Boehner’s Proposal to Fix Sequester Must Contain balanced Military and Non-Military Spending Allowances

I believe that this blog is a powerful example to challenge and deny Speaker John Boehner and the GOP's decision to offer legislation to soften the pain of mandated cuts to the military budget caused by the Sequester. Any deal or fix to the Budget Control Act of 2011, must include reducing the amount of non-military spending cuts too. Providing a reliable safety net for the physically and mentally ill, poor, children and the elderly is a role the federal government must play in some of our lives. Who among us will chose to be sick, disabled, and/or poor in one of the greatest countries on earth? Should the forty-seven percent of Americans referenced by Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential election plight be ignored? Should Boehner and Tea Party congressional members be allowed to provide political cover for themselves and Republicans governors by providing exceptions and exemptions for the military and defense contractors to the drastic cuts of the Sequester? Should President Obama agree to a deal with the GOP that doesn't repeal the entire Sequester and/or offer the same amount of monetary savings to domestic non-military spending that covers programs cuts for the sick, disabled, and/or poor? My answer to both questions is HELL NO! It's time for Speaker Boehner to put America first by risking his Speaker title. It's also time for Boehner to get off his ASS and bring a bill to the House of Representative that will repeal the entire Budget Control Act of 2011.

 Vera Richardson Author of Screwed by Former Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer

Ignore Tom Joyner BOYCOTT Trump’s 2013 Season of All Star Celebrity Apprentice

I am outraged that Tom Joyner is promoting Donald Trump’s All Star Celebrity Apprentice on his website and on facebook. Donald Trump demonstrated that he is a “RACIST” with his birther demands that resulted in this nation’s first African-American president producing his birth certificate. Donald Trump demanding and offering money to a charity of President Obama choice if the president produced his college transcripts is another example of his racist views of President Obama and us.

President Obama’s vision for this nation includes equality and justice for all of its citizens. I believe that Trump is a part of an organized effort by the Republicans governors and members in Congress, some Supreme Court justices, business owners, and corporations to hinder President Obama presidency and to punish/discourage those of us who are responsible for his two victories.

As Al Sharpton stated at Martin Luther King’s 2011 dedication ceremony this is not about OBAMA this is about my MOMMA. I would add this is not about OBAMA it's about our children and our children children!

 African-Americans like other races can’t control what other people say or their actions but we can do our part to determine our own fate and destiny. It shouldn’t matter who the celebrities are or their skin color for African-Americans to unite and BOYCOTT Trump’s All Star Celebrity Apprentice for the entire season including the March 3, 2013, premiere.

Vera Richardson Author of Screwed by Former Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer

Open Letter to President Obama HELP ME: Employment Discrimination Hurts, Kills, and Destroys Victims

Updated 1/1/16 I Pray that President Obama will use his 1/12/16 SOTU Address to discuss employment discrimination and RACISM. If President Obama looks racism in the face and doesn't blink it will help GOTV for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Updated August 27, 2015, RIP Alison Parker and Adam Ward--- Bryce Williams shooting and murdering people was unacceptable and wrong even if he was a victim like me of employment discrimination and retaliation.

                 

I am the mother of a Marine who served this country for four years as a military police officer. My son is currently a police officer. I am also an African-American woman who was unjustly terminated by New York State Department of Correctional Services on November 2, 1998, after filing an employment discrimination lawsuit on October 15, 1997.
 I believe that former LA cop Christopher Dorner’s and Bryce Williams deadly ordeals, my personal employment discrimination experience and legal case, and your 2012 reelection make this a perfect time to address employment discrimination. One of the possible ways that you can address this issue which I believe contributes to the high unemployment rate in African-Americans communities is to assemble a council or board to address and investigate employment discrimination in this country.

Bryce Williams ( Vester Flanagan) and Christopher Dorner’s inexcusable reaction to their alleged employment discrimination was to KILL. In the end both Flanagan and Dorner also died for work related interactions that they labeled employment discrimination. 

My appropriate but unsuccessful reaction to my three-year hostile work environment and four-year Pro-Se legal battle against Eliot Spitzer and his staff was to seek legal redress. I appealed the dismissal of my case by the District Court to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. The Court refused to review it. The US Supreme Court got my case wrong just like they did in the Citizen United case.

I wrote a book that includes direct evidence including original documents uploaded as pictures that proves my allegations of discrimination and retaliation. I mailed copies of the original book titled "A Case of Employment Discrimination and Retaliation Real or Imagined" to you and Eric Holder.

 I created blogs, contacted Buffalo New York District Attorney, who confirmed that Spitzer filed perjured declarations, and in 2005 emailed documents to 2 United States Justice Department attorneys, who referred the case to the FBI after confirming that declarations and/or depositions in case were perjured. Despite the direct evidence that supported perjury George W. Bush Justice Department didn't charge anyone with perjury in my case.

I contacted print, radio, and television media personalities, posted videos and reports on CNN-I-Report and Youtube that highlighted it.  I matched with Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III for Jobs and Justice on October 15, 2011, in Washington, DC. I voted for you in 2008 and volunteered as a Vote Corps volunteer for OFA at my own expense in  Norfolk, VA for your successful 2012 reelection.

I hoped and prayed that someone will give my story a voice. I prayed that you would use my story and case to make America a more just nation by helping racial employment discrimination victims. 

My prayer today (January 1, 2016) is that you will finally acknowledge that you are aware of all of my efforts. That you will use your last State of the Union to address the fact that my case is an undeniable example of employment discrimination.

You can help change hearts and minds about racism by telling nation that employment discrimination in many cases is REAL. You can tell them to read many of my blogs or book to view the evidence for themselves.

My FACTUAL allegation is that Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed seven (7) perjured declarations in a district federal court. All of the following people employed by New York State signed their respective perjured declarations: Mike Russo, New York State Assistant Attorney General (who is still employed by NYS AG office), Gerald Goncalves (Hispanic male), Diversity Management, Superintendent Anginell Andrews (African-Amer), Sergeant William Reed (White male), James Berbary (White male), and Deputy Superintendent of Administration, and Lee Gould, (Jewish?)Director of Personnel have never been held accountable for committing the crime of perjury. 

New York State Assistant Solicitor Generals Nancy A. Spiegel and Denise A. Hartman Appellant's Brief to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Court also contained perjured statements. One of the lies presented several times in the brief was that I was terminated December 7, 1998. The Defendants admitted in their answer to my February 19, 1999, that I was terminated on November 2, 1998. 

In their Brief Hartman and Spiegel purposely deceived the court when discussing the January 29, 1999, court order that granted my motion to amend my complaint to include the retaliatory November 2, 1998, termination. Their brief  just like Spitzer's summary judgment Memorandum of Law and declaration of Mike Russo contained the perjured statement that I was terminated on December 7, 1998.

As of today’s date September 1, 2015,  (February 11, 2013 original date of post), none of my actions have been successful in giving me peace, justice, clearing my name, receiving entitled disability retirement benefits, and/or getting you to amend Civil Rights Act 1964 or address the destructive role that employment discrimination plays in Black lives.

Unlike BORNER I believe in God and Jesus and that belief has keep me sane and HOPEFUL that I will be VICTORIOUS in this matter. I hope and pray that my 18 year extremely emotional and financial painful ordeal will lead to you President Obama signing another employment discrimination Executive Order to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 again.

Mr. President, the first bill you as president was Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. That bill was a victory to mostly white women. Is it possible to amend Title VII with an Executive Order? If it is will you sign another Executive Order using my case to justify your action to help other African-Americans employment discrimination victims from being victimized again by the judicial system. 

Employers shouldn't be rewarded for unlawful Title behavior with a summary judgment order.  More importantly victims of unlawful discrimination and retaliation shouldn't have their cases unjust dismissed at the district court level. One federal judge shouldn't have the absolute authority to dismiss Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title VII cases based on summary judgment motions.

I am aware of the fact that " the salutary purpose of summary judgment—avoiding protracted, expensive and harassing trials --apply no less to discriminatory cases than to commercial or other areas of litigation" Meiri v Dacon, 759 F.2d 989, 998 (2d cir.), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 829 (1985).

The salutary purpose of summary judgment and the rights of all Americans to fair and equal justice can both be accomplished with a well written and defined amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Amending the Civil Rights Act again would prevent one judge from having the absolute power to grant summary judgment motions that dismiss Title VII (discrimination and retaliation) cases and victims right to a jury trial.

Vera Richardson
Please DOWNLOAD and read my $2.99 book Screwed by Former Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer  and have the race conversation POUS believes would help nation address race relations issues after Trayvon Martin's  and Ferguson verdicts.  My book can be used as a tool to do that.You don't have to have a Kindle to get this book it can be downloaded to your smart phone or Kindle.
    

Bravo to President Obama and His All White Male National Security Team

Some people including Joe Scarborough have been quite vocal in their criticism of President Obama national security appointments nominee because they are all white men. I disagree with Scarborough. I applaud President Obama for his national security nominees John Brennan, John Kerry, and Chuck Hagel, who are all white highly qualified men.

One of the most important tasks for this nation’s first African-American president or any president is the national security of this nation. Dr. King’s vision and the 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 advocates hiring or appointing the best person for a job or position based on their qualifications and not the color of their skin, gender, or national origin. In selecting his national security team President Obama hired the most qualified people who in this case happened to be ALL WHITE MEN.

Vera Richardson
Download my book free by clicking on link “Screwed by Former Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer”

My Life: A Story of Racism, Prayer, History, Determination, and HOPE

On January 6, 2013, my youngest daughter emailed me a poem that she wrote for me. Her kindness and thoughtful act encouraged me and warmed my heart.

 Mom-- An original in all of your ways. Your life is a story of prayers and history, converging to birth one of a kind. The outhouses of Quincy were supposed to shackle you.

You were supposed to settle with scraps wallow in ignorance, strive for nothing,
A migrant worker's trip to Brockport supposed to solidify your inferiority-- Instead it released a wave of hope a wave of determination Faith.

And though this faith has been tried And though your path has languished in the unknown This hope, this determination, this faith still beckons

There is pride in your children There is pride in your feats. But the past shall not keep you. You must continue to journey on.

 Some of your steps will be in the dark. The path will narrow, leaving room only enough for one. Fear not, turn away never. An original in all of your ways.

Vera Richardson
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President Obama Please Address My Employment Discrimination Case with Governor Cuomo

I have been waiting for President Obama’s reelection so that he could address my employment discrimination case and take action to make me whole. On November 15, 2012, President Obama received a bear hug from Andrew Cuomo. Therefore, I decided that today was a great day to bring employment discrimination in general and my employment discrimination case in particular to both of these elected officials of the Democratic Party.

 President Obama I am respectfully requesting that you and Governor Andrew Cuomo do the right thing and make me whole for NYS Attorney General's Office filing 7 perjured declaration in my employment discrimination case, firing me in retaliation for filing a lawsuit alleging discrimination, and denying the appeal of my disability retirement application. Therefore, I am entitled to back pay from my denied disability retirement application from New York State Department of Correctional Service.

I am also respectfully requesting that you use an executive order if necessary to amend Title VII (employment discrimination) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 again like you did in Ledbedder's case. Amending the Act again will prevent one judge from have the authority to dismiss employment discrimination cases based on summary judgment motions.

I did this report to bring my true employment and retaliation case that includes the unjust denial of my disability retirement application (DRA) to the attention of Andrew Cuomo. In the past Governor Cuomo responded to my letter and email seeking redress and the approval of my the DRA by stating that as Attorney General of NY he couldn't help me. In his new role as governor he still hasn't contacted me or taken any action to make me whole.

 Vera Richardson
Author of Screwed by Former Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer click link to preview proof of Spitzer and J Goncalves perjury which means I was denied JUSTICE in my case. You don't have to have a Kindle to get this book it can be downloaded to your smart phone or Kindle.

Romney Can Americans Especially Hispanic Americans Trust You?

My question for Romney: How can Americans especially those Hispanic Americans who pay little or no taxes therefore are part of the 47 percent that you stated are government-dependent "victims" who believe they are "entitled" trust your October 2, 2012 position on the special visa issued by President Obama? On October 2, 2012, Romney stated to a writer at the Denver Post : "The people who have received the special visa that the president has put in place, which is a two-year visa, should expect that the visa would continue to be valid. I am not going to take something that they purchased.” Before Romney latest flip flop he was against the Dream Act, Texas In a September 30, 2011, post on”the Hill” website featured a Mitt Romney’s primary web ad video, titled "Thank you Governor Perry.” The ad attacked Perry for stating during a debate that he supported in state tuition rates for immigrants’ children. ** Today October 2, 2012, the ad is no longer available online and is labeled private.