Source: https://www.citizensoversightmaryland.com/cindy-walsh-goes-to-federal-court-for-maryland-election-violations.html
Timestamp: 2019-04-21 16:31:31+00:00

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Federal election laws are not only for Federal Elections ----they cover any candidate for public office.
For those wondering why groups that appear to be community oriented would work against free and fair elections consider this-----most of the organizations are created and run by Johns Hopkins and directors are selected by Johns Hopkins to control public policy in all these communities. So, people join these groups thinking they work for the public good and at the end find they have been taken. East Baltimore is one great big Johns Hopkins global corporate campus having had a billion and more in public money because community organizations pretended to be supporting the people, not Hopkins. Gentrification is one thing.....development moving money to a few full of fraud and corruption is another; moving people in the most brutal of ways. Baltimore Education Coalition is simply a Michelle Rhee education privatization group created by Hopkins and BUILD is as well. The individual non-profits in these groups are mostly national private corporate non-profits taking control of all public policy in communities across America. They are often not working for the public good but getting plenty of taxpayer money to do so.
BALTIMORE MEDIA AND ELECTION EVENTS ARE SO CAPTURED THAT CINDY WALSH FOR GOVERNOR IS NOT MENTIONED AT ALL. THE SAME THING HAPPENS EACH ELECTION TO ANY CANDIDATE WHO ADDRESSES FRAUD, CORRUPTION, AND THE BAD HOPKINS AGENDA. Baltimore is one of the biggest voting districts and is the most poor. Politics in Baltimore mirrors that in third world countries where fraud and corruption is rampant because of US development corporations and NGOs.
Those thinking it is OK to get rid of the poor and working class any way possible see that the middle-class is feeling the same loss of citizenship and civil rights. If you allow a suspension of Rule of Law and Constitutional Rights for one group in the name of development-----the entire public justice system is dismantled as has happened in Maryland and Baltimore.
Rev. Joshua Kevin White is Host Pastor.
Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland is filing in United States District Court for Maryland in Baltimore because plaintiff is a resident of Baltimore and the election irregularities identified in the Federal Court case include businesses located and operating in Maryland. The plaintiff claims University of Maryland system is tasked with oversight and accountability of all universities under its umbrella and its Chancellor, the Deans, and Presidents of affiliated universities failed to abide by election law. Violations include FCC and IRS laws protecting elections.
Cindy Walsh was approved by the Maryland Election Commission as a legally qualified candidate for the Democratic Primary for Governor of Maryland and was added to the list of candidates for this office on February 25, 2014. The plaintiff immediately reached out to all election venues, organizations, and media making them aware of this candidate and the desire to participate in all election events during the course of the primary. The plaintiff responded to invitations to forums across Maryland that this candidate would be participating within the time frame given on the request. Candidate questionnaires were answered and returned to organizations participating in this primary election. Cindy Walsh responded when an organization chose not to include and encouraged at several points in the primary to include this candidate as it was required by IRS and FCC election law making the defendants aware of there requirements in election law when they choose to participate in elections. All of the defendants below violated either FCC, IRS election law or both as they censured the campaign of Cindy Walsh for election events and media coverage throughout the primary election going so far in some cases to create their own list of Democratic candidates for Governor always minus the plaintiff, actually changing the Maryland Election list of candidates to their own view. The violations vary from failing to invite the plaintiff, to inviting and then refusing participation when the event occurred, to posting election information online or in print, radio, or television that gave a false representation of who was in this primary election. Media may not have to give equal opportunity to all candidates but it does have to give opportunity and it absolutely does have to post a government document like the Maryland Election list of candidates accurately. To change a government document is itself illegal and it is defamation of Cindy Walsh as a candidate, harming her professional aspirations with false statements. A non-profit organization cannot partner with a media outlet that takes the stance of 'selecting' which candidates will appear in forums whether that media outlet is private or public. The 501c3 laws regarding participating in elections are clear-----take no opposition or do no damage to a candidate in a campaign. The FCC laws are clear that whereas media may not be required equal opportunity it must allow access to all candidates. The FCC laws also make clear that media may not discriminate in elections as regards platform in forums and debates. All issues in an election must be allowed to be represented in order that voters are able to go to the polls educated on the issues and candidates so as to make an intelligent vote. This is guaranteed to every citizen as regards their civil rights to elections and voting. The defendants in this lawsuit violated one or many of these requirements and thus the laws themselves. Since the number of defendants is long, the plaintiff will attach a separate Facts and Claims and Demand for Relief for each defendant. The plaintiff will prove these violations were systemic, that the people charged with the duties in these organizations and businesses were notified and chose to willfully, deliberately, and with malice ignore Cindy Walsh's calls for relief from these violations.
Please see individual claims and demands for relief for each defendant.
Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland is filing suit in Federal Court because of violations to Federal Election laws carried in FCC and IRS organization requirements when participating in elections.
Section 315 [47 U.S.C. §315] (1) (2) (3) (4) Nothing in the foregoing sentence shall be construed as relieving broadcasters, in connection with the presentation of newscasts, news interviews, news documentaries, and on-the-spot coverage of news events, from the obligation imposed upon them under this Act to operate in the public interest and to afford reasonable opportunity for the discussion of conflicting views of issues of public importance.
Section 73.1941 [47 CFR §73.1941] (1) (2) (3) (4) (b) (c) (d) (e) ) Nothing in the foregoing sentence shall be construed as relieving broadcasters, in connection with the presentation of newscasts, news interviews, news documentaries, and on-the-spot coverage of news events, from the obligation imposed upon them under this Act to operate in the public interest and to afford reasonable opportunity for the discussion of conflicting views of issues of public importance.
To save the time and space of including this list in every defendants' claim below you see the common communication by the plaintiff to media and some of the largest 501c3 venues. Cindy Walsh started with an introduction of my campaign in early March and this list shows the plaintiff tried to seek relief throughout the primary letting these organizations and businesses know the election laws were being broken and how they applied to this election. The responsibilities these FCC and IRS election law place on the candidate of asking for opportunity and identifying violations as they occurred were met. These communications show contact with media, 501c3s, and the Maryland Election and Attorney General tasked with upholding election law and providing Cindy Walsh with relief from these violations. They also show escalating frustration by the plaintiff as the primary election approached with no response from any of these organizations and businesses.
I include all of the information you'll need in highlighting my policy stances at the same time you speak of the other democratic candidates in the race for governor. My website has all the policy issues and history of my stances and below is my personal information. I look forward to interviews and don't forget to carry/link to debates from the Maryland League of Women Voters debate series.
cindy Walsh has been a candidate for Governor of Maryland for 30 days now with no mention in the media and I am waiting for time on station programming to share my platform at both the city and state levels. Please contact me with a date for such an engagement.
We are in the last two months of the primary elections for 2014 and Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland has been mentioned a few times----never by name and yet I am just 10% away from being tied with the 'front-runners' with several months of media saturation. Brown 25%, Gansler and Mizeur around 10% with over 54% undecided democratic voters. Imagine if Cindy Walsh had received a fraction of that media coverage-----there is the platform 54% of democrats seek! More would come.
Baltimore Sun and its many local news journals have never mentioned Cindy Walsh the candidate for Governor. WYPR has mentioned her a few times as 'one of two other candidates' but now only act if 3 candidates are in the democratic race. I searched Maryland Public Television----bastion of free and fair elections in Maryland and not a word. I am not on the list of Governor's candidates in Baltimore Sun or MPT. Morgan State and WEAA with Marc Steiner has not mentioned my campaign nor had me on.
Dan Rodricks had a show on the governor's race and all of the callers stated they did not want Brown or Ganser but someone 'like' Mizeur. That is of course----Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland.
No Baltimore news program taped and aired the Montgomery County forums that had the one candidate from Baltimore included in the forum. Having a candidate from Baltimore running in this governor's race is never mentioned. I am 10% away from being a 'front-runner' and 30% from winning the election and you will not hear it in Maryland media.
So, Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland has a Federal Election Commission complaint and will pursue this in court. The citizens of Maryland will rebuild free and fair elections in Maryland!
As Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland moves to the FEC for election violations----public media still call 10% of polling making candidates 'front-runners' deserving all media attention!
I am including a note to all of you so all can see how deeply flawed our election system is in Maryland. The citizens of Maryland have had enough and are demanding Rule of Law and respect of election law that allows all candidates in a race to be heard especially when 501c3/4 organizations are involved. Everyone understands the open invitation rule and most organizations in Maryland follow it, but for some reason, the very institutions that once held free and fair elections sacred and served as a political forum for all have chosen to be the source of election capture. I demand that the change happen now as my campaign want a voice in these last several weeks of this primary!
This is Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland on the democratic ticket. The one you did not include in this forum. As a 501c3/4 organization you are required to extend an invitation to all candidates in a race and to fail to do so is deliberate intent to damage the campaign of others running. Everyone knows that with a polling of around 10% of democratic voters supporting Gansler and Mizeur we have no 'front-runners' and indeed if my platform was heard the 54% of undecided will have found their candidate----or already have.
The public university is the bedrock of political debate and discussion. If you as President deliberately seek to silence a candidate because of political views you do not support you are failing as head of a public university. My candidacy is real------I am qualified and more capable than any of the candidates you 'selected' to appear. You have a responsibility as an education leader to uphold election law and allow all voices to be heard at all times but especially at election primaries and general elections. I am pursuing the failure of 501c3/4 in Maryland to meet the election law requirement of doing no harm to election campaigns and these events are front and center.
I demand that Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland be one of the participants in these forums. I wish acknowledgement and will be attending Wednesday's forum!
THIS DISCUSSION ON ELECTIONS IS RELEVANT TO ALL STATES IN THE US BECAUSE THIS IS HAPPENING IN YOUR NECK OF THE WOODS.
Who is your pol pledging allegiance to in a corporate state? Maryland is becoming a corporate state.
WE NO LONGER HAVE EQUAL PROTECTION AND RULE OF LAW.
The time is now to stop the election rigging in Maryland. Crony party politics and media collusion will end.
Hello WYPR and WBAL-TV, et al.
This is Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland on the democratic ticket reminding you once again that media are required to do no damage to any one candidate in an election race -----I listened this week and again heard all four republican candidates listed but only 3 democratic candidates.
Fraser Smith had a reporter on his commentary that actually did some investigative journalism. She reported that over 630,000 voters had changed their party affiliation to independent this past year and you know why? The citizens of Maryland are fed up with the election rigging and party cronyism in this state. There will be change.
I look forward to being on all of your media outlets over the coming general election.
RE: US elections are now captured and systemic with election violations.
We all know that money in politics in America will have severe consequences for free and fair elections. This is why Federal election laws that require any 501c3/4 that participates in elections do so in a way that does not damage a candidate’s campaign must be enforced. While I am being told that this has different interpretations----all 501c3/4s I have seen involved in the past in forums and debates followed this law and indeed, most of these organizations follow the law by inviting all candidates to a forum or debate. If we do not have this non-profit venue ordinary people will be excluded completely which is the goal.
In Maryland, it is two venues that are targeted by this relaxing of law. The places failing to follow these 501c3/4 laws are heavily found in Baltimore, Maryland , a city with strong civil rights and discrimination. Indeed, the politics are so crony in Baltimore and in Maryland that we have politicians running as democrats and serving as neo-conservatives. The voting turnout in Baltimore is 20% at best and that is because citizens do not want to vote for the people the establishment runs. Good people have stopped running because it is assumed that they-----as is happening to me----will be censured/blocked from any media or election publicity. Last election a sitting State Assemblyman ran against a Senator incumbent and was not mentioned once in Baltimore and surrounding areas once….the silence on his campaign was deafening as media used primary session ‘progressive legislation’ as the reason to have the incumbent in the media over and over again.
The fact that many of the major 501c3/4 venues for election primaries only allow those identified as ‘front-runners’ in the debates -----whether public media or public universities has captured Maryland politics for the global corporate crowd as we watch American Constitutional rights and freedoms and public justice be dismantled.
If your organization supports free and fair elections you know that these 501c3/4 laws must be preserved and if larger non-profits are allowed to ignore them then all venues will as well. This is how you dismantle law and make it obsolete. The loss of equal protection and Bill of Rights has already harmed the very people fighting hardest for the inclusion of all people under this protection-----women and people of color. We know that if public justice is allowed to further deteriorate and policy like Trans Pacific Trade Pact to move forward , democracy in America will end and we will become an autocratic society which is where neo-liberalism is taking us.
Please fight for these election laws in the US that will be the only avenue for ordinary people to have the exposure needed to get their platforms out to the people. It is after all an election platform that makes an election----not how much campaign contributions or which union backs you. I am running my campaign in a way that educates Maryland citizens how to handle the influx of campaign money into US elections……building networks and educating people not to pay attention to TV and radio campaign advertising as much of it is spin and untrue. Having people research all candidates in a race and think if they see that candidate out in the community working for these policies for which they advocate in elections will tell voters whether these candidates are simply throwing ‘progressive bones’ as I call them. No money is needed if we build networks from which we can get the word out about the candidate we support. This is of course what being engaged as a citizen entails but we have become lazy and allowed others to make our decisions.
So, please take the time to speak to me and look at my campaign as a test for what I know is happening all across America. Maryland has the worst record with fraud and corruption and that extends to elections and it involves many civil rights violations aimed at the poor and people of color but now have reached to the working and middle-class.
You can look at my campaign website----it is also my political and social justice website---Citizens Oversight Maryland for my posts on my taking these election violations to Federal Court.
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, orintimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth,Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any rightor privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the UnitedStates, or because of his having so exercised the same; or If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on thepremises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his freeexercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured– They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more thanten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed inviolation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or anattempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commitaggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be finedunder this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, orboth, or may be sentenced to death.
§ 245. Federally protected activities (b) Whoever, whether or not acting under color of law, by forceor threat of force willfully injures, intimidates or interferes with, orattempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with– (1) any person because he is or has been, or in order tointimidate such person or any other person or any class of personsfrom– (A) voting or qualifying to vote, qualifying orcampaigning as a candidate for elective office, or qualifying oracting as a poll watcher, or any legally authorized election official,in any primary, special, or general election;* * * * *shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than one year,or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed inviolation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempteduse, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fireshall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than ten years,or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation ofthis section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt tokidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravatedsexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title orimprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may besentenced to death.
In 1941, the Supreme Court reversed direction, overturningNewberry. The Court recognized that primary elections are anintegral part of the process bywhich candidates are elected to office.United States v. Classic, 313 U.S. 299 (1941). Classic changed thejudicial attitude toward federal intervention in election matters andushered in a new period of federal activism. Federal courts nowregard the right to vote in a fairly conducted election as aconstitutionally protected feature of United States citizenship.
Constitution, state legislatures retained a most important place in our Nation's governmental structure. But representative government is, in essence, self-government through the medium of elected representatives of the people, and each and every citizen has an inalienable right to full and effective participation in the political processes of his State's legislative bodies. Most citizens can achieve this participation only as qualified voters through the election of legislators to represent them. Full and effective participation by all citizens in state government requires, therefore, that each citizen have an equally effective voice in the election of members of his state legislature. Modern and viable state government needs, and the Constitution demands, no less.
is concededly the basic aim of legislative apportionment, we conclude that the Equal Protection Clause guarantees the opportunity for equal participation by all voters in the election of state legislators. Diluting the weight of votes because of place of residence impairs basic constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment just as much as invidious discriminations based upon factors such as race, Brown v. Board of Education,347 U. S. 483, or economic status, Griffin v. Illinois,351 U. S. 12, Douglas v. California,372 U. S. 353. Our constitutional system amply provides for the protection of minorities by means other than giving them majority control of state legislatures. And the democratic ideals of equality and majority rule, which have served this Nation so well in the past, are hardly of any less significance for the present and the future.

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