Sam Sloan
Submitted to IPR by LP of NY Chair Mark Axinn on August 14:
Two days ago, on August 12, Sam Sloan filed a petition purporting to contain 2347 pages with himself listed as Libertarian Party nominee for Governor, Thomas R. Stevens for Lt. Governor, John Clifton for Comptroller and Neil V. Grimaldi (whom I do not know) for Attorney General.
In fact, the volume contains less than 400 pages, magically numbered by Sam to add up to 2347.
Almost all of the signatures purport to have been collected in the Bronx.
Mike McDermott and I have conferred with Tom Stevens and John Clifton, neither of whom knew of nor consented to this filing by Sam Sloan. Both would have advised Sam not to propound this fraudulent filing if they had been asked.
This is not the first time that Sam has committed Election Law fraud, claiming to be the Libertarian Party nominee for Governor. He did the same thing four years ago, replacing the name of Warren Redlich with his own as the New York Libertarian Party Gubernatorial nominee. As a result thereof, he was formally suspended as a member of LPNY in 2010.
Attached is my general objection letter to the New York State Board of Elections. I urge all registered voters in New York to send in similar letters by tomorrow, Friday, August 15, 2014.
The letter must be post-marked by tomorrow, August 15, and should be addressed as follows:
Election Operations
NY State Board of Elections
40 North Pearl Street, suite 5
Albany, NY 12207
The letter should identify the writer as a registered voter in the State of New York who objects to the filing of a nominating petition filed by Sam Sloan purporting to nominate Sam Sloan as the Libertarian Party candidate for Governor.
Thank you,
Mark N. Axinn
Chair, LPNY
Sloan General Objections-081414
Trouble in paradise?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ar-fHMwm_A
Sloan filed this petition without Tom’s knowledge or consent.
Significantly, Tom refused to file an acceptance of the nominating petition, which was one of the grounds the BOE used to invalidate it.
Has he learned the perils of being buddies with Tom Stevens yet?
There is reality, and then there is Sam’s view of the world. It has nothing to do with his religion, and everything to do with self-centered narcissism.
On the other hand, his politics are spot on. He did two youtube/TV ads this Spring when he sought the Democratic nomination for Congress in the South Bronx, and they were both excellent pieces.
One promoted business development and the second called for eliminating the drug laws and concomitant crime and incarceration.
It’s unfortunate that Sam cannot support anyone except Sam Sloan in his quest for political office.
No, there isn’t but there are other things wrong with him.
He is a member of the Islamic faith. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Good news on both counts!
Today, the NYS Board of Elections formally voted unanimously to invalidate the petition filed by Sam Sloan for Governor.
As no specifications were filed against the McDermott/Edes petition, we are officially on the ballot.
30? That seems high.
Specifications have now been filed on the objections to Sloan’s bogus filing.
He did, in fact, have a whopping 30 valid signatures, shy by only 14970 from the statutory requirement.
Some deeply ingrained pathology would be my guess.
I wonder why he does this.
Quite an “auspicious” discussion on this old thread….
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2012/01/sam-sloan-announces-for-libertarian-party-presidential-nomination/
Paulie, I also heard that exact story about working for Sam from at least two different paid petitioners whom I am currently employing (one of whom I met with just today).
They all know that is not the way the LPNY operates. Consequently, their validity rate on our petition this year is very high (we check!).
There is the legal, correct way to do things and there is the Sloan way.
I think it was last year or the year before, Darryl says Sloan told him and other people in front of witnesses to get signatures regardless of whether they were valid, then used the low validity as an excuse to not pay what he promised.
At least a half-dozen LPNY members filed general objections yesterday and today (last day to file general objections).
Specifications will be finalized tomorrow.
Sloan claims 2347 pages in his petition. In reality, it’s less than 400, with many of them containing only a few signatures.
Witness statements are faulty on almost every one of the sheets.
Some sheets are dated in April even though petitioning could not legally begin until July 8.
The list of defects goes on and on.
The hubris from some people calling themselves Libertarians is astounding.
Ahem, gentlemen, what does this have to do with a rogue petition being filed in New York? 🙂
Maybe test it periodically and let me know if it bounces.
Thanks for pointing that out. I went ahead and tested it.
It still works. Not sure for how much longer.
Paulie, does the lp.org email address in your IPR bio still work? If not, maybe you should update it.
I think we ought to do the same to the Common Core and Equality lines the Dems and Reps are ginning up. I’m happy to poke some chests and bend a little principle in a rigged fight.