Eric Sundwall

Here are my qualifications:

1. I am a well known person, indeed one of the best known persons in
the entire world and that is not an exaggeration.

The most important thing a candidate needs to be elected is name
recognition. For better or for worse, my name has been published in
newspaper articles all over the world, over a long period of time.
Here are some examples:

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 passed the New York Stock
Exchange Exam and the SEC and NASD Principals Exam. I took securities
analysis courses at the New York Institute 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 petition 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

Yeah, Sam. Is part of the strategy of chinese checkers to pounce on your opponents in the last three seconds of a four hour match ? Should be interesting.

Peace Out, Liberty In.