I wish to become the Libertarian Party Candidate for Governor of New York State

I won the World Championship of Chinese Chess for Non-Chinese in Beijing China in 1988. My picture was on Chinese television. There were numerous articles about me in Chinese newspapers and magazines. There are articles about me in Chinese on the Internet which you can find and read now if you know Chinese. My book, Chinese Chess for Beginners, sells well in the Chinese community. From this alone, my name is known by one billion people.

I am even better known in Pakistan, a nation of more than 100 million people. In 1982-1983, more than one hundred articles about me were published in every major newspaper in Pakistan. My name was a household word over there. It is true that many of these articles were negative, but I survived them somehow. Every Pakistani who remembers that period will remember me if reminded, although I have been keeping a low profile there, so many of them think that I must be dead.

I was one of the leaders of the student revolution that overthrew the University of California at Berkeley in 1964-1966. This is in the history books. Every student who was on the Berkeley campus at that time will remember this once they realize that I am the same person.

I have a website which averages 20,000 unique visitors and 100,000 hits per day.

I am universally known in the world of chess. Ask any tournament chess player and he or she will have heard of me.

I am known in the legal community for being the only pro se non-lawyer ever to argue orally in this century before the Supreme Court of the United States, and I won the case. I am also known for the case I won against the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission. Recently, there were articles in the New York Daily News regarding my complaints against the Chief Clerk of the Brooklyn Board of Elections.

2. Qualifications

I was a math major at the University of California at Berkeley. I scored 800 on my Math College Boards. I was a winner in the Virginia Science Talent Search. I established my own Wall Street Securities firm in 1970, Samuel H. Sloan & Co. I pbutted the New York Stock Exchange Exam and the SEC and NASD Principals Exam. I took securities analysis courses at the New York Insbreastute of Finance, so I can read and interpret financial statements. I can speak 15 languages, although I am only really fluent in three of them. I have written five published books. I am also a book publisher. I own a company that has published one hundred books.

I intend to donate one copy of each of three of my books to the library of every public school in New York State. I have written three books which are very suitable for students. One is The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson which is popular in the Black Community. Another is Chinese Chess for Beginners which is popular in the Chinese Community. A third is How to Take over an American Public Company, which explains the securities markets. All of these books are being reprinted right now so I will have enough copies to give one to each public school.

3. Background.

I am 61 years old, born in Richmond, Virginia. I am a happily married man with a wife and eight children. My family is very photogenic and attractive. All of my children but one are attending or have attended New York City Public School. My mother was a distinguished medical doctor and a child psychiatrist. My father was a lawyer and auditor for the IRS.

4. Issues

The issues I intend to raise are strictly Libertarian. I want to reduce to zero or as much as possible all government spending. I want to reduce to zero or as much as possible all taxation. In any case the budget will be balanced or show a surplus. No deficit spending. Nobody will go to jail merely for possessing drugs. If anybody wants to kill them selves, I will try to talk them out of it, but ultimately they have the right to do so. We should not spend the taxpayers money to put a person in jail just to stop them from killing themselves.

On this point, I wish to add that previous Libertarian Candidates have included a pot smoker who wanted to legalize pot and a cigarette smoker who campaigned against the bans on smoking. I am different. I do not smoke, drink or use drugs of any kind. I do not even take aspirin when I have a headache. However, I believe that everybody else has a right to do what they want.

National issues are I demand an immediate withdrawal from Iraq.

One issue which is not especially Libertarian but which I feel strongly about, and that is the Transit Strike. I am disappointed that Roger Toussaint only got ten days in jail. He should have received a year and then be deported back to Trinidad. I have contacted a friend who is a high official in the INS and he says that a violation of the Taylor Law is not enough to deport him. For that, he must kill at least two people. Nevertheless, I will try to send this guy back home.

Transit workers are already paid more than police officers, firemen, school teachers or sanitation workers. They are paid so much because they have the power to shut down the city. However, If they strike when I am governor, they will all be fired immediately, just as Ronald Reagan fired the Air Traffic Controllers.

Campaign:

The most important issue for me is to get on the ballot, and this requires 15,000 signatures. This is a lot of work. I will have to drop everything else I am doing and lead a pebreastion drive. For this, we need more candidates in local elections, so I will try to recruit more candidates as well as get out and collect signatures myself.

William Weld issue

Many members of the Libertarian Party of New York have come to look upon William Weld, who says that he is seeking the Libertarian nomination, as our savior. I disagree. When this issue was debated, Tom Stevens set forth four conditions which Weld must fulfill to become our candidate. As far as I am aware (but I might be mistaken) Weld has thus far fulfilled none of those four conditions.

Nevertheless, I will agree, in writing if necessary, that if Weld meets those four conditions, I will step aside and allow Weld to take my place as the candidate. One of those conditions is that Weld receive the Republican nomination, which I do not believe he will get. Therefore, by nominating me, the Libertarian Party gets the best of both possibly worlds. Weld as the candidate if he meets the four conditions and me as the candidate if he does not. No other candidate has made this offer.

Any questions?

Sam Sloan