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> Subject: Update- How Corrupticut "Works," the cowardly, the
> frauds, the psychopathic unions, and the just plain insane.
> Date: Jul 9, 2007 6:14 PM
> This is an update to a previous post, but since Governor Rell is not
> interested
> in changing the status quo as regards the DCF morons and related
> psychopaths, the
> whole world needs to know the story, in particular, the other 49
> states who are
> paying for this insane abuse. I need this data updated for my
> website, so people,
> in the end, can see for how many years the US Department of Justice
> has been receiving
> valid complaints and did nothing.
> A free and democratic country is about equal protection under the law,
> right?
> You may end up thinking these stories are funny (I do), because this
> is how the
> CT *rich* people behave. They behave like very dumb, lying crooks.
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Yelmini and Rell- No Innocents (VERY LONG AND VERY IMPORTANT TO
> THE OTHER 49 STATES)
> Date:
> Wednesday, February 07, 2007 5:19:48 AM
> I see there are a couple of big ta-does with these two, Rell and
> Yelmini, although
> they appear to be independent activities. There are three Courant
> articles copied
> here, and I apologize for including them all instead of linking them,
> but I will
> need the full text of them later, and the Courant archives are not
> available indefinitely
> (although in a state with this much white collar crime you would think
> they would
> make the archives available).
> Kevin Rennie is questioning Rell's Fund Raising Activities, and
> Yelmini thinks
> she has to defend herself as per her new role with the State Police
> (She does need
> to defend herself. By moving far away from us, like to
> a Muslim country where they don't allow sleaze, hopefully.)
> The Third in this Triad of crazies involved here is Daniel Dilzer,
> Republican Town
> Chairman in the Town of Berlin, CT. Berlin is next to New Britain,
> where a lot
> of Republican Cronies and Crazies hang out... Call them the Neauveau
> Riche of the
> Party; they have no class to go with their upper class if you know
> what I mean.
> Someone called Dilzer on the afternoon of Sep 29, 2005 named "Rell."
> The call was put through. This was during a visit, with a witness,
> with the
> physical evidence that ** every single thing** Jessica Gauvin said to
> the Berlin
> Police re my false arrest **was false.** Statement by statement, word
> by word.
> Dilzer rejected the data. Would not look at it. I have a witness.
> Dilzer was
> given to me as a "Special Defender," after I had a real defender, Beth
> Hogan, because Beth Hogan was defending me, and Karen Forschner of the
> Lyme
> Foundation was working with Beth. www.lyme.org
> The Public Defenders Office later told me Beth Hogan is not a public
> defender
> which is a complete and total lie, like usual. Dilzer was given to me
> to
> specifically lose my case, since what the State really wanted to do
> was commit me
> indefinitely since I know so much, and my kids undeniably have
> congenital Lyme Disease.
> Rell was in on the deal where the State bagged me permanently because
> my kids have
> congenital Lyme:http://www.actionlyme.org/Schoen.htm The entire Republican Party in
> this
> State, were in on it, because the effect that knowledge would have on
> real
> estate values. The children's Ad Litem told me so. "She said, The
> State
> is watching this case very closely." That was right after the
> depositions
> where we found out my sister lied to the DCF, and that she was off the
> charts STUPID,
> as I said. "DUMBSTRUCK" is the perfect word for how the lawyers
> hushed
> in silence after Nancy Martin told all the lawyers I was a bad
> parent, because,
> "Well, she goes to the library."
> I go to the library to copy articles about how Yale committed a crime,
> simply by
> copying their own publications, since Goddamnit I know I am sick and I
> did not used
> to be. I used to be one of those INSANE cycling 100-milers and
> distance runners
> and I played *every* sport:http://www.actionlyme.org/Schoen.htm
> Swim Team, Fencing, the Mountain Man (running though steep, jagged
> hiking trails)
> Team Handball for the Southern CT State University Womens Team
> Handball Team (which
> went OLYMPIC), while I was still in high school. I mean, a total
> sports maniac...
> Thus, despite the many years of Lyme brain, I have no lesions on my
> brain by MRI.
> Donald Dickson has about a dozen brain spots of damage on his brain
> MRI from all
> the years of alcoholism.
> [Never mind about about any HIPPA laws violations, since the Medical
> Board has no
> problem with anyone violating HIPPA laws, as you can see from my
> complaint against
> Robert Schoen:http://www.actionlyme.org/Schoen.htm
> Go to the end. See the CT Medical Board's response.]
> You can give Lyme to your kids, and not know it, because the testing
> for Lyme is
> bogus- misses the vast majority of cases on purpose. I tested
> positive for Lyme
> a long time, but then I have high functioning autism and have always
> had the related
> screwed up immune system- that's part of autism (the *real* kind,
> which is not
> Asperger's and is not the dementia from brain damage or encephalitis).
> [Autism and Neurofibromatosis are "NERVE OVERGROWTH SYNDROMES," and
> that
> is related to a reversed duplication of a B cell lymphoma molecule
> which
> inhibits apoptosis of programmed cell death. It's part of the
> mechanism of
> the co-expression of autism and neurofibromatosis. It is related to
> incompetent
> B cells (lymphocytes). ALL OF THIS DATA I GAVE TO DUH DCF, including
> the data about
> Lyme as a crime, that all psychotropics are brain damaging, and data
> about the various
> kinds of autism, who then turned around and sent it all to the
> Commission on Human
> Rights, meant to be evidence that I am insane, proving the DCF is too
> retarded to
> be a child welfare agency.]
> After we walked out of the depositions of my DCF "case" and we had
> just
> found out my "sister" and "mother"http://www.actionlyme.org/CAROLYN_VOSSLER_MARTIN.htmhttp://www.action...
> were lying their crazy faces off, since they admitted it, my
> children's Ad Litem
> walked up to me and said, "The State is watching this case very
> closely."
> AS AN ASIDE- THE CAROLYN MARTIN BEATINGS
> The children Carolyn Martin beat naked with a cat of nine tails (a
> whip), utterly
> viciously, like she would never stop- requiring them to take their
> clothes off and
> lean spread-eagle against the bathroom wall for the beating - were
> Nancy Martin
> and my brother Paul. My cousins were over the house, so she beat the
> living hell
> out of them in the bathroom. I just happened to be in there, if you
> know what I
> mean. Of all the most serious beatings that went on in that house, I
> received the
> NONE of the worst physical abuse. I have autism. I guess I was not
> that much involved
> in all the carryings-on that led to the extremely vicious beatings.
> My "mother"
> nearly broke her foot kicking my brother, Jim:http://www.actionlyme.org/MILFORDMIRROR.htm
> "He had been so perfectly beautiful... and a nice kid..."
> I have no idea why both of my parents hated that boy so much and
> abused him so badly.
> But they did. They acted like they *utterly* *hated* him, yet he was
> so funny and
> so spirited... Maybe that's why they hated him. Perhaps it is a
> challenge
> to destroy a kid who will not be destroyed, so they worked harder at
> it in Jim's
> case ?? Who can figure these things out.
> *I* will validate their very serious abuse, whether they're dead or
> alive, since
> I was a witness to the worst of it. (Carolyn Martin then proceeded to
> abuse my
> children because no one was beating her ass when she was a kid. <--
> This is not
> meant to make sense, but we are talking about a Vossler, who are *all*
> cowards and
> abusers of their spouses and children.)
> CONTINUED:
> I was like, "What do I care? We just found out none of this bullshit
> is true,
> and that my mother and sister are insane for making it all up." They
> should
> have been arrested since it is illegal to file false allegations to
> DCF. (They
> still have not been arrested.)
> Nancy Martin (21 Redstone Way, Farmington, CThttp://www.actionlyme.org/HILARIOUS.htm
> tried to blame me for my father's death, when in fact, Nancy Martin is
> a Marriage
> and Family Therapist, defrauded her employer to get this degree, and
> never helped
> anyone in the family, most particularly my learning disabled little
> sister with
> the three learning disabled kids, who is married to a sociopath, and
> who spends
> the whole day crying in the bathtub if she runs out of ZOLOFT.
> James Phillips also refused to help my little sister. EVERYONE
> refused to help
> my little sister, who is still clueless and needs to get away from her
> pot smoking,
> drunken husband so she can live in peace with her kids.
> I tell the entire story here, in a correspondence with the US
> Attorney, warning
> that I could not be sued for either slander or libel, SINCE IT IS ALL
> TRUE (and
> nevermind the HIPPA Laws)...http://www.actionlyme.org/CAROLYN_MARTIN_VOSSLER.htmhttp://www.action...
> The short version is that Nancy Martin is too retarded and selfish to
> be around
> humans.
> = = = =
> This sounds too complicated when the reader cannot associate a name to
> a face, I realize. I am talking about the network of Republican
> sleaze still
> in place after Rowlandgate and how they operate, and what their goals
> are. They
> want to keep the federal money coming in, by defrauding Uncle Sam over
> the State's
> needs.
> I am talking about all the Republican lying whores, among them are
> Rell, Dilzer
> and Yelmini, and they are tight party affiliates who do very illegal
> things, as are Jessica Gauvin and Kristine Ragaglia. Ripping off kids
> illegally
> is both a power tool and a means to bring millions of free money into
> the State
> from Uncle Sam.
> Yelmini also worked with Marc S. Ryan, Office of Policy and
> Management,
> who worked with Ragaglia to write the bills to "increase the DCF
> spending:
> "Rip off more kids to get money to rip off even more kids. Uncle Sam,
> the
> other 49 states' taxpayers, pay for it.
> This was/is a racket.
> Rell just announced yesterday a scheme to get more money in from the
> federal
> government under the Rowlandgate Criteria- Rell will spend $400,000 to
> get matching
> grants from Uncle Sam for the CT Department of Transportation. The
> same principal was applied in DCF- Rowlandgate.
> Here is what two of the DCF-Rowlandgate Bills said:http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse_frm/threa......
> =====================================================
> RESPONSE FROM ADMINISTRATION/AGENCY:
> Michael W. Kozlowski, Secretary and Marc S. Ryan, Deputy Secretary,
> Office of Policy and Management - testified in support of the
> Governor's proposal.
> ****The proposed increases in spending are attributed to higher than
> expected spending
> requirements in federal entitlement programs (Medicaid and Temporary
> Family Assistance),
> **** lower than budgeted savings from the Early Retirement Incentive
> Plan, the
> carryover effect of current year deficiencies and the Governor's new
> initiatives.
> These initiatives are in the areas of education, children's health,
> child protection,
> public safety, elderly services, the environment, and economic
> development.
> INREASED PETITIONS FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS:http://www.cga.state.ct.us/2001/jfr/h/2001HB-06669-R00APP-JFR.htm
> ==================================================================
> The DCF ripped off more kids to get the free US DHHS ACF Temporary Aid
> to Needy
> Families (TANF) grants, but then they never gave this money to the
> poor families. Instead they used it to take the kids away from poor
> families.
> Here is that report by a lawyer about how DCF defrauds Uncle Sam over
> the TANF money,
> which reads like an indictment, and if those numbers can be verified,
> *IS* an indictment
> of DCF:http://www.ctkidslink.org/pub_detail_203.htmlhttp://www.ctkidslink.or...
> Tomasso was also going to build State Psych Klinks for kids, because
> they were going
> to take as many kids as possible, under any circumstances, because all
> they had
> to do was get a psychiatrist to lie to the court about the reason the
> kid should
> be removed from their parents, if they have no valid read to do so,
> which was the
> case in my case:http://www.actionlyme.org/LEEBENS_DEFRAUDING_THE_COURT.htm
> I never met Lebeens, yet I was down at the Yale Child Study Center a
> full 6 days
> with Diane, that same fall, right before my kids were ripped off
> anyway,
> even though all all of the allegations against me were false.
> The depositions were Nov 20, 2003, but my kids were ripped off the day
> before Thanksgiving anyway, from their schools, on Nov 26:http://www.actionlyme.org/WHAT_IT_FEELS_LIKE_TO_BE_KIDNAPPED_BY_DCF.htm
> Severely traumatizing them. Diane has not yet returned to school,
> since she is
> afraid the DCF is going to kidnap her again from the schools, much
> like the oldest
> Inkel boy refuses to let his mother out of his sight:http://www.actionlyme.org/THE_REAL_DON_DICKSON.htmhttp://www.actionly...
> It was a Republican racket. It was how DCF-Rowlandgate got their
> start up money
> for their jails enterprise. Yelmini worked with that gang.
> Yelmini is no innocent- she is big-time Rowlandgate-Rell insider and
> always has
> been. She is a henchman for the Republican Party. A liar, a sleaze,
> like everyone else associated with the Old Money Party, who is not old
> money.
> The Republicans *ARE* "working" the psychopaths of the State Police
> and
> DCF unions, as well as the extremely insane and abusive KKK club in
> the prisons:http://www.actionlyme.org/AMICUS_Figueroa_13_06.htm
> All you have to do to confirm the Republicans are training the moron
> Whitie pitbulls
> to be pitbulls is to compare the Spada-Rowland executive order
> to bag everyone on welfare (black people) to the State Trooper Fags on
> Parade Video and listen to the psycho cop and the things he was saying
> (YELLING):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lRS7lCfPTw&mode=related&search=http:/...
> Anyone who is poor or sick is going to jail and their kids are going
> to be
> taken away. That's the Republicans' way of getting rid of all the
> poor
> people and not having a state income tax.
> The other 49 states are going to pay for the bagging of our poor
> people with
> their federal income tax.
> That's how Connecticut "works."
> Thew Republicans are "working" these moron union members, as in
> training
> them to be lying criminal psychopaths.
> They *ARE* using the DCF and the cops to produce income for the State.
> Yelmini was DEFINITELY put inside the State Police to assure we get no
> investigation
> by the likes of a REAL US Attorney, like Patrick Fitzgerald.
> The Nora Dannehy investigation of DCF-Rowlandgate was inhibited by the
> fact
> that the current US Attorney, Kevin O'Connor, who was friends and
> Bantam Lake
> neighbors with Rowland, was appointed to that position to keep the
> federal
> government - the REAL USDOJ (meaning the entity we had before we had
> Chertoff and
> Gonzales) out of the CT Republican Party shenanigans, which is to
> include suppressing information about the seriousness of Lyme Disease.
> I know for sure: Not everyone in the Rotary was fond of the idea of
> helping
> people who have Lyme disease back in 1998. In fact, some Rotary
> members
> in the meeting argued against helping us, and produced material from
> GUESS WHO? JOHN J. CONNOLLY, head of CastleConnolly.com and the
> former
> head of the ALDF (The Mortimer Zuckerman, Hank Greenberg anti-Lyme
> Disease
> Foundation; the central RICO entity).http://www.actionlyme.org/ALDF_BOARD.htm
> That's from whom I got some of this information about the racketeering
> crime
> of Lyme which I later gave to the US Attorney:http://www.actionlyme.org/USDOJ_COMPLAINT_RICO.htm
> 'From one of the Rotary members arguing against helping us in 1998.
> Cute, eh? The Rotary are supposed to be about what, now?
> The current US Attorney Kevin J. O'Connor was promoted to Washington,
> as you
> will recall, for not doing his job re white collar Republican party
> and Yale's
> crimes in Corrupticut. O'Connor's wife worked in John Rowland's legal
> office during all the DCF-Rowlandgate Party and Screw Ragaglia for the
> Pediatric
> Jails Contracts Enterprise.http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/curryinterview.htm
> Another Yelmini element, is that while I was incarcerated for being a
> Unibomber
> Chemist, my friend in Europe asked me who was "DAS"- What department
> was DAS?
> I said, "Department of Administrative Services."
> Yelmini was the head of it at the time. DAS gives out all the
> contracts, including
> an illegal contract to Laura Lustig of "The New Learning Center,"
> Westport,
> to train the DCF lying morons to be lying morons. Lustig knew
> ABSOLUTE ZERO about
> brains. I had to explain it all to her.
> DAS was the CT dot guv entity which hit the website this *was posted
> at
> originally* the most (posted in Europe):http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/2005/10/825416.shtml
> Health Campaigner Faces Jail for "Criticizing the Government"
> Kathleen Dickson Defense 04 Oct 2005 10:05 GMT
> A Connecticut woman, Lyme Disease campaigner and whistleblower,
> faces a hearing today, Oct 4, 2005 that may cost her her freedom.
> Kathleen Dickson
> stands accused of breaking a condition of her probation. Her crime?
> Posting material
> to the internet "critical of Government".
> Kathleen Dickson, Lyme Disease whistleblower, faces Jail for
> "Criticizing the
> government" Kathleen Dickson is a Connecticut mother with Lyme disease
> and high-functioning autism. She is also a scientist who has worked
> for
> years as an advocate for the Lyme patient community. Some years ago
> Kathleen
> became too disabled by Lyme disease to care for her children on her
> own. They too
> were (congenitally) infected with the Lyme bacteria, and she fought in
> vain to obtain
> the special 504 education plan her daughter needed. When she could no
> longer cope,
> she asked the state agencies for help. She received none. She came
> into conflict
> with the Dept. of Children and Families (DCF) for publicly criticizing
> them over
> this. This was not the only issue Kathleen was speaking out about
> publicly. A former
> Pfizer analytical chemist, Kathleen's knowledge about Lyme Disease
> testing procedures,
> as well as her
> outrage at injustice, led her to become prominent in exposing the
> corruption at
> the heart of the controversy over treating this disease, now
> acknowledged to be
> overtaking AIDS as the fastest-growing infectious disease. Kathleen's
> testimony
> and activism helped to force the removal of Glaxo's dangerous LymeRix
> vaccine
> from the market, and forced Rhode Island legislators to take the issue
> of Lyme bio-markers
> seriously. She publicly named several doctors, scientists and
> government officials
> whom she believed were guilty of corrupting Lyme science for financial
> motives.
> She published evidence of links they had with the insurance industry
> and multinational
> biotech companies. For this she became the target of a campaign of
> intense harassment.
> Anonymous individuals, some pretending to be Lyme sufferers, lambasted
> and threatened
> her on the Internet. One man even called her regularly at her home,
> pretending to
> be seeking her advice. Kathleen was hounded with hundreds of
> defamatory and abusive
> messages on the internet, always by the same few anonymous
> individuals, always with
> the same aim - of discrediting her and the allegations she was making
> regarding
> scientific fraud. Undeterred by the harassment, Kathleen continued
> her advocacy
> for Lyme patients. Shortly afterwards she was accused by the local DCF
> of improper
> parenting of her children. Kathleen, who was felt by all who knew her
> to be an extremely
> devoted mother, and who had engaged in Lyme activism largely in order
> to help her
> children, was shocked. No evidence of any harm to the children was
> provided. Nevertheless
> the case against her escalated and she was threatened with removal of
> her children.
> This deeply traumatized the children, who began having nightmares that
> they would
> be taken away from their mother. In late autumn 2003 their nightmare
> came true.
> Kathleen had filed a complaint with the US Dept. of Justice, alleging
> that fraudulent
> scientific practice had led to thousands of patients being
> denied diagnosis and/or treatment for Lyme disease. One of the
> individuals named
> in that complaint, who had harassed Kathleen online for years,
> suddenly announced
> on the Internet that she was capable of drowning her children. A few
> days later,
> Kathleen was told at a DCF hearing that she had been heard to say that
> she would
> do this, which was not true. Her children were taken from school while
> she was in
> court and were put into foster care. Kathleen was stunned. By now,
> with her children
> gone, suffering the effects of worsening neurological Lyme as well as
> autism and
> with no help in sight, Kathleen became distraught. She mailed out
> hundreds of letters
> protesting at her fate and naming those officials she felt
> responsible. A short
> time later she was told by her lawyer that the authorities would be
> seeking her
> commitment to a psychiatric institution. While this did not happen,
> she was arrested
> a few weeks later, and charged with harassment of a senior official in
> the Connecticut
> Attorney General's office. In April 2004 Kathleen Dickson was sent to
> the York
> women's prison in Connecticut, where a
> huge bail was put on her which she could not raise [$49,000 CASH ONLY,
> or the equivalent
> to a $490,000 bond- the usual price for a murder bond].
> She was subsequently transferred to a prison psychiatric wing at
> Connecticut Valley
> Hospital. At five foot eight, her weight dropped to only 108 pounds
> due to the poor
> diet she received in York prison, and her hair began to fall out. Even
> while imprisoned
> the tirade of libel against Kathleen by the same few, anonymous
> individuals, continued
> unabated. One had tried to befriend her sister
> [MaryJane (Martin) Schade, - the baby my "mother" was abusing when my
> father caught her and then Carolyn Martin ran away from home) - 32
> Mary Ellen Drive,
> Milford, CT, who does not know any better, since she is learning
> disabled from the
> Neurofibromatosis. And don't worry about HIPPA...]
> in order to harm her, and wrote publicly that he hoped she would be
> sexually abused
> in jail. Nevertheless, the psychiatrists in charge of her care denied
> that she
> had Lyme disease and refused her any treatment, despite the fact that
> she has positive
> test results and SPECT (type of brain scan) and has been treated for
> it for years
> by one of the country's top specialists. They ignored letters from her
> doctor
> and other Lyme specialists who wrote in on her behalf. Instead she was
> labeled mentally
> ill. The prison psychiatrists told Kathleen that she was imagining the
> harassment
> from associates of the Steere camp of doctors and researchers, despite
> the hundreds
> of their internet messages which were out in the public domain for all
> to see. And
> despite the fact that those individuals associated with the Steere
> camp's activities
> had been publicly angry that Kathleen had complained of their
> corruption to the
> FDA. She was told she was paranoid to believe they wished her harm,
> and would therefore
> need psychiatric medication. Lyme is an extremely debilitating disease
> whose huge
> range of symptoms can often lead to misdiagnosis. The spectrum can
> sometimes include
> neuropsychiatric symptoms, just as in AIDS dementia, cerebral tumor,
> and many other
> physical brain diseases. Specialist Lyme psychiatrists have written
> extensively
> on this. However a Lyme disease patient suffering from such symptoms
> must be treated
> with appropriate antibiotic or other therapy under the guidance of a
> knowledgeable
> professional. They do not belong in a psychiatric unit anymore than a
> brain tumor
> patient does. It is clear that those Kathleen named for their role in
> scientific
> fraud would benefit greatly if her accusations against them were
> forgotten, and
> if she was dismissed as mentally ill. It is not only Kathleen Dickson
> who has suffered
> because of her stand against them. Virtually all those who have had
> the courage
> to speak out were rewarded with serious threats and repression.
> Doctors (such as
> Joseph Burrascano), and lab scientists who acknowledge the problem of
> chronic Lyme
> disease or the need for long term antibiotic treatment have come under
> tremendous
> pressure to shut down operations. Some have buckled under this
> pressure; some have
> been forced to help patients in secret; some have had their licenses
> removed and
> two doctors have committed suicide. In those areas where Lyme is not
> officially
> acknowledged to be endemic (much of the US as well as
> western Europe) unreliable blood testing procedures maintain
> artificially low
> statistics. Despite a congressional ruling in 2001, doctors,
> encouraged by insurance
> companies and government officials responsible for financing health
> care, continue
> to inform their patients that Lyme cannot be diagnosed in the absence
> of a positive
> blood test. Patients who challenge this "norm" are accused of
> hypochondria,
> and parents who claim their children may have Lyme disease and need
> antibiotic treatment
> have had their children removed under allegations of Munchausen's-by-
> proxy.
> Kathleen Dickson accused the then Governor of Connecticut, John
> Rowland, (who has
> since been removed in the wake of other huge scandals) and top
> officers of the Centers
> for Disease Control (CDC) and National Institutes of Health of
> complicity in the
> Lyme cover-up. According to Kathleen, corrupt scientists suppressed
> their own findings
> that could have provided more reliable diagnostic tests. Her
> accusations regarding
> their approach to Lyme disease were potentially politically damaging.
> On her release
> under the Accelerated Rehabilitation act, Kathleen was forced to sign
> an agreement
> that characterized her as a mental patient rather than a sufferer of
> Lyme disease,
> and - incredibly - required to pledge that she would not publish or
> distribute any
> material "critical of government" without first submitting it to the
> Probation
> officer for approval. There was no stipulation about material
> criticizing others
> - only the government. Such a condition is in direct contravention to
> the US Constitution,
> which provides for freedom of speech, and is reminiscent of the worst
> of dictatorships.
> In September 2005, Kathleen was granted a hearing to review the
> validity of the
> proceedings against her, as she requested. However, she subsequently
> learned from
> her attorney that the hearing, which will be held at New Britain
> Court , Connecticut,
> on Tuesday 4 October
> 2005, is likely to be used to launch a fresh accusation that she has
> broken her terms of release by criticizing the government in internet
> posts. If
> found guilty of "criticizing the government" without permission, she
> will be sent back to jail. Please protest this disgraceful attack on
> the freedom
> of expression of a scientist, mother and whistleblower, whose only
> crime was to
> advocate for her family and for other Lyme disease patients. Raise the
> issue with
> your congressman, in the media, in the health advocacy and civil
> liberties movement.
> For more information about how you can help Kathleen, please email the
> Kathleen
> Dickson Defense campaign at defend...@yahoo.com
> Where can I find more information about Lyme Disease? Sadly, the
> information available
> at "official" sites, such as those run by the Center for Disease
> Control
> (CDC) in USA are carrying misinformation due to the influence of the
> doctors and
> researchers with conflicts of interest. For a more truthful view,
> based on the work
> of doctors from ILADS, a professional association of Lyme specialists
> without the
> enormous conflicts of interest charcterizing the CDC, NIH and other
> Steere camp
> Lyme spokesmen, try one of these sites:www.lyme.orgwww.lyme.infowww.lyme.netwww.lymetruth.org
> DEC 2000 CONFLICTS OF INTEREST COMPLAINT TO PATAKI AND ALL NEW YORK
> LEGISLATORS:http://www.actionlyme.org/OPMC_CORRUPTION.htm
> e-mail:: defend...@yahoo.com homepage::http://lyme-rage.info/
> kathoct05.html
> ========================
> Yelmini's co-bitch in the Alan Plofsky case where the three ladies who
> conspired to trash Plofsky in the ethics department, did so by
> illegally meeting
> about him and conspiring how to trash him, was Maureen Regula, who
> replaced Sarah
> Gibson as principal attorney of DCF in New Haven. (I got Gibson
> fired.)http://www.actionlyme.org/POOR_PLOFSKY_AND_THE_CT_PSYCHO_STATE_LAWYER...
> Regula and Yelmini were the backstabbers. Yelmini is a neurotic liar,
> like
> Beth Cjevanovich- the one who's kid with Aspergers' became Eagle Scout
> with everyone's help, and is on the Statewide Bar Council in the New
> Britain
> area. Cjevanovich was the bitch who sent me a letter saying if I
> complained to
> the Statewide Bar Council, I would be arrested for harassment.
> I kid you not. It was like the letter from the Capitol Police telling
> me if I tried
> to contact my elected representatives I would be arrested for
> harassment.
> Same type of letter.
> Complain to the proper agencies? Get arrested for harassment. Which
> I was.
> The evidence of my false arrest, that it was indeed false, is still in
> the US
> Attorney's office in that 5 boxes of RICO data.
> Blumenthal refuses to go get it and discover that I am right, and that
> I was
> falsely arrested.
> - - -
> Here are the three COURANT articles. One is by Yelmini, defending
> herself, and
> the others are by Kevin Rennie about Rell's Campaign, and today's
> update
> to it.
> =====================
> courant.comhttp://www.courant.com/news/opinion/commentary/hc-commentaryyelmini02...
> Honestly, I Am Not That Interesting
> Appointee: No Reason For Uproar Over State Police Post
> By LINDA J. YELMINI
> February 4 2007
> My name has been popping up a lot lately. Most of the time, it's from
> state Rep. Chris Caruso's mouth. He thinks that my removal from the
> Connecticut
> State Police would be a panacea for the department and the state. He
> and a few others
> are wrong on a number of points.
> First, I am not political, despite reports to the contrary. The first
> and last political
> fundraiser I ever attended was the now infamous Marco Polo
> event. Gov. M. Jodi Rell was the first and last candidate to whom I
> ever
> contributed. Having never met Courant columnist Kevin Rennie, I would
> like to assure
> him that I am not an "operator," and it's a long time since I played
> basketball, so my elbows are far from "sharp," but my tongue can be
> when
> falsely accused.
> Second, I had nothing to do with the decision of Commissioner Leonard
> Boyle to leave the Department of Public Safety. Len is a quality
> individual who
> came to that decision more than six months ago, well before the New
> York State Police
> report on problems in Connecticut's internal affairs division was
> released.
> Third, the governor asked me to go to the Department of Public Safety
> because of the New York report. She thought I could make a positive
> difference. I did not ask for the assignment and, in fact, implored
> the governor
> to allow me to stay at the Department of Administrative Services.
> Fourth, I have not spoken to chief of staff M. Lisa Moody since I
> arrived at the Department of Public Safety. Therefore, she is not
> running the
> Department of Public Safety through me, as critics have said. Please
> feel free to
> check my office, cell and home phone records.
> For the record, I have worked for the state for nearly 20 years. I am
> a member of
> the Connecticut bar [certified legal whore] and have a master's degree
> in business
> administration. I was in a good state job in labor relations when the
> governor asked
> me as the commissioner of the Department of Administrative Services,
> which I did
> with distinction [pass the barf bag and then the handcuffs].
> My only mistake was to comply with a request from the governor's chief
> of staff
> to pass on fundraising invitations to two people she selected. I
> received these invitations after working hours, in a restaurant. I did
> as requested
> and said to those individuals, "Lisa asked me to give this to you."
> There were ensuing investigations. I paid a $500 fine with the
> acknowledgment
> that I did nothing wrong. I was then subpoenaed to a hearing, and I
> had the
> temerity to stand up for myself when falsely accused of breaking the
> law. I did
> not solicit campaign contributions, which the law would have
> prohibited me from
> doing. I simply passed along an invitation.
> It is quite obvious that certain legislators remain intimidated by my
> integrity
> [NO BARF BAG ALERT- should be made a crime]. In fact, the legislature
> changed the
> ethics law after I delivered the invitations - to define in the law,
> for the first
> time, what "solicit" means, including "forwarding tickets to potential
> contributors." Therefore, it could not have been a violation at the
> time. I
> never lied.
> The other thing I was tagged with was the case of Alan S. Plofsky, who
> was fired in 2004 as head of the State Ethics Commission. I was
> counsel to the commission
> at the time because Attorney General Blumenthal had declined to
> represent it and
> the commission was not allowed to hire outside counsel. The ethics
> commission made
> the decision to terminate Mr. Plofsky; I did not.
> Quite honestly, I am not that interesting. I work hard and try to do a
> good job. I am working on revised rules to present to the internal
> affairs
> commission that the governor appointed to reform the state police.
> However, the
> rules will not be enough. The next commissioner will have to have the
> intestinal
> fortitude to enforce those rules and apply appropriate discipline.
> Internal affairs is not the problem at the Connecticut State Police.
> Maj. Robert Duffy and his staff do an excellent job investigating the
> voluminous
> complaints
> now being reported to internal affairs. The new staff arrived in July
> 2006, and although their numbers need to be increased, they are up to
> the task.
> Most state police officers are hardworking employees who try to do the
> right thing and are a credit to themselves, their families and the
> state.
> However, there is a pervasive attitude among some employees that the
> rules do not apply to them. Conduct that would result in job
> termination in any
> other state agency is tolerated at the Department of Public Safety.
> Discipline must be decided centrally by the commissioner; the union
> must not be allowed to negotiate with different parties and get
> different results.
> Labor relations should report directly to the commissioner and be run
> by a labor
> relations professional in order to ensure fair and consistent
> treatment. The honest, hardworking state police officers and non-sworn
> employees
> of the department deserve no less. The next commissioner should make
> sure that occurs.
> Linda J. Yelmini is deputy commissioner of internal affairs at the
> Department of Public Safety. She is former commissioner of the
> Department of
> Administrative Services and former director of labor relations at the
> Office of
> Policy and Management.
> Copyright 2007, Hartford Courant
> =======================
> RELL AND HER CAMPAIGN - TWO ARTICLES, NEWEST FIRST
> courant.comhttp://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-ctrellfundraising0207.artfeb07,0...
> ory?coll=hc-headlines-local
> Rell Campaign Under Fire
> Auditors, Blumenthal Urged To Probe Whether Lists Misused For
> Fundraising
> By JON LENDER
> Courant Staff Writer
> February 7 2007
> State auditors and the attorney general Tuesday received a request to
> look into
> whether Gov. M. Jodi Rell's office improperly used state resources
> last year to
> obtain addresses for use by Rell's campaign in soliciting financial
> contributions by mail.
> An investigation appeared imminent after Democratic State Chairwoman
> Nancy
> DiNardo faxed a letter to State Auditors Robert G. Jaekle and Kevin P.
> Johnson,
> asking that they "investigate the use of state employees' time and
> state
> resources for the sole purpose of raising campaign funds for Gov.
> Rell's
> political campaign."
> DiNardo based Tuesday's letter on what she said were troubling
> disclosures in
> Sunday's Courant by columnist Kevin Rennie. Even though DiNardo
> released a copy of her letter to The Courant, Jaekle said he could
> not
> confirm that the auditors had received it because of restrictions in
> the state's
> "whistleblower's law," under which the auditors and attorney general
> investigate
> allegations of waste, fraud and abuse in state government.
> But he did say, without reference to DiNardo, that if the bipartisan
> auditors
> receive a letter alleging misuse of state resources, then "we have an
> obligation
> to investigate it" under the whistleblower's law. The auditors then
> would submit
> a report on their investigation to the attorney general, who can
> conduct his own
> probe.
> DiNardo sent a copy of the letter to Attorney General Richard
> Blumenthal, who
> said he already was reviewing the matter - and, "if there's a letter
> alleging
> some misuse of state resources or other impropriety, we might well
> have to
> regard it as a whistleblower complaint and consult with the auditors."
> Rennie wrote in his column Sunday that last August, a lawyer in Rell's
> office,
> Philip L. Dukes, asked the state's Commission on Culture and Tourism
> for the lists it
> maintains for mailing announcements to people in arts and tourism
> groups. After
> the agency sent Dukes the lists, Dukes turned them over to Rell's
> chief of
> staff, M. Lisa Moody, and not long after that, people on the lists
> received
> letters from the Rell campaign soliciting contributions up to $2,500,
> Rennie
> wrote.
> Rell's office said it had no knowledge of any campaign activities
> involving the
> mailing lists - which, it said, were used for "official business" to
> inform the
> arts committee of a new $10-million-a-year "Cultural Treasures"
> program Rell
> announced Aug. 16.
> Rell and Moody, Republicans, spent much of 2006 in a scandal over a
> Dec. 7,
> 2005, Rell fund-raising event at the Marco Polo Restaurant in East
> Hartford - a
> scandal that led to months of investigation as well as $500 fines for
> 16 top
> Rell-administration appointees who obeyed Moody's instructions to hand
> out
> fundraiser invitations to subordinates. Rell suspended Moody for two
> weeks, saying she insisted that her staff maintain high ethical
> standards.
> Contact Jon Lender at jlen...@courant.com.
> Copyright 2007, Hartford Courant
> ==============================================
> courant.comhttp://www.courant.com/hc-commentaryrennie0204.artfeb04,0,6366296.story
> How Arts Backers Got Hit Up By Rell Campaign
> By KEVIN RENNIE
> February 4 2007
> Gov. M. Jodi Rell made a lot of noise last year about refusing
> campaign
> contributions from people who want state business. She had no
> compunction,
> however, about putting the squeeze on arts people who apply for state
> grants.
> Her staff was busy last summer gathering mailing lists from the
> Commission on
> Culture and Tourism. Those lists may have made their way to the
> campaign's
> fundraising operation.
> It would be a puzzle if a candidate with a steady 30-point lead
> through the
> campaign couldn't or wouldn't keep her office staff from wandering
> into the
> forbidden territory of campaign work.
> Here are the pieces of the puzzle:
> On Aug. 16, 2006, the governor announced a "Cultural Treasures"
> program. The
> press release of that day touts Rell's creation of "an annual pool of
> $10
> million to significantly increase support of Connecticut's arts
> community, grow
> jobs, and diversify the state's economy." Rell presented the details
> of the
> program later that day at a reception at the New Britain Museum of
> American Art.
> The program provides funding to the wide swath of arts and cultural
> programs
> that Connecticut sustains through public and private financing. An
> extra $10
> million a year was happy news indeed. You can imagine the hurrahs in
> Volvos and
> Priuses headed for New Britain that afternoon.
> Governors running for re-election need more than applause and crudités
> in
> exchange for fat new grant programs. They want some of the green stuff
> from
> grateful grant writers. Nine days after the announcement of the
> Cultural
> Treasures program, the state's Commission on Culture and Tourism
> received an
> e-mail request for its mailing lists from Philip Dukes, a lawyer in
> Rell's office.
> Just before 4 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 25, a secretary at the commission
> sent Dukes
> an e-mail with the mailing lists attached. She included the astringent
> note, "I
> am not sure if these meet your needs, since we are not aware of how
> you will use
> the lists."
> She sent another list to Dukes, who is also a member of the Republican
> State
> Central Committee, on the following Monday morning. At 8:36 that
> morning, Dukes
> forwarded the lists to Rell chief of staff M. Lisa Moody with the
> notation, "The
> rest of the lists from Tourism."
> Those e-mails come from a Freedom of Information request I filed with
> Rell's
> office on Jan. 11. Computers are the eighth deadly sin. Add a request
> for
> records under the Freedom of Information Act and gluttony may lose its
> place in
> the top seven.
> Dukes has complied with the request. Moody is still searching.
> Shortly after Moody got the mailing lists, people on them received
> solicitation
> letters from the Rell campaign. The letter, dated "September 2006,"
> was about the Cultural Treasures program. The choice presented
> in the letter was between her program and cultural darkness: Please
> send a
> contribution of $750 to $2,500, artsy people.
> The letter caused some discussion in the arts and tourism communities,
> villages
> of more solicitors than donors. As voters, they are far more
> Democratic than
> Republican.
> Some wondered how they could have gotten on a Republican candidate's
> mailing
> list. A couple noticed that their names, titles and addresses had the
> same
> quirks that appeared on mailings they regularly received from the
> Commission on
> Culture and Tourism. One Democrat says it was the first Republican
> fundraising
> letter he's ever received.
> Rell's office said last week that it had no knowledge of such
> campaign
> activities. The governor's counsel said that the lists were obtained
> to inform
> the arts community of the program.
> Dukes, Rell's office says, did not talk to the governor about the
> lists, nor
> does he remember his conversation with the agency. They declined to
> say if the governor knew about the lists, though the
> solicitation letter says "Approved by Jodi Rell."
> This fundraising gambit has the look of coordination, not
> coincidence,
> particularly since it took place during the fevered days of the
> general-election
> campaign.
> Last week, Republicans in the legislature were roiled by the
> revelation that two
> Democratic staffers were caught on tape rifling through a Republican
> staffer's
> desk. Republicans justly called on the accused miscreants to be fired.
> Democrats
> in the legislature resisted, though they called for Moody to be fired
> last year
> over political fundraising she conducted from her office.
> Look to see if outrage at the flouting of rules is determined by
> partisan
> affiliation or if both parties share respect for the rule of law.
> Possessing
> power shouldn't be mistaken for a license to abuse the office.
> Kevin Rennie is a lawyer, a former Republican state lawmaker, and a
> columnist
> for The Courant.
> Copyright 2007, Hartford Courant
> --http://www.actionlyme.org
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