?
17. Could one draw a parallel between what Sloan claims to have done
to Polgar, in his asserted role of fiduciary, and what he is currently
doing to USCF in his fiduciary role? (One thinks of the general
partner in a real estate limited partnership.)
18. As part of her campaign for a seat on the same Board, Polgar has
rebutted Sloan's account. She is either telling the truth or speaking
a falsehood. The missteps of a hypothetical minor should, in the
general case, be considered irrelevant twenty years after the fact.
However, we should expect adults either to speak the truth or to hold
one's tongue when reputations are on the line. Would Parr find Polgar
more fit for Board service if she were telling the truth in the course
of her campaign, or telling a (perhaps understandable) falsehood in
the course of her campaign?
19. In his proposed Candidate's statement, Sloan indirectly accuses
the late Charles and Shelby Roberts of kidnapping (he has made the
charge explicitly elsewhere). Should Sloan publish this portion of
the statement as it stands?
20. If the answer to 18. is yes, should the USCF Board allow the
publication of Sloan's statement as written?
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