My response to Mr. Sloan’s apology
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samsloan wrote:
Setting the Record Straight
I wish to apologize to Susan Polgar and Paul Truong …
I did stay with the Polgars in 1986 as a guest in their home and I tried to help them.
Any suggestion that I behaved inappropriately with any of the Polgar women is slander.
Sam Sloan
Thank you for the apology. Unfortunately, it is not good enough for me at this moment. You completely failed to acknowledge many other fabrications that you created to attack innocent people who are big assets to the chess community. Many of these people are the excellent and valuable members, sponsors, partners and supporters of the USCF.
You brought up the issue of BB after you were told that I had a restraining order against this individual. This is not a joking matter or a matter that you should speculate just for the sake of gossiping. Sam, you are playing with people’s lives. While few can doubt your passion for chess, most doubt your approach and sometimes even your sanity. I am also extremely disappointed of your denial about your totally inappropriate solicitation while being a guest at my parents’ apartment in Budapest.
This is the part I am most concerned about. You still fail to understand what you did was wrong. I clearly said nothing happened because I firmly and clearly said no. I also said that to your credit, you did not try again. However, to say that you behave appropriately is utterly false. To say that what I said is slander is even more laughable. The truth cannot be slander. You publicly admitted on many occasions to having inappropriate sexual relations with young female.
Yes, you tried to help me. Thank you. Yes, you brought up the issue of 100 points with FIDE. Thank you. Yes, you tried to help others. Great! Those are great qualities. But just because you did, it does not mean that you can or should have inappropriate expectation or solicitation after that. This is what you fail to understand.
I am also very concerned that you publicly and repeatedly lied and mislead the USCF members about your criminal conviction and inappropriate sexual conducts with young female. If you truly want to help the USCF and help heal all the divisiveness that you created, address all the issues and issue an apology for all of them. Until then, what you say have no credibility. It takes courage to admit your wrong doing. Your words and actions have created enough damages to chess already. It is not too late to try to fix this mess.
At this time, if you have any respect for yourself and your family and if you care about chess or the USCF, I ask that you withdraw your name from this election. I cannot and will not accept you as a USCF board member. Neither will my foundation. I strongly feel that you should not serve on the executive board of a prestigious organization with tens and thousands of young members like the USCF.
I spent my whole life working toward chess excellence with the highest level of honesty, integrity and grace. This is how I promote chess today to young people. I am a role model to countless of them. Therefore, I cannot betray their trust.
I truly hope that for once you will do the right thing by withdrawing your name before the certification process. The damages that you will create by going forward with this election are irreversible. This is the breaking point for the USCF and you can save it. Please do the right thing. If you do, I will personally thank you and praise you for thinking about the best interest of the USCF in front of all the delegates in Chicago.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
www.SusanPolgar.blogspot.com
www.SusanPolgarFoundation.org
www.SusanPolgar.com
If that is the text of Mr. Sloan’s statement, I am afraid it is not really an apology. It is sarcasm.
He is apologizing to you for staying with you and trying to help you.
susan,
I agree completely with your post.
Character is the most important thing.
I have emailed my delagates like I said.
Hope things work out.
Mr. Sloan can be sued for slander and threatening behavior to a person (Susan) who is in a position of high profile within the same Industry ~ this is an obvious case. There is also a case against the USCF for doing nothing considering both his background and behavior after being elected ~ of Slander and Threats. A mediation committee, court or judge would more than likely rule in the favor of Ms. Polgar and her family and against Mr. Sloan and most likely also the USCF for not acting ~ if they allow him to fill the position.
The USCF has an official responsibility for the behavior of their elected officials. Legal action can most certainly be taken against them if they allow him to take the position after his recent actions and most likely also his background.
The USCF should note that most organizations private, public and non-profit do not allow individuals to serve, or many times even be employed by, their organization if they have a record of conviction. This is usually in their official laws, however, it would be taken as a given, especially in this type of case ~ given the nature.
The USCF has an official responsibility in this matter ~ I will write more later with further specifics.
I hope Sam does the right thing and withdraws, but given his narcissistic and paranoid personality, I’d be stunned if he did.
What USCF needs, whatever happens with Sloan, is a general housecleaning to turn out all the factions of tinpot politicians who have lead the federation to this wreck. And that will require much more of the membership to take an interest in the running of the organization, to dilute the influence of the old cliques.
Regarding the earlier mentioned ‘family secrets’ I feel that even if he did know something secret, the fact that he would admit he knew something of that nature is very inappropriate.
Don.t quit Susan…I love the way you stick to this!!! It’s great and amazing and why people are with you. You GO GIRl!! You’re in the right!
Mike M.
gogogo …It;s so nice to see.
What does Paul Truang have to do with all this ? Does he have problems with Sloan too ? Did Sloan slander him too ?
Isn’t is kind of OBVIOUS that the prior four posts are from SL himself or a proxy of his?????
Hey Sloan/crony!
Grow up.
Susan’s has got more to lose in this fiasco where YOU are the root cause.
Grow up or else I will throw away any decent respect I am holding on to any human being aging old as you.
You won’t appreciate my next post if you will choose not to act your age.
Really!
A new possible approach to this problem has recently (Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:28 pm) been posted at the USCF Issues forum:
“I believe that the only act the Delegates can take that would allow the removal of an EB member would be to add a recall provision to the bylaws. This can be done at Oak Brook and requires no special meeting.”
Mr truong is just a nice hard working man who plays chess well and is lucky to be associated with Mrs Polgar…He seems like decent guy…..lay off ..
I always thought he was cool with dealings with Susan….It really botheres me what I am hearing this crap here…..Mr Trruong always seemed like a nice man..Leave him alone man…He did not do anything…
Mike Magnan
haha…you have apoint anonymous…but I guess thats why you remain anonymous.. Its a matter of merit dude…the guy is a snake and DSudan ir complretrlu coorce in pointing this moron out….
The domeocaratic process gave you anpother 4 years of Bush….you really proud of that?
Mike Magnan
USCF is NOT legally responsible for conduct of this sort (alleged) by its members. This is totally different to things like vicarious liability for acts reasonably done in the course of employment.
In fact if USCF violated its constitution and other relevant provisions on the basis of anything other than legal authority, THAT is what could get it into legal hot water.
So sure the guy may be a creep. And by all means campaign for his removal by proper channels. But it is rather disingenuous to suggest that USCF can substitute itself into the role of judicial arbiter of such allegations. And even more disingenuous to talk about suing USCF just because someone you don’t like was elected to its board.
Over at the USCF Issues forum, there is still quite a bit of discussion on whether or not anything can be done about the election. Some suggestions have given rise to fears that the USCF would be sued and lose.
There is quite a bit of disagreement about this, but my own non-expert opinion is that the best of the suggestions is for the USCF to adopt a recall procedure in August. It would take a few months to apply the recall procedure, but this would be better than waiting a year for the next election.
On the August agenda, there IS a recall procedure proposal. One can see ADM 05-24 – DM 05-29 on pages 15 and 16 of the 2006 Delegates’ Call at
http://www.uschess.org/org/govern/2006call_inside.pdf
http://www.uschess.org/org/
govern/2006call_inside.pdf
Unfortunately, in its current form, no recall initiation would be allowed during the first six months or the last six months of the board member’s term of office. Perhaps the first-six-month restriction could be removed.
At the USCF Issues Forum, one can see some discussion of this and other possibilities under the heading, 3 Simple Steps. As I understand it, for the recall idea, the steps would be (1) adoption of a modified recall procedure by a majority vote of the August delegates, (2) passage by a two thirds vote of a recall initiation motion (three forths would be needed if it is not possible to get this motion on the advance agenda), (3) publication in Chess Life of the reasons for the recall (as described in the motion) along with the response from the board member to be recalled, (4) vote by at least 1500 members on the recall with at least two thirds of the voters being in favor of recall.
Of these steps, (2) strikes me as the hardest. There would be those who feel that the idea is unfair regardless of other considerations, and I suspect that there would be those who would be put off by the expense of conducting another vote with mailed ballots and everything. I wonder if it would be a good idea for someone to take up a collection of money to be offered to the USCF as a donation to help pay for the cost of a recall vote.
Can something be done to rid us of that curse?
Susan,
You are a class act and have my highest regards. Sam Sloan is a slimey creature that I wish would crawl back to the swamp.
Keep up the good fight!
I want Sam Sloan to myself!