The racist, child molester, and convicted felon Sam Sloan, posting on
the USCF Issues forum, wrote: "On Friday, March 25, 2005, the Palm
Beach Post said: "[Joel Channing] has a terrible reputation personally
and in business."

As you might imagine, Sloan is lying again. (Or is Dick Mesirov the
publisher of the Palm Beach Post?)


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samsloan 11115292

Joined: 08 Mar 2004
Posts: 662
Location: Bronx, New York

PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 1:56 pm Post subject: So how did it
start? Reply with quote
DACP wrote:
samsloan wrote:
These are nice sounding words but Joel Channing is by far the most
obnoxious, aggressive, rude and loudmouthed board member the USCF has
ever had.

Sam Sloan


Moderator, this would qualify as a personal attack in anybody's book
and I request that it be deleted.

Sam, please read the Standards of Conduct for the Executive Board. The
reason for the recall petition is because of this sort of behavior. The
regular membership is rather tired of the Joel vs. Sam "he attacked me
first" war. We have more important things to discuss.

To both Joel and Sam, please read the standards that Mike Nolan sent to
the Executive Board for moderating this forum and vote on it. That is
something productive that both of you could do together to move the
USCF forward. Thank you.


Since you consider this to be a personal attack, perhaps you should
consider what the Palm Beach Post in Palm Beach Florida where Mr.
Channing lives had to say about him.

On Friday, March 25, 2005, the Palm Beach Post said: "He has a terrible
reputation personally and in business."

I along with most voters ignored this quote when we voted him into
office, but now it seems that they were onto something.

Sam Sloan

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From Jose Lambiet's "Page Two" column in the Palm Beach Post

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Gardens plaintiff says he's not ex-pal's pawn

Friday, March 25, 2005

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Al's A-Team PageTwo
Carolyn Drake / The Post

Today weatherman Al Roker chats with reporters before an appearance at
the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach to benefit the Seagull Industries
for the Disabled.

Here's one thing you may not know about Today weatherman Al Roker: The
ring tone of his cellphone plays the theme of the old shoot-'em-up
series The A-Team, which aired from 1983-87.

"I feel pretty silly," Roker says, "but I was a big fan."

Roker was in good spirits when Page Two caught up with him Thursday,
considering he flew into PBIA at 3 a.m., then did live segments for
Today from the beach by The Breakers. Roker was keynote speaker at the
Seagull Industries for the Disabled fund-raising luncheon at the
Kravis.

Three years after his well-publicized bariatric surgery, in which his
stomach was trimmed down to reduce his weight by 120 pounds, Roker says
that keeping his now athletic figure is still a daily struggle.

"I still love to eat," he says, "and my stomach naturally is getting
larger. I'm now 210 pounds. That's 15 too many, but it's a work in
progress."
Send your tips to Jose

Palm Beach Gardens developer Joel Channing sure takes his chess
seriously.

Channing, 64, is suing a former friend and chess partner in Palm Beach
Circuit Court for slander and libel. Seems that the ex-bud, fellow PBG
resident Dick Mesirov, 78, bad-mouthed Channing on a chess Internet
newsgroup.

Mesirov's bad move? He called Channing a clumsy player and said
Channing "doesn't study and in general has no interest in chess,"
according to the suit.

Mesirov, the suit claims, also is trying to derail Channing's campaign
for member of the board of directors of the United States Chess
Federation, one of the game's governing bodies. Channing is running
like a politician, buying ads in chess magazines and calling voters.

"These elections can get pretty political," said Don Schultz, a
Highland Beach resident who's a USCF past president. "The USCF has
90,000 members. The livelihood of some professional players is affected
directly."

In one e-mail, Mesirov allegedly wrote to another player: "Do whatever
you can to spread the word that Joel Channing should not be elected. He
has a terrible reputation personally and in business."

In another e-mail, Mesirov claims he witnessed Channing's wife, Susan,
returning $4,000 of merchandise to a department store after she had
used the items.

"I'm very sensitive about my reputation and my wife's," said Channing,
a member of the PBG Planning Board who also was involved in the
redevelopment of downtown Stuart. He is asking the court for damages
"in excess of $15,000."

"The suit isn't about money. It's about settling a dispute in a
civilized way." Mesirov declined to comment.

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