ATTORNEY GENERAL CANDIDATES FOR THE NOV. 3, 2020 ELECTION
If there is anything you don’t like that the current Attorney General is doing, then vote for someone else. This is America!
The United States Constitution, Article 6, Section 3:
Who shall take constitutional oaths; no religious test as to official
qualifications.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned,
and the Members of the several State Legislatures,
and all executive
and judicial officers,
both of the United States and of the several States,
shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation,
to support this Constitution;
but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any
office or public Trust under the United States.
Re-read: “and the Members of the several State Legislatures,
and all executive
and judicial officers,
both of the United States and of the several States,
shall be bound by Oarth or Affirmation,
to support this Constitution”
.
The Vermont Attorney General is an executive officer voted in
by the people and she or he must conform with the
US Constitution.
Now, let’s look at Vermont Statutes Title 3, Chapter 7,
Attorney General.
The Attorney General shall advise the elected State Officers
on questions of law relating to their official duties.
Has current incumbent Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan
given valid legal advise to elected State Officers?
Title 3 V.S.A. Chp 7, Section 152, the Attorney General may
represent the State in all civil and criminal matters at common
law and as allowed by statute. The Attorney General shall also
have the same authority throughout the State as a State’s Atorney.
The Attorney General shall represent members of the General
Assembly in all civil matters arising from or relating to the
performance of legislative duties.
Is the current incumbent Vermont Attorney General, TJ Donovan,
giving good legal advice to the Vermont State Legislature,
the General Assembly?
What laws have they passed since TJ Donovan has been in office,
that stink? That violate the US Constitution? That violate the
Vermont State Constitution? That violate your right to privacy
in your own home and your right to pursue happiness? Are you
enjoying the “Blessings of Liberty” promised in the
United States Constitution?
If you can list one or more laws that are currently the law of the land
today, that are unConstitutional, violating either the US Constitution
or the Vermont State Constitution, and if you feel that TJ Donovan
has failed to do his duty to warn and inform the VT General Assembly
that they are wrongfully stepping on the toes of ordinary Vermonters,
then vote him out.
Remember, if the Vermont General Assembly had some decent
legal advice they could act on a number of federal issues.
Article 5 of the United States Constitution:
Ways in which the Constitution can be amended.
The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it
necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Consitution,
or,
on the Application of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several
States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments,
which in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as
part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislature of
three-fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in
three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification
may be proposed by the Congress.
Let’s talk about an Amendment to the US Constitution to
end marijuana / cannabis prohibition, like alcoholic beverage
prohibition ended. TJ Donovan does not show any inclination
to do anything to make marijuana 100% legal for adults to use.
The Representatives to the US Congress had a Bill ready to
vote on, but then they changed their collective minds and
are refusing to vote on it before the Nov. 3, 2020 general election.
This is shocking for the U.S. Congress to do this during
coronavirus covid-19 social distancing, when so many
people are home alone, or home with a few family members
and would like some “recreation” in their own minds.
The current law in Vermont is all about an ounce, and
anything over that ounce and TJ Donovan might send you
to jail or a diversion program, neither of which appeals to
many people. The government doesn’t count your cans of beer,
they don’t itemize the list of bottles of wine in your cellar,
so why on earth is TJ Donovan measuring your
marijuana / cannabis with a postal weighing scale?
On candidate (and incumbent office holder)
T.J. Donovan’s website it says,
“TJ has successfully advocated for a variety of innovative criminal
justice policies including unversal access to naloxone treatment;
decriminalization of marijuana;…”
Let’s be perfectly clear here: “decriminalization” is not legalization.
So long as police can count your ounces,
marijuana is not 100% legal.
So long as police can count the number of plants in your garden,
marijuana is not 100% legal.
Your “Blessings of Liberty” are being violated, your right to
privacy in your own home is being violated, your right to
pursue happiness is being violated.
Title 18 Vermont Statutes Chapter 84
Possession and Control of Regulated Drugs
§ 4230. Marijuana
(a) Possession and cultivation.
(1)(A) No person shall knowingly and unlawfully possess more
than one ounce of marijuana or more than five grams of hashish
or cultivate more than two mature marijuana plants or four
immature marijuana plants. For a first offense under this
subdivision (A), a person shall be provided the opportunity
to participate in the Court Diversion Program unless the
prosecutor states on the record why a referral to the Court
Diversion Program would not serve the ends of justice. A person
convicted of a first offense under this subdivision shall be
imprisoned not more than six months or fined not more than
$500.00, or both.
(B) A person convicted of a second or subsequent offense of
knowingly and unlawfully possessing more than one ounce of
marijuana or more than five grams of hashish or cultivating more
than two mature marijuana plants or four immature marijuana
plants shall be imprisoned not more than two years or fined
not more than $2,000.00, or both.
(C) Upon an adjudication of guilt for a first or second offense
under this subdivision, the court may defer sentencing as
provided in 13 V.S.A. § 7041, except that the court may in its
discretion defer sentence without the filing of a presentence
investigation report and except that sentence may be imposed
at any time within two years from and after the date of entry of
deferment. The court may, prior to sentencing, order that the
defendant submit to a drug assessment screening, which may
be considered at sentencing in the same manner as a presentence report.
(2) A person knowingly and unlawfully possessing two ounces
of marijuana or 10 grams of hashish or knowingly and unlawfully
cultivating more than four mature marijuana plants or eight immature
marijuana plants shall be imprisoned not more than three years
or fined not more than $10,000.00, or both.
(3) A person knowingly and unlawfully possessing more than
one pound of marijuana or more than 2.8 ounces of hashish or
knowingly and unlawfully cultivating more than six mature marijuana
plants or 12 immature marijuana plants shall be imprisoned not more
than five years or fined not more than $10,000.00, or both.
(4) A person knowingly and unlawfully possessing more than 10 pounds
of marijuana or more than one pound of hashish or knowingly and
unlawfully cultivating more than 12 mature marijuana plants or 24
immature marijuana plants shall be imprisoned not more than 15 years
or fined not more than $500,000.00, or both.
§ 4230a. Marijuana possession by a person 21 years of age or older
(a)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person 21 years
of age or older who possesses one ounce or less of marijuana or five
grams or less of hashish and two mature marijuana plants or fewer or
four immature marijuana plants or fewer or who possesses
paraphernalia for marijuana use shall not be penalized or sanctioned
in any manner by the State or any of its political subdivisions or denied
any right or privilege under State law. The one-ounce limit of marijuana
or five grams of hashish that may be possessed by a person 21 years
of age or older shall not include marijuana cultivated, harvested, and
stored in accordance with section 4230e of this title.
§ 4230e. Cultivation of marijuana by a person 21 years of age or older
(a)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person 21 years of age
or older who cultivates no more than two mature marijuana plants and four
immature marijuana plants shall not be penalized or sanctioned in any
manner by the State or any of its political subdivisions or denied any right
or privilege under State law.
(2) Each dwelling unit shall be limited to two mature marijuana plants and
four immature marijuana plants regardless of how many persons 21 years
of age or older reside in the dwelling unit. As used in this section,
“dwelling unit” means a building or the part of a building that is used
as a primary home, residence, or sleeping place by one or more persons
who maintain a household.
(3) Any marijuana harvested from the plants allowed pursuant to this
subsection shall not count toward the one-ounce possession limit in
section 4230a of this title provided it is stored in an indoor facility on
the property where the marijuana was cultivated and reasonable precautions
are taken to prevent unauthorized access to the marijuana.
(4) Cultivation in excess of the limits provided in this subsection
shall be punished in accordance with section 4230 of this title.
(b)(1) Personal cultivation of marijuana only shall occur:
(A) on property lawfully in possession of the cultivator or with the written
consent of the person in lawful possession of the property; and
(B) in an enclosure that is screened from public view and is secure so
that access is limited to the cultivator and persons 21 years of age or
older who have permission from the cultivator.
(2) A person who violates this subsection shall be assessed
a civil penalty as follows:
(A) not more than $100.00 for a first offense;
(B) not more than $200.00 for a second offense; and
(C) not more than $500.00 for a third or subsequent offense.
(Added 2017, No. 86 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.)
Now, raise your hand if you know of low income Vermonters
who can afford the above fines?
Now, raise your hand if you know of middle income Vermonters
who can afford the above fines?
Now, raise your hand if you know how much the Vermont
Attorney General’s annual salary is, putting him in an income
bracket where he has no clue what-so-ever how hard it
would be for the rest of Vermonters to pay these fines.
This is cow manure.
We are over-regulated. Someone is making money because
we are over-regulated, and that’s the private-for-profit prison
industry. Why are Vermonters still shipped to out-of-state
private-for-profit prisons? That is a violation of the Vermont
State Constitution which clearly states that prisoners are to
work for the public in view of the public.
Because Vermonters, to this day, are still being shipped to
private-for-profit out-of-state prisons, denying their children
and families access to love, to hug, and be loved by them,
then we must accuse the current Vermont Attorney General of
failing to do his duty to stop this abuse of the Vermont
Constitution.
The duty of the Vermont Attorney General
is to represent the State of Vermont, and if you have the
State as your #1 legal client, then you must warn and inform
the State when the State is in violation of the Vermont Constitution,
otherwise, you should be charged will legal malpractice
and your license to practice law should bel suspended.
You don’t tell your legal client that it is O.K. to rob banks.
When your legal client is doing something wrong,
you must tell them to stop it. The State is the legal client
of the Attorney General. It is the duty of the Attorney General
to file a request for injunction in Court to stop the state from
committing this violation of the Vermont Constitution
by sending prisoners to out-of-state private-for-profit
prisons and robbing Vermonters of their tax dollars which
should be spent at home housing prisoners and creating
programs for them to work for the public in view of the
public just like it says in the VT Constitution.
It used to be that way 50 years ago when there were
25, 000 farms in Vermont and 600,000 cows,
the prisoners were sent to work on farms where they
would be housed and fed and were happy to work rather
than being in a jail cell. It was good deal for everyone.
Now, there are fewer than 2,000 farms and a few cows,
and Vermont allows illegal aliens to take the jobs that
should be the prisoners.
Here are your choices, the candidates listed for Attorney General
on your Nov. 3, 2020 general election ballot, listed on the
Secretary of State Elections Division website.
H. Brooke Paige and Cris Ericson are long time friends of the
U.S. Marijuana Party and will work to make marijuana legal and
uphold the State Constitution and United States Constitiution.
http://usmjparty.com
TJ Donovan, Democratic (802)488-4800 donovantj@gmail.com
DONOVANFORVERMONT.COM
Cris Ericson, Progressive (802)875-4038 crisericson@aceweb.com
http://politics2020.org
H. Brooke Paige, Republican (802)883-2320 donnap@sover.net
BROOKEPAIGE.US
