It is been two years
since what began with four obscure Presidential Electors who made the
public statements to an online Coloradoan news organization site that
they were going to
“reach out to other national electors across the country as part of
a plan to keep Trump from the Oval Office.” [snippet]
During the meeting, the four agreed
there has been enough influence on the 2016 election by Russians,
either directly or indirectly, to bolster their potential role as
faithless electors. The U.S. government in October officially
blamed [NY Times US formally accuses of Russia stealing DNC
emails, October 2016] Russia for hacking emails from the Democratic
National Committee, among other institutions and individuals, saying
the hacks and subsequent leaks were “intended to interfere with the
U.S. election process.”
Bob Nemanich, the math teacher, says
he believes Russian influence from cyber attacks and the hacking of
email accounts had an impact on the election results.
“This is an attack on our
representative form of government,” he said, adding that the
question is: Who benefited?
“We don’t have time to prosecute and investigate this,”
Nemanich said. “We have to start making our own decisions [as
electors].”
Kathleen’s Executive Director, Liz Hershberger stated on line: "He needs to cast his vote for Clinton — she won our state and he is a Democrat. Liz was the one who informed me of Kathleen's wishes but soon thereafter was threatening to sue the local party because he didn't like how democracy within the party worked in changing the regime.
During that period El Paso County Democratic Party's Secretary, openly called me a traitor on his Facebook page. He still maintains that shallow understanding and fails to understand he was duped by Trump and Russia propaganda.
The worst of all the public outcry came from Colorado’s Secretary of State, Wayne Williams (Republican) and resident of El Paso County after Polly Baca and I filed suit in the Federal District Court seeking a TRO (temporary restraining order) pertaining to the state law binding Presidential Electors to the popular vote winner.
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But
Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams thrashed the push as an
"illegal
conspiracy"
to subvert the will of Colorado's voters and pledged to fight against
their suit.
"Make no
mistake, this is not some noble effort to fight some unjust or
unconstitutional law; rather, this is an arrogant attempt by two
faithless electors to elevate their personal desires over the entire
will of the people of Colorado," Williams said in a statement.
"The very notion of two Colorado
electors ignoring Colorado’s popular vote in an effort to sell
their vote to electors in other states is odious to everything we
hold dear about the right to vote," he continued." Another
publication quoted Williams describing our actions as “arrogant,”
odious and evil”, saying the court should reject what he
called an “illegal conspiracy,” and opined that the
electors had succumbed to “intrigue and corruption.” [emphasis
mine]
Nemanich told POLITICO that Williams'
sharp reaction may be the result of the fact that his office has
promised specifically to remove Nemanich as an elector if he attempts
to cast his vote for anyone other than Clinton.
That comment became
part of his suit to overturn the state's law.
"It was so over the top that it
makes him look very weird," Nemanich said in an email.
"Evil?
Is it evil to sue for constitutional affirmation of civil rights like
Free Speech in carrying out the duties of an elected official? Is it
a cabal where one seeks counsel from other elected officials in
carrying out own duty? Is it a conspiracy to talk to Republican
Electors about a candidate for President that one believes unfit by
their daily actions?"
Now two years later Polly Baca and
myself are still embroiled in a Federal lawsuit that currently is in front of
the 10th Circuit Appellate Court where oral arguments
scheduled for January 24, 2019. Ironic that through the exchange of written
arguments between our counsel headed by Harvard Law School Dean,
Larry Lessig; and the Attorney General of Colorado our final response quoted the State of Colorado’s own
brief:
The State asks
this Court to condone its interference so that Coloradans are not
deprived of their “fundamental right to cast a meaningful and
effective vote for President.” State Br. 3. But the Constitution
does not give citizens any right to vote directly for President. On
election day, citizens cast “advisory” votes for President, see
State Br. 3, because “citizens themselves vote for Presidential
electors,” not for President. Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98, 104 (2000)
(emphasis added). Indeed, the State overlooks even its own
Constitution, which provides that “the electors of the electoral
college shall be chosen by direct vote of the people.” Colo. Const.
sched. § 20 (emphasis added).
Two years ago Wayne Williams, the
Republican who sought reelection this year but lost, badly, in all
probability, knew or was counseled that eventually if pressed the
State of Colorado would have to admit that in reality there was no
actual subversion of the popular will of the people of Colorado as
the vote was advisory where constitutionally voted for which Elector’s
slate.
Yet, 2016 was a time of hyper partisanship where now we know
the United State election was invaded thru the Internet by Russia and
other enemies foreign and domestic. Was Williams’ “weird”
reaction a momentary "tell" as being party to these enemies? Eventually
as Mueller’s investigation goes deeper we might find out how drilled down this 2016 election conspiracy went, in the meantime this is but our
own small footnote.
The main event of course, is in
Washington DC and New York, centered upon Mueller and his Office of
Special Council where this week he produced the biggest moment yet, proving that Trump and his regime is not only unfit, but worse,
criminally culpable to foreign espionage owing to outright treason in
the election of the presidency.
Some of the details are being reported
lends a deeper understanding to what I was alluding to two
years ago where I said Presidential Electors did not have the time,
nor the resources to investigate the invasion of our democracy by
Russia, partnered with Trump’s regime. What his former personal
attorney Michael Cohen revealed in part, and subsequently
confirmed by Trump, was that during his candidacy and up until
June 14, 2016, Trump and Russia was still pursuing the Trump Tower
venture. At least that was Trump’s mind he was pursuing his life’s
dream of building the largest skyscraper in Moscow when he tweeted:
Donald J. Trump✔
Oh, I get it! I am a very good developer, happily living my life, when I see our Country going in the wrong direction (to put it mildly). Against all odds, I decide to run for President & continue to run my business-very legal & very cool, talked about it on the campaign trail...
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2:52 AM - Nov 30, 2018
@realDonaldTrump
@realDonaldTrump
Followed with this admission:
Donald J. Trump
....Lightly looked at doing a building somewhere in Russia. Put up zero money, zero guarantees and didn’t do the project. Witch Hunt!
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Rachel Maddow on @MSNBC outlined Friday night on her show, was the Cohen revelations revealed the underlying crime as why the systematic cover-up parlayed by the Trump regime and their supporters outside of government, in short why they were lying across all fronts. That to build the Tower, it demanded the funding from a Russian Bank controlled by the Russian government and also sanctioned by the U.S. and allied European governments. Thus to build needed the lifting of the international sanctions on individuals and their banks. This was the promise of Trump. But it is now fully apparent he could not deliver. What Rachel failed to mention was a parallel conspiracy related to Russian Oil, Saudi and Israeli nuclear power plants with Michael Flynn who also pleaded guilty earlier in 2018.
Therefore the fog of all this corruption centered on Trump is appearing to be clearer. The Russian’s seem to have “baited” Trump into pursuing the presidency through the tower. The bait was he could build his tower when sanctions were lifted. In that grand plan the Russians abetted his accent to the Oval Office by hacking the American election then weaponizing DNC emails through Wikileaks. They also weaponized social media and especially Facebook through laser targeting of American voters and using sophisticated psy ops.
Soon we will find out more, as the Russian espionage operative Maria Butina comes to court and reveals her money and influence connection to the NRA and Republican Party. This might include further connections to the Republican Party changing its Ukraine platform stance that seems to come back to Manafort and now Mike Pence. It all involves huge dark money, money laundering, political and election corruption that appears to also enveloped the Republican Party’s leadership. It is an octopus or giant squid with tentacles that ultimately point to Russia and dark globalists that include domestic enemies to democracy and our constitution attempting to create a new world order.
Finally, my guess is that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine now at its margins is tip toeing to a full scale escalation across their western front. This would challenge NATO which his emerging intrusion into Great Britain and Brexit that includes intrusion into European democracies is showing his hand to weaken the military alliance to respond to his invasion. War appears to be on the horizon.
This century’s war will include cyber, and information warfare disrupting domestic and international infrastructure and trade markets and probably even outer space. Scary as it is, Russia and its allies have less economic assets than the state of Texas or even New York, rated 2nd and 3rd in the US. Russia’s GDP would be merely 1.8% of the US entirely. Bring in NATO and it is almost 9 to 1. Yet a protracted land war in Eastern Europe would be greatly unstable in the world markets and our sense of peace since 1962.
Now back to December 2018 in Washington. It is now appearing certain the nation is headed towards impeachment of its president and regime. There are roughly thirty days until the opposition party takes over one branch of the legislature and with that exceptional investigative power to move the nation towards this measure. It even includes transfer of power directly to the Speaker if and when the both the president and vice president is vacated. In the meantime Mueller appears to be ready to move on more indictments, corresponding plea deals and greater revelations encircling the president and his regime even tighter to this end. Too bad those four Presidential Electors could not get other Presidential Electors both Republican and Democratic to act during the Electoral College and maybe this could have unraveled this ordeal faster and clearer, at least earlier.
Why am I writing this now? Because someone of political stature asked me about it and my thoughts over the holiday; “how were you feeling those seven weeks prior to the Electoral College Day?”
I felt alone, I said. I foresaw this.
The implications, the exposure of domestic and foreign enemies, those wittingly and unwittingly duped. A challenge to our democracy and its republic form of government. I am now resilient that the 2018 mid term elections responded to reaffirm our nation's core traditions.
Back two years ago in general terms whenever I took a walk or fell asleep all this overwhelmed me. Especially when Russian Television producers began reaching out to me via social media and finally phone messages, why me? I knew this was weird and something way beyond me. Now I watch and read, validating each and every day my thoughts and actions two years ago.” That is what I said. His reply was, guess you were right after all.
