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SENT: Tuesday, June 19th, 5:02 PM
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Candidate Christopher Young Files a U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division Complaint on Federal and State Election Law
Violations in the State of Rhode Island and Requests Secretary of State Ralph Mollis to join the Complaint.
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Tuesday June 19th, 2007, democrat Christopher Young, candidate for U.S. Senate and Mayor of Providence,
filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, that the Providence Board of Canvassers and the State
Board of Elections are in violation of state and federal election law by not removing approximately 40,000 voters from the Providence
voting list.
Young stated on the Helen Glover Show on WHJJ AM,
“The real issue about election fraud, that the Secretary of State’s office is not addressing, is the lack of removal of the 40,000
undeliverable voters by the Providence Board of Canvassers and the State Board of Elections in the city of Providence that I and
Keven McKenna requested the removal of in 2002. Two consecutive federal elections have already passed, yet these names have not
been purged even with a second notification from the former Secretary of State, Matt Brown, which found 72,000 undeliverable voters
in 2006. This is a clear violation of Federal Election law.”
In 2002 the State Board of Elections ordered the Providence Board of canvassers to after the Nov. 5th general election initiate a
citywide mailing to verify the status of the city's voting list.
At yesterday's public hearing on Election reform, held at the Providence CCRI campus, Chris Young directly requested to the
Secretary of State, Ralph Mollis, to join the complaint.
The Secretary of State stated he would meet with Chris Young and a representative of the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights
Division on the issue.
Below is a copy of the complaint filed:
U.S. Department of Justice
John K. Tanner, Chief
Civil Rights Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Voting Section, NWB
Washington , D.C. 20530 June 18th, 2007
As I discussed with your staff in the verbal complaint I made last week on June 7th, 2006 on the phone, my name is Christopher
Young and I have run in the 2000 United States Senate election, the 2002 Providence Mayoral election, the 2004 State Senate and
House of Representatives elections, the 2006 Providence Mayoral election, and the 2006 United States Senate election in the state of
Rhode Island. As we further discussed, in each of the above elections there were cases of federal election law violations. I request this
complaint be held confidential as it involves other federal agencies and the Washington Federal Bureau of Investigation. This
complaint incorporates numerous articles that have run in the Providence Journal, the states largest newspaper. This complaint also
states that election “fixing” and fraud is done not in just one way in Rhode Island but in numerous ways and is conducted by election
officials.
In 2000 there was election fraud involving ballot placement for my federal election by the use of rigged Rhode Island lottery balls that
were pre calibrated to come up in a sequence favoring some of the candidates. This also implicated interstate commerce fraud. I had
attempted to file a complaint with the state’s attorney general at the time but that office refused to take a complaint. A few weeks
later there was an attempt on my life in an area where organized crime is known to reside. A car slammed into my car and I was told
by a local judge that it had to do with recent events.
In 2002 there was election fraud in my first run for mayor of Providence. I had gone to the Providence Board of Canvassers late in the
evening, at closing, the day before the 2002 election. A girl behind the counter stated, “Cicilline forgot his bags.” Cicilline was my
opponent and his father has been the main attorney for the New England Crime family. Cicilline’s brother has recently been federally
indicted for his involvement in a two ton marijuana deal. I had been appointed a watcher in that election and that gave me the power to
inspect the bags the girl had referred to. In those bags were all the UPC codes that go on the application to vote. At that time in
Rhode Island, when you voted, you gave your name and a UPC code was removed beside your name and placed on an application to
vote. You then were given the application to vote that you signed, and then you were given a ballot. If one wanted to make ballots to
stuff the ballot piles one would need an equal number of applications to vote with valid UPC codes. This issue implicates the highest
levels of collusion and corruption within the Providence Board of Canvassers. I requested a hearing from the state board of elections
on this issue, it has been over four years since I made that official request and have not been granted one. This is a violation of both
state and federal law.
In 2004 there was election fraud in both my run for the State Senate and State House of Representatives. Everyone in my district that
I was running in was notified of changes to polling locations three days before the election to go vote in another area of the city where
my name would not appear on the ballot. This was a violation of state election law in that no voter is to be notified less than 7 days
prior to an election in Rhode Island. Elderly voters were disenfranchised, as documented in the Providence Journal. This is a criteria
for granting another election. I had filed a complaint with the State Board of elections requesting another election and a hearing. I was
left a message on my answering machine that my request for a recount had been granted. I never requested a recount because all they
do in a recount is print out the memory on the memory cartridges of the voting machines. The numbers have never changed with a
recount but they have it written into the general laws of Rhode Island that if you get a recount you have no further legal recourse to a
higher court. I refused the recount and at that time was told by a Roger Begin, the former head of the State Board of Elections, that the
elections are fixed in Rhode Island.
This statement by Mr. Begin implicates that the level of election “fixing” is at the highest level of Rhode Island state government and
requires the federal government to intervene. I immediately filed a complaint with the local Providence branch of the F.B.I and that is a
matter of an on going investigation with other federal agencies.
In the 2002 and 2006 Providence Mayoral elections, and the 2006 United States Senate election there were both federal and state
election law violations. I was threatened with a gun shot gesture to my head at a polling location in Providence. Another individual
standing with said gesturer had a gun in his waist.
As I discussed with your staff, the first issue we will focus on is also in the Providence Journal, June 19, 2002, in that Mayoral
candidate Keven A. McKenna had asked the Board of Canvassers to purge the city voting roster of citizens who vote from addresses
at which they do not live.
Noting that 56 percent of his mailings to registered voters at four city high-rises have been returned to him, McKenna challenged the
addresses of 302 voters.
McKenna who got a list of 96,124 registered voters from the Board of Canvassers said he became concerned about the accuracy of the
voting roster after his mailings came back to him stamped "address unknown."
In his letter, McKenna asked the agencies to "restore integrity" to the voting system by doing a return mail purge of voter rolls;
instituting a timely system of removing felons from the rolls, and developing an automatic electronic purging system that matches
voting addresses with the city tax division and School Department, car registrations, the state Division of Taxation and the U.S. Postal
Service.
Laurence K. Flynn, chairman of the Providence canvassing board, said addresses are automatically matched with state and federal
agencies every four years. And his office periodically updates voter records, including routinely getting notification from the state
vital statistics division when someone dies. These statements are clearly false since in a recent 2006 notification by the secretary of
states office 72,000 notifications were undeliverable.
McKenna implied that he is skeptical of the suggestion that a transient population is the reason for wrong addresses. In his letter, he
suggested that a flawed system or corruption by public employees could be a more plausible reason for discrepancies.
McKenna believes that such discrepancies are very important in city races, where victory margins have historically been slim.
"The electoral future of Providence should not be determined by strangers," McKenna said in a statement. "The voting roll is the most
sacred document in a democracy. Its integrity should not be allowed to be compromised by bureaucratic incompetence or by voter
fraud."
Former Secretary of State Matt Brown's office sent out letters in March of 2006 asking voters to update the information on file if it
was no longer accurate. Of the 605,000 mailers that went out -- one to each registered voter -- 72,000 were returned as undeliverable,
office spokesman Peter Kerwin said.
Kerwin said the office kept track of the mailers that came back, and in fact, that was part of the point of the mailing. The voters whose
mailers came back as undeliverable will be marked "inactive" in the state's database. If a person shows up and votes, or updates his
voter registration at a city or town hall, his status will revert to "active." But voters who don't do either, and remain inactive for two
federal election cycles, are to be removed from the rolls.
However, this had been already ordered by the state board of elections in 2002 as you will see below and is a stalling tactic to make it
seem like something is being done.
The Providence Journal’s Aug 16th, 2002 edition stated the city Board of Canvassers voted on Aug 15th, 2002 to send certified letters
to 302 would-be voters, agreeing that Democratic mayoral candidate [Keven A. McKenna] had reasonable cause to suspect those
voters no longer live at their registered voting addresses.
The board voted to deny McKenna's request that they disqualify between 20,000 and 40,000 voters whose voting place notification
cards were returned to the city as undeliverable or "addressee unknown."
Board member Mark Lomazzo who cast the dissenting vote in the 2- to-1 decision to deny McKenna's request said he agreed with
McKenna's claim about the prevalence of out-of-town voters.
The three-person board also voted to look into McKenna's claim that five people on the voting list have died and should be purged
from the rolls.
Laurence K. Flynn, chairman of the canvassing board, said a glitch in the computer system caused mistakes to be made in the mailing
of the notices. In most cases, the city's computer division erroneously mailed the notification cards to street addresses, as opposed to
mailing addresses, Flynn said. In other cases, an apartment number was left off the address, causing the card to come back as
undeliverable.
This statement was inaccurate and puts Mr. Flynn’s honesty into question since a 2006 mailing by the secretary of states office has
recently found these same names as undeliverable.
In 2002 Flynn said the board planned to resend at least 20,000 voter place notification cards before the Sept. 10 primary. But, he said,
that project is on hold by order of the city finance director, who used the excuse that he wants to get the city tax bills printed first.
This mailing was required by federal law yet was not done.
McKenna alleges that those would-be voters who he estimates number closer to 40,000 do not live in the city and are fraudulently
qualified to participate in the Democratic primary election, an election that could determine the city's next mayor.
McKenna said he would meet the 48-hour deadline in which he had to decide whether to appeal the decision to the state Board of
Elections.
"I find it outrageous that the city does not provide the resources to keep the voting lists up to date," McKenna said. As a result,
"people who do not live in the city could be voting to determine the next mayor of the city of Providence," he said. They could also
be voting out of state for the next congressional and federal candidates.
McKenna said he believes many city employees who live in Narragansett or elsewhere are among those seeking to fraudulently cast
votes.
As said earlier board member Mark Lomazzo who cast the dissenting vote in the 2- to-1 decision to deny McKenna's request said he
agreed with McKenna's claim about the prevalence of out-of-town voters.
He said he personally knows of three out-of-town residents who registered to vote in the city and used relatives' addresses to do so.
"What we do . . . it's a joke," Lomazzo said.
McKenna first took on the accuracy of the city voting roster in June 2002 after mailing campaign literature to residents of three high-
rise apartments and having 302 of his mailings returned and marked "addressee unknown."
Yesterday, McKenna told the board, he has since talked with Providence Housing Authority executive director Stephen O'Rourke,
who checked his tenant list and confirmed that none of the 302 people live in the elderly high-rises.
While Flynn insisted that the 20,000 or more returned notification cards do not signal massive voter fraud, McKenna tried to show
that the system has multiple flaws.
As an example, he brought up the matter of a woman who is listed on the voting list twice once under her married name and once under
her maiden name at two different Cumberland Street addresses.
Calling it the "most sacred document in a democracy," McKenna said he believes the board and the city have a duty to actively find
out whether voters have died, moved or changed their names due to marriage.
McKenna said canvassing board computers should be connected with those in the state Department of Vital Statistics and city Probate
Court, to better track deaths and marriages.
City election officials have said federal law prevents them from acting on the people who they suspect no longer live at their registered
addresses. But, McKenna told the board that the rules are different for primary races, which are not bound by the laws that apply to
general elections.
According to the Providence Journal, Aug 24th, 2002, the state Board of Elections on Aug 23rd, 2002 agreed that the Providence
Board of canvassers has “been negligent in its duty to clean up its list of registered voters”, but denied a mayoral candidate's request to
purge as many as 35,000 people from the primary election rosters.
Further quoting “Democratic mayoral candidate Keven A. McKenna had sought to have the names removed, in an appeal of the prior
week's decision by the Board of Canvassers to keep the voting list intact.
McKenna has alleged that the city voting roster is flawed: it lists some voters twice, retains the names of people who have died or
moved out of state and includes people who fraudulently claim to live at a city address. He presented the board with a list of more
than 100 registered voters who would have to be more than 100 years old, or deceased.
McKenna came to the state board with several requests, including removing the names of deceased voters.
That request was granted; the board ordered the canvassers to immediately contact the city and state keepers of vital statistics to get
the names of residents who have died from January 1990 to Aug. 15th of 2002. City officials must compare those names with its
voting records and immediately expunge the names of the deceased. However, with the recent 2006 notification sent out by the
Secretary of States Office and 72,000 notifications coming back undeliverable fraud becomes the only conclusion that can be drawn.
McKenna's requests to remove the names of people he believes do not live in Providence and eliminate duplications created by people
who are listed under married and maiden names were denied.
Robert Fontaine, executive director of the state board, said federal law is clear: voters cannot be removed from municipal voting lists
within 90 days of an election unless they make the request in person or in writing to have their names taken off.
Armed with federal law and state statutes, the five-person state board did, however, fire a shot of disapproval at the way the city has
kept its voting list.
In 2002 the State Board of Elections ordered the canvassers to after the Nov. 5thgeneral election initiate a citywide mailing to verify
the status of the city's voting list. If a voter is found ineligible to remain on the list, the canvassers must wait for the passing of two
federal elections before they can label such voters inactive.
So by 2006 if these names are still undeliverable for notifications then their names are to be purged from the voting list. The secretary
of state found 72,000 undeliverable names in a recent 2006 notification; however the secretary of state has now only made those
names inactive instead of purging those names. This is in clear violation of federal law.
The board also denied McKenna's request to disqualify thousands of voters whose mailed voter notification cards were returned to the
canvassers marked undeliverable or addressee unknown.
In 2002 McKenna has charged that the seven boxes of returned cards number closer to 35,000 and were returned primarily due to voter
fraud or because voters no longer live at their registered addresses. The implication is that these names are used to “fix” the elections
in Providence and “fix” statewide elections including federal elections.
State officials were insistent that the city has a duty to correct the computer problems and notify those voters; they also took issue
with the fact that city canvassers were a month late in mailing out the notification cards, as the state required following legislative
redistricting.
The board ordered the canvassers to resend the cards by that Friday from their order. Asst. City Solicitor Raymond Dettore said
canvassing officials will begin mailing the cards on Tuesday. If these cards had been sent out according to the State Boards order then
why did the city not notify the State Board again of any undeliverable notifications? If the city says there were none then why did the
Secretary of States office find 72,000 undeliverable notifications in 2006. This points to the Providence Board misrepresenting the
truth again and goes to fraud by that office.
The Providence Journal/Evening Bulletin Sep 25, 2006 stated when Scott Hacker decided to run for state Senate, he figured he'd send a
postcard introducing himself to the people he hoped to make his constituents.
Hacker, a Republican candidate for a seat representing parts of Providence and North Providence, got a voters list from the state
Republican Party, based on information from the secretary of state's office. The party had supposedly screened the list, and Hacker
limited his mailing to "perfect voters" -- people who had voted in at least three of the past four elections, according to the database.
Hacker sent out 6,000 postcards. He says 550 of them were returned as undeliverable.
Based on Hacker's case and several others, the state GOP is asking Secretary of State Matt Brown to act immediately to clean up the
state's voter rolls, the source for the party's database.
"We are ripe for voter fraud in Rhode Island," party Chairwoman Patricia Morgan said in a news release.
The Republicans also point to mailings by two East Providence City Council candidates. In one case, 800 pieces of mail were returned
out of 2,700 sent out. In another race, 400 out of 2,700 came back.
The party provided a copy of a mailing related to this year's Republican primary for East Greenwich Town Council. The mailer was
returned to sender with "DECEASED 1992" handwritten on the back.
The state's voting rolls are "like the Hotel California," says Chuck Newton, executive director of the state Republican Party. "You can
check in anytime you please, but you can never leave."
Brown's office has pointed to new technology added under the 2002 Help America Vote Act that includes a statewide, computerized
Central Voter Registry. But the office acknowledged last week that there remain numerous registered voters who no longer live at the
addresses on record.
Brown's office sent out letters in March asking voters to update the information on file if it was no longer accurate. Of the 605,000
mailers that went out -- one to each registered voter -- 72,000 were returned as undeliverable, office spokesman Peter Kerwin said.
As stated above Kerwin said the office kept track of the mailers that came back, and in fact, that was part of the point of the mailing.
The voters whose mailers came back as undeliverable will be marked "inactive" in the state's database. If a person shows up and votes,
or updates his voter registration at a city or town hall, his status will revert to "active." But voters who don't do either, and remain
inactive for two federal election cycles, will be removed from the rolls. This delays action and diverts the public’s attention from what
is already require under federal law because of the 40,000 undeliverable notifications in the Providence election in 2002. The elections
officials just keep repeating they will clean the list but never do. The point is they are already required to purge the 40,000
undeliverable voters in providence.
Kerwin stated once two cycles pass and the bulk of those 72,000 inactive registrations are removed, the rolls will be significantly more
accurate than they are now, Kerwin said. "Keep in mind, this is the first time anyone had done this kind of mailing for 20 years," he
said. This was an untrue statement as seen above it was done in Providence in 2002.
Because Rhode Island is legally required to wait before removing names to avoid disenfranchising voters, things "can't change
overnight," Kerwin said. However, the request to remove 40,000 names was made by Keven McKenna in 2002 and over two
consecutive federal elections has past since that request and order by the State Board of Elections.
Republican leaders said they were dissatisfied with that explanation.
"If you've got all these extra names that you can play with, all of a sudden you can start busing them in from out of town," said East
Providence GOP Chairwoman Kathy Santos, who brought the East Providence cases to the state party's attention.
Santos and Newton asserted that the number of incorrect registrations is probably even higher than the number of returned mailers,
since the returned mailers don't include people who moved but never signed up for forwarding through the U.S. Postal Service, or
people who continue to vote from addresses where they once lived and can still receive mail, such as a parent's house.
Candidates for the seat Brown vacated in January 2007 have suggested integrating voters rolls with other records, such as real estate
closings and death certificates, so the names of voters who die would automatically be removed and the registrations of voters who
move would simultaneously be entered at the new address and canceled at the old address.
It's imperative that the state act sooner rather than later, Newton said. "Maintaining this list with some semblance of accuracy is no
simple task," he said, "but it's so central to the task of clean and fair elections."
The Providence Journal/Evening Bulletin May 2, 2007 states the Board of Elections has one number, while the secretary of state's
office has others.
How many people voted in the statewide elections last November in Rhode Island?
A. 387,952
B. 390,340
C. 392,884
If you don't know the answer, don't feel bad; neither do state election officials.
The Board of Elections - which oversees the counting of votes - says 392,884 voters cast ballots in the Nov. 7 general election.
The secretary of state's Elections Division - which oversees the state's Central Voter Registration System and tracks who voted in
which elections - counted 387,952 voters in the same election as of Jan. 16. In a new tally Monday, that number had risen to 390,340.
That leaves 4,932 ballots that were cast without a voter voting - or 2,544, depending on which number you use from the secretary of
state.
The Providence Journal began examining the results of the November election this spring, after reporting last fall that the names of
nearly 5,000 registered voters in Rhode Island appear on a federal list of dead people. The Journal sought to find out whether any of
those dead people voted.
The newspaper's review found no evidence of systematic fraud by people casting ballots in the names of voters who had died. But it
did find a voter tracking system susceptible to error that could throw into doubt the results of close elections.
As an example, East Providence Mayor Joseph Larisa Jr. lost his at-large council seat to Isadore Ramos by less than 20 votes. But, the
Board of Elections tallied more than 100 ballots that did not have a corresponding voter in the secretary of state's count, either in
January or on Monday.
I will be pushing new legislation that compares the number of votes cast to the number of voters who checked in at each precinct as
part of the process of declaring the results of an election.
The process of tracking voters starts when they check in at the polls.
The process has changed since the 2002 election before a voter receives a ballot now, voters sign a poll book next to their name,
address, date of birth and a unique bar code, like those used at checkout registers, that identifies the voters. After the election,
canvassing clerks in each of Rhode Island's 39 cities and towns use a scanner to register the bar code of each person who signed the
poll book. The result of the scanning is a voter history file, which records the date and type of election and the precinct in which a
voter votes, plus whether the vote was in person or by mail.
If a clerk skips bar codes - individually or even a whole page of the poll book at a time - voters will not get credit for voting. Similarly,
if a clerk scans the barcode next to a blank signature line, someone who did not vote will get credit for voting. In 2002 there was an
application to vote, a separate card, the new method is used to cover up inaccuracies between the new poll books and the number of
people who voted.
November's election was the first general election for which the poll book scanning system was used.
"This is really the first time out of the box," Kando said. "I believe there are still some bugs in the system, but that's to be expected."
Even so, Kando said he was disappointed to hear that the discrepancy between the Board of Elections and secretary of state is more
than 2,000 voters.
Kando and Janet L. Ruggiero, executive director of the secretary of state's Elections Division, said some local clerks may still be
entering voter information six months after the election. That accounts for why the secretary of state's tally of voters rose between
Jan. 16 and this week. Every excuse in the book is used to cover up corruption.
Kando conceded that, six months after the election, all of the voter information should have been entered.
The Journal's search for dead voters revealed several other ways that errors wind up in the voter history file:
Voters sign on the line for someone else with a similar name.
Voters sign on the line above or below the one on which they are supposed to sign.
In one instance in Bristol, a voter signed the poll book twice, in two different boxes. Town Clerk Louis P. Cirillo said he does not
believe the voter was given two ballots, but conceded he has no way to confirm that. The problem in Bristol was that Angelo C.
Stanzione III and Angelo C. Stanzione both were registered to vote from addresses on State Street. Cirillo said it appears that Angelo
III mistakenly signed the box for the older Angelo, then signed his own box without his first signature being crossed out. Although he
was registered to vote in the last election, the older Angelo did not go to the polls because he's dead. He died in 1992.
In one precinct in Providence, the poll book - the only physical record of who voted - was lost before it could be scanned.
In that precinct, the state Board of Elections ruled that all 1,506 voters eligible to vote should be credited with voting, even though
only 466 ballots were counted there. That means the secretary of state's count on Monday of how many people voted is artificially
high because more than 1,000 people who didn't vote are recorded as having voted.
Kando said all the voters were given credit so that people who voted would not be declared inactive, a first step toward being removed
from the voting list.
In its search for dead voters, The Journal compared the Death Master File from the U.S. Social Security Administration with the voter
history file from the secretary of state's office. The Journal initially found 24 matches between the two files. Then, a reporter went to
the cities and towns involved and examined the poll books for a precincts in question.
A match was defined as a person's first name, last name and date of birth being identical on both lists. Plus, if a middle name was used
on both lists, they had to be identical. If the middle name was missing on one or both lists, it would still be considered a match if the
other parts matched.
In 10 of the 24 cases, the match was the result of dead voters being scanned, even though no one signed the poll book for that person.
Another five dead voters got credit for showing up at the polls because a legitimate voter signed in the wrong box.
Four of the 24 cases were false matches, where a live person with a common name - such as Mary Leonard - shared a birth date with
someone who had died.
Another three initial matches were the result of people being erroneously included on the Social Security list.
That left a single instance, in Providence, where someone voted in place of a dead person.
Marcellino J. Cabral, who went by Popeye, died of cancer in 1989 at the age of 61. But someone voted in his name in November 2004
and November 2006, according to Providence records.
The city's Board of Canvassers has sent a letter to Cabral's son, Marcellino J. Cabral Jr., who goes by Butch, asking whether he can
explain who has been voting in his father's name. Laurence K. Flynn, the board's executive secretary, said Butch Cabral has never been
registered to vote in Providence.
The Journal left a telephone message for Cabral with a woman who identified herself as his mother-in-law. He did not return the call.
Ruggiero said the secretary of state's office will spearhead an effort to remove dead people from the voting rolls.
When The Journal first reported that nearly 5,000 names on the Social Security death list are registered to vote in Rhode Island, a
spokesman for then-Secretary of State Matthew A. Brown said the secretary would obtain a copy of the list, and disseminate it to the
cities and towns.
But Ruggiero said that has not happened. She cited the cost of the list; the federal government charges $1,725 for the file.
Ruggiero said her office will, instead, obtain a list of dead Rhode Islanders from the state Health Department as far back as computer
records go, and update it on a monthly basis. Her office will make a similar effort to coordinate with the Department of Corrections to
remove felons from the voting list.
I seek the Department of Justice division of Civil Rights to pursue each claim in this complaint separately and with the full power that
the Civil Rights Division has, but not to include the state of Rhode Island’s U.S. Attorney office, other state law enforcement agencies,
or the Providence F.B.I office due to issues of corruption that are currently under investigation.
I seek a U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division elections investigation into the blatant election fraud occurring in Rhode
Island . As we discussed on the phone the first primary focus of this investigation should begin with the State Board who ordered the
canvassers to, after the Nov. 5, 2002 general election, initiate a citywide mailing in the city of Providence to verify the status of the
city's voting list. If voters were found ineligible to remain on the list, the canvassers were required to remove those names after the
passing of two federal elections before labeling such voters inactive. According to a recent Secretary of States mailing this did not
occur since of the 605,000 mailers that went out by the Secretary of States office -- one to each registered voter -- 72,000 were
returned as undeliverable, office spokesman Peter Kerwin said. This second notification was all that was necessary to purge the
40,000 names Keven McKenna requested to be removed in 2002. The state is in violation of federal election law.
I know that you along with me seek justice in our election process and desire to end corruption in the process that so it vital to our
survival as a free democracy. Please contact me upon receipt of this complaint at 401-477-6178.
Sincerely,
Christopher F. Young
Executive Director
National Civil Rights Coalition
4 Angell Road
Narragansett , RI 02882401-477-6178
Campaign to Elect Christopher Young
401-477-6178
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SENT: Wednesday, Nov. 8th, 2:00 PM
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
THE LARGE NUMBER OF “WRITE IN” RESULTS FOR CHRIS YOUNG MAY CHANGE
THE RESULTS IN CLOSE RACES.
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Wednesday November 8th, 2006, democrat Christopher Young,
candidate for U.S. Senate and Mayor of Providence stated publicly on WHJJ that the large
number of "write in" ballots cast for Christopher Young for the United States Senate and Mayor
of Providence may alter the results for local and statewide offices.
Young stated on the Howie Barte show on 920 am, "The large number of write in ballots cast
for me for both the United States Senate and Mayor of Providence may alter the results for
close races and ballot questions. The Providence board refuses to say how many write in
ballots they have. How can they not know how many ballots were cast for me and other
candidates as a write in unless the numbers are so large it goes beyond their ability to count.
Mr. Flynn from the Providence board of Canvassers has stated a large number of write in
ballots had been cast in Tuesday's election. I have been informed that not only the votes for
myself have not been counted yet but also the results for all the candidates and questions on
those ballots have not been counted. I received approximately 16,000 votes in the primary
election, even a small percentage of these votes may alter the results on close races.
Candidates who wish to witness this counting process may contact me at http://www.
WhereToVote.com."
§ 17-19-31 Irregular ballots. – Ballots voted for any person whose name does not appear on
the ballot as a nominated candidate for office are referred to in this section as "irregular
ballots". In voting for presidential electors, a voter may vote an irregular ticket made up of the
names of persons in nomination by different parties, or partly of names of persons in
nomination and partly of names of persons not in nomination, or wholly of names of persons
not in nomination by any party. The computer ballot containing the irregular ballot shall be
deposited in the optical scan precinct count unit. With that exception, no irregular ballot shall
be voted for any person for any office whose name appears on the ballot as a nominated
candidate for that office; any irregular ballot so voted shall not be counted. An irregular ballot
must be cast in its appropriate place on the ballot, or it shall be void and not counted and no
irregular ballots shall be counted at primaries; provided, that at any presidential primary,
irregular ballots shall be counted for those persons whose names have been written in for the
office of president. At the close of the polls, irregular ballots shall be packaged according to §
17-19-33 and shall be immediately delivered to the local board of canvassers. The local board
shall remain in session on election night to receive the ballots, to open the package labeled as
containing write-in votes, and to count and record all write-in votes cast for all federal, state
and local races listed on the ballot. The local board shall immediately notify the state board of
the results through a procedure promulgated by the state board.
Campaign to Elect Christopher Young
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SENT: Wednesday, Nov. 8th, 12:55 PM
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
THE LOCAL BOARDS OF ELECTION ARE IN VIOLATION OF STATE LAW BY NOT
REPORTING “WRITE IN” RESULTS FOR CHRISTOPHER YOUNG CANDIDATE FOR
UNITED STATES SENATE AND MAYOR OF PROVIDENCE.
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Wednesday November 8th, 2006, democrat Christopher Young,
candidate for U.S. Senate and Mayor of Providence stated publicly on WHJJ that the
Providence Board of Canvassers and other local boards are in violation of state law by not
reporting write in results for local and statewide offices.
Young stated on WHJJ a radio talk station at 920 am,
"It clearly states in § 17-19-31 that the local board shall immediately notify the state board of
the results through a procedure promulgated by the state board. The state board refuses to
demand the results from the Providence Board of canvassers or other local boards. Mr. Flynn
has stated in today’s Providence Journal that a large number of write in ballots had been cast
in Tuesday’s election, yet the state board of elections still does not have these results. Is the
will or the vote of these Rhode Islanders inconsequential? On top of all the other alleged fraud
that occurred in Tuesday's election including alleged pre programmed memory cartridges for
key races they are saying I can't know my election results. They should be able to count, that's
there job, and if they can't count in a timely manner then I feel fraud has occurred. I should not
have to be present for this count unless I should not trust the Providence Board of canvassers
or the state board of elections. Are they saying by not counting my ballots that I should not trust
their counting ability, that they fix the elections, that they pre program the memory cartridges
for the voting machines and that they already know I and other candidates lost because they
are the ones who fix the elections? I have requested that the Secretary of states office
demand the “write in” results under § 17-19-31 because they now have the power under state
law since the State Board of Elections primarily has power over the election the day of the
election. Since the election is over the Secretary of States office has the responsibility to
count these votes.”
§ 17-19-31 Irregular ballots. – Ballots voted for any person whose name does not appear on
the ballot as a nominated candidate for office are referred to in this section as "irregular
ballots". In voting for presidential electors, a voter may vote an irregular ticket made up of the
names of persons in nomination by different parties, or partly of names of persons in
nomination and partly of names of persons not in nomination, or wholly of names of persons
not in nomination by any party. The computer ballot containing the irregular ballot shall be
deposited in the optical scan precinct count unit. With that exception, no irregular ballot shall
be voted for any person for any office whose name appears on the ballot as a nominated
candidate for that office; any irregular ballot so voted shall not be counted. An irregular ballot
must be cast in its appropriate place on the ballot, or it shall be void and not counted and no
irregular ballots shall be counted at primaries; provided, that at any presidential primary,
irregular ballots shall be counted for those persons whose names have been written in for the
office of president. At the close of the polls, irregular ballots shall be packaged according to §
17-19-33 and shall be immediately delivered to the local board of canvassers. The local board
shall remain in session on election night to receive the ballots, to open the package labeled as
containing write-in votes, and to count and record all write-in votes cast for all federal, state
and local races listed on the ballot. The local board shall immediately notify the state board of
the results through a procedure promulgated by the state board.
Bush Moves Toward Martial Law - Press Release Candidate Chris Young opposes
revising the Insurrection Act
Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
Frank Morales | October 26, 2006
In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal
martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the
President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.
331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to
enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one
cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions.
Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2),
which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office
ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere
in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the
governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."
President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed the
equally odious Military Commissions Act of 2006. In a sense, the two laws complement one
another. One allows for torture and detention abroad, while the other seeks to enforce
acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of America.
Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the
term is "martial law."
Section 1076 of the massive Authorization Act, which grants the Pentagon another $500-plus-
billion for its ill-advised adventures, is entitled, "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public
Emergencies." Section 333, "Major public emergencies; interference with State and Federal
law" states that "the President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in
Federal service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a
result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack
or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President
determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted
authorities of the State or possession are incapable of ("refuse" or "fail" in) maintaining public
order, "in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful
combination, or conspiracy."
For the current President, "enforcement of the laws to restore public order" means to
commandeer guardsmen from any state, over the objections of local governmental, military
and local police entities; ship them off to another state; conscript them in a law enforcement
mode; and set them loose against "disorderly" citizenry - protesters, possibly, or those who
object to forced vaccinations and quarantines in the event of a bio-terror event.
The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of protesters, so called
"illegal aliens," "potential terrorists" and other "undesirables" for detention in facilities already
contracted for and under construction by Halliburton. That's right. Under the cover of a trumped-
up "immigration emergency" and the frenzied militarization of the southern border, detention
camps are being constructed right under our noses, camps designed for anyone who resists
the foreign and domestic agenda of the Bush administration.
An article on "recent contract awards" in a recent issue of the slick, insider "Journal of
Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International" reported that "global engineering and
technical services powerhouse KBR [Kellog, Brown & Root] announced in January 2006 that
its Government and Infrastructure division was awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite
Quantity (IDIQ) contract to support U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities
in the event of an emergency." "With a maximum total value of $385 million over a five year
term," the report notes, "the contract is to be executed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,"
"for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE
Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) - in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants
into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs." The report points out that
"KBR is the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton." (3) So, in addition to
authorizing another $532.8 billion for the Pentagon, including a $70-billion "supplemental
provision" which covers the cost of the ongoing, mad military maneuvers in Iraq, Afghanistan,
and other places, the new law, signed by the president in a private White House ceremony,
further collapses the historic divide between the police and the military: a tell-tale sign of a
rapidly consolidating police state in America, all accomplished amidst ongoing U.S. imperial
pretensions of global domination, sold to an "emergency managed" and seemingly willfully
gullible public as a "global war on terrorism."
Make no mistake about it: the de-facto repeal of the Posse Comitatus Act (PCA) is an
ominous assault on American democratic tradition and jurisprudence. The 1878 Act, which
reads, "Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the
Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or Air Force as a posse
Comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not
more than two years, or both," is the only U.S. Criminal statute that outlaws military operations
directed against the American people under the cover of 'law enforcement.' As such, it has
been the best protection we've had against the power-hungry intentions of an unscrupulous
and reckless executive, an executive intent on using force to enforce its will.
Unfortunately, this past week, the president dealt posse Comitatus, along with American
democracy, a near fatal blow. Consequently, it will take an aroused citizenry to undo the
damage wrought by this horrendous act, part and parcel, as we have seen, of a long train of
abuses and outrages perpetrated by this authoritarian administration.
Despite the unprecedented and shocking nature of this act, there has been no outcry in the
American media, and little reaction from our elected officials in Congress. On September
19th, a lone Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) noted that 2007's Defense Authorization Act
contained a "widely opposed provision to allow the President more control over the National
Guard [adopting] changes to the Insurrection Act, which will make it easier for this or any future
President to use the military to restore domestic order WITHOUT the consent of the nation's
governors."
Senator Leahy went on to stress that, "we certainly do not need to make it easier for
Presidents to declare martial law. Invoking the Insurrection Act and using the military for law
enforcement activities goes against some of the central tenets of our democracy. One can
easily envision governors and mayors in charge of an emergency having to constantly look
over their shoulders while someone who has never visited their communities gives the orders."
A few weeks later, on the 29th of September, Leahy entered into the Congressional Record
that he had "grave reservations about certain provisions of the fiscal Year 2007 Defense
Authorization Bill Conference Report," the language of which, he said, "subverts solid,
longstanding posse Comitatus statutes that limit the military's involvement in law enforcement,
thereby making it easier for the President to declare martial law." This had been "slipped in,"
Leahy said, "as a rider with little study," while "other congressional committees with
jurisdiction over these matters had no chance to comment, let alone hold hearings on, these
proposals."
In a telling bit of understatement, the Senator from Vermont noted that "the implications of
changing the (Posse Comitatus) Act are enormous". "There is good reason," he said, "for the
constructive friction in existing law when it comes to martial law declarations. Using the military
for law enforcement goes against one of the founding tenets of our democracy. We fail our
Constitution, neglecting the rights of the States, when we make it easier for the President to
declare martial law and trample on local and state sovereignty."
Senator Leahy's final ruminations: "Since hearing word a couple of weeks ago that this
outcome was likely, I have wondered how Congress could have gotten to this point. It seems
the changes to the Insurrection Act have survived the Conference because the Pentagon and
the White House want it."
The historic and ominous re-writing of the Insurrection Act, accomplished in the dead of night,
which gives Bush the legal authority to declare martial law, is now an accomplished fact.
The Pentagon, as one might expect, plays an even more direct role in martial law operations.
Title XIV of the new law, entitled, "Homeland Defense Technology Transfer Legislative
Provisions," authorizes "the Secretary of Defense to create a Homeland Defense Technology
Transfer Consortium to improve the effectiveness of the Department of Defense (DOD)
processes for identifying and deploying relevant DOD technology to federal, State, and local
first responders."
In other words, the law facilitates the "transfer" of the newest in so-called "crowd control"
technology and other weaponry designed to suppress dissent from the Pentagon to local
militarized police units. The new law builds on and further codifies earlier "technology transfer"
agreements, specifically the 1995 DOD-Justice Department memorandum of agreement
achieved back during the Clinton-Reno regime.(4)
It has become clear in recent months that a critical mass of the American people have seen
through the lies of the Bush administration; with the president's polls at an historic low, growing
resistance to the war Iraq, and the Democrats likely to take back the Congress in mid-term
elections, the Bush administration is on the ropes. And so it is particularly worrying that
President Bush has seen fit, at this juncture to, in effect, declare himself dictator.
Source:
(1) http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200609/091906a.html and http://leahy.senate.
gov/press/200609/092906b.html See also, Congressional Research Service Report for
Congress, "The Use of Federal Troops for Disaster Assistance: Legal Issues," by Jennifer K.
Elsea, Legislative Attorney, August 14, 2006
(2) http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill+h109-5122
(3) Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International, "Recent Contract Awards",
Summer 2006, Vol.12, No.2, pg.8; See also, Peter Dale Scott, "Homeland Security Contracts
for Vast New Detention Camps," New American Media, January 31, 2006.
(4) "Technology Transfer from defense: Concealed Weapons Detection", National Institute of
Justice Journal, No 229, August, 1995, pp.42-43.
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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CANDIDATE CHRISTOPHER YOUNG FILES WITH THE STATE BOARD OF
ELECTIONS AS A WRITE IN CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR OF PROVIDENCE AND THE
UNITED STATES SENATE FOR THE NOVEMBER 7TH ELECTION
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Monday, October 23rd 2006, democrat Christopher Young will
announce his candidacy for Mayor of Providence and the United States Senate at a protest at
the National Grid gas company on 100 Weybosset Street in Providence at 12 noon. The
protest will be with the George Wiley Center to urge the granting of amnesty to 8,850 Rhode
Islanders without heat or electric going into the winter season. Like the campaign of Joe
Lieberman, who has recently been reported to be ahead in Connecticut polls, Chris Young will
continue on with his campaign after his primary, as a write in candidate. Candidate Young will
give his renewed reasons for running onto the general election: the signing of the Military
Commissions Act and the loss of Habeas Corpus; the unheard cries for help from the nine
teachers who have breast cancer at the Pleasant View school in Providence that was built on
a dump, the cries of parents and children who attend the Springfield school also constructed
on a dump, as well as cries from the parents of the children soon to attend the superfund site
where a daycare and high school is under construction on the Gorham Manufacturing site on
333 Adelaide Ave. in Providence; and the 8,850 Rhode Islanders who do not have heat and
electric for the upcoming winter season nor a representative voice from the current Mayor of
Providence or in the United States Senate.
Young stated, “The Military Commissions Act has been put into effect but is in error as history
has shown:
President John Adams insisted that the Alien and Sedition Acts were needed to save
American lives —he used those Acts to jail newspaper editors for words they wrote, about
America.
If you think this can’t happen today, a recent example is a U.S. citizen being targeted using
terror legislation involved BBC investigative journalist Greg Palast, who was pursued by
Homeland Security and charged with unauthorized filming of a “critical national security
structure,” (an Exxon Oil refinery that was readily available to anyone with an Internet
connection at Google Maps), under PATRIOT Act legislation.
President Woodrow Wilson pushed the Espionage Act saying it was necessary to save
American lives —he used that Act to prosecute 2,000 Americans, especially those he
disparaged as "Hyphenated Americans," most of whom were guilty only of advocating peace
in a time of war.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt insisted that Executive Order 9-0-6-6 was necessary to save
American lives — he used that Order to imprison and pauperize 110-thousand Americans.
General DeWitt under his administration told Congress: "It makes no difference whether he is
an American citizen — he is still a Japanese." Roosevelt's internment of the Japanese was
not merely the worst blight on his record, but it would necessitate a formal apology from the
government of the United States, to the citizens of the United States, whose lives it ruined.
Section 802 of the PATRIOT Act is specifically aimed at US citizens and announces any crime
as "domestic terrorism". Citizens can be held without a trial as "Enemy Combatants". The 4th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in January 2003 that U.S. Citizens can be stripped of their
citizenship and held as enemy combatants. Habeas Corpus has been suspended for
American citizens. How can you defend against charges under this act and the Military
Commissions Act if you are denied basic due process protections? The Military
Commissions Act also dismisses charges of torture in detention centers, (Abu Ghraib for
example), retroactively. Is this still a just society?”
Young further stated another reason he is running as a write in candidate: “As I have said in
the past, I believe the city of Providence and Cicilline's administration must stop constructing
schools on toxic land and dumps, including the Springfield school in Providence and the 333
Adelaide Ave. School, where Cicilline’s administration has started construction of a daycare,
a high school and a YMCA.”
An employee from the Pleasant View School in Providence has informed Young of high rates
of breast cancer and other cancers in this school. A foundation crack that may have been
releasing toxins has also been reported. Young said, “I understand that the Department of
Health has authority over indoor air born toxins. I want to voice a request for investigation into
the high rate of breast cancer among the teachers at this school as well the other schools
constructed on toxic land and or dumps. Teachers have fear in coming forward to issue
complaints involving environmental and health concerns. I also seek testing of what is
reported to be a failing ventilation system for PCBs and other toxins including high carbon
dioxide levels and methane at these schools but most specifically at the Pleasant View
School. The ventilation system is not on the repair list reported in the Providence Journal. The
ventilation system has not been replaced as of the start of classes last month and has not
been cleaned. The foundation of the structure at Pleasant View has also been reported to
have cracks. I request testing of particles on or about this crack in the foundation including
methane testing and PCB testing. A garden was planted on these grounds; I would like the
ground soil tested at this garden site. I also would like the ground soil tested every four feet for
toxic hot spots on the entire parcel.
D.E.M has confirmed that the Pleasant View School was built on a dump, also that trash was
used to level the property off for the construction of the Pleasant View School.”
Chris Young stated, “I have taken action on this complaint. I have filed an additional complaint
with D.E.M in reference to construction of this school on contaminated land. I was told D.E.M
would follow up. I was also told by a D.E.M official that I should file a complaint with the
Department of Health for air quality issues. I have done this as well. I have contacted Victor
Moffitt, a state representative from Coventry, who is willing to take the bold initiative to work
with me to write legislation to stop the construction of schools and daycares on toxic land,
dumps and former superfund sites. Numerous legislators have signed onto the legislation.
The legislation would also expand the Department of Health’s regulatory authority on indoor air
quality at schools and daycares. I have also spoken to Councilman Miguel C. Luna, a
Providence City councilman, and he is also willing to take the bold initiative to attempt to
create a city ordinance to stop the construction of schools on toxic land.” Providence Mayoral
candidate Chris Young also stated, “In my run for the United States Senate one of the main
issues I hope to address when elected is to create federal regulations with the U.S.
Department of Education to stop the construction of schools and daycares on toxic land even
if the land has been remediated. A recent example of this issue is that on August 8th, 2006 in
New Bedford Massachusetts the new Keith Middle school was not opened because
construction crews unearthed a cap that was supposed to seal contaminated soil below
ground. That new school was also built on a former dump and land contaminated with PCBs.”
In reference to the Department of Health complaint Young said, “I seek an investigation into
what is reported to be a failing ventilation system for PCBs and other toxins including high
carbon dioxide levels and methane at these schools. The ventilation system at the Pleasant
View school is not on Cicilline’s administration’s repair list reported in the Providence
Journal. The ventilation system has not been replaced as of the start of classes last month
and has not been cleaned. The foundation of the structure has also been reported to have
cracks at Pleasant View. I request testing of particles on or about this crack in the foundation
including methane testing and PCB testing. A garden was planted on these grounds; I would
like the ground soil tested at this garden site. I also would like the ground soil tested every four
feet for toxic hot spots on the entire parcel.”
Below is some of the information provided to candidate Chris Young in reference to the
Providence City - School Dept, Public School, Elementary School- Pleasant View School 50
Obediah Brown Road, Providence, RI 02909.
· Pleasant View School was built on the old city dump and it’s falling off its
hill. The foundation of the building had a crack and there is a fear that toxins may travel up
through foundation cracks. Dumps produce methane long after the site stops receiving
garbage.
· Some classrooms have no windows for ventilation and there are dirty
air filters in the ventilation system. The ventilation system is a mess,
filters aren’t cleaned.
· Grievances have been filed.
· Retaliations have been felt for bringing forward grievances.
· Teachers are afraid.
· The AC system is consistently flooded with water and an employee
fears high carbon dioxide levels.
· Nine of the women teachers have had cancer at the school. An
employee has already died of cancer.
· There have reports of premature birth.
· An employee has stated “the building makes me feel sick”,
reporting severe headaches, and mold.
· There is a complaint of insufficient fresh air. The ventilation system
was going to be changed but it wasn’t.
· The teachers that were there for a long period of time have the
highest rates of cancer. Teachers are afraid to speak up anymore.
· An employee had radiation treatment but there is fear as to what long
term effects of this radiation to get rid of it are.
· An employee has had cancer twice and she lost part of her body.
· There has been a garden at the Pleasant View School. At least
one employee with cancer was in the dirt around the school.
· An employee feels grievances don’t go anywhere. Teachers have
been transferred.
· Teachers have headaches and sinus infections.
· The school system and the Cicilline’s office have been informed over
the past four years and longer about these issues.
· Issues are not being fixed, like mold and the ventilation system.
Lastly, the third reason Young continues onto the general election, Young stated, “I stand with
one of the last bastions of leadership within the state of Rhode Island, the George Wiley
Center, to bring heat and electricity to almost 9,000 Rhode Islanders who are without these
necessary resources. We hope to bring amnesty to these individuals because it is what a
humane society would do, and most importantly so that we may save lives of men, women and
children who otherwise would freeze to death or will be forced to heat themselves with unsafe
fires. The amnesty program would allow a payment plan that could at least get these human
beings heat and electric turned on before the Nov. 1st moratorium. I personally seek
discharge of debts that are past the state statute of limitations. National Grid can not hold
customers, by denying service, to debts that are not collectible in our court system.”
Chris Young has posted this press release on his website WhereToVote.com
Executive Director
Robert Kando
Rhode Island Board of Elections
50 Branch Ave. Providence , RI 02904
September 21, 2006
Mr. Kando and Mr. Rapoza,
My name is Christopher Young and I was a candidate in the September 12th, 2006
democratic primary for United States Senate and Mayor of Providence . This is a formal
complaint and a request for another election for Mayor of Providence and the United States
Senate. My complaint is based on election fraud reported in today’s Providence, Journal
9/21/06, that adversely affected my race substantially for Mayor of Providence by the City of
Providence Board of Canvassers and also my United States Senate Election.
This is a copy of the article.
Board seeks state police probe
Charges include votes by people who are not United State citizens, people voting under
assumed names, and ballots listed under names of people who did not vote.
01:00 AM EDT on Thursday, September 21, 2006
BY RICHARD C. DUJARDIN
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE -- Allegations of voter fraud in several precincts in last week's Democratic
primary emerged during a hearing at the state Board of Elections yesterday, prompting the
board to call for a state police investigation.
Laura Perez, who lost to incumbent Grace Diaz in a race for House District 11, and Eulogio
Acevedo, who came in third in a five-way race for City Council in Ward 8, said they were not
seeking to overturn last week's election but that election officials should be aware of what they
had found.
Perez said she saw one man who is not a United States citizen casting a vote in a District 11
precinct and said four neighbors told her they did not vote but a list provided by the
Providence Board of Canvassers showed that someone voted under their names. She said
she knows of someone who voted under an assumed name.
Acevedo, who was in a hotly fought race in which Leon F. Tejada edged Wilbur W. Jennings
by 11 votes, appeared before the board with his wife, Maryelyn.
Maryelyn Acevedo said she knew three people who gave their mail ballots to workers from
another political campaign but the votes apparently never made it to the board of elections.
But her biggest concern, she said, was many of the 650 new registered voters in Ward 8
whose names were added this year.
She said campaign workers visited those addresses to distribute campaign material, but
were told by people living at those addresses that they had never heard of those individuals.
"There were many cases like that," she said. "There were at least 30."
The board's vice chairman, Thomas V. Iannitti, and member John A. Daluz said the state
police will investigate as it did two years ago because of voter fraud in East Providence .
The allegations of voter fraud surfaced as the board postponed until 4 p.m. Wednesday a
hearing on a Jennings ' challenge to Tejada's 11-vote win.
Jennings' attorney, Keven McKenna, wants the board to call a new election because some
mail ballots never reached state election headquarters.
To support his case, he called Vue Xiong, of 50 Netop Drive , who testified that he filled out
his ballot and handed it to Scott A. Slater, son of Rep. Thomas W. Slater, D-Providence, at 7:
30 p.m. Election night.
Scott Slater testified that he picked up Xiong's wife's ballot earlier in the day and picked up
Xiong's after Xiong returned home from work. He said he gave the sealed ballot to campaign
worker Deborah Wesiah for delivery to the state. According to a list provided by the state,
Xiong's ballot was not received or counted.
McKenna said he would be able to identify two other people from Ward 8 whose mail ballots
were not counted either, and that with more time he might be able to find other mail ballot
recipients whose ballots were not delivered or countered.
The board gave McKenna until Wednesday to find witnesses.
According to Robert Rapoza, director of elections, 13 ballots were disqualified from the tally
because they had been rejected by a voting machine either because the voter voted for two or
more people in the same race or failed to connect the lines next to a candidate's name with
the black markers.
rdujardi@projo.com / (401) 277-7384
This election fraud has caused many voters and candidates in Providence to feel
disenfranchised to the election process and especially in the election on September 12th,
2006. In large part because other people voted in the September 12th, 2006 election using
their names and taking away their right to vote. Also, corrective measures by the Providence
Board of Canvassers where inadequate and are not in compliance with state law and federal
law. Subsequently, I am requesting another election for Mayor of Providence and the United
States Senate.
I request investigations into all polling machines and votes in Providence . I personally
witnessed a poll warden, at the Smith Street polling location, not read the numbers as they
came out of two voting machines, then rolling up the number sheets, taking them out of visible
sight and then after stating she did not have to read the numbers out loud, be forced to do so
by a State Board of Elections representative and the Providence police. Also, I witnessed the
mis-handling of memory cartridges from these same polling machines by not locking the
memory cartridges in the lock boxes immediately upon removing the memory cartridges from
these machines.
I was also in attendance at the recount that occurred in the basement of the State Board of
Elections last week. I photographed numerous ballots with only David Cicilline as the
candidate checked off and no other candidates checked off. I feel that the illegal use of voters
names has occurred fraudulently in the September 12th, 2006 primary election on such a
scale as to have substantially changed the results of the election. Meaning, I would have won
the election for Mayor of Providence if these numerous actions of fraud had not occurred. I
feel these results would also have a major change in outcome of my United States Senate
election as well, a federal election. I also witnessed ballots that had been folded, appearing to
have been removed from someone’s pocket. I also request legal council by the state’s
attorney general.
I will also be filing numerous complaints with the Federal Bureau of Investigation out of
Washington , D.C. , Providence and Boston but also with the Federal Election Commission.
Please forward a copy of this complaint to the Federal Election Commission.
Sincerely,
Christopher F. Young
Cc: Mr. Rapoza, Supervisor of Elections
Campaign to Elect Christopher Young
SENT: Friday, Sept. 8th , 3:08 PM
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CANDIDATE CHRISTOPHER YOUNG FILED A COMPLAINT WITH THE RHODE ISLAND
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO SEEK AN INVESTIGATION INTO TOXINS IN THE AIR AT
THE PLEASANT VIEW SCHOOL IN PROVIDENCE
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Friday September 8th, 2006, democrat Christopher Young, candidate
for U.S. Senate and Mayor of Providence filed, his 2nd complaint on the Pleasant View school
in Providence. This is the first complaint filed with the Department of Health. Late last week
Chris Young filed a complaint with the Department of Environmental management on the
Pleasant View School.
Young stated, “As I have said in the past, I believe the city of Providence and Cicilline's
administration must stop constructing schools on toxic land and dumps including the
Springfield school in Providence and the 333 Adelaide Ave. School, where Cicilline’s
administration has started construction of a daycare, a high school and a YMCA.”
An employee from the Pleasant View School in Providence has informed Young of high rates
of breast cancer and other cancers in this school. A foundation crack that may have been
releasing toxins has also been reported. Young said, “I understand that the Department of
Health has authority over indoor air born toxins. I want to voice a request for investigation into
the high rate of breast cancer among the teachers at this school as well the other schools
constructed on toxic land and or dumps. Teachers have fear in coming forward to issue
complaints involving environmental and health concerns. I also seek testing of what is
reported to be a failing ventilation system for PCBs and other toxins including high carbon
dioxide levels and methane at these schools but most specifically at the pleasant View
School. The ventilation system is not on the repair list reported in the Providence Journal. The
ventilation system has not been replaced as of the start of classes this week and has not been
cleaned. The foundation of the structure, at Pleasant View, has also been reported to have
cracks. I request testing of particles on or about this crack in the foundation including methane
testing and PCB testing. A garden was planted on these grounds; I would like the ground soil
tested at this garden site. I also would like the ground soil tested every four feet for toxic hot
spots on the entire parcel.
D.E.M has confirmed that the Pleasant View School was built on a dump, also that trash was
used to level the property off for the construction of the Pleasant View School.”
Chris Young stated, “I have taken action on this complaint. I have filed an additional complaint
with D.E.M last Friday in reference to construction of this school on contaminated land. I was
told D.E.M would follow up. I was also told by a D.E.M official that I should file a complaint with
the Department of Health for air quality issues. I have done this today. I have contacted Victor
Moffit, a state representative from Coventry, who is willing to take the bold initiative to work
with me to write legislation to stop the construction of schools and daycares on toxic land. The
legislation would also expand the Department of Heath’s regulatory authority on indoor air
quality at schools and daycares. I have also spoken to Councilman Miguel C. Luna, a
Providence City councilman, and he is also willing to take the bold initiative to attempt to
create a city ordinance to stop the construction of schools on toxic land.” Providence Mayoral
candidate Chris Young also stated, “In my run for the United States Senate one of the main
issues I hope to address when elected is to create federal regulations with the U.S.
Department of Education to stop the construction of schools and daycares on toxic land even
if the land has been remediated. A recent example of this issue is that on August 8th, 2006 in
New Bedford Massachusetts the new Keith Middle school was not opened because
construction crews unearthed a cap that was supposed to seal contaminated soil below
ground. That new school was also built on a former dump and land contaminated with PCBs.”
In reference to the Department of Health complaint Young said, “I seek an investigation into
what is reported to be a failing ventilation system for PCBs and other toxins including high
carbon dioxide levels and methane at these schools. The ventilation system at the Pleasant
View school is not on Cicilline’s administrations repair list reported in the Providence Journal.
The ventilation system has not been replaced as of the start of classes this week and has not
been cleaned. The foundation of the structure has also been reported to have cracks at
Pleasant View. I request testing of particles on or about this crack in the foundation including
methane testing and PCB testing. A garden was planted on these grounds; I would like the
ground soil tested at this garden site. I also would like the ground soil tested every four feet for
toxic hot spots on the entire parcel.”
Below is some of the information provided to candidate Chris Young in reference to the
Providence City - School Dept, Public School, Elementary School- Pleasant View School 50
Obediah Brown Road, Providence, RI 02909.
Chris Young has posted this press release on his website WhereToVote.com
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CANDIDATE CHRISTOPHER YOUNG TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE ON FRIDAY AT 2:
30pm ON INCREASED BREAST CANCER RATES AT A PROVIDENCE PUBLIC SCHOOL
THAT WAS BUILT ON A OLD DUMP at the Warwick Public Library room 100
Providence , RI - On Friday September 1st, 2006, at 2:30pm democrat Christopher Young,
candidate for U.S. Senate and Mayor of Providence, will hold a press conference at the
Warwick public library in Room 100.
All press may participate.
Candidate Young will comment on the stopping of construction of schools on toxic land and
dumps including the Springfield school in Providence and the 333 Adelaide Ave. School.
Candidate Young will also comment on a D.E.M. Complaint he filed earlier in the morning on
the Pleasant View School in Providence . The complaint voices a request for investigation
into the high rate of breast cancer among its teachers as well as the fear teachers have in
coming forward to issue complaints involving health concerns.
Chris Young has posted this press release on his website WhereToVote.com
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CHRISTOPHER YOUNG ANNOUNCES CANDIDACIES FOR
MAYOR OF PROVIDENCE, LT. GOVERNOR, AND US SENATE
Warwick, RI (Tuesday, December 20th 2005) On Friday, December 16th, at the Public
Utilities Commission at 89 Jefferson Boulevard in Warwick, Christopher Young announced his
candidacies for Mayor of Providence, Lt. Governor, and the US Senate. In a challenge against
the new state law barring individuals from running for more than one office, Young states “It’s
necessary to do this in the name of justice and to preserve a democratic society. People
should have the right to vote for the candidate of their choosing. The basic right to vote is now
in jeopardy.” Young also attended the protest in front of the PUC from 12PM - 1PM on Friday,
like he has for the past eight weeks.
In Young’s declaration, Young states “Since I was one a few candidates to run for two offices
at the same time in the last election, I must assume that this law was specifically written
against me and those of my constituents that chose to vote for me and gave me approximately
28% of the vote in my last election where I ran against Paul Maura and Rhoda Perry. I believe
the will of the people and their constitutional right to vote for their choice of candidate cannot
be denied in a truly democratic society.”
This will be Young’s second run for both Mayor of Providence and the United States Senate,
previously in both races receiving enough votes to qualify him as an acknowledged
candidate. Young has not accepted campaign contributions in the past.
Young states, “I hope to bring a voice to issues not being addressed by my opponents David
Cicilline, Lincoln Chafee and the Lt. Governor seat. I seek to bring leadership where there is
none and a voice to those who have no voice.”
Young’s specific issues include the utility rate increases for electric, gas, telephone, water,
and cable rates that have consistently been approved by the Public Utilities Commission and
Division of Public Utilities, to the detriment of the residents within the state of Rhode Island.
These increases are most adversely affecting those in Providence. “The lack of response by
David Cicilline in regards to these rate increases is unconscionable, where the median
income in Providence is $23,000 per year and these rate increases amount to approximately
$700 more per year per household,” said Young.
Young also takes issue with the fact that the telephone companies in parts of Rhode Island are
no longer providing 9-1-1 and operator assistance to households when their phone gets
disconnected, even though telephone lines run on public ways and the state under Title 39
must provide 9-1-1 emergency service, through local and state police departments.
Added Young, “David Cicilline mentions not one word nor has he come down one day in the
eight weeks I’ve been here protesting in front of the Public Utilities Commission, even though
Providence residents are the most adversely affected by these changes in 9-1-1 emergency
services. Cicilline is either not aware, which shows incompetence, doesn’t care, or is
ineffective. In addition, there are charges that Providence water is overcharging on water bills,
and the Public Utilities Commission is not upholding the state statute of limitations on contract
disputes. In one case holding an elderly woman to a 20-year-old bill when the state statute of
limitations is 6 years on most breach of contract claims. And, again, no voice is heard by
David Cicilline.”
More local issues Young supports are a property tax reduction; by reducing the cities
assessed property values, as property values decline as interest rates increase. Young
states, “I have heard no comment from David Cicilline on supporting my proposal for a tax
appraisal reduction. Cicilline refuses to pursue taxation of the colleges on their enormous
property assets, some of which have nothing to do with educational purposes. Brown
University alone is said to have approximately 250 pieces of property. The current Mayor of
Providence has even boldly twisted the truth when he stated that he’s reduced the rate of
taxation, even though every property tax payer within the city knows that their tax bills have
gone up along with their assessments. These property tax increases have been passed, in
some cases, onto tenants, reducing the amount of affordable housing within the city and
increasing the rate of poverty, most especially childhood poverty. Most Rhode Islanders are
still unaware Cicilline has not reduced the 500 million dollar unfunded pension liability in the
city, when most residents were led to believe that the property tax increases would go to
reduce the 500 million dollar unfunded pension liability.”
Young adds that Cicilline has flat funded the schools, which is the minimum allowed
compliance under state law, even though there are 300 more children within the Providence
school system. “Central High School still has lost its accreditation and Hope High School’s
roof still leaks. The state’s involvement into Hope has been beneficial; however, the city, and
more specifically David Cicilline, has failed to offer basic infrastructure needs to Hope High
School.” Said Young.
On a lesser note, neither the Lt. Governor nor Lincoln Chafee has addressed the previously
mentioned issues. There is question as to the voting process within the state of Rhode Island.
There were 30,000 notifications that were sent out and returned to the Providence Board of
Canvassers in the last Providence Mayoral election, and after 3 years Cicilline still has not
removed all of these names from the voting list. Some of these supposed voters were 117
years old and their gravestones were found in the Old burial ground in Providence.
Young also points out that there are many unanswered questions regarding September 11th
that have yet to be seriously addressed. These are serious questions that were not
addressed by the 911 commission into the attacks that were used to push us into war that has
caused the lives of over 2000 American soldiers. Specifically, as to the 911 commission
findings, why were facts omitted in their investigation such as the discovery of molten steel
found in the basement of building 7 and the Twin Towers? Engineers have stated that jet fuel
could never reach the temperature to melt steel. Only certain types of thermite explosives
could achieve this.
In regards to building 7, the third building to fall in the trade center complex, how was that
building self imploded the day of the attacks when it would take explosives engineers weeks
to position explosives to implode that building? It brings up the question that these explosives
had already been installed in that building.
FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has retracted their statement that they
knew why Building 7 fell; now FEMA states that they are unsure.
There is also question as to video evidence released by CNN News, that shows an object
attached to the plane that hit one of the towers in the world trade center complex and puts into
question whether or not this was an American Airlines plane or a military aircraft, as discussed
in a documentary titled “In Plane Sight” by William Lewis. Also, it is clear that approximately
500 billion dollars was spent on the war in Iraq, while necessary programs in the United States
were cut or under funded, especially education funding and the No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
Act, signed into law in 2002. Also, another federal issue not addressed by Chafee is the
creation of a 10-year federal statute of limitations on federal debts. Also, why is there no
federal rate control on the price of gasoline?
Said Young, “There are national budget issues that need to be investigated. I feel that its
necessary not only to audit Providence’s city budget but also the federal funding of 500 billion
dollars for the war, especially in regards to the no bid contracts obtained by Halliburton.”
For more on me and my campaigns go to wheretovote.com
In conclusion, Young states,
“What is clear is the dismal failure of our leaders to engage in any type of real, effective
discussion on these issues.”
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SENT: Tuesday, June 19th, 5:02 PM
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Candidate Christopher Young Files a U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division Complaint on Federal and State Election Law
Violations in the State of Rhode Island and Requests Secretary of State Ralph Mollis to join the Complaint.
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Tuesday June 19th, 2007, democrat Christopher Young, candidate for U.S. Senate and Mayor of Providence,
filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, that the Providence Board of Canvassers and the State
Board of Elections are in violation of state and federal election law by not removing approximately 40,000 voters from the Providence
voting list.
Young stated on the Helen Glover Show on WHJJ AM,
“The real issue about election fraud, that the Secretary of State’s office is not addressing, is the lack of removal of the 40,000
undeliverable voters by the Providence Board of Canvassers and the State Board of Elections in the city of Providence that I and
Keven McKenna requested the removal of in 2002. Two consecutive federal elections have already passed, yet these names have not
been purged even with a second notification from the former Secretary of State, Matt Brown, which found 72,000 undeliverable voters
in 2006. This is a clear violation of Federal Election law.”
In 2002 the State Board of Elections ordered the Providence Board of canvassers to after the Nov. 5th general election initiate a
citywide mailing to verify the status of the city's voting list.
At yesterday's public hearing on Election reform, held at the Providence CCRI campus, Chris Young directly requested to the
Secretary of State, Ralph Mollis, to join the complaint.
The Secretary of State stated he would meet with Chris Young and a representative of the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights
Division on the issue.
Below is a copy of the complaint filed:
U.S. Department of Justice
John K. Tanner, Chief
Civil Rights Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Voting Section, NWB
Washington , D.C. 20530 June 18th, 2007
As I discussed with your staff in the verbal complaint I made last week on June 7th, 2006 on the phone, my name is Christopher
Young and I have run in the 2000 United States Senate election, the 2002 Providence Mayoral election, the 2004 State Senate and
House of Representatives elections, the 2006 Providence Mayoral election, and the 2006 United States Senate election in the state of
Rhode Island. As we further discussed, in each of the above elections there were cases of federal election law violations. I request this
complaint be held confidential as it involves other federal agencies and the Washington Federal Bureau of Investigation. This
complaint incorporates numerous articles that have run in the Providence Journal, the states largest newspaper. This complaint also
states that election “fixing” and fraud is done not in just one way in Rhode Island but in numerous ways and is conducted by election
officials.
In 2000 there was election fraud involving ballot placement for my federal election by the use of rigged Rhode Island lottery balls that
were pre calibrated to come up in a sequence favoring some of the candidates. This also implicated interstate commerce fraud. I had
attempted to file a complaint with the state’s attorney general at the time but that office refused to take a complaint. A few weeks
later there was an attempt on my life in an area where organized crime is known to reside. A car slammed into my car and I was told
by a local judge that it had to do with recent events.
In 2002 there was election fraud in my first run for mayor of Providence. I had gone to the Providence Board of Canvassers late in the
evening, at closing, the day before the 2002 election. A girl behind the counter stated, “Cicilline forgot his bags.” Cicilline was my
opponent and his father has been the main attorney for the New England Crime family. Cicilline’s brother has recently been federally
indicted for his involvement in a two ton marijuana deal. I had been appointed a watcher in that election and that gave me the power to
inspect the bags the girl had referred to. In those bags were all the UPC codes that go on the application to vote. At that time in
Rhode Island, when you voted, you gave your name and a UPC code was removed beside your name and placed on an application to
vote. You then were given the application to vote that you signed, and then you were given a ballot. If one wanted to make ballots to
stuff the ballot piles one would need an equal number of applications to vote with valid UPC codes. This issue implicates the highest
levels of collusion and corruption within the Providence Board of Canvassers. I requested a hearing from the state board of elections
on this issue, it has been over four years since I made that official request and have not been granted one. This is a violation of both
state and federal law.
In 2004 there was election fraud in both my run for the State Senate and State House of Representatives. Everyone in my district that
I was running in was notified of changes to polling locations three days before the election to go vote in another area of the city where
my name would not appear on the ballot. This was a violation of state election law in that no voter is to be notified less than 7 days
prior to an election in Rhode Island. Elderly voters were disenfranchised, as documented in the Providence Journal. This is a criteria
for granting another election. I had filed a complaint with the State Board of elections requesting another election and a hearing. I was
left a message on my answering machine that my request for a recount had been granted. I never requested a recount because all they
do in a recount is print out the memory on the memory cartridges of the voting machines. The numbers have never changed with a
recount but they have it written into the general laws of Rhode Island that if you get a recount you have no further legal recourse to a
higher court. I refused the recount and at that time was told by a Roger Begin, the former head of the State Board of Elections, that the
elections are fixed in Rhode Island.
This statement by Mr. Begin implicates that the level of election “fixing” is at the highest level of Rhode Island state government and
requires the federal government to intervene. I immediately filed a complaint with the local Providence branch of the F.B.I and that is a
matter of an on going investigation with other federal agencies.
In the 2002 and 2006 Providence Mayoral elections, and the 2006 United States Senate election there were both federal and state
election law violations. I was threatened with a gun shot gesture to my head at a polling location in Providence. Another individual
standing with said gesturer had a gun in his waist.
As I discussed with your staff, the first issue we will focus on is also in the Providence Journal, June 19, 2002, in that Mayoral
candidate Keven A. McKenna had asked the Board of Canvassers to purge the city voting roster of citizens who vote from addresses
at which they do not live.
Noting that 56 percent of his mailings to registered voters at four city high-rises have been returned to him, McKenna challenged the
addresses of 302 voters.
McKenna who got a list of 96,124 registered voters from the Board of Canvassers said he became concerned about the accuracy of the
voting roster after his mailings came back to him stamped "address unknown."
In his letter, McKenna asked the agencies to "restore integrity" to the voting system by doing a return mail purge of voter rolls;
instituting a timely system of removing felons from the rolls, and developing an automatic electronic purging system that matches
voting addresses with the city tax division and School Department, car registrations, the state Division of Taxation and the U.S. Postal
Service.
Laurence K. Flynn, chairman of the Providence canvassing board, said addresses are automatically matched with state and federal
agencies every four years. And his office periodically updates voter records, including routinely getting notification from the state
vital statistics division when someone dies. These statements are clearly false since in a recent 2006 notification by the secretary of
states office 72,000 notifications were undeliverable.
McKenna implied that he is skeptical of the suggestion that a transient population is the reason for wrong addresses. In his letter, he
suggested that a flawed system or corruption by public employees could be a more plausible reason for discrepancies.
McKenna believes that such discrepancies are very important in city races, where victory margins have historically been slim.
"The electoral future of Providence should not be determined by strangers," McKenna said in a statement. "The voting roll is the most
sacred document in a democracy. Its integrity should not be allowed to be compromised by bureaucratic incompetence or by voter
fraud."
Former Secretary of State Matt Brown's office sent out letters in March of 2006 asking voters to update the information on file if it
was no longer accurate. Of the 605,000 mailers that went out -- one to each registered voter -- 72,000 were returned as undeliverable,
office spokesman Peter Kerwin said.
Kerwin said the office kept track of the mailers that came back, and in fact, that was part of the point of the mailing. The voters whose
mailers came back as undeliverable will be marked "inactive" in the state's database. If a person shows up and votes, or updates his
voter registration at a city or town hall, his status will revert to "active." But voters who don't do either, and remain inactive for two
federal election cycles, are to be removed from the rolls.
However, this had been already ordered by the state board of elections in 2002 as you will see below and is a stalling tactic to make it
seem like something is being done.
The Providence Journal’s Aug 16th, 2002 edition stated the city Board of Canvassers voted on Aug 15th, 2002 to send certified letters
to 302 would-be voters, agreeing that Democratic mayoral candidate [Keven A. McKenna] had reasonable cause to suspect those
voters no longer live at their registered voting addresses.
The board voted to deny McKenna's request that they disqualify between 20,000 and 40,000 voters whose voting place notification
cards were returned to the city as undeliverable or "addressee unknown."
Board member Mark Lomazzo who cast the dissenting vote in the 2- to-1 decision to deny McKenna's request said he agreed with
McKenna's claim about the prevalence of out-of-town voters.
The three-person board also voted to look into McKenna's claim that five people on the voting list have died and should be purged
from the rolls.
Laurence K. Flynn, chairman of the canvassing board, said a glitch in the computer system caused mistakes to be made in the mailing
of the notices. In most cases, the city's computer division erroneously mailed the notification cards to street addresses, as opposed to
mailing addresses, Flynn said. In other cases, an apartment number was left off the address, causing the card to come back as
undeliverable.
This statement was inaccurate and puts Mr. Flynn’s honesty into question since a 2006 mailing by the secretary of states office has
recently found these same names as undeliverable.
In 2002 Flynn said the board planned to resend at least 20,000 voter place notification cards before the Sept. 10 primary. But, he said,
that project is on hold by order of the city finance director, who used the excuse that he wants to get the city tax bills printed first.
This mailing was required by federal law yet was not done.
McKenna alleges that those would-be voters who he estimates number closer to 40,000 do not live in the city and are fraudulently
qualified to participate in the Democratic primary election, an election that could determine the city's next mayor.
McKenna said he would meet the 48-hour deadline in which he had to decide whether to appeal the decision to the state Board of
Elections.
"I find it outrageous that the city does not provide the resources to keep the voting lists up to date," McKenna said. As a result,
"people who do not live in the city could be voting to determine the next mayor of the city of Providence," he said. They could also
be voting out of state for the next congressional and federal candidates.
McKenna said he believes many city employees who live in Narragansett or elsewhere are among those seeking to fraudulently cast
votes.
As said earlier board member Mark Lomazzo who cast the dissenting vote in the 2- to-1 decision to deny McKenna's request said he
agreed with McKenna's claim about the prevalence of out-of-town voters.
He said he personally knows of three out-of-town residents who registered to vote in the city and used relatives' addresses to do so.
"What we do . . . it's a joke," Lomazzo said.
McKenna first took on the accuracy of the city voting roster in June 2002 after mailing campaign literature to residents of three high-
rise apartments and having 302 of his mailings returned and marked "addressee unknown."
Yesterday, McKenna told the board, he has since talked with Providence Housing Authority executive director Stephen O'Rourke,
who checked his tenant list and confirmed that none of the 302 people live in the elderly high-rises.
While Flynn insisted that the 20,000 or more returned notification cards do not signal massive voter fraud, McKenna tried to show
that the system has multiple flaws.
As an example, he brought up the matter of a woman who is listed on the voting list twice once under her married name and once under
her maiden name at two different Cumberland Street addresses.
Calling it the "most sacred document in a democracy," McKenna said he believes the board and the city have a duty to actively find
out whether voters have died, moved or changed their names due to marriage.
McKenna said canvassing board computers should be connected with those in the state Department of Vital Statistics and city Probate
Court, to better track deaths and marriages.
City election officials have said federal law prevents them from acting on the people who they suspect no longer live at their registered
addresses. But, McKenna told the board that the rules are different for primary races, which are not bound by the laws that apply to
general elections.
According to the Providence Journal, Aug 24th, 2002, the state Board of Elections on Aug 23rd, 2002 agreed that the Providence
Board of canvassers has “been negligent in its duty to clean up its list of registered voters”, but denied a mayoral candidate's request to
purge as many as 35,000 people from the primary election rosters.
Further quoting “Democratic mayoral candidate Keven A. McKenna had sought to have the names removed, in an appeal of the prior
week's decision by the Board of Canvassers to keep the voting list intact.
McKenna has alleged that the city voting roster is flawed: it lists some voters twice, retains the names of people who have died or
moved out of state and includes people who fraudulently claim to live at a city address. He presented the board with a list of more
than 100 registered voters who would have to be more than 100 years old, or deceased.
McKenna came to the state board with several requests, including removing the names of deceased voters.
That request was granted; the board ordered the canvassers to immediately contact the city and state keepers of vital statistics to get
the names of residents who have died from January 1990 to Aug. 15th of 2002. City officials must compare those names with its
voting records and immediately expunge the names of the deceased. However, with the recent 2006 notification sent out by the
Secretary of States Office and 72,000 notifications coming back undeliverable fraud becomes the only conclusion that can be drawn.
McKenna's requests to remove the names of people he believes do not live in Providence and eliminate duplications created by people
who are listed under married and maiden names were denied.
Robert Fontaine, executive director of the state board, said federal law is clear: voters cannot be removed from municipal voting lists
within 90 days of an election unless they make the request in person or in writing to have their names taken off.
Armed with federal law and state statutes, the five-person state board did, however, fire a shot of disapproval at the way the city has
kept its voting list.
In 2002 the State Board of Elections ordered the canvassers to after the Nov. 5thgeneral election initiate a citywide mailing to verify
the status of the city's voting list. If a voter is found ineligible to remain on the list, the canvassers must wait for the passing of two
federal elections before they can label such voters inactive.
So by 2006 if these names are still undeliverable for notifications then their names are to be purged from the voting list. The secretary
of state found 72,000 undeliverable names in a recent 2006 notification; however the secretary of state has now only made those
names inactive instead of purging those names. This is in clear violation of federal law.
The board also denied McKenna's request to disqualify thousands of voters whose mailed voter notification cards were returned to the
canvassers marked undeliverable or addressee unknown.
In 2002 McKenna has charged that the seven boxes of returned cards number closer to 35,000 and were returned primarily due to voter
fraud or because voters no longer live at their registered addresses. The implication is that these names are used to “fix” the elections
in Providence and “fix” statewide elections including federal elections.
State officials were insistent that the city has a duty to correct the computer problems and notify those voters; they also took issue
with the fact that city canvassers were a month late in mailing out the notification cards, as the state required following legislative
redistricting.
The board ordered the canvassers to resend the cards by that Friday from their order. Asst. City Solicitor Raymond Dettore said
canvassing officials will begin mailing the cards on Tuesday. If these cards had been sent out according to the State Boards order then
why did the city not notify the State Board again of any undeliverable notifications? If the city says there were none then why did the
Secretary of States office find 72,000 undeliverable notifications in 2006. This points to the Providence Board misrepresenting the
truth again and goes to fraud by that office.
The Providence Journal/Evening Bulletin Sep 25, 2006 stated when Scott Hacker decided to run for state Senate, he figured he'd send a
postcard introducing himself to the people he hoped to make his constituents.
Hacker, a Republican candidate for a seat representing parts of Providence and North Providence, got a voters list from the state
Republican Party, based on information from the secretary of state's office. The party had supposedly screened the list, and Hacker
limited his mailing to "perfect voters" -- people who had voted in at least three of the past four elections, according to the database.
Hacker sent out 6,000 postcards. He says 550 of them were returned as undeliverable.
Based on Hacker's case and several others, the state GOP is asking Secretary of State Matt Brown to act immediately to clean up the
state's voter rolls, the source for the party's database.
"We are ripe for voter fraud in Rhode Island," party Chairwoman Patricia Morgan said in a news release.
The Republicans also point to mailings by two East Providence City Council candidates. In one case, 800 pieces of mail were returned
out of 2,700 sent out. In another race, 400 out of 2,700 came back.
The party provided a copy of a mailing related to this year's Republican primary for East Greenwich Town Council. The mailer was
returned to sender with "DECEASED 1992" handwritten on the back.
The state's voting rolls are "like the Hotel California," says Chuck Newton, executive director of the state Republican Party. "You can
check in anytime you please, but you can never leave."
Brown's office has pointed to new technology added under the 2002 Help America Vote Act that includes a statewide, computerized
Central Voter Registry. But the office acknowledged last week that there remain numerous registered voters who no longer live at the
addresses on record.
Brown's office sent out letters in March asking voters to update the information on file if it was no longer accurate. Of the 605,000
mailers that went out -- one to each registered voter -- 72,000 were returned as undeliverable, office spokesman Peter Kerwin said.
As stated above Kerwin said the office kept track of the mailers that came back, and in fact, that was part of the point of the mailing.
The voters whose mailers came back as undeliverable will be marked "inactive" in the state's database. If a person shows up and votes,
or updates his voter registration at a city or town hall, his status will revert to "active." But voters who don't do either, and remain
inactive for two federal election cycles, will be removed from the rolls. This delays action and diverts the public’s attention from what
is already require under federal law because of the 40,000 undeliverable notifications in the Providence election in 2002. The elections
officials just keep repeating they will clean the list but never do. The point is they are already required to purge the 40,000
undeliverable voters in providence.
Kerwin stated once two cycles pass and the bulk of those 72,000 inactive registrations are removed, the rolls will be significantly more
accurate than they are now, Kerwin said. "Keep in mind, this is the first time anyone had done this kind of mailing for 20 years," he
said. This was an untrue statement as seen above it was done in Providence in 2002.
Because Rhode Island is legally required to wait before removing names to avoid disenfranchising voters, things "can't change
overnight," Kerwin said. However, the request to remove 40,000 names was made by Keven McKenna in 2002 and over two
consecutive federal elections has past since that request and order by the State Board of Elections.
Republican leaders said they were dissatisfied with that explanation.
"If you've got all these extra names that you can play with, all of a sudden you can start busing them in from out of town," said East
Providence GOP Chairwoman Kathy Santos, who brought the East Providence cases to the state party's attention.
Santos and Newton asserted that the number of incorrect registrations is probably even higher than the number of returned mailers,
since the returned mailers don't include people who moved but never signed up for forwarding through the U.S. Postal Service, or
people who continue to vote from addresses where they once lived and can still receive mail, such as a parent's house.
Candidates for the seat Brown vacated in January 2007 have suggested integrating voters rolls with other records, such as real estate
closings and death certificates, so the names of voters who die would automatically be removed and the registrations of voters who
move would simultaneously be entered at the new address and canceled at the old address.
It's imperative that the state act sooner rather than later, Newton said. "Maintaining this list with some semblance of accuracy is no
simple task," he said, "but it's so central to the task of clean and fair elections."
The Providence Journal/Evening Bulletin May 2, 2007 states the Board of Elections has one number, while the secretary of state's
office has others.
How many people voted in the statewide elections last November in Rhode Island?
A. 387,952
B. 390,340
C. 392,884
If you don't know the answer, don't feel bad; neither do state election officials.
The Board of Elections - which oversees the counting of votes - says 392,884 voters cast ballots in the Nov. 7 general election.
The secretary of state's Elections Division - which oversees the state's Central Voter Registration System and tracks who voted in
which elections - counted 387,952 voters in the same election as of Jan. 16. In a new tally Monday, that number had risen to 390,340.
That leaves 4,932 ballots that were cast without a voter voting - or 2,544, depending on which number you use from the secretary of
state.
The Providence Journal began examining the results of the November election this spring, after reporting last fall that the names of
nearly 5,000 registered voters in Rhode Island appear on a federal list of dead people. The Journal sought to find out whether any of
those dead people voted.
The newspaper's review found no evidence of systematic fraud by people casting ballots in the names of voters who had died. But it
did find a voter tracking system susceptible to error that could throw into doubt the results of close elections.
As an example, East Providence Mayor Joseph Larisa Jr. lost his at-large council seat to Isadore Ramos by less than 20 votes. But, the
Board of Elections tallied more than 100 ballots that did not have a corresponding voter in the secretary of state's count, either in
January or on Monday.
I will be pushing new legislation that compares the number of votes cast to the number of voters who checked in at each precinct as
part of the process of declaring the results of an election.
The process of tracking voters starts when they check in at the polls.
The process has changed since the 2002 election before a voter receives a ballot now, voters sign a poll book next to their name,
address, date of birth and a unique bar code, like those used at checkout registers, that identifies the voters. After the election,
canvassing clerks in each of Rhode Island's 39 cities and towns use a scanner to register the bar code of each person who signed the
poll book. The result of the scanning is a voter history file, which records the date and type of election and the precinct in which a
voter votes, plus whether the vote was in person or by mail.
If a clerk skips bar codes - individually or even a whole page of the poll book at a time - voters will not get credit for voting. Similarly,
if a clerk scans the barcode next to a blank signature line, someone who did not vote will get credit for voting. In 2002 there was an
application to vote, a separate card, the new method is used to cover up inaccuracies between the new poll books and the number of
people who voted.
November's election was the first general election for which the poll book scanning system was used.
"This is really the first time out of the box," Kando said. "I believe there are still some bugs in the system, but that's to be expected."
Even so, Kando said he was disappointed to hear that the discrepancy between the Board of Elections and secretary of state is more
than 2,000 voters.
Kando and Janet L. Ruggiero, executive director of the secretary of state's Elections Division, said some local clerks may still be
entering voter information six months after the election. That accounts for why the secretary of state's tally of voters rose between
Jan. 16 and this week. Every excuse in the book is used to cover up corruption.
Kando conceded that, six months after the election, all of the voter information should have been entered.
The Journal's search for dead voters revealed several other ways that errors wind up in the voter history file:
Voters sign on the line for someone else with a similar name.
Voters sign on the line above or below the one on which they are supposed to sign.
In one instance in Bristol, a voter signed the poll book twice, in two different boxes. Town Clerk Louis P. Cirillo said he does not
believe the voter was given two ballots, but conceded he has no way to confirm that. The problem in Bristol was that Angelo C.
Stanzione III and Angelo C. Stanzione both were registered to vote from addresses on State Street. Cirillo said it appears that Angelo
III mistakenly signed the box for the older Angelo, then signed his own box without his first signature being crossed out. Although he
was registered to vote in the last election, the older Angelo did not go to the polls because he's dead. He died in 1992.
In one precinct in Providence, the poll book - the only physical record of who voted - was lost before it could be scanned.
In that precinct, the state Board of Elections ruled that all 1,506 voters eligible to vote should be credited with voting, even though
only 466 ballots were counted there. That means the secretary of state's count on Monday of how many people voted is artificially
high because more than 1,000 people who didn't vote are recorded as having voted.
Kando said all the voters were given credit so that people who voted would not be declared inactive, a first step toward being removed
from the voting list.
In its search for dead voters, The Journal compared the Death Master File from the U.S. Social Security Administration with the voter
history file from the secretary of state's office. The Journal initially found 24 matches between the two files. Then, a reporter went to
the cities and towns involved and examined the poll books for a precincts in question.
A match was defined as a person's first name, last name and date of birth being identical on both lists. Plus, if a middle name was used
on both lists, they had to be identical. If the middle name was missing on one or both lists, it would still be considered a match if the
other parts matched.
In 10 of the 24 cases, the match was the result of dead voters being scanned, even though no one signed the poll book for that person.
Another five dead voters got credit for showing up at the polls because a legitimate voter signed in the wrong box.
Four of the 24 cases were false matches, where a live person with a common name - such as Mary Leonard - shared a birth date with
someone who had died.
Another three initial matches were the result of people being erroneously included on the Social Security list.
That left a single instance, in Providence, where someone voted in place of a dead person.
Marcellino J. Cabral, who went by Popeye, died of cancer in 1989 at the age of 61. But someone voted in his name in November 2004
and November 2006, according to Providence records.
The city's Board of Canvassers has sent a letter to Cabral's son, Marcellino J. Cabral Jr., who goes by Butch, asking whether he can
explain who has been voting in his father's name. Laurence K. Flynn, the board's executive secretary, said Butch Cabral has never been
registered to vote in Providence.
The Journal left a telephone message for Cabral with a woman who identified herself as his mother-in-law. He did not return the call.
Ruggiero said the secretary of state's office will spearhead an effort to remove dead people from the voting rolls.
When The Journal first reported that nearly 5,000 names on the Social Security death list are registered to vote in Rhode Island, a
spokesman for then-Secretary of State Matthew A. Brown said the secretary would obtain a copy of the list, and disseminate it to the
cities and towns.
But Ruggiero said that has not happened. She cited the cost of the list; the federal government charges $1,725 for the file.
Ruggiero said her office will, instead, obtain a list of dead Rhode Islanders from the state Health Department as far back as computer
records go, and update it on a monthly basis. Her office will make a similar effort to coordinate with the Department of Corrections to
remove felons from the voting list.
I seek the Department of Justice division of Civil Rights to pursue each claim in this complaint separately and with the full power that
the Civil Rights Division has, but not to include the state of Rhode Island’s U.S. Attorney office, other state law enforcement agencies,
or the Providence F.B.I office due to issues of corruption that are currently under investigation.
I seek a U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division elections investigation into the blatant election fraud occurring in Rhode
Island . As we discussed on the phone the first primary focus of this investigation should begin with the State Board who ordered the
canvassers to, after the Nov. 5, 2002 general election, initiate a citywide mailing in the city of Providence to verify the status of the
city's voting list. If voters were found ineligible to remain on the list, the canvassers were required to remove those names after the
passing of two federal elections before labeling such voters inactive. According to a recent Secretary of States mailing this did not
occur since of the 605,000 mailers that went out by the Secretary of States office -- one to each registered voter -- 72,000 were
returned as undeliverable, office spokesman Peter Kerwin said. This second notification was all that was necessary to purge the
40,000 names Keven McKenna requested to be removed in 2002. The state is in violation of federal election law.
I know that you along with me seek justice in our election process and desire to end corruption in the process that so it vital to our
survival as a free democracy. Please contact me upon receipt of this complaint at 401-477-6178.
Sincerely,
Christopher F. Young
Executive Director
National Civil Rights Coalition
4 Angell Road
Narragansett , RI 02882401-477-6178
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SENT: Wednesday, Nov. 8th, 2:00 PM
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
THE LARGE NUMBER OF “WRITE IN” RESULTS FOR CHRIS YOUNG MAY CHANGE
THE RESULTS IN CLOSE RACES.
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Wednesday November 8th, 2006, democrat Christopher Young,
candidate for U.S. Senate and Mayor of Providence stated publicly on WHJJ that the large
number of "write in" ballots cast for Christopher Young for the United States Senate and Mayor
of Providence may alter the results for local and statewide offices.
Young stated on the Howie Barte show on 920 am, "The large number of write in ballots cast
for me for both the United States Senate and Mayor of Providence may alter the results for
close races and ballot questions. The Providence board refuses to say how many write in
ballots they have. How can they not know how many ballots were cast for me and other
candidates as a write in unless the numbers are so large it goes beyond their ability to count.
Mr. Flynn from the Providence board of Canvassers has stated a large number of write in
ballots had been cast in Tuesday's election. I have been informed that not only the votes for
myself have not been counted yet but also the results for all the candidates and questions on
those ballots have not been counted. I received approximately 16,000 votes in the primary
election, even a small percentage of these votes may alter the results on close races.
Candidates who wish to witness this counting process may contact me at http://www.
WhereToVote.com."
§ 17-19-31 Irregular ballots. – Ballots voted for any person whose name does not appear on
the ballot as a nominated candidate for office are referred to in this section as "irregular
ballots". In voting for presidential electors, a voter may vote an irregular ticket made up of the
names of persons in nomination by different parties, or partly of names of persons in
nomination and partly of names of persons not in nomination, or wholly of names of persons
not in nomination by any party. The computer ballot containing the irregular ballot shall be
deposited in the optical scan precinct count unit. With that exception, no irregular ballot shall
be voted for any person for any office whose name appears on the ballot as a nominated
candidate for that office; any irregular ballot so voted shall not be counted. An irregular ballot
must be cast in its appropriate place on the ballot, or it shall be void and not counted and no
irregular ballots shall be counted at primaries; provided, that at any presidential primary,
irregular ballots shall be counted for those persons whose names have been written in for the
office of president. At the close of the polls, irregular ballots shall be packaged according to §
17-19-33 and shall be immediately delivered to the local board of canvassers. The local board
shall remain in session on election night to receive the ballots, to open the package labeled as
containing write-in votes, and to count and record all write-in votes cast for all federal, state
and local races listed on the ballot. The local board shall immediately notify the state board of
the results through a procedure promulgated by the state board.
Campaign to Elect Christopher Young
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SENT: Wednesday, Nov. 8th, 12:55 PM
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
THE LOCAL BOARDS OF ELECTION ARE IN VIOLATION OF STATE LAW BY NOT
REPORTING “WRITE IN” RESULTS FOR CHRISTOPHER YOUNG CANDIDATE FOR
UNITED STATES SENATE AND MAYOR OF PROVIDENCE.
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Wednesday November 8th, 2006, democrat Christopher Young,
candidate for U.S. Senate and Mayor of Providence stated publicly on WHJJ that the
Providence Board of Canvassers and other local boards are in violation of state law by not
reporting write in results for local and statewide offices.
Young stated on WHJJ a radio talk station at 920 am,
"It clearly states in § 17-19-31 that the local board shall immediately notify the state board of
the results through a procedure promulgated by the state board. The state board refuses to
demand the results from the Providence Board of canvassers or other local boards. Mr. Flynn
has stated in today’s Providence Journal that a large number of write in ballots had been cast
in Tuesday’s election, yet the state board of elections still does not have these results. Is the
will or the vote of these Rhode Islanders inconsequential? On top of all the other alleged fraud
that occurred in Tuesday's election including alleged pre programmed memory cartridges for
key races they are saying I can't know my election results. They should be able to count, that's
there job, and if they can't count in a timely manner then I feel fraud has occurred. I should not
have to be present for this count unless I should not trust the Providence Board of canvassers
or the state board of elections. Are they saying by not counting my ballots that I should not trust
their counting ability, that they fix the elections, that they pre program the memory cartridges
for the voting machines and that they already know I and other candidates lost because they
are the ones who fix the elections? I have requested that the Secretary of states office
demand the “write in” results under § 17-19-31 because they now have the power under state
law since the State Board of Elections primarily has power over the election the day of the
election. Since the election is over the Secretary of States office has the responsibility to
count these votes.”
§ 17-19-31 Irregular ballots. – Ballots voted for any person whose name does not appear on
the ballot as a nominated candidate for office are referred to in this section as "irregular
ballots". In voting for presidential electors, a voter may vote an irregular ticket made up of the
names of persons in nomination by different parties, or partly of names of persons in
nomination and partly of names of persons not in nomination, or wholly of names of persons
not in nomination by any party. The computer ballot containing the irregular ballot shall be
deposited in the optical scan precinct count unit. With that exception, no irregular ballot shall
be voted for any person for any office whose name appears on the ballot as a nominated
candidate for that office; any irregular ballot so voted shall not be counted. An irregular ballot
must be cast in its appropriate place on the ballot, or it shall be void and not counted and no
irregular ballots shall be counted at primaries; provided, that at any presidential primary,
irregular ballots shall be counted for those persons whose names have been written in for the
office of president. At the close of the polls, irregular ballots shall be packaged according to §
17-19-33 and shall be immediately delivered to the local board of canvassers. The local board
shall remain in session on election night to receive the ballots, to open the package labeled as
containing write-in votes, and to count and record all write-in votes cast for all federal, state
and local races listed on the ballot. The local board shall immediately notify the state board of
the results through a procedure promulgated by the state board.
Bush Moves Toward Martial Law - Press Release Candidate Chris Young opposes
revising the Insurrection Act
Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
Frank Morales | October 26, 2006
In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal
martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the
President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.
331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to
enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one
cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions.
Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2),
which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office
ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere
in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the
governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."
President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed the
equally odious Military Commissions Act of 2006. In a sense, the two laws complement one
another. One allows for torture and detention abroad, while the other seeks to enforce
acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of America.
Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the
term is "martial law."
Section 1076 of the massive Authorization Act, which grants the Pentagon another $500-plus-
billion for its ill-advised adventures, is entitled, "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public
Emergencies." Section 333, "Major public emergencies; interference with State and Federal
law" states that "the President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in
Federal service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a
result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack
or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President
determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted
authorities of the State or possession are incapable of ("refuse" or "fail" in) maintaining public
order, "in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful
combination, or conspiracy."
For the current President, "enforcement of the laws to restore public order" means to
commandeer guardsmen from any state, over the objections of local governmental, military
and local police entities; ship them off to another state; conscript them in a law enforcement
mode; and set them loose against "disorderly" citizenry - protesters, possibly, or those who
object to forced vaccinations and quarantines in the event of a bio-terror event.
The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of protesters, so called
"illegal aliens," "potential terrorists" and other "undesirables" for detention in facilities already
contracted for and under construction by Halliburton. That's right. Under the cover of a trumped-
up "immigration emergency" and the frenzied militarization of the southern border, detention
camps are being constructed right under our noses, camps designed for anyone who resists
the foreign and domestic agenda of the Bush administration.
An article on "recent contract awards" in a recent issue of the slick, insider "Journal of
Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International" reported that "global engineering and
technical services powerhouse KBR [Kellog, Brown & Root] announced in January 2006 that
its Government and Infrastructure division was awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite
Quantity (IDIQ) contract to support U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities
in the event of an emergency." "With a maximum total value of $385 million over a five year
term," the report notes, "the contract is to be executed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,"
"for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE
Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) - in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants
into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs." The report points out that
"KBR is the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton." (3) So, in addition to
authorizing another $532.8 billion for the Pentagon, including a $70-billion "supplemental
provision" which covers the cost of the ongoing, mad military maneuvers in Iraq, Afghanistan,
and other places, the new law, signed by the president in a private White House ceremony,
further collapses the historic divide between the police and the military: a tell-tale sign of a
rapidly consolidating police state in America, all accomplished amidst ongoing U.S. imperial
pretensions of global domination, sold to an "emergency managed" and seemingly willfully
gullible public as a "global war on terrorism."
Make no mistake about it: the de-facto repeal of the Posse Comitatus Act (PCA) is an
ominous assault on American democratic tradition and jurisprudence. The 1878 Act, which
reads, "Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the
Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or Air Force as a posse
Comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not
more than two years, or both," is the only U.S. Criminal statute that outlaws military operations
directed against the American people under the cover of 'law enforcement.' As such, it has
been the best protection we've had against the power-hungry intentions of an unscrupulous
and reckless executive, an executive intent on using force to enforce its will.
Unfortunately, this past week, the president dealt posse Comitatus, along with American
democracy, a near fatal blow. Consequently, it will take an aroused citizenry to undo the
damage wrought by this horrendous act, part and parcel, as we have seen, of a long train of
abuses and outrages perpetrated by this authoritarian administration.
Despite the unprecedented and shocking nature of this act, there has been no outcry in the
American media, and little reaction from our elected officials in Congress. On September
19th, a lone Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) noted that 2007's Defense Authorization Act
contained a "widely opposed provision to allow the President more control over the National
Guard [adopting] changes to the Insurrection Act, which will make it easier for this or any future
President to use the military to restore domestic order WITHOUT the consent of the nation's
governors."
Senator Leahy went on to stress that, "we certainly do not need to make it easier for
Presidents to declare martial law. Invoking the Insurrection Act and using the military for law
enforcement activities goes against some of the central tenets of our democracy. One can
easily envision governors and mayors in charge of an emergency having to constantly look
over their shoulders while someone who has never visited their communities gives the orders."
A few weeks later, on the 29th of September, Leahy entered into the Congressional Record
that he had "grave reservations about certain provisions of the fiscal Year 2007 Defense
Authorization Bill Conference Report," the language of which, he said, "subverts solid,
longstanding posse Comitatus statutes that limit the military's involvement in law enforcement,
thereby making it easier for the President to declare martial law." This had been "slipped in,"
Leahy said, "as a rider with little study," while "other congressional committees with
jurisdiction over these matters had no chance to comment, let alone hold hearings on, these
proposals."
In a telling bit of understatement, the Senator from Vermont noted that "the implications of
changing the (Posse Comitatus) Act are enormous". "There is good reason," he said, "for the
constructive friction in existing law when it comes to martial law declarations. Using the military
for law enforcement goes against one of the founding tenets of our democracy. We fail our
Constitution, neglecting the rights of the States, when we make it easier for the President to
declare martial law and trample on local and state sovereignty."
Senator Leahy's final ruminations: "Since hearing word a couple of weeks ago that this
outcome was likely, I have wondered how Congress could have gotten to this point. It seems
the changes to the Insurrection Act have survived the Conference because the Pentagon and
the White House want it."
The historic and ominous re-writing of the Insurrection Act, accomplished in the dead of night,
which gives Bush the legal authority to declare martial law, is now an accomplished fact.
The Pentagon, as one might expect, plays an even more direct role in martial law operations.
Title XIV of the new law, entitled, "Homeland Defense Technology Transfer Legislative
Provisions," authorizes "the Secretary of Defense to create a Homeland Defense Technology
Transfer Consortium to improve the effectiveness of the Department of Defense (DOD)
processes for identifying and deploying relevant DOD technology to federal, State, and local
first responders."
In other words, the law facilitates the "transfer" of the newest in so-called "crowd control"
technology and other weaponry designed to suppress dissent from the Pentagon to local
militarized police units. The new law builds on and further codifies earlier "technology transfer"
agreements, specifically the 1995 DOD-Justice Department memorandum of agreement
achieved back during the Clinton-Reno regime.(4)
It has become clear in recent months that a critical mass of the American people have seen
through the lies of the Bush administration; with the president's polls at an historic low, growing
resistance to the war Iraq, and the Democrats likely to take back the Congress in mid-term
elections, the Bush administration is on the ropes. And so it is particularly worrying that
President Bush has seen fit, at this juncture to, in effect, declare himself dictator.
Source:
(1) http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200609/091906a.html and http://leahy.senate.
gov/press/200609/092906b.html See also, Congressional Research Service Report for
Congress, "The Use of Federal Troops for Disaster Assistance: Legal Issues," by Jennifer K.
Elsea, Legislative Attorney, August 14, 2006
(2) http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill+h109-5122
(3) Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International, "Recent Contract Awards",
Summer 2006, Vol.12, No.2, pg.8; See also, Peter Dale Scott, "Homeland Security Contracts
for Vast New Detention Camps," New American Media, January 31, 2006.
(4) "Technology Transfer from defense: Concealed Weapons Detection", National Institute of
Justice Journal, No 229, August, 1995, pp.42-43.
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SENT: Monday, October 23rd , 8:00 AM
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CANDIDATE CHRISTOPHER YOUNG FILES WITH THE STATE BOARD OF
ELECTIONS AS A WRITE IN CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR OF PROVIDENCE AND THE
UNITED STATES SENATE FOR THE NOVEMBER 7TH ELECTION
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Monday, October 23rd 2006, democrat Christopher Young will
announce his candidacy for Mayor of Providence and the United States Senate at a protest at
the National Grid gas company on 100 Weybosset Street in Providence at 12 noon. The
protest will be with the George Wiley Center to urge the granting of amnesty to 8,850 Rhode
Islanders without heat or electric going into the winter season. Like the campaign of Joe
Lieberman, who has recently been reported to be ahead in Connecticut polls, Chris Young will
continue on with his campaign after his primary, as a write in candidate. Candidate Young will
give his renewed reasons for running onto the general election: the signing of the Military
Commissions Act and the loss of Habeas Corpus; the unheard cries for help from the nine
teachers who have breast cancer at the Pleasant View school in Providence that was built on
a dump, the cries of parents and children who attend the Springfield school also constructed
on a dump, as well as cries from the parents of the children soon to attend the superfund site
where a daycare and high school is under construction on the Gorham Manufacturing site on
333 Adelaide Ave. in Providence; and the 8,850 Rhode Islanders who do not have heat and
electric for the upcoming winter season nor a representative voice from the current Mayor of
Providence or in the United States Senate.
Young stated, “The Military Commissions Act has been put into effect but is in error as history
has shown:
President John Adams insisted that the Alien and Sedition Acts were needed to save
American lives —he used those Acts to jail newspaper editors for words they wrote, about
America.
If you think this can’t happen today, a recent example is a U.S. citizen being targeted using
terror legislation involved BBC investigative journalist Greg Palast, who was pursued by
Homeland Security and charged with unauthorized filming of a “critical national security
structure,” (an Exxon Oil refinery that was readily available to anyone with an Internet
connection at Google Maps), under PATRIOT Act legislation.
President Woodrow Wilson pushed the Espionage Act saying it was necessary to save
American lives —he used that Act to prosecute 2,000 Americans, especially those he
disparaged as "Hyphenated Americans," most of whom were guilty only of advocating peace
in a time of war.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt insisted that Executive Order 9-0-6-6 was necessary to save
American lives — he used that Order to imprison and pauperize 110-thousand Americans.
General DeWitt under his administration told Congress: "It makes no difference whether he is
an American citizen — he is still a Japanese." Roosevelt's internment of the Japanese was
not merely the worst blight on his record, but it would necessitate a formal apology from the
government of the United States, to the citizens of the United States, whose lives it ruined.
Section 802 of the PATRIOT Act is specifically aimed at US citizens and announces any crime
as "domestic terrorism". Citizens can be held without a trial as "Enemy Combatants". The 4th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in January 2003 that U.S. Citizens can be stripped of their
citizenship and held as enemy combatants. Habeas Corpus has been suspended for
American citizens. How can you defend against charges under this act and the Military
Commissions Act if you are denied basic due process protections? The Military
Commissions Act also dismisses charges of torture in detention centers, (Abu Ghraib for
example), retroactively. Is this still a just society?”
Young further stated another reason he is running as a write in candidate: “As I have said in
the past, I believe the city of Providence and Cicilline's administration must stop constructing
schools on toxic land and dumps, including the Springfield school in Providence and the 333
Adelaide Ave. School, where Cicilline’s administration has started construction of a daycare,
a high school and a YMCA.”
An employee from the Pleasant View School in Providence has informed Young of high rates
of breast cancer and other cancers in this school. A foundation crack that may have been
releasing toxins has also been reported. Young said, “I understand that the Department of
Health has authority over indoor air born toxins. I want to voice a request for investigation into
the high rate of breast cancer among the teachers at this school as well the other schools
constructed on toxic land and or dumps. Teachers have fear in coming forward to issue
complaints involving environmental and health concerns. I also seek testing of what is
reported to be a failing ventilation system for PCBs and other toxins including high carbon
dioxide levels and methane at these schools but most specifically at the Pleasant View
School. The ventilation system is not on the repair list reported in the Providence Journal. The
ventilation system has not been replaced as of the start of classes last month and has not
been cleaned. The foundation of the structure at Pleasant View has also been reported to
have cracks. I request testing of particles on or about this crack in the foundation including
methane testing and PCB testing. A garden was planted on these grounds; I would like the
ground soil tested at this garden site. I also would like the ground soil tested every four feet for
toxic hot spots on the entire parcel.
D.E.M has confirmed that the Pleasant View School was built on a dump, also that trash was
used to level the property off for the construction of the Pleasant View School.”
Chris Young stated, “I have taken action on this complaint. I have filed an additional complaint
with D.E.M in reference to construction of this school on contaminated land. I was told D.E.M
would follow up. I was also told by a D.E.M official that I should file a complaint with the
Department of Health for air quality issues. I have done this as well. I have contacted Victor
Moffitt, a state representative from Coventry, who is willing to take the bold initiative to work
with me to write legislation to stop the construction of schools and daycares on toxic land,
dumps and former superfund sites. Numerous legislators have signed onto the legislation.
The legislation would also expand the Department of Health’s regulatory authority on indoor air
quality at schools and daycares. I have also spoken to Councilman Miguel C. Luna, a
Providence City councilman, and he is also willing to take the bold initiative to attempt to
create a city ordinance to stop the construction of schools on toxic land.” Providence Mayoral
candidate Chris Young also stated, “In my run for the United States Senate one of the main
issues I hope to address when elected is to create federal regulations with the U.S.
Department of Education to stop the construction of schools and daycares on toxic land even
if the land has been remediated. A recent example of this issue is that on August 8th, 2006 in
New Bedford Massachusetts the new Keith Middle school was not opened because
construction crews unearthed a cap that was supposed to seal contaminated soil below
ground. That new school was also built on a former dump and land contaminated with PCBs.”
In reference to the Department of Health complaint Young said, “I seek an investigation into
what is reported to be a failing ventilation system for PCBs and other toxins including high
carbon dioxide levels and methane at these schools. The ventilation system at the Pleasant
View school is not on Cicilline’s administration’s repair list reported in the Providence
Journal. The ventilation system has not been replaced as of the start of classes last month
and has not been cleaned. The foundation of the structure has also been reported to have
cracks at Pleasant View. I request testing of particles on or about this crack in the foundation
including methane testing and PCB testing. A garden was planted on these grounds; I would
like the ground soil tested at this garden site. I also would like the ground soil tested every four
feet for toxic hot spots on the entire parcel.”
Below is some of the information provided to candidate Chris Young in reference to the
Providence City - School Dept, Public School, Elementary School- Pleasant View School 50
Obediah Brown Road, Providence, RI 02909.
· Pleasant View School was built on the old city dump and it’s falling off its
hill. The foundation of the building had a crack and there is a fear that toxins may travel up
through foundation cracks. Dumps produce methane long after the site stops receiving
garbage.
· Some classrooms have no windows for ventilation and there are dirty
air filters in the ventilation system. The ventilation system is a mess,
filters aren’t cleaned.
· Grievances have been filed.
· Retaliations have been felt for bringing forward grievances.
· Teachers are afraid.
· The AC system is consistently flooded with water and an employee
fears high carbon dioxide levels.
· Nine of the women teachers have had cancer at the school. An
employee has already died of cancer.
· There have reports of premature birth.
· An employee has stated “the building makes me feel sick”,
reporting severe headaches, and mold.
· There is a complaint of insufficient fresh air. The ventilation system
was going to be changed but it wasn’t.
· The teachers that were there for a long period of time have the
highest rates of cancer. Teachers are afraid to speak up anymore.
· An employee had radiation treatment but there is fear as to what long
term effects of this radiation to get rid of it are.
· An employee has had cancer twice and she lost part of her body.
· There has been a garden at the Pleasant View School. At least
one employee with cancer was in the dirt around the school.
· An employee feels grievances don’t go anywhere. Teachers have
been transferred.
· Teachers have headaches and sinus infections.
· The school system and the Cicilline’s office have been informed over
the past four years and longer about these issues.
· Issues are not being fixed, like mold and the ventilation system.
Lastly, the third reason Young continues onto the general election, Young stated, “I stand with
one of the last bastions of leadership within the state of Rhode Island, the George Wiley
Center, to bring heat and electricity to almost 9,000 Rhode Islanders who are without these
necessary resources. We hope to bring amnesty to these individuals because it is what a
humane society would do, and most importantly so that we may save lives of men, women and
children who otherwise would freeze to death or will be forced to heat themselves with unsafe
fires. The amnesty program would allow a payment plan that could at least get these human
beings heat and electric turned on before the Nov. 1st moratorium. I personally seek
discharge of debts that are past the state statute of limitations. National Grid can not hold
customers, by denying service, to debts that are not collectible in our court system.”
Chris Young has posted this press release on his website WhereToVote.com
Executive Director
Robert Kando
Rhode Island Board of Elections
50 Branch Ave. Providence , RI 02904
September 21, 2006
Mr. Kando and Mr. Rapoza,
My name is Christopher Young and I was a candidate in the September 12th, 2006
democratic primary for United States Senate and Mayor of Providence . This is a formal
complaint and a request for another election for Mayor of Providence and the United States
Senate. My complaint is based on election fraud reported in today’s Providence, Journal
9/21/06, that adversely affected my race substantially for Mayor of Providence by the City of
Providence Board of Canvassers and also my United States Senate Election.
This is a copy of the article.
Board seeks state police probe
Charges include votes by people who are not United State citizens, people voting under
assumed names, and ballots listed under names of people who did not vote.
01:00 AM EDT on Thursday, September 21, 2006
BY RICHARD C. DUJARDIN
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE -- Allegations of voter fraud in several precincts in last week's Democratic
primary emerged during a hearing at the state Board of Elections yesterday, prompting the
board to call for a state police investigation.
Laura Perez, who lost to incumbent Grace Diaz in a race for House District 11, and Eulogio
Acevedo, who came in third in a five-way race for City Council in Ward 8, said they were not
seeking to overturn last week's election but that election officials should be aware of what they
had found.
Perez said she saw one man who is not a United States citizen casting a vote in a District 11
precinct and said four neighbors told her they did not vote but a list provided by the
Providence Board of Canvassers showed that someone voted under their names. She said
she knows of someone who voted under an assumed name.
Acevedo, who was in a hotly fought race in which Leon F. Tejada edged Wilbur W. Jennings
by 11 votes, appeared before the board with his wife, Maryelyn.
Maryelyn Acevedo said she knew three people who gave their mail ballots to workers from
another political campaign but the votes apparently never made it to the board of elections.
But her biggest concern, she said, was many of the 650 new registered voters in Ward 8
whose names were added this year.
She said campaign workers visited those addresses to distribute campaign material, but
were told by people living at those addresses that they had never heard of those individuals.
"There were many cases like that," she said. "There were at least 30."
The board's vice chairman, Thomas V. Iannitti, and member John A. Daluz said the state
police will investigate as it did two years ago because of voter fraud in East Providence .
The allegations of voter fraud surfaced as the board postponed until 4 p.m. Wednesday a
hearing on a Jennings ' challenge to Tejada's 11-vote win.
Jennings' attorney, Keven McKenna, wants the board to call a new election because some
mail ballots never reached state election headquarters.
To support his case, he called Vue Xiong, of 50 Netop Drive , who testified that he filled out
his ballot and handed it to Scott A. Slater, son of Rep. Thomas W. Slater, D-Providence, at 7:
30 p.m. Election night.
Scott Slater testified that he picked up Xiong's wife's ballot earlier in the day and picked up
Xiong's after Xiong returned home from work. He said he gave the sealed ballot to campaign
worker Deborah Wesiah for delivery to the state. According to a list provided by the state,
Xiong's ballot was not received or counted.
McKenna said he would be able to identify two other people from Ward 8 whose mail ballots
were not counted either, and that with more time he might be able to find other mail ballot
recipients whose ballots were not delivered or countered.
The board gave McKenna until Wednesday to find witnesses.
According to Robert Rapoza, director of elections, 13 ballots were disqualified from the tally
because they had been rejected by a voting machine either because the voter voted for two or
more people in the same race or failed to connect the lines next to a candidate's name with
the black markers.
rdujardi@projo.com / (401) 277-7384
This election fraud has caused many voters and candidates in Providence to feel
disenfranchised to the election process and especially in the election on September 12th,
2006. In large part because other people voted in the September 12th, 2006 election using
their names and taking away their right to vote. Also, corrective measures by the Providence
Board of Canvassers where inadequate and are not in compliance with state law and federal
law. Subsequently, I am requesting another election for Mayor of Providence and the United
States Senate.
I request investigations into all polling machines and votes in Providence . I personally
witnessed a poll warden, at the Smith Street polling location, not read the numbers as they
came out of two voting machines, then rolling up the number sheets, taking them out of visible
sight and then after stating she did not have to read the numbers out loud, be forced to do so
by a State Board of Elections representative and the Providence police. Also, I witnessed the
mis-handling of memory cartridges from these same polling machines by not locking the
memory cartridges in the lock boxes immediately upon removing the memory cartridges from
these machines.
I was also in attendance at the recount that occurred in the basement of the State Board of
Elections last week. I photographed numerous ballots with only David Cicilline as the
candidate checked off and no other candidates checked off. I feel that the illegal use of voters
names has occurred fraudulently in the September 12th, 2006 primary election on such a
scale as to have substantially changed the results of the election. Meaning, I would have won
the election for Mayor of Providence if these numerous actions of fraud had not occurred. I
feel these results would also have a major change in outcome of my United States Senate
election as well, a federal election. I also witnessed ballots that had been folded, appearing to
have been removed from someone’s pocket. I also request legal council by the state’s
attorney general.
I will also be filing numerous complaints with the Federal Bureau of Investigation out of
Washington , D.C. , Providence and Boston but also with the Federal Election Commission.
Please forward a copy of this complaint to the Federal Election Commission.
Sincerely,
Christopher F. Young
Cc: Mr. Rapoza, Supervisor of Elections
Campaign to Elect Christopher Young
SENT: Friday, Sept. 8th , 3:08 PM
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CANDIDATE CHRISTOPHER YOUNG FILED A COMPLAINT WITH THE RHODE ISLAND
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO SEEK AN INVESTIGATION INTO TOXINS IN THE AIR AT
THE PLEASANT VIEW SCHOOL IN PROVIDENCE
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Friday September 8th, 2006, democrat Christopher Young, candidate
for U.S. Senate and Mayor of Providence filed, his 2nd complaint on the Pleasant View school
in Providence. This is the first complaint filed with the Department of Health. Late last week
Chris Young filed a complaint with the Department of Environmental management on the
Pleasant View School.
Young stated, “As I have said in the past, I believe the city of Providence and Cicilline's
administration must stop constructing schools on toxic land and dumps including the
Springfield school in Providence and the 333 Adelaide Ave. School, where Cicilline’s
administration has started construction of a daycare, a high school and a YMCA.”
An employee from the Pleasant View School in Providence has informed Young of high rates
of breast cancer and other cancers in this school. A foundation crack that may have been
releasing toxins has also been reported. Young said, “I understand that the Department of
Health has authority over indoor air born toxins. I want to voice a request for investigation into
the high rate of breast cancer among the teachers at this school as well the other schools
constructed on toxic land and or dumps. Teachers have fear in coming forward to issue
complaints involving environmental and health concerns. I also seek testing of what is
reported to be a failing ventilation system for PCBs and other toxins including high carbon
dioxide levels and methane at these schools but most specifically at the pleasant View
School. The ventilation system is not on the repair list reported in the Providence Journal. The
ventilation system has not been replaced as of the start of classes this week and has not been
cleaned. The foundation of the structure, at Pleasant View, has also been reported to have
cracks. I request testing of particles on or about this crack in the foundation including methane
testing and PCB testing. A garden was planted on these grounds; I would like the ground soil
tested at this garden site. I also would like the ground soil tested every four feet for toxic hot
spots on the entire parcel.
D.E.M has confirmed that the Pleasant View School was built on a dump, also that trash was
used to level the property off for the construction of the Pleasant View School.”
Chris Young stated, “I have taken action on this complaint. I have filed an additional complaint
with D.E.M last Friday in reference to construction of this school on contaminated land. I was
told D.E.M would follow up. I was also told by a D.E.M official that I should file a complaint with
the Department of Health for air quality issues. I have done this today. I have contacted Victor
Moffit, a state representative from Coventry, who is willing to take the bold initiative to work
with me to write legislation to stop the construction of schools and daycares on toxic land. The
legislation would also expand the Department of Heath’s regulatory authority on indoor air
quality at schools and daycares. I have also spoken to Councilman Miguel C. Luna, a
Providence City councilman, and he is also willing to take the bold initiative to attempt to
create a city ordinance to stop the construction of schools on toxic land.” Providence Mayoral
candidate Chris Young also stated, “In my run for the United States Senate one of the main
issues I hope to address when elected is to create federal regulations with the U.S.
Department of Education to stop the construction of schools and daycares on toxic land even
if the land has been remediated. A recent example of this issue is that on August 8th, 2006 in
New Bedford Massachusetts the new Keith Middle school was not opened because
construction crews unearthed a cap that was supposed to seal contaminated soil below
ground. That new school was also built on a former dump and land contaminated with PCBs.”
In reference to the Department of Health complaint Young said, “I seek an investigation into
what is reported to be a failing ventilation system for PCBs and other toxins including high
carbon dioxide levels and methane at these schools. The ventilation system at the Pleasant
View school is not on Cicilline’s administrations repair list reported in the Providence Journal.
The ventilation system has not been replaced as of the start of classes this week and has not
been cleaned. The foundation of the structure has also been reported to have cracks at
Pleasant View. I request testing of particles on or about this crack in the foundation including
methane testing and PCB testing. A garden was planted on these grounds; I would like the
ground soil tested at this garden site. I also would like the ground soil tested every four feet for
toxic hot spots on the entire parcel.”
Below is some of the information provided to candidate Chris Young in reference to the
Providence City - School Dept, Public School, Elementary School- Pleasant View School 50
Obediah Brown Road, Providence, RI 02909.
- Pleasant View School was built on the old city dump and it’s falling off its hill. The
foundation of the building had a crack and there is a fear that toxins may travel up
through foundation cracks. Dumps produce methane long after the site stops receiving
garbage. - Some classrooms have no windows for ventilation and there are dirty air filters in the
ventilation system. The ventilation system is a mess, filters aren’t cleaned. - Grievances have been filed.
- Retaliations have been felt for bringing forward grievances.
- Teachers are afraid.
- The AC system is consistently flooded with water and an employee fears high carbon
dioxide levels. - Nine of the women teachers have had cancer at the school. An employee has already
died of cancer. - There have reports of premature birth.
- An employee has stated “the building makes me feel sick”, reporting severe headaches,
and mold. - There is a complaint of insufficient fresh air. The ventilation system was going to be
changed but it wasn’t. - The teachers that were there for a long period of time have the highest rates of cancer.
Teachers are afraid to speak up anymore. - An employee had radiation treatment but there is fear as to what long term effects of this
radiation to get rid of it are. - An employee has had cancer twice and she lost part of her body.
- There has been a garden at the Pleasant View School . At least one employee with
cancer was in the dirt around the school. - An employee feels grievances don’t go anywhere. Teachers have been transferred.
- Teachers have headaches and sinus infections.
- The school system and the Cicilline’s office have been informed over the past four years
and longer about these issues. - Issues are not being fixed like mold, and the ventilation system.
Chris Young has posted this press release on his website WhereToVote.com
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CANDIDATE CHRISTOPHER YOUNG TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE ON FRIDAY AT 2:
30pm ON INCREASED BREAST CANCER RATES AT A PROVIDENCE PUBLIC SCHOOL
THAT WAS BUILT ON A OLD DUMP at the Warwick Public Library room 100
Providence , RI - On Friday September 1st, 2006, at 2:30pm democrat Christopher Young,
candidate for U.S. Senate and Mayor of Providence, will hold a press conference at the
Warwick public library in Room 100.
All press may participate.
Candidate Young will comment on the stopping of construction of schools on toxic land and
dumps including the Springfield school in Providence and the 333 Adelaide Ave. School.
Candidate Young will also comment on a D.E.M. Complaint he filed earlier in the morning on
the Pleasant View School in Providence . The complaint voices a request for investigation
into the high rate of breast cancer among its teachers as well as the fear teachers have in
coming forward to issue complaints involving health concerns.
Chris Young has posted this press release on his website WhereToVote.com
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CHRISTOPHER YOUNG ANNOUNCES CANDIDACIES FOR
MAYOR OF PROVIDENCE, LT. GOVERNOR, AND US SENATE
Warwick, RI (Tuesday, December 20th 2005) On Friday, December 16th, at the Public
Utilities Commission at 89 Jefferson Boulevard in Warwick, Christopher Young announced his
candidacies for Mayor of Providence, Lt. Governor, and the US Senate. In a challenge against
the new state law barring individuals from running for more than one office, Young states “It’s
necessary to do this in the name of justice and to preserve a democratic society. People
should have the right to vote for the candidate of their choosing. The basic right to vote is now
in jeopardy.” Young also attended the protest in front of the PUC from 12PM - 1PM on Friday,
like he has for the past eight weeks.
In Young’s declaration, Young states “Since I was one a few candidates to run for two offices
at the same time in the last election, I must assume that this law was specifically written
against me and those of my constituents that chose to vote for me and gave me approximately
28% of the vote in my last election where I ran against Paul Maura and Rhoda Perry. I believe
the will of the people and their constitutional right to vote for their choice of candidate cannot
be denied in a truly democratic society.”
This will be Young’s second run for both Mayor of Providence and the United States Senate,
previously in both races receiving enough votes to qualify him as an acknowledged
candidate. Young has not accepted campaign contributions in the past.
Young states, “I hope to bring a voice to issues not being addressed by my opponents David
Cicilline, Lincoln Chafee and the Lt. Governor seat. I seek to bring leadership where there is
none and a voice to those who have no voice.”
Young’s specific issues include the utility rate increases for electric, gas, telephone, water,
and cable rates that have consistently been approved by the Public Utilities Commission and
Division of Public Utilities, to the detriment of the residents within the state of Rhode Island.
These increases are most adversely affecting those in Providence. “The lack of response by
David Cicilline in regards to these rate increases is unconscionable, where the median
income in Providence is $23,000 per year and these rate increases amount to approximately
$700 more per year per household,” said Young.
Young also takes issue with the fact that the telephone companies in parts of Rhode Island are
no longer providing 9-1-1 and operator assistance to households when their phone gets
disconnected, even though telephone lines run on public ways and the state under Title 39
must provide 9-1-1 emergency service, through local and state police departments.
Added Young, “David Cicilline mentions not one word nor has he come down one day in the
eight weeks I’ve been here protesting in front of the Public Utilities Commission, even though
Providence residents are the most adversely affected by these changes in 9-1-1 emergency
services. Cicilline is either not aware, which shows incompetence, doesn’t care, or is
ineffective. In addition, there are charges that Providence water is overcharging on water bills,
and the Public Utilities Commission is not upholding the state statute of limitations on contract
disputes. In one case holding an elderly woman to a 20-year-old bill when the state statute of
limitations is 6 years on most breach of contract claims. And, again, no voice is heard by
David Cicilline.”
More local issues Young supports are a property tax reduction; by reducing the cities
assessed property values, as property values decline as interest rates increase. Young
states, “I have heard no comment from David Cicilline on supporting my proposal for a tax
appraisal reduction. Cicilline refuses to pursue taxation of the colleges on their enormous
property assets, some of which have nothing to do with educational purposes. Brown
University alone is said to have approximately 250 pieces of property. The current Mayor of
Providence has even boldly twisted the truth when he stated that he’s reduced the rate of
taxation, even though every property tax payer within the city knows that their tax bills have
gone up along with their assessments. These property tax increases have been passed, in
some cases, onto tenants, reducing the amount of affordable housing within the city and
increasing the rate of poverty, most especially childhood poverty. Most Rhode Islanders are
still unaware Cicilline has not reduced the 500 million dollar unfunded pension liability in the
city, when most residents were led to believe that the property tax increases would go to
reduce the 500 million dollar unfunded pension liability.”
Young adds that Cicilline has flat funded the schools, which is the minimum allowed
compliance under state law, even though there are 300 more children within the Providence
school system. “Central High School still has lost its accreditation and Hope High School’s
roof still leaks. The state’s involvement into Hope has been beneficial; however, the city, and
more specifically David Cicilline, has failed to offer basic infrastructure needs to Hope High
School.” Said Young.
On a lesser note, neither the Lt. Governor nor Lincoln Chafee has addressed the previously
mentioned issues. There is question as to the voting process within the state of Rhode Island.
There were 30,000 notifications that were sent out and returned to the Providence Board of
Canvassers in the last Providence Mayoral election, and after 3 years Cicilline still has not
removed all of these names from the voting list. Some of these supposed voters were 117
years old and their gravestones were found in the Old burial ground in Providence.
Young also points out that there are many unanswered questions regarding September 11th
that have yet to be seriously addressed. These are serious questions that were not
addressed by the 911 commission into the attacks that were used to push us into war that has
caused the lives of over 2000 American soldiers. Specifically, as to the 911 commission
findings, why were facts omitted in their investigation such as the discovery of molten steel
found in the basement of building 7 and the Twin Towers? Engineers have stated that jet fuel
could never reach the temperature to melt steel. Only certain types of thermite explosives
could achieve this.
In regards to building 7, the third building to fall in the trade center complex, how was that
building self imploded the day of the attacks when it would take explosives engineers weeks
to position explosives to implode that building? It brings up the question that these explosives
had already been installed in that building.
FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has retracted their statement that they
knew why Building 7 fell; now FEMA states that they are unsure.
There is also question as to video evidence released by CNN News, that shows an object
attached to the plane that hit one of the towers in the world trade center complex and puts into
question whether or not this was an American Airlines plane or a military aircraft, as discussed
in a documentary titled “In Plane Sight” by William Lewis. Also, it is clear that approximately
500 billion dollars was spent on the war in Iraq, while necessary programs in the United States
were cut or under funded, especially education funding and the No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
Act, signed into law in 2002. Also, another federal issue not addressed by Chafee is the
creation of a 10-year federal statute of limitations on federal debts. Also, why is there no
federal rate control on the price of gasoline?
Said Young, “There are national budget issues that need to be investigated. I feel that its
necessary not only to audit Providence’s city budget but also the federal funding of 500 billion
dollars for the war, especially in regards to the no bid contracts obtained by Halliburton.”
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In conclusion, Young states,
“What is clear is the dismal failure of our leaders to engage in any type of real, effective
discussion on these issues.”
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SENT: Monday, September 17th, 12:57 AM
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Christopher Francis Young (D) Announced his Candidacy for the United States Senate in 2008.
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Thursday September 13th, 2007, democrat Christopher Francis Young announced his
candidacy for U.S. Senate in 2008 in front of the Debt house at 317 Sayles Avenue in Pawtucket , R.I. at 5:30 p.m.
The debt house, run by the Rhode Island Reform Party, keeps track of the National Debt and posts the National
Debt on the house. There was a complete media blackout of this event like other peace actions.
Young stated at the event, “The National debt has doubled from 4.5 trillion dollars in 2000 to $9,015,553,870,006
Trillion. This has doubled interest payments on the debt to over 2 billions dollars per day to the private banks of
the Federal Reserve, taking up most of the personal income tax and causing the American people to work four
months out of the year just to pay the interest on this debt. The Federal Reserve is not a federal agency, it is a
corporation made up of international bankers. This is the enslavement of the American people, slavery to
international bankers in the form of debt.”
Candidate Young received 11% of the vote for the United States Senate in 2006.
Chris spoke on the National debt including the issue of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars driving the debt up by 1
trillion dollars. Jack Reed has voted for funding the war.
Several individuals who have run for State or National Office gathered in front of the Debt house at 317 Sayles
Avenue in Pawtucket , R.I. , on Thursday September 13th, including Rod Driver to discuss State and National
Issues that are of great concern. Rod Driver stated, “I support immediate withdrawal from Iraq .” Rod Driver also
stated, “Jack Reed has funded the Iraq War from the beginning…. He’s just like Bush when it comes to his
military service.” Indicating Reed’s recent support to end the war is a false representation and only comes after
70% of the American people now oppose the war. Reed and Bush share in their lack of actual combat
experience. Reed has recently voiced his support for troop deployment that will only come by a draft, in the event
Bush invades Iran next.
Young’s speech also stated, “International bankers use communism, terrorism, race, wealth, and class to make
war so that they can profit by increasing a countries debt to fund these wars. The U.S dollar has recently hit a low
against the Euro. We fought to remove ourselves from the central bank system when we declared independence
from England during the revolutionary war.
Over 20 years of non stop lobbying from the financial industry hit the jackpot with the repeal of the Glass-Steagall
Act in 1999; it was passed by Congress following the 1929 stock market crash. Glass-Steagall was written to limit
the conflicts of interest when commercial banks are permitted to underwrite stocks or bonds.
The international bankers whittled away at Glass-Steagall for years before finally breaking down its regulatory
restrictions in August 1987, when Alan Greenspan, formerly a director of J.P. Morgan and a proponent of banking
deregulation, became chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
In 1990, J.P. Morgan became the first bank to receive permission from the Federal Reserve to underwrite
securities. They could do this so long as its underwriting business does not exceed the 10 percent limit. In
December 1996, with the support of Chairman Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve Board issued a precedent-
shattering decision permitting bank holding companies to own investment bank affiliates with up to 25 percent of
their business in securities underwriting ending the 10% cap.
In 1999, after 25 years and $300 million of lobbying efforts, Congress, aided by President Bill Clinton, finally
repealed Glass-Steagall. This is three years after John 'Jack' Reed was first elected in 1996 and no corrective
action was implemented by ‘Jack’ Reed.
This paved the way for the problems we are now facing including the banking crisis which is no longer one of
liquidity, but of deteriorating creditworthiness system-wide. This also includes the flight of investors from money
market funds, many of which are backed by Mortgage-backed Securities (MBS). In addition to the collapse in the
housing market and the deterioration in mortgage-backed bonds (CDOs). Banks worldwide now reportedly face
risk exposure of US$891 billion in asset-backed commercial paper facilities (ABCP) due to callable bank credit
agreements with borrowers designed to ensure ABCP investors are paid back when the short-term debt matures,
even if banks cannot sell new ABCP on behalf of the issuing companies to roll over the matured debt because the
market views the assets behind the paper as of uncertain market value. This means that the trillions of dollars
which have been leveraged against these shaky assets, in the form of credit default swaps (CDSs) and
numerous other bizarre-sounding derivatives, will begin to cascade down wiping out trillions in market value.
It was Jack Reed who was our Congressional representative while all this was happening. Jack Reed refuses to
write legislation to protect Rhode Islanders in this debt crisis, and especially refuses to write debt relief
legislation to protect college students by reinstituting a 10 year statute of limitations on student loan debt that
ended in 1991 (elimination of the student loan collection statute of limitations in 20 U.S.C. Section 1091a(a)(1)).
Also, he refuses to reinstitute bankruptcy protections for students and home owners that were ended by both Bill
Clinton in 1996 and George Bush in 2003. Reed does not represent the will of the people.
Greenspan and Reed presided over the greatest expansion of speculative finance in history, including a trillion-
dollar hedge-fund industry, bloated Wall Street-firm balance sheets approaching $2 trillion, a $3.3 trillion repo
(repurchase agreement) market, and a global derivatives market with notional values surpassing an
unfathomable $220 trillion.
In the past 18-years, assets of US government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) ballooned 830 percent, from $346
billion to $2.872 trillion. GSEs are financing entities created by the US Congress to fund subsidized loans to
certain groups of borrowers such as middle- and low-income homeowners, farmers etc. Agency mortgage-
backed securities (MBSs) surged 670 percent to $3.55 trillion. Outstanding asset-backed securities (ABSs)
exploded from $75 billion to more than $2.7 trillion.”
At the press conference Young also reiterated his positions on the following issues, stating:
“I oppose our government’s new power to search our homes without a warrant.
I oppose the North American Union, and globalisation.
I oppose Jack Reed’s membership in the Council on Foreign Relations which is a globalist organization that
supports ending nation state sovereignty. I oppose the C.F.R’s plan to end America ’s national sovereignty as
well as ending the United States constitution and Bill of Rights.
I oppose the death's of over 650,000 people in this war.
I oppose a draft.
I oppose going to war with Iran.
I support immediate withdrawl from Iraq.
I support funding for education and debt relief and the reinstituting a federal statute of limitations on debt.
I support federal rate control over the price of gasoline.
I support Election Reform.
I support ending the Federal Reserve.
I support Bush’s impeachment.
These issues require a change in outlook, a change in tactics, and a change in missions--by the government, by
the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper and television news station.”
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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Christopher Francis Young (D) Announced his Candidacy for the United States Senate in 2008.
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Thursday September 13th, 2007, democrat Christopher Francis Young announced his
candidacy for U.S. Senate in 2008 in front of the Debt house at 317 Sayles Avenue in Pawtucket , R.I. at 5:30 p.m.
The debt house, run by the Rhode Island Reform Party, keeps track of the National Debt and posts the National
Debt on the house. There was a complete media blackout of this event like other peace actions.
Young stated at the event, “The National debt has doubled from 4.5 trillion dollars in 2000 to $9,015,553,870,006
Trillion. This has doubled interest payments on the debt to over 2 billions dollars per day to the private banks of
the Federal Reserve, taking up most of the personal income tax and causing the American people to work four
months out of the year just to pay the interest on this debt. The Federal Reserve is not a federal agency, it is a
corporation made up of international bankers. This is the enslavement of the American people, slavery to
international bankers in the form of debt.”
Candidate Young received 11% of the vote for the United States Senate in 2006.
Chris spoke on the National debt including the issue of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars driving the debt up by 1
trillion dollars. Jack Reed has voted for funding the war.
Several individuals who have run for State or National Office gathered in front of the Debt house at 317 Sayles
Avenue in Pawtucket , R.I. , on Thursday September 13th, including Rod Driver to discuss State and National
Issues that are of great concern. Rod Driver stated, “I support immediate withdrawal from Iraq .” Rod Driver also
stated, “Jack Reed has funded the Iraq War from the beginning…. He’s just like Bush when it comes to his
military service.” Indicating Reed’s recent support to end the war is a false representation and only comes after
70% of the American people now oppose the war. Reed and Bush share in their lack of actual combat
experience. Reed has recently voiced his support for troop deployment that will only come by a draft, in the event
Bush invades Iran next.
Young’s speech also stated, “International bankers use communism, terrorism, race, wealth, and class to make
war so that they can profit by increasing a countries debt to fund these wars. The U.S dollar has recently hit a low
against the Euro. We fought to remove ourselves from the central bank system when we declared independence
from England during the revolutionary war.
Over 20 years of non stop lobbying from the financial industry hit the jackpot with the repeal of the Glass-Steagall
Act in 1999; it was passed by Congress following the 1929 stock market crash. Glass-Steagall was written to limit
the conflicts of interest when commercial banks are permitted to underwrite stocks or bonds.
The international bankers whittled away at Glass-Steagall for years before finally breaking down its regulatory
restrictions in August 1987, when Alan Greenspan, formerly a director of J.P. Morgan and a proponent of banking
deregulation, became chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
In 1990, J.P. Morgan became the first bank to receive permission from the Federal Reserve to underwrite
securities. They could do this so long as its underwriting business does not exceed the 10 percent limit. In
December 1996, with the support of Chairman Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve Board issued a precedent-
shattering decision permitting bank holding companies to own investment bank affiliates with up to 25 percent of
their business in securities underwriting ending the 10% cap.
In 1999, after 25 years and $300 million of lobbying efforts, Congress, aided by President Bill Clinton, finally
repealed Glass-Steagall. This is three years after John 'Jack' Reed was first elected in 1996 and no corrective
action was implemented by ‘Jack’ Reed.
This paved the way for the problems we are now facing including the banking crisis which is no longer one of
liquidity, but of deteriorating creditworthiness system-wide. This also includes the flight of investors from money
market funds, many of which are backed by Mortgage-backed Securities (MBS). In addition to the collapse in the
housing market and the deterioration in mortgage-backed bonds (CDOs). Banks worldwide now reportedly face
risk exposure of US$891 billion in asset-backed commercial paper facilities (ABCP) due to callable bank credit
agreements with borrowers designed to ensure ABCP investors are paid back when the short-term debt matures,
even if banks cannot sell new ABCP on behalf of the issuing companies to roll over the matured debt because the
market views the assets behind the paper as of uncertain market value. This means that the trillions of dollars
which have been leveraged against these shaky assets, in the form of credit default swaps (CDSs) and
numerous other bizarre-sounding derivatives, will begin to cascade down wiping out trillions in market value.
It was Jack Reed who was our Congressional representative while all this was happening. Jack Reed refuses to
write legislation to protect Rhode Islanders in this debt crisis, and especially refuses to write debt relief
legislation to protect college students by reinstituting a 10 year statute of limitations on student loan debt that
ended in 1991 (elimination of the student loan collection statute of limitations in 20 U.S.C. Section 1091a(a)(1)).
Also, he refuses to reinstitute bankruptcy protections for students and home owners that were ended by both Bill
Clinton in 1996 and George Bush in 2003. Reed does not represent the will of the people.
Greenspan and Reed presided over the greatest expansion of speculative finance in history, including a trillion-
dollar hedge-fund industry, bloated Wall Street-firm balance sheets approaching $2 trillion, a $3.3 trillion repo
(repurchase agreement) market, and a global derivatives market with notional values surpassing an
unfathomable $220 trillion.
In the past 18-years, assets of US government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) ballooned 830 percent, from $346
billion to $2.872 trillion. GSEs are financing entities created by the US Congress to fund subsidized loans to
certain groups of borrowers such as middle- and low-income homeowners, farmers etc. Agency mortgage-
backed securities (MBSs) surged 670 percent to $3.55 trillion. Outstanding asset-backed securities (ABSs)
exploded from $75 billion to more than $2.7 trillion.”
At the press conference Young also reiterated his positions on the following issues, stating:
“I oppose our government’s new power to search our homes without a warrant.
I oppose the North American Union, and globalisation.
I oppose Jack Reed’s membership in the Council on Foreign Relations which is a globalist organization that
supports ending nation state sovereignty. I oppose the C.F.R’s plan to end America ’s national sovereignty as
well as ending the United States constitution and Bill of Rights.
I oppose the death's of over 650,000 people in this war.
I oppose a draft.
I oppose going to war with Iran.
I support immediate withdrawl from Iraq.
I support funding for education and debt relief and the reinstituting a federal statute of limitations on debt.
I support federal rate control over the price of gasoline.
I support Election Reform.
I support ending the Federal Reserve.
I support Bush’s impeachment.
These issues require a change in outlook, a change in tactics, and a change in missions--by the government, by
the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper and television news station.”
SENT: Monday, October 29th, 12:57 PM
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Christopher Francis Young (D) Candidate for United States Senate 2008 and Rhode Island State Leader for Ron
Paul for President 2008 Joins the Anti-War Protest in Boston .
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Saturday October 27th, 2007, democrat Christopher Francis Young candidate for U.S. Senate
in 2008 joined the Anti-War protest in Boston on that drew well over 10,000 protestors.
Chris Young, state leader in Rhode Island for Ron Paul for President 2008 and Ron Paul Rhode Island ballot
placement coordinator, joined one of the largest Anti-War protests in the region since the Vietnam War protests of
the 1960’s.
Chris Young is also the National Director of the National Civil Rights Coalition, NationalCRC.org. Young stated,
“The NCRC and Ron Paul 2008 are more than happy to join over 150 organizations in protest to the Iraq war and any
further actions between the United States and Iran . The NCRC wants to make its position very clear, we now
oppose James Langevin, “Jack” John Reed and Patrick Kennedy for their Pro-War positions on funding the war and
for voting in favor of Anti-Civil Rights legislation they have sponsored. This legislation includes H.R. 1955: Violent
Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, sponsored by James Langevin. This legislation
is no better than Nazi law that enslaved Anti-War protesters, Jews and Christians into the death camps of Nazi
Germany. This is one of the main reasons I have decided to run for the United States Senate in 2008 and have
joined the Ron Paul Presidential campaign. I have done this to fight against the growth of this global corporate
fascist agenda. Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root had been awarded a $385 million dollar contract by
Homeland Security to construct detention and processing facilities. I will not allow the same atrocities to occur upon
the American people as did occur in Nazi Germany.”
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Legislation > 2007-2008 (110th Congress)
H.R. 1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007
To prevent homegrown terrorism, and for other purposes.
Overview Summary Floor Speeches Other Info
Bill Status
Sponsor: Rep. Jane Harman [D-CA]show cosponsors (14)
Cosponsors [as of 2007-10-24]
Rep. Christopher Carney [D-PA]
Del. Donna Christensen [D-VI]
Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]
Rep. Charles Dent [R-PA]
Rep. Norman Dicks [D-WA]
Rep. Al Green [D-TX]
Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]
Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]
Rep. Nita Lowey [D-NY]
Rep. Daniel Lungren [R-CA]
Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D-CO]
Rep. Ted Poe [R-TX]
Rep. Dave Reichert [R-WA]
Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS]
Cosponsorship information sometimes is out of date. Why?
Cost: < $1 per American over the 2008-2012 period?
The cost is estimated from a Congressional Budget Office report, by dividing the estimated cost of implementing the
legislation by the U.S. population. It is of course just a gross estimate.
Bill Text: Summaries (CRS)
Full Text
Status: Introduced Apr 19, 2007
Scheduled for Debate Aug 1, 2007
Passed House [details] Oct 23, 2007
Voted on in Senate -
Signed by President -
This bill has been passed in the House. The bill now goes on to be voted on in the Senate.
Last Action: Oct 23, 2007: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and
Nays: (2/3 required): 404 - 6 (Roll no. 993).
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Oct 23, 2007: This bill passed in the House of Representatives by roll call vote. The vote was held under a
suspension of the rules to cut debate short and pass the bill, needing a two-thirds majority. The totals were 404
Ayes, 6 Nays, 22 Present/Not Voting.
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Christopher Francis Young (D) Announced Debate Request.
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Thursday January 31, 2008, democrat Christopher Francis Young announced he wants a
debate with Jack Reed, sponsored by Lou Dobbs on CNN.
Lou Dobbs spoke at Roger Williams University tonight and when Chris Young asked for the opportunity to debate
Jack Reed on his show, Lou Dobbs said yes.
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Christopher Francis Young (D) Announced Debate Request.
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Thursday January 31, 2008, democrat Christopher Francis Young announced he wants a
debate with Jack Reed, sponsored by Lou Dobbs on CNN.
Lou Dobbs spoke at Roger Williams University tonight and when Chris Young asked for the opportunity to debate
Jack Reed on his show, Lou Dobbs said yes.
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SENT: Wednesday, February 27, 4:51 PM
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Christopher Young Files F.B.I Complaint on Cicilline Administration Misreporting Crime Statistics
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 United States Senate Candidate and 2010 Providence Mayoral
Candidate Christopher F. Young filed a complaint with the Boston F.B.I against the Cicilline administration’s alleged
misreporting of crime statistics reported by WLNE-ABC 6.
The City of Providence has reported a 30% drop in crime since 2003. ABC 6 Chief Reporter Jim Hummel, in an ABC 6
Investigation, has taken a look at police reports that point to in accurate crime statistic reporting.
Young stated, "This is an issue of public corruption and is a violation of the federal law that requires accurate crime
statistic reporting. ABC 6 quoted several Providence police criminal complaints, including one that stated an armed
robbery involving a gun and theft of a cell phone is classified for reporting purposes as a personal annoyance. This is
clearly in violation of federal law and demands Mr. Esserman, the Providence Police chief to resign or be terminated.
One reason for Mr. Esserman to resign or be terminated is that statements have been made from police officers that Mr.
Esserman used intimidation on police officers for this misclassification of crimes. In any event, if Mr. Esserman states
he was unaware of the misreporting issue, this clearly shows he is incompetent and should be forced to resign or be
terminated.”
Young further stated, “It is the responsibility of Cicilline’s administration to make sure the residents, Rhode Islanders
and people who enter Providence are kept safe. The distorting of these crime statistics creates a serious public safety
issue. I have filed a complaint today with the Boston F.B.I district office against Mr. Cicilline and his appointed police
chief, Dean Esserman for the alleged violation of federal law overseen by the Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice
Statistics.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal
offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are critical to
Federal, State, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded.
Young stated, “Mr. Cicilline is on the Mayoral Commission for Homeland Security. How does this misreporting combat
crime and ensure that justice is both efficient and evenhanded? If this violation of federal law is proven, then Mr.
Cicilline should resign from the Mayoral Homeland Security Task Force and as Mayor of Providence.”
The Bureau of Justice Statistics was first established on December 27, 1979 under the Justice Systems Improvement
Act of 1979, Public Law 96-157 (the 1979 Amendment to the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968,
Public Law 90-351).
There are many programs dependant on accurate crime reporting statistics.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the Statistical Briefing Book (SBB) are components of the Office of Justice
Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice. The (SBB) has been designed to easily find basic statistical information
on juvenile offending, victimization of juveniles, and involvement of youth in the juvenile justice system.
The purpose of the White House’s Social Statistics Briefing Room is to provide easy access to current Federal social
statistics. It provides links to information produced by a number of Federal agencies. All of the information included in
the Social Statistics Briefing Room is maintained and updated by the statistical units of those agencies.
The F.B.I’ s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs
of Police to meet a need for reliable, uniform crime statistics for the nation. In 1930, the FBI was tasked with collecting,
publishing, and archiving those statistics. Today, several annual statistical publications, such as the comprehensive
Crime in the United States, are produced from data provided by nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies across the
United States .
Other annual publications, such as Hate Crime Statistics and Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted address
specialized facets of crime such as hate crime or the murder and assaults of law enforcement officers respectively.
Special studies, reports, and monographs prepared using data mined from the UCR's large database are published
each year as well. In addition to these reports, information about the National Incident-Based Reporting System
(NIBRS).
FedStats, which has been available to the public since 1997, provides access to the full range of official statistical
information produced by the Federal Government without having to know in advance which Federal agency produces
which particular statistic. With convenient searching and linking capablilties to more than 100 agencies that provide
data and trend information on such topics as economic and population trends, crime, education, health care, aviation
safety, energy use, farm production and more.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Christopher Young Files F.B.I Complaint on Cicilline Administration Misreporting Crime Statistics
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 United States Senate Candidate and 2010 Providence Mayoral
Candidate Christopher F. Young filed a complaint with the Boston F.B.I against the Cicilline administration’s alleged
misreporting of crime statistics reported by WLNE-ABC 6.
The City of Providence has reported a 30% drop in crime since 2003. ABC 6 Chief Reporter Jim Hummel, in an ABC 6
Investigation, has taken a look at police reports that point to in accurate crime statistic reporting.
Young stated, "This is an issue of public corruption and is a violation of the federal law that requires accurate crime
statistic reporting. ABC 6 quoted several Providence police criminal complaints, including one that stated an armed
robbery involving a gun and theft of a cell phone is classified for reporting purposes as a personal annoyance. This is
clearly in violation of federal law and demands Mr. Esserman, the Providence Police chief to resign or be terminated.
One reason for Mr. Esserman to resign or be terminated is that statements have been made from police officers that Mr.
Esserman used intimidation on police officers for this misclassification of crimes. In any event, if Mr. Esserman states
he was unaware of the misreporting issue, this clearly shows he is incompetent and should be forced to resign or be
terminated.”
Young further stated, “It is the responsibility of Cicilline’s administration to make sure the residents, Rhode Islanders
and people who enter Providence are kept safe. The distorting of these crime statistics creates a serious public safety
issue. I have filed a complaint today with the Boston F.B.I district office against Mr. Cicilline and his appointed police
chief, Dean Esserman for the alleged violation of federal law overseen by the Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice
Statistics.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal
offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are critical to
Federal, State, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded.
Young stated, “Mr. Cicilline is on the Mayoral Commission for Homeland Security. How does this misreporting combat
crime and ensure that justice is both efficient and evenhanded? If this violation of federal law is proven, then Mr.
Cicilline should resign from the Mayoral Homeland Security Task Force and as Mayor of Providence.”
The Bureau of Justice Statistics was first established on December 27, 1979 under the Justice Systems Improvement
Act of 1979, Public Law 96-157 (the 1979 Amendment to the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968,
Public Law 90-351).
There are many programs dependant on accurate crime reporting statistics.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the Statistical Briefing Book (SBB) are components of the Office of Justice
Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice. The (SBB) has been designed to easily find basic statistical information
on juvenile offending, victimization of juveniles, and involvement of youth in the juvenile justice system.
The purpose of the White House’s Social Statistics Briefing Room is to provide easy access to current Federal social
statistics. It provides links to information produced by a number of Federal agencies. All of the information included in
the Social Statistics Briefing Room is maintained and updated by the statistical units of those agencies.
The F.B.I’ s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs
of Police to meet a need for reliable, uniform crime statistics for the nation. In 1930, the FBI was tasked with collecting,
publishing, and archiving those statistics. Today, several annual statistical publications, such as the comprehensive
Crime in the United States, are produced from data provided by nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies across the
United States .
Other annual publications, such as Hate Crime Statistics and Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted address
specialized facets of crime such as hate crime or the murder and assaults of law enforcement officers respectively.
Special studies, reports, and monographs prepared using data mined from the UCR's large database are published
each year as well. In addition to these reports, information about the National Incident-Based Reporting System
(NIBRS).
FedStats, which has been available to the public since 1997, provides access to the full range of official statistical
information produced by the Federal Government without having to know in advance which Federal agency produces
which particular statistic. With convenient searching and linking capablilties to more than 100 agencies that provide
data and trend information on such topics as economic and population trends, crime, education, health care, aviation
safety, energy use, farm production and more.
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SENT: Thursday, March 27th, 3:57 PM
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Christopher Francis Young (D) Candidate for United States Senate 2008 Opposes the Expansion of Gaming at Twin
River and Newport Grand
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Thursday March 27th, 2008, democrat Christopher Francis Young candidate for U.S. Senate in
2008, gave a speech before Rhode Islanders Against Excessive Taxation (RIAET) of which Chris Young is the leader.
Young said that extending gambling hours is placing a deceptive tax on those who have gambling addictions and the
most vulnerable in our state, including the elderly. The legislation would extend hours on weekends and the overnight
hours before state and federal holidays that fall on a Monday. The measure would also allow the two slot parlors to
remain open for gambling until 3 a.m. daily.
Chris Young stated “ It is the responsibility of our state leaders to protect those with addictions to gambling, the poor and
men and women in our community from extending gambling hours at Twin River and Newport Grand to 24 hours a day.
We have placed a great responsibility in our elected officials to treat all of our citizens equally and to not take advantage
or deceive the most vulnerable in our state. Will a father of three be able to think clearly at 2:30 am in the morning and
not sell the title to his home or car, or empty his bank account? Will a mother with an addiction to gambling be capable
of turning away from gambling at 2:30 am when gambling is as addictive as a drug to her? I have spoken for years
against gambling in Rhode Island and against the increased crime and economic cost that expanded gambling will
have on businesses in our community. I feel the public has not been adequately informed of public hearings on this
issue, in what amounts to a protection racket for the interested politically connected profiting entities. I urge the Rhode
Island House of Representatives not to vote in favor of this expansion. I pray the governor will protect his constituents
and my fellow Rhode Islanders with his power of veto.”
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Christopher Francis Young (D) Candidate for United States Senate 2008 Opposes the Expansion of Gaming at Twin
River and Newport Grand
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Thursday March 27th, 2008, democrat Christopher Francis Young candidate for U.S. Senate in
2008, gave a speech before Rhode Islanders Against Excessive Taxation (RIAET) of which Chris Young is the leader.
Young said that extending gambling hours is placing a deceptive tax on those who have gambling addictions and the
most vulnerable in our state, including the elderly. The legislation would extend hours on weekends and the overnight
hours before state and federal holidays that fall on a Monday. The measure would also allow the two slot parlors to
remain open for gambling until 3 a.m. daily.
Chris Young stated “ It is the responsibility of our state leaders to protect those with addictions to gambling, the poor and
men and women in our community from extending gambling hours at Twin River and Newport Grand to 24 hours a day.
We have placed a great responsibility in our elected officials to treat all of our citizens equally and to not take advantage
or deceive the most vulnerable in our state. Will a father of three be able to think clearly at 2:30 am in the morning and
not sell the title to his home or car, or empty his bank account? Will a mother with an addiction to gambling be capable
of turning away from gambling at 2:30 am when gambling is as addictive as a drug to her? I have spoken for years
against gambling in Rhode Island and against the increased crime and economic cost that expanded gambling will
have on businesses in our community. I feel the public has not been adequately informed of public hearings on this
issue, in what amounts to a protection racket for the interested politically connected profiting entities. I urge the Rhode
Island House of Representatives not to vote in favor of this expansion. I pray the governor will protect his constituents
and my fellow Rhode Islanders with his power of veto.”
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Christopher Francis Young (D) Opposes Tax Increases for Businesses, Writers, Composers, and Artists.
PROVIDENCE, RI - On Monday March 24th, 2008,
democrat Christopher Francis Young announced he is organizing a rally against proposed tax increases that would hurt
business in Providence and throughout the state of Rhode Island . The rally is taking place in the State House Rotunda
on Wednesday, March 26th from 4pm to 5:30pm.
Chris Young is a 2008 United States Senate Candidate and 2010 Providence Mayoral Candidate. Chris is also the
leader of group Rhode Islanders Against Excessive Taxation.
Chris Young stated, “This is a very disturbing piece of legislation that will be heard this Wednesday March 26th at the
State House. I am organizing a rally in opposition.
We can not allow those who actually do physical labor to be taxed in place of reducing inflated local and state budgets.
This legislation attacks not only the middle class but also the poor who will have to pay passed on taxation with higher
prices. Should those who have to do their laundry at a Laundromat be taxed or pay a passed on tax when the cost for
laundry services has already gone up because of the increased cost for utilities and oil?
I cannot stand by while artists, writers and composers are taxed in Providence , hindering the economic growth to what
was once defined as the renaissance city only a few years ago. Excessive taxation only hinders economic growth and
stagnates an economy. Clearly the Mayor of Providence should reduce the over 30% increase in spending since he has
taken office. Mr. Cicilline has flat funded schools in Providence for several years; this is the minimum funding
requirement by state law. Where is the money from the 300% increase in property tax assessments and subsequent
revenue going? Where is the money?”
I, as a United States Senate candidate, oppose John ‘Jack’ Reed who has allowed our national debt to double since
2000 which has doubled interest payments on the debt to over two billion dollars a day benefiting the international
banks. Mr. Reed should be less worried about the banks (his largest campaign contributors) making interest profits. Mr.
Reed should be more concerned about the homeless and poverty in Rhode Island , which he has caused by his votes
in favor of this 3 trillion dollar war and banking deregulation.
Now we will be having a rally against S 2668 starting at 4pm at the State House Rotunda. Rhode Islanders Against
Excessive Taxation do not support S 2668. We also want property assessments to be lowered.”
The below are some of the new taxes Paul Moura wants in the state of Rhode Island . We as citizens must fight against
excessive taxation.
Please see the attached document for the full list of the tax protections that would be taken away.
The legislation proposed by Paul Moura would tax:
The furnishing of dry cleaning and/or laundry services.
The furnishing of linen and uniform supplies.
All services provided to domestic animals except those provided by a doctor of
veterinary medicine.
The furnishing of watch and jewelry repair services.
Appliance repairs.
Any public golf course green fees and private golf country club fees and
membership dues.
Marina fees and services.
Health club fees and services.
Any temporary employment agency fees and services.
Telemarketing bureau fees and services.
Telephone answering services.
Any security system fees and services except those provided by a locksmith.
Any janitorial fees and services.
Any landscaping fees and services.
Any carpet cleaning fees and services.
Any swimming pool maintenance fees and services.
Any solid waste hauling fees and services.
Any porta-pit rental fees and services.
Payroll fees and services.
Any tax preparation fees and services.
Any architectural fees and services, including landscape activities fees and services.
Any interior design fees and services.
Any management consulting fees and services.
Any marketing research and polling fees and services.
Any real estate property management fees and services.
Any motion picture admission tickets.
Any limousine service and usage fees.
Any dating service fees.
44-18-41. Tax on accounting and legal services. -- Notwithstanding any other
provisions in this chapter, all recipients of accounting services provided by accountants and legal services provided by a
Rhode Island licensed attorney, except those actually provided in matters subject to the jurisdiction of the family court,
shall pay a two percent (2%) gross receipt tax to the provider which shall then be forwarded to the state department of
revenue.
44-18-30.B. To end the Exemption from sales tax for sales by writers, composers, artists
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| Christopher Young (Democrat) 2012 Candidate for U.S. Congress District 1 |
June 27, 2012
Chris Young is running against David Cicilline for District 1 Congressional Seat
South Kingstown, RI – Democrat Christopher Young, who received 26% of the vote in 2006 in the primary election for
Mayor of Providence against Cicilline, today officially declared his candidacy in the District 1 Congressional race. This will
be the third primary election where Chris Young has run against Cicilline.
Chris Young stated: " If you don’t already have your own reasons why David Cicilline should be removed from office, here
are 7 Reasons why Chris Young is Running for Congress Against David Cicilline:
#1 David Cicilline left Providence with a 100 million dollar deficit and allowed his friend Angel Taveras to become Mayor.
As you may already know, Yvette Jaquez, a member of mayor Taveras’ staff as "community communications
coordinator", is accused with her stepfather of defrauding the Providence Housing Authority of nearly $85,000. Jaquez's
parents collected $89,854 in federal housing funds while she rented their house, the police report said. Jaquez turned
herself in to face a conspiracy charge.
#2 David Cicilline voted in favor of HR 1540 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. After the legislation
cleared Congress, the ACLU commented that signing the bill “will damage both his legacy and American’s reputation for
upholding the rule of law,” while executive director of the Human Rights Watch blasted the President for being ‘on the
wrong side of history,’ noting that “Obama will go down in history as the president who enshrined indefinite detention
without trial in US law.”
#3 David Cicilline voted against HR 4628 - Extending Student Loan Interest Rates. The cost of “getting an education” has
become increasingly burdensome in recent years. Average yearly tuition at U.S. private universities is now up to
$27,293. That figure has increased by 29% in just the past five years. In America today, approximately two-thirds of all
college students graduate with student loans. Millions of young Americans are absolutely being financially strangled by
horrific student loan debt loads. Sadly, the total amount of student loan debt in the United States now exceeds the total
amount of credit card debt in the United States. In 2010, the average college graduate had accumulated approximately
$25,000 in student loan debt by graduation day. Cicilline’s lack of action on numerous issues has hurt Rhode Island’s
educational institutions and students.
#4 David Cicilline voted against H J Res 77 which was a House Joint Resolution stating Disapproval of the President's
Authority to Raise the Debt Limit.
#5 David Cicilline voted on against HR 2, an act which would have repealed the Health Care Bill “Obamacare.”
Obamacare forces citizens to fund abortion, even though it violates their religious freedom.
#6 The following are facts why millions of Americans under the age of 30 are giving up on the U.S. economy and why they
should vote for Chris Young….
Only 55.3% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 were employed last year. That was the lowest level that we
have seen since World War II.
Amazingly, less than 30 percent of all U.S. teens had a job this summer.
Approximately one out of every five Americans under the age of 30 is currently living in poverty.
According to one recent survey, only 14 percent of all Americans that are 28 or 29 years old are optimistic about their
financial futures.
Since the year 2000, incomes for U.S. households led by someone between the ages of 25 and 34 have fallen by about
12 percent after you adjust for inflation.
One-third of all college graduates end up taking jobs that don’t even require college degrees.
In the United States today, there are more than 100,000 janitors that have college degrees.
In the United States today, 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees.
In the United States today, approximately 365,000 cashiers have college degrees.
In the United States today, 24.5 percent of all retail salespersons have a college degree.
Young Americans are becoming increasingly frustrated as our politicians stand by and do nothing while our economy is
being hollowed out. The sad truth is that United States has lost an average of 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month since
China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, and top politicians in both major political parties keep pushing for
even more job-killing “free trade” agreements.
Young Americans are becoming increasingly frustrated that pretty much the only jobs that seem to be available are low
paying jobs. Back in 1980, less than 30% of all jobs in the United States were low income jobs. Today, more than 40%
of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs.
Young Americans are becoming increasingly frustrated that previous generations have saddled them with a 14 trillion
dollar national debt that they are expected to make payments on for the rest of their lives.
#7 Chris Young is running for Congress because no action has been taken by David Cicilline against the bankers and
their corrupt and bribed members of Congress who caused the collapse of the United States economy by taking
campaign contributions from the same banks they voted to deregulate causing our National debt to reach 15.8 Trillion
dollars.
On 9-10-2001 Donald Rumsfeld told us that he could not trace 2.3 trillion dollars in Pentagon spending. On 9-11-2001
four planes were electronically hijacked which together with pre-planted explosives killed 3,000 Americans that day and
many more since in needless wars. 189 people died at the Pentagon. Most of these were auditors trying to find the
missing trillions the bankers and their friends stole. We are not allowed to audit the Federal Reserve’s books and
demand the return of the stolen money. Trillions more have gone missing since Rumsfeld promised on 911 to do a
better job tracking down that money.
On March 22nd 2000 Susan Gaffney, the Housing and Urban Development Inspector General, testified before the House
Governmental Affairs Committee detailing the 59.6 billion dollars that went missing from HUD during the previous two
years. When asked if she did anything to recover the missing money she said No. If we were equal to a banker, we would
have demanded audits. Years earlier Catherine Austin Fitts was at HUD under Bush I. She found one block in San Diego
that had 20 million dollars in HUD guaranteed loans for buildings that never ever existed. All of these loans defaulted and
were paid for by taxpayers who do not have the right to audit the books.
This does not include campaign contributions and cash payments. Remember the congressman in 2008 who said he
had two types of calls from his constituents about the proposed Banker Bailout. He said some said No and the rest said
Hell No. Yet the Bailout was passed by both Houses and approved by both Presidential candidates. Now you know why
the Congress, the news media and the President do not listen to you and do not care what happens to you and your
friends and your family.
Bernie Sanders revealed the Federal Reserve Bank created 16 trillion dollars in loans over the past couple of years. Many
of these loans went overseas. But many of these sweetheart loans made at negative real interest rates (i.e. below the
rate of inflation) were made to news organizations like NBC-MSNBC-Comcast. This company is owned by a defense
contractor and two Zionist business partners. MSNBC, which is supposedly the most liberal news source in America,
has been firing and disciplining liberal anti-war newscasters and hosts. This would be surprising to the casual observer
if he or she was not aware of the loans made by the privately owned Federal Reserve bank.
Back to that 16 trillion dollars debt dropped on the people of the world by the Federal Reserve. Bankers were bundling up
home mortgages into bonds and used MERS (Mortgage Electronic Registration System) to register their deeds. The
bankers allowed their minions to sell one home mortgage into five different bonds in effect selling five different people a
legal claim to your house. These bonds were worthless. The ratings agencies Standard and Poor, Fitch and Moodys
gave these bonds triple A ratings in exchange for hefty fees. They knew the loans were bad because they bought
insurance (Credit Default Swaps) to cash in on the inevitable losses. More than 6 trillion dollars was paid by the FED to
overseas banks. Why? Because they wanted to keep New York bankers out of jail. You see those bonds had to go into
default and the bankers knew that. A bondholder whose underlying mortgage went bad would not ask for the return of his
money. But if the mortgages were good, five different companies would come to collect from one homeowner and the
courts might actually have to send bankers to jail. All the inflation you will see over the next few years will be due to the
active participation of the Federal Reserve in financial fraud. Obviously those bankers in New York owe Zero Mostel and
the writers of the movie script for the Producers a sizable bonus.
Let’s revisit the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA) of 1994. Since that date, America has lost 50,000 manufacturing
plants. America has a little over 3,000 counties with an average population of 100,000. If you divide 4,000 into 50,000, you
get an average loss of 13 to 14 manufacturing plants closing and going overseas per county. This has destroyed local tax
bases, government revenues and jobs resulting in millions of unemployed and millions of foreclosed homes. Instead of
testifying before the Congress and telling the nation what would happen Greenspan covered it up by printing lots of
money. There was no price inflation, because traditionally a manufacturing based economy has to bid workers and raw
materials away from competitors. Not so since NAFTA. We had no manufacturing base left to create price inflation. All the
monetary inflation went into the stock market. Greenspan crashed the stock markets to end the dot com bubble and elect
the warmonger Bush. After the dot com bubble went pop, Greenspan ignited the Housing Bubble. Why do we have a
Bubble economy? The Bankers and their minions sent all the jobs overseas so the only way to make money in America
today is through the Subsidized Bubble Machine known as the Federal Reserve and the Federal government. Citizens are
required to buy insurance under penalty of law. But the insurance companies who wrote the Obamacare bill are not
required to treat you when you get sick. This is a subsidized medical system which when the Bubble pops will send
wages down, down down for nurses, doctors, pharmacists, EMTs and others in the health care field. Local schools and
police were in the subsidized Bubble economy but the implosion of the tax base is forcing layoffs in many cities and
states. Providence Rhode Island gave pink slips to every teacher. Ashtabula county Ohio (population 102,000) laid off all
of the Sheriff deputies save those working in foreclosures for the courts. This means they have one deputy per shift for the
entire county. A local judge told the residents to buy a gun. We have reached the point where the only Bubbles left are war
and other subsidized government endeavors. The next sucking sound you hear will be civil service and healthcare jobs
evaporating. This will send the unemployment rate above 30% from its current 22%. By definition and by law, Bubbles
cannot give the illusion of productive employment and real wealth without the participation and cooperation of the bankers
and the politicians they own.
Harry Markopolos took in more than 300 pages of documented evidence to the SEC to prove to them that Bernie Madoff
was stealing tens of billions of dollars from his mostly Jewish clients. The case was not hard to prove. Catherine Austin
Fitts said the SEC had to do was to match Madoff’s bank transactions up with his brokerage accounts. So if he was
moving lots of money around in his bank accounts but not buying stocks, then he was an obvious fraud who needed to be
arrested in time for the Evening News. This is not the end of the story. Markopolos told us that a much greater fraud was
waiting in the wings called Credit Default Swaps (CDS) which he valued at a potential loss of 600 trillion dollars. This is
ten times the total output of the world’s goods and services. Yet to date neither the House nor the Senate nor the Obama
nor Bush Departments of Justice and SEC have seen fit to ask Mr Markopolos to come and give evidence. Why? Because
all politicians are frightened little cowards.
Chris Young is running for Congress because Cicilline has failed to address the economic collapse of the United States.
Prior to the beginning of the “War on Terror” our national debt was under 4 trillion dollars. Today, it has more than
doubled and currently sits at a whopping 15.8 trillion dollars.
The Cicilline does next to nothing to prevent jobs from being shipped out of the country.
It is legal to pay slave labor wages in many of these other countries. After all, why pay an American worker 10 or 20 times
as much as a worker on the other side of the globe?
Facts quoted from infowars.com
For more information contact:
The Campaign to Elect Chris Young to Congress
117 Liberty Lane
South Kingstown, RI 02892
(401) 207-4051
kararusso71@yahoo.com
Chris Young is running against David Cicilline for District 1 Congressional Seat
South Kingstown, RI – Democrat Christopher Young, who received 26% of the vote in 2006 in the primary election for
Mayor of Providence against Cicilline, today officially declared his candidacy in the District 1 Congressional race. This will
be the third primary election where Chris Young has run against Cicilline.
Chris Young stated: " If you don’t already have your own reasons why David Cicilline should be removed from office, here
are 7 Reasons why Chris Young is Running for Congress Against David Cicilline:
#1 David Cicilline left Providence with a 100 million dollar deficit and allowed his friend Angel Taveras to become Mayor.
As you may already know, Yvette Jaquez, a member of mayor Taveras’ staff as "community communications
coordinator", is accused with her stepfather of defrauding the Providence Housing Authority of nearly $85,000. Jaquez's
parents collected $89,854 in federal housing funds while she rented their house, the police report said. Jaquez turned
herself in to face a conspiracy charge.
#2 David Cicilline voted in favor of HR 1540 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. After the legislation
cleared Congress, the ACLU commented that signing the bill “will damage both his legacy and American’s reputation for
upholding the rule of law,” while executive director of the Human Rights Watch blasted the President for being ‘on the
wrong side of history,’ noting that “Obama will go down in history as the president who enshrined indefinite detention
without trial in US law.”
#3 David Cicilline voted against HR 4628 - Extending Student Loan Interest Rates. The cost of “getting an education” has
become increasingly burdensome in recent years. Average yearly tuition at U.S. private universities is now up to
$27,293. That figure has increased by 29% in just the past five years. In America today, approximately two-thirds of all
college students graduate with student loans. Millions of young Americans are absolutely being financially strangled by
horrific student loan debt loads. Sadly, the total amount of student loan debt in the United States now exceeds the total
amount of credit card debt in the United States. In 2010, the average college graduate had accumulated approximately
$25,000 in student loan debt by graduation day. Cicilline’s lack of action on numerous issues has hurt Rhode Island’s
educational institutions and students.
#4 David Cicilline voted against H J Res 77 which was a House Joint Resolution stating Disapproval of the President's
Authority to Raise the Debt Limit.
#5 David Cicilline voted on against HR 2, an act which would have repealed the Health Care Bill “Obamacare.”
Obamacare forces citizens to fund abortion, even though it violates their religious freedom.
#6 The following are facts why millions of Americans under the age of 30 are giving up on the U.S. economy and why they
should vote for Chris Young….
Only 55.3% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 were employed last year. That was the lowest level that we
have seen since World War II.
Amazingly, less than 30 percent of all U.S. teens had a job this summer.
Approximately one out of every five Americans under the age of 30 is currently living in poverty.
According to one recent survey, only 14 percent of all Americans that are 28 or 29 years old are optimistic about their
financial futures.
Since the year 2000, incomes for U.S. households led by someone between the ages of 25 and 34 have fallen by about
12 percent after you adjust for inflation.
One-third of all college graduates end up taking jobs that don’t even require college degrees.
In the United States today, there are more than 100,000 janitors that have college degrees.
In the United States today, 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees.
In the United States today, approximately 365,000 cashiers have college degrees.
In the United States today, 24.5 percent of all retail salespersons have a college degree.
Young Americans are becoming increasingly frustrated as our politicians stand by and do nothing while our economy is
being hollowed out. The sad truth is that United States has lost an average of 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month since
China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, and top politicians in both major political parties keep pushing for
even more job-killing “free trade” agreements.
Young Americans are becoming increasingly frustrated that pretty much the only jobs that seem to be available are low
paying jobs. Back in 1980, less than 30% of all jobs in the United States were low income jobs. Today, more than 40%
of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs.
Young Americans are becoming increasingly frustrated that previous generations have saddled them with a 14 trillion
dollar national debt that they are expected to make payments on for the rest of their lives.
#7 Chris Young is running for Congress because no action has been taken by David Cicilline against the bankers and
their corrupt and bribed members of Congress who caused the collapse of the United States economy by taking
campaign contributions from the same banks they voted to deregulate causing our National debt to reach 15.8 Trillion
dollars.
On 9-10-2001 Donald Rumsfeld told us that he could not trace 2.3 trillion dollars in Pentagon spending. On 9-11-2001
four planes were electronically hijacked which together with pre-planted explosives killed 3,000 Americans that day and
many more since in needless wars. 189 people died at the Pentagon. Most of these were auditors trying to find the
missing trillions the bankers and their friends stole. We are not allowed to audit the Federal Reserve’s books and
demand the return of the stolen money. Trillions more have gone missing since Rumsfeld promised on 911 to do a
better job tracking down that money.
On March 22nd 2000 Susan Gaffney, the Housing and Urban Development Inspector General, testified before the House
Governmental Affairs Committee detailing the 59.6 billion dollars that went missing from HUD during the previous two
years. When asked if she did anything to recover the missing money she said No. If we were equal to a banker, we would
have demanded audits. Years earlier Catherine Austin Fitts was at HUD under Bush I. She found one block in San Diego
that had 20 million dollars in HUD guaranteed loans for buildings that never ever existed. All of these loans defaulted and
were paid for by taxpayers who do not have the right to audit the books.
This does not include campaign contributions and cash payments. Remember the congressman in 2008 who said he
had two types of calls from his constituents about the proposed Banker Bailout. He said some said No and the rest said
Hell No. Yet the Bailout was passed by both Houses and approved by both Presidential candidates. Now you know why
the Congress, the news media and the President do not listen to you and do not care what happens to you and your
friends and your family.
Bernie Sanders revealed the Federal Reserve Bank created 16 trillion dollars in loans over the past couple of years. Many
of these loans went overseas. But many of these sweetheart loans made at negative real interest rates (i.e. below the
rate of inflation) were made to news organizations like NBC-MSNBC-Comcast. This company is owned by a defense
contractor and two Zionist business partners. MSNBC, which is supposedly the most liberal news source in America,
has been firing and disciplining liberal anti-war newscasters and hosts. This would be surprising to the casual observer
if he or she was not aware of the loans made by the privately owned Federal Reserve bank.
Back to that 16 trillion dollars debt dropped on the people of the world by the Federal Reserve. Bankers were bundling up
home mortgages into bonds and used MERS (Mortgage Electronic Registration System) to register their deeds. The
bankers allowed their minions to sell one home mortgage into five different bonds in effect selling five different people a
legal claim to your house. These bonds were worthless. The ratings agencies Standard and Poor, Fitch and Moodys
gave these bonds triple A ratings in exchange for hefty fees. They knew the loans were bad because they bought
insurance (Credit Default Swaps) to cash in on the inevitable losses. More than 6 trillion dollars was paid by the FED to
overseas banks. Why? Because they wanted to keep New York bankers out of jail. You see those bonds had to go into
default and the bankers knew that. A bondholder whose underlying mortgage went bad would not ask for the return of his
money. But if the mortgages were good, five different companies would come to collect from one homeowner and the
courts might actually have to send bankers to jail. All the inflation you will see over the next few years will be due to the
active participation of the Federal Reserve in financial fraud. Obviously those bankers in New York owe Zero Mostel and
the writers of the movie script for the Producers a sizable bonus.
Let’s revisit the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA) of 1994. Since that date, America has lost 50,000 manufacturing
plants. America has a little over 3,000 counties with an average population of 100,000. If you divide 4,000 into 50,000, you
get an average loss of 13 to 14 manufacturing plants closing and going overseas per county. This has destroyed local tax
bases, government revenues and jobs resulting in millions of unemployed and millions of foreclosed homes. Instead of
testifying before the Congress and telling the nation what would happen Greenspan covered it up by printing lots of
money. There was no price inflation, because traditionally a manufacturing based economy has to bid workers and raw
materials away from competitors. Not so since NAFTA. We had no manufacturing base left to create price inflation. All the
monetary inflation went into the stock market. Greenspan crashed the stock markets to end the dot com bubble and elect
the warmonger Bush. After the dot com bubble went pop, Greenspan ignited the Housing Bubble. Why do we have a
Bubble economy? The Bankers and their minions sent all the jobs overseas so the only way to make money in America
today is through the Subsidized Bubble Machine known as the Federal Reserve and the Federal government. Citizens are
required to buy insurance under penalty of law. But the insurance companies who wrote the Obamacare bill are not
required to treat you when you get sick. This is a subsidized medical system which when the Bubble pops will send
wages down, down down for nurses, doctors, pharmacists, EMTs and others in the health care field. Local schools and
police were in the subsidized Bubble economy but the implosion of the tax base is forcing layoffs in many cities and
states. Providence Rhode Island gave pink slips to every teacher. Ashtabula county Ohio (population 102,000) laid off all
of the Sheriff deputies save those working in foreclosures for the courts. This means they have one deputy per shift for the
entire county. A local judge told the residents to buy a gun. We have reached the point where the only Bubbles left are war
and other subsidized government endeavors. The next sucking sound you hear will be civil service and healthcare jobs
evaporating. This will send the unemployment rate above 30% from its current 22%. By definition and by law, Bubbles
cannot give the illusion of productive employment and real wealth without the participation and cooperation of the bankers
and the politicians they own.
Harry Markopolos took in more than 300 pages of documented evidence to the SEC to prove to them that Bernie Madoff
was stealing tens of billions of dollars from his mostly Jewish clients. The case was not hard to prove. Catherine Austin
Fitts said the SEC had to do was to match Madoff’s bank transactions up with his brokerage accounts. So if he was
moving lots of money around in his bank accounts but not buying stocks, then he was an obvious fraud who needed to be
arrested in time for the Evening News. This is not the end of the story. Markopolos told us that a much greater fraud was
waiting in the wings called Credit Default Swaps (CDS) which he valued at a potential loss of 600 trillion dollars. This is
ten times the total output of the world’s goods and services. Yet to date neither the House nor the Senate nor the Obama
nor Bush Departments of Justice and SEC have seen fit to ask Mr Markopolos to come and give evidence. Why? Because
all politicians are frightened little cowards.
Chris Young is running for Congress because Cicilline has failed to address the economic collapse of the United States.
Prior to the beginning of the “War on Terror” our national debt was under 4 trillion dollars. Today, it has more than
doubled and currently sits at a whopping 15.8 trillion dollars.
The Cicilline does next to nothing to prevent jobs from being shipped out of the country.
It is legal to pay slave labor wages in many of these other countries. After all, why pay an American worker 10 or 20 times
as much as a worker on the other side of the globe?
Facts quoted from infowars.com
For more information contact:
The Campaign to Elect Chris Young to Congress
117 Liberty Lane
South Kingstown, RI 02892
(401) 207-4051
kararusso71@yahoo.com