tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26931939739846302742024-02-07T03:18:53.323-08:00I, JurorFrank Solomonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12965626268867370839noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693193973984630274.post-1696170715719982462021-03-11T18:18:00.049-08:002023-03-25T10:08:35.603-07:00American Judges and Judiciaries Define Jury Duty As A Job - We Need To Back Up The Proof <span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>A</b></span>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">n earlier post here at I, Juror (<a href="https://ijuror.blogspot.com/2020/02/california-judiciaries-publicly-defined.html" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>California Judiciaries Publicly Defined Jury Duty As A Job. Now They Don't Want To Talk About It . . .</b></a>) showed that judges in the
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<li>American Federal</li>
<li>California State</li>
<li>Los Angeles County</li>
</ul>
judiciaries directly and / or indirectly defined jury duty as a job. That post also showed that those judiciaries themselves directly and / or indirectly defined jury duty as a job. The post had a lot of URLs to the webpages that prove all this, but those URL's might go bad sooner or later. This post will supply URL's that backup these resources. Hopefully, these backups will work for a long, long time.<br /><br />This
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25wMdNtCeKY" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>YouTube vid</b></a> clearly defines jury duty as a job. Los Angeles County Judge Daniel Buckley co-starred in that vid. For a long time, anyone could freely see that vid, but well before January 29, 2021, that vid mysteriously went private. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170326015205if_/https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=25wMdNtCeKY" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>This Wayback Machine resource</b></a> shows that the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpSKp2q3Yd6DeACJMG4meOQ" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>LA Court YouTube channel</b></a> owns and operates that vid, so the admins of that channel can likely explain the whole history of the vid, and just exactly how it went private. Fortunately, we can find the equivalent content of that mysterious vid <a href="https://archive.org/details/la-county-jury-duty-vid" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>here at the Wayback Machine</b></a>. Fast forward to 1:24 for the pull quote. Sooner or later, a forensic investigation will show who ordered the privacy setting for this vid at YouTube, and why. Taxpayers and jurors have the right to know that story, because we employ everyone at the Los Angeles County Judiciary, including Judge Buckley.<br /><br />Definitely as of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160313133528/http:/www.lacourt.org/jury/" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>March 13, 2016</b></a>,
through at least <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190315043822/http:/www.lacourt.org/jury/" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>March 15, 2019</b></a>, the Los Angeles County Judiciary jury duty web page directly embedded the Judge Buckley vid. This judiciary might well have embedded that vid, or its equivalent content, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150607080021/http:/www.lacourt.org/jury/" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>much earlier</b></a>. As of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190319004008/http:/www.lacourt.org/jury/" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>March 19, 2019</b></a>, the vid vanished from that web page and <a href="http://www.lacourt.org/jury/" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>stayed vanished</b></a>. That vid embed lasted many years, and it proved that the Los Angeles County Judiciary agreed, declared, and defined that jury duty is a job. Since that judiciary never rolled back that declaration, it still defines jury duty as a job. One day, a forensic investigation will show who ordered this March 19, 2019 jury duty web page edit, and why. Taxpayers and jurors have the right to see the information, because we employ everyone at the Los Angeles County Judiciary, including Judge Buckley.<br /><br />
Definitely as of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150628212337/http:/www.courts.ca.gov/juryservice.htm" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>June 28, 2015</b></a>, and certainly <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190706031616/http:/www.courts.ca.gov/juryservice.htm" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>through July 6, 2019</b></a>, the California state-level judiciary embedded the equivalent Judge Buckley YouTube vid content at its official jury duty web page. This judiciary might well have embedded that vid, or its equivalent content, even earlier. That vid embed proved that the California Judiciary agreed and defined that jury duty is a job. California Supreme Court Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye just loves jury duty (<a href="https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/call-service" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>here</b></a> and
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201017215220/https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/call-service" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>here</b></a>). Historically, that California Judiciary jury duty web page clearly showed that Justice Cantil-Sakauye agreed and defined that jury duty is a job, because it placed her picture, and a quote from her, really close to the vid embed. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190730220507/http:/www.courts.ca.gov/juryservice.htm" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>As of July 30, 2019</b></a>, that judiciary removed the vid from its jury duty web page. Justice Cantil-Sakauye might have endorsed that removal. However, because of the embed of the Judge Buckley vid at the CA Judiciary jury duty web page, the CA judiciary formally agrees, declares, and defines that jury duty is a job until it says otherwise. One day, a forensic investigation will show who ordered the edit, and why. Taxpayers and jurors have the right to see the information, because we employ everyone at the California Judiciary, including Justice Cantil-Sakauye.<br /><br />
The United States Federal Judiciary operates the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/uscourts/about" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>United States Courts YouTube channel</b></a>. That channel hosts <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax7QHQTbKQE#t=00m38s" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>this vid</b></a>, where Federal Judge Jeremy Fogel clearly defined jury duty as a job, as of November 22, 2013. The vid has not disappeared as of January 29, 2021 in any way, and at the Wayback Machine, we can find its content <a href="https://archive.org/details/judge-fogel-vid" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>here</b></a> as a backup. This vid proves that the United States Federal Judiciary agreed and defined that jury duty is a job.<br /><br>
We clearly see above that<br>
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<li>Federal Judge Jeremy Fogel</li>
<li>California Supreme Court Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye</li>
<li>Los Angeles County Judge Daniel Buckley</li>
</ul>
each and all directly and / or indirectly defined jury duty as a job. Additionally, the reporting above shows that the<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>United States Federal Judiciary</li>
<li>California Judiciary</li>
<li>Los Angeles County Judiciary</li>
</ul>each and all directly and / or indirectly defined jury duty as a job. Countless Americans remember the jury duty voir dire warmup speeches, where lawyers and judges formally described jury duty as a job. I clearly remember it. These six major stakeholders alone must then logically support everything those definitions require<br /><br><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>the highest prevailing minimum wage, for <b><i><u>all</u></i></b> hours of jury duty employment, with zero tax and zero tax paperwork - <a href="http:/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CCP§ionNum=215"target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>instead</b></a> of $15.00 per day, taxable and starting day <b>TWO</b> (last increase: July 1, 2000)</li><br>
<li>the <a href="https://www.ncsl.org/research/about-state-legislatures/2021-legislator-compensation.aspx" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>California government legislature employee mileage rate</b></a> for jurors, covering <b><i><u>all</u></i></b> miles honestly counted, for travel between home and the official jury duty parking lot, with zero tax and zero tax paperwork - <a href="http:/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CCP§ionNum=215"target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>instead</b></a> of 17 cents a mile, taxable and starting day <b>TWO</b> (last increase: July 1, 2000)</li>
</ul><br>and additionally, those stakeholders will support top-to-bottom California jury duty system hiring fairness audits. These audits will verify whether or not Americans who pay "massive" amounts of political campaign contribution money (<b>PCCM</b>) handle jury duty the same way that Americans who pay zero PCCM handle jury duty. If even one of the listed stakeholders opposes any of these government policy products, that stakeholder needs to immediately explain why. Taxpayers and jurors have the right to see the information, because we employ all of the judges listed above, and we employ everyone who works in the judiciaries listed above.<br />____________________<br /><br />While we're at it, we should also carefully note certain mysterious PCCM payments of Barb(a)ra Streisand(s). Often enough, these payments happen in potentially related groups. For example:<br /><br />
1. This<br /><br /> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210112071557/https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?26940922555" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>September 9, 2006 payment to Senator Chris Murphy</b></a><br /><br /> (see the original FEC document <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?26940922555" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>here</b></a>)<br /><br /> and this<br /><br />
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210112071706/https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?26940431288" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>September 9, 2006 payment to Representative Joseph Courtney</b></a><br /><br /> (see the original FEC document <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?26940431288" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>here</b></a>)<br /><br /><span style="display: block; padding-left: 21px;">Read more about these payments <a href="https://ijuror.blogspot.com/2019/02/PCCM-Part-One.html" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>here</b></a></span><br />
2. This<br /><br /> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210112072429/http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?201812069135105932" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>November 2, 2018 payment to Rep. Eric Swalwell</b></a><br /><br /> (see the original FEC document <a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?201812069135105932" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>here</b></a>)<br /><br /> and this<br /><br />
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210112072011/https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202007159245006240" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>May 28, 2020 payment to Elizabeth Pannill Fletcher</b></a><br /><br /> (see the original FEC document <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202007159245006240" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>here</b></a>)<br /><br /><span style="display: block; padding-left: 21px;">Hint 1: try to find that Fletcher payment address <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/6838+Sumierz+Dr+Malibu+CA+90265/" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>on a map</b></a><br /><br />Hint 2: <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=Streisand&two_year_transaction_period=2018" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>try to find that Swalwell payment</b></a> if you don't have <a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?201812069135105932" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>its FEC URL</b></a>. See an FEC search result backup for that Swalwell payment <a href="https://archive.org/details/20181102-fec-streisand-pmt-to-swalwell-snapshot-on-20210124_202101" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>here</b></a></span>.<br />
3. A <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210112071903/http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202007159245050026" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>mysterious January 13, 2020 payment to "Bollier for Kansas"</b></a><br /><br /> (see the original FEC document <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202007159245050026" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>here</b></a>)<br /><br /> Hint: try to find its mailing address <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/1327+Prospect+St+Malibu+CA+90265/" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>on a map</b></a><br />____________________<br /><br />Over time, jurors will become more aware of their labor, employment, and constitutional rights as jury duty temp job employees. Their full-time government employees, and maybe even some lawyers, might try to deny the truth behind those rights. The evidence - the proof - shown and backed up here will help jurors prove the truth and prove those rights.</span>Frank Solomonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12965626268867370839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693193973984630274.post-56413659757203352842020-02-19T18:21:00.054-08:002023-08-21T18:29:16.118-07:00Presidential Candidate(s) Thomas Steyer(s), and Jury Duty<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Thomas Steyer(s) sure do pay lots of <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ymexbgHiN72AK0LX73KZxcFgGPDrohT45TXYRQ0KIDg/edit#gid=702444167&range=A51" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>political campaign contribution money</b></a>. At least one of them ran for president in the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tom_Steyer_presidential_campaign,_2020" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>2020 campaign</b></a>. According to many reports, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tom_Steyer_presidential_campaign,_2020" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>U.S. presidential candidate Thomas Steyer</b></a> showed up for <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Tom+Steyer+jury+duty" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>jury duty</b></a> in late August, 2019. At the Tom Steyer Twitter page, <a href="https://twitter.com/TomSteyer/status/1166127085745668096" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>this August 26, 2019 tweet</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">stated that he " . . . had jury duty." Well, I believe that as a campaign issue, the Steyer campaign would have logically published many reports, pictures, vids, and <a href="https://twitter.com/TomSteyer/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>tweets</b></a> about his jury duty service. This material would spotlight</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Steyer's jury duty paperwork</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Steyer's arrival in the jury duty parking lot</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Steyer walking around on San Francisco sidewalks near the courtroom building, relying on the latest <a href="https://wmmr.com/2019/04/17/someone-made-an-interactive-san-francisco-poop-map/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>San Francisco poop app navigation tools</b></a></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Steyer walking through the metal detectors</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Steyer waiting in the jury duty ready room</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">tons of Steyer selfies with other jurors</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Steyer waiting in the hallway outside a courtroom</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Steyer in the cafeteria</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">potential post-jury duty Steyer interviews</span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and so on. Other jurors would have taken and published tons of selfies with him. Donald Trump, for example, got a lot of <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Donald+Trump+jury+duty" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>publicity</b></a> about his own jury duty service. So did <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Ted+Cruz+jury+duty" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Senator Ted Cruz</b></a>. However, I never found similar material for Presidential Candidate Steyer. He would have scored endless hours of free publicity for his presidential campaign if he physically showed up for jury duty. Even if Presidential Candidate Steyer stayed on call and never physically showed up at the courtroom building, he would logically tweet about this at least once a day while he waited, and he would have published many pix of his jury duty paperwork. In this way, he still would have squeezed tons of free publicity out of it. If Steyer has campaign consultants, at least one of them should have ordered him to do all this, and as it happened. He has billions of dollars, and he must pay them lots of money to think of these things. I trust what Mr. Steyer stated about his jury duty service. I also want to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As6y5eI01XE" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>verify</b></a> it. I doubt that Mr. Steyer(s) would ever tell a lie about his / their jury duty service . . .<br />Frank Solomonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12965626268867370839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693193973984630274.post-75205055583263084692020-02-19T16:07:00.157-08:002023-03-25T10:09:29.586-07:00California Judiciaries Publicly Defined Jury Duty As A Job; Now They Don't Want To Talk About It<span style="font-size: x-large; color: black;"><b>I</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> wrote <a href="https://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/2019/06/jurors-are-working-they-should-be-paid-more/" style="font-size: large; text-decoration: none; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>a June 21st, 2019 Fox and Hounds Daily article</b></a> demanding jury duty reform: the pay and the mileage rates must increase immediately. The article had a link (URL) to the California Judiciary jury duty web page. As of June 16, 2019, that CA Judiciary <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190616214257/https://www.courts.ca.gov/juryservice.htm" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>web page</b></a> itself embedded a YouTube vid clearly defining jury duty as a job. We'll learn more about this vid shortly. This means that the California Judiciary - including California Supreme Court Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye - defines jury duty as a job. California government legislature employees, <a href="https://californiaglobe.com/articles/ca-assemblywoman-lorena-gonzalez-taking-heat-for-bill-killing-independent-and-freelance-jobs/" style="font-size: large; text-decoration: none; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>led</b></a> by registered lawyer license owner <a href="https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2022-07-27/lorena-gonzalez-california-labor-federation" style="font-size: large; text-decoration: none; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Lorena Gonzalez</b></a>, defined jurors as employees when they formally invented <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB5" style="font-size: large; text-decoration: none; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>AB 5</b></a>. Additionally, the basic <a href="https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/employee-common-law-employee" style="font-size: large; text-decoration: none; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>IRS definition</b></a> of a job alone covers jury duty. Therefore, as employees, CA jurors must receive highest-prevailing minimum wage, for all hours they work as jurors.<br />
Compare <a href="https://www.courts.ca.gov/juryservice.htm" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>today’s version</b></a> of the CA Judiciary jury duty web page with the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190616214257/https://www.courts.ca.gov/juryservice.htm" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>June 16th, 2019 version</b></a> of that exact same web page. The California Judiciary web page included the YouTube vid, at least through June 16, 2019. The jury duty YouTube vid completely vanished from the page, sometime between June 17, 2019 and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190730220507/https://www.courts.ca.gov/juryservice.htm" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>July 30, 2019</b></a>. It turns out that the vid itself<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NizLpfYHkA" style="font-size: large; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>also disappeared</b></a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; color:black"> from YouTube, for some unknown reason. However, this vid
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completely and perfectly clones the now missing YouTube vid. The vid content <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fa7qiIP1pg#t=01m24s" style="text-decoration: none; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>clearly and completely</b></a> defines jury duty as a job. The CA Judiciary publicly defined jury duty as a job, because it placed the vid in its jury duty web page - certainly through June 16, 2019. Even better - soon after the <a href="https://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/2019/06/jurors-are-working-they-should-be-paid-more/" style="text-decoration: none; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Fox and Hounds article</b></a> went live, the California Judiciary linked that article in its <a href="https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/newslinks" style="text-decoration: none; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>official Newslinks page</b></a>. Some time later, however, the CA Judiciary mysteriously deleted the article from the <a href="https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/newslinks" style="text-decoration: none; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>official CA Judiciary Newslinks page</b></a>.
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By the way, Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye has personal knowledge of jury duty. She even said it’s a privilege. With <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz_2ebQselQ#t=0m44s" style="text-decoration: none; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>a straight face</b></a>.
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had and / or have the same content. Note that Los Angeles County Chief Judge Daniel Buckley himself co-starred in all three of these vids. Based on their vid starring roles, both Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye and Judge Buckley need to <a href="https://ijuror.blogspot.com/2018/07/lawyers-judges-and-jury-duty.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>answer questions</b></a> about jury duty. In separate YouTube vids, they both freely spoke about jury duty. Therefore, they have complete freedom, and responsibility, to answer these questions.
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immediately. If at least one government employee had any involvement in the disappearances of at least one of the now-missing YouTube vids described above, all information about the disappearances must become public. Immediately. The fact that these judiciaries embedded this vid content in their jury duty web pages proves that they defined and declared jury duty as a job. As statements, their declarations still express their opinions and beliefs on this issue. Those opinions and beliefs will change only when those judiciaries publicly announce those changes. Of course, these changes would raise many new questions. Until then, they only removed their declarations from public visibility.</div>
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Starting in late 2017, jury duty law became a <a href="https://ijuror.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>serious</b></a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076NB2TSB" style="text-decoration: none; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>important</b></a> area of law. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax7QHQTbKQE#t=00m39s" style="text-decoration: none; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Federal Judge Jeremy Fogel independently defined jury duty as a job</b></a>, in a YouTube vid still freely available. This means that the U.S. Federal government defines jury duty as a job. Through a staffer, <a href="https://ijuror.blogspot.com/2018/07/lawyers-judges-and-jury-duty.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Judge Fogel stated</b></a> that he just doesn’t want to say anything else about jury duty.<br />
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American jurors might want to somehow . . . <b><i>preserve </i></b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fa7qiIP1pg" style=" color:#1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b>the relevant L.A. County jury duty vid</b></a>, because its content seems to randomly, and mysteriously, disappear from YouTube. They might want to <b><i>preserve</i></b> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax7QHQTbKQE" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>the vid</b></a> co-starring Judge Fogel, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz_2ebQselQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>the vid</b></a> starring Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye, as well, before their content disappears in a similar way. These <b><i>preservations </i></b>must happen in strictly legal ways, of course . . .Frank Solomonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12965626268867370839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693193973984630274.post-13279839130465002282020-02-19T15:37:00.024-08:002023-03-25T10:08:59.084-07:00'Celebrity' Paperwork From The Los Angeles County Jury Duty System Went Up For Auction<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span></b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">s I figured out jury duty law for both <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076NB2TSB" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Common Sense - Third Millennium</b></a> and the <a href="https://ijuror.blogspot.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>I, Juror</b></a> blog, I explained what happened when I called jury duty systems in Los Angeles County and San Francisco City / County. I wanted information from the Los Angeles County jury duty system about how Barbra Streisand handles jury duty. I also wanted information from the San Francisco City / County jury duty system about how Thomas Steyer handles jury duty. Each time, my perm government employees told me that they are not allowed to give me the information. That gets interesting, because I just made a discovery about official California jury duty system secrecy, reported here first.
<br /><a href="https://www.ha.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Heritage Auctions</b></a> specializes in high-end, valuable collectibles, and they opened for business decades ago. They handle high-end fine art, antiques, coins, collectibles, etc. They also handle autographs and entertainment industry memorabilia. On May 28, 2003, Heritage Auctions hosted the </span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/autographs/iris-adrian-signed-jury-duty-document-signed-document-875-x-675-superior-court-of-los-angeles-heading-august-19-1976-a/a/1064-468.s" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Odyssey Autographs & Memorabilia Auction June 2003 Session One #1064</b></a>. This auction featured hundreds of entertainment-focused lots. <a href="https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/autographs/iris-adrian-signed-jury-duty-document-signed-document-875-x-675-superior-court-of-los-angeles-heading-august-19-1976-a/a/1064-468.s" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Lot 468</b></a> through <a href="https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/autographs/buddy-hackett-signed-jury-duty-document-signed-document-one-page-825-x-45-february-2-1979-los-angeles-superior-court-he/a/1064-508.s" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>lot 508</b></a> of this auction featured apparently genuine Los Angeles County jury duty system documents, sent directly to the Los Angeles County jury duty system, by celebrities who lived in Los Angeles County when they sent in those documents. The paperwork dates range from July 19, 1962 to February 14, 1986. I do not have a Heritage Auctions account, so I could not see detailed images of the lots. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">See a summary of information about this auction at </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19wIUcQMSVSCbLQWAmc_Ae-yKV3IH154Gh4MmjlDZeq8/edit#gid=726297944" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><b>this spreadsheet</b></a><span style="color: black; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">. That summary spreadsheet includes the names of the people who sent in the paperwork. All of the people seem to be entertainment industry celebrities, with some home connection to Los Angeles County.<br />
We can guess that all of the people named in these documents sent those documents directly to Los Angeles County government mailing addresses, through the U.S. Post Office. With some exceptions, as seen in the paperwork images and lot descriptions, those people most likely sent the documents to the Los Angeles County jury duty system. It becomes doubtful that they sent this paperwork to the <a href="https://www.nationalenquirer.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>National Enquirer</b></a>, for example, or <a href="https://www.tmz.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>TMZ</b></a>, or <a href="https://twitter.com/HarveyLevinTMZ" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Harvey Levin</b></a>. Therefore, one or more employees in Los Angeles County government - and probably working in the Los Angeles County jury duty system - somehow physically removed the documents from government possession. A government investigation that would explain the story behind all this has not yet happened.<br />
The very existence of these auction lots, in my opinion, looks like total corruption. If these lots involve illegal acts, it becomes fair to ask if other types of corrupt, illegal acts happen inside California jury duty hiring systems. It becomes logical to demand top-to-bottom audits of these systems, first focusing on their document and information handling standards and practices. If information and documents leaked out of at least one California jury duty system - in this case, the Los Angeles County jury duty system - as a definite violation of trust and probable violation of law, it becomes easy to wonder how these California jury duty systems handle the information of everyone eligible for jury duty. However, those audits must go further. For example, in <a href="https://ijuror.blogspot.com/2019/02/PCCM-Part-One.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>an earlier article</b></a>, I investigated a mysterious September 9, 2006 political campaign money contribution involving Barb(<b><i><a href="" style="color:red;"><font size="+3">A</font></a></i></b>)ra Streisand. According to the Federal Election Commission, she <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?26940431288" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>paid</b></a> political campaign contribution money from the mysterious
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">address. Research shows that this address does not exist at this time, and most likely did not exist on September 9, 2006. If the Los Angeles County jury duty system thinks that Barbara Streisand lives and lived at this address, every time they sent and send her jury duty paperwork, it would bounce because the U.S. Postal Service would never find it. The L.A. County jury duty system would have a major bureaucratic hassle to get the paperwork to her, at best. They might well never succeed, and as a result, Streisand would never show up for jury duty at all. An audit will first determine exactly where the Los Angeles County jury duty system thinks she lives, and then establish her complete <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ymexbgHiN72AK0LX73KZxcFgGPDrohT45TXYRQ0KIDg/edit#gid=403003048" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>jury duty summons history and relevant jury duty service history</b></a>. If anything about Barb(<b><i><a href="" style="color:red;"><font size="+3">A</font></a></i></b>)ra Streisand jury duty history information seems questionable, further investigation will resolve those questions. Of course, the audit will not stop with her. Many people in Los Angeles County, San Francisco City / County, Marin County, Contra Costa County, etc., pay massive amounts of political campaign contribution money. Their complete jury duty summons history, combined with their relevant jury duty history information, must become public. On the other hand, if the auctioned jury duty documents leaked as part of official government law and policy, those leaks instantly become precedent for open, unrestricted access into California jury duty hiring system operations.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because of the jury duty system information leaks, the Barb(a)ra Streisand Pomona address issue, and overall jury duty system secrecy, people in California who obey jury duty government laws - as American citizens - can have zero confidence in jury duty system integrity at this time. This zero confidence extends to all Americans outside of California, who themselves obey jury duty government laws where they live. Those citizens have a stake in California jury duty system operations, through the direct and indirect flows of their federal tax money to those California government jury duty systems specifically, and California state / county / city / etc. governments generally. Their wealth and treasure keeps California government systems alive.<br /><br /></span>
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">The document leaks started in the early 1960's - more than half a century ago. They automatically raise major questions, listed below the line. Only California jury duty system hiring audits will answer these questions, and other questions about California jury duty system operations. If internal government employees road-block those audits, then nonviolent, large-scale, long-lasting jury duty strikes become justified and inevitable.</span><br />
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<br />Questions about the <a href="https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/autographs/iris-adrian-signed-jury-duty-document-signed-document-875-x-675-superior-court-of-los-angeles-heading-august-19-1976-a/a/1064-468.s" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Heritage Auctions Los Angeles County jury duty hiring system document auction</b></a>:
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">e. if the pre-consignor source received the documents from someone else, questions a - d above apply to every step in the transfer chain, back to the original party or parties that removed the documents from government possession</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">b. did he / she / they remove the documents with the permission of other government employees?</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">7. What does </span><a href="https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Director%2C%20Sc" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><b>Los Angeles County Jury Services Director Darrell Mahood</b></a><span style="color: black; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"> know about these leaks?</span>
Frank Solomonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12965626268867370839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693193973984630274.post-57990449414919956232019-02-22T21:30:00.020-08:002023-03-23T18:19:45.160-07:00Questions About Certain Barb(a)ra Streisand Political Campaign Contribution Money (PCCM) Payments, Part One<b style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">A</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">s part of my research for </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076NB2TSB" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;" target="_blank"><b>Common Sense - Third Millennium</b></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;" target="_blank"> and the </span><a href="https://ijuror.blogspot.com/p/common-sense-third-millennium-launched.html" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;" target="_blank"><b>I, Juror blog</b></a><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">, I focused on the political campaign contribution money (PCCM) history of Barb(a)ra Streisand. I built </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ymexbgHiN72AK0LX73KZxcFgGPDrohT45TXYRQ0KIDg/edit#gid=982248601" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;" target="_blank"><b>this spreadsheet file</b></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> to show what I found. With a Google account, download the spreadsheet <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ymexbgHiN72AK0LX73KZxcFgGPDrohT45TXYRQ0KIDg/copy" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>. The file includes four tabs that cover the federal and California state PCCM activity of Streisand, and four similar tabs for Thomas Steyer. For Steyer, all information in <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ymexbgHiN72AK0LX73KZxcFgGPDrohT45TXYRQ0KIDg/edit#gid=623605950" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>this spreadsheet tab</b></a> came from <a href="https://classic.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/norindsea.shtml" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>this old version of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) website</b></a>. <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>This newer FEC website</b></a> replaced that older version, but the information stayed the same. I noticed aspects of this PCCM information that seemed, in my personal opinion . . . "<i><b>unusual</b></i>". This article will explore those "unusual" aspects of specific PCCM payments made by Streisand, and will raise relevant questions about those payments. The information for both parts of this article originally came from <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ymexbgHiN72AK0LX73KZxcFgGPDrohT45TXYRQ0KIDg/edit#gid=982248601" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>this spreadsheet file</b></a>, and I transferred the relevant information from that file to <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TdAkqe3lTBXwjh2FazSv5-0vxDK4xkb50RA7RQ1yLQ8/edit#gid=362807255" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>this second spreadsheet file</b></a> to summarize it. I did not change the information as I transferred it from file to file, and for the tabs in the second file, I added row number, payment mailing address, and notes columns<br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br />The <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Federal Election Commission (FEC) website</b></a> states that "Barbara Streisand" <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ymexbgHiN72AK0LX73KZxcFgGPDrohT45TXYRQ0KIDg/edit#gid=982248601&range=B360" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>paid PCCM</b></a> to the campaign of Connecticut House of Representatives candidate Joseph Courtney. That campaign received the payment on September 9, 2006. Streisand made this payment from a Pomona, California address. Based on information from the FEC website, and the California state political campaign contribution websites <a href="http://dbsearch.ss.ca.gov/ContributorSearch.aspx" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a> (this website is no longer active; <a href="http://powersearch.sos.ca.gov/quick-search.php" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>this new website version</b></a> replaced it), Streisand made only one PCCM payment from Pomona. At first, I did not think much about all this. However, I never really forgot about it and I recently took a closer look. <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Streisand+Pomona" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;" target="_blank"><b>Some research</b></a> for this article shows that past this one payment, no clear connection between Streisand and Pomona exists. Then, I went back to <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TdAkqe3lTBXwjh2FazSv5-0vxDK4xkb50RA7RQ1yLQ8/edit#gid=362807255" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;" target="_blank"><b>the summary spreadsheet</b></a>. On that spreadsheet tab, column K has links to the actual payment images as hosted by the FEC website. For the <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TdAkqe3lTBXwjh2FazSv5-0vxDK4xkb50RA7RQ1yLQ8/edit#gid=362807255&range=a8" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;" target="_blank"><b>Pomona PCCM payment</b></a>, I scrolled over to column K. From that cell, I opened </span><a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?26940431288" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;" target="_blank"><b>this image</b></a><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and sure enough, item B showed the payment information and the Pomona address. Then, back at the spreadsheet, I <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TdAkqe3lTBXwjh2FazSv5-0vxDK4xkb50RA7RQ1yLQ8/edit#gid=362807255&range=a8" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>moved down</b></a> one row, and in column K, I opened <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?26940922555" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>this image</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">for that payment. In image 2, item A showed a second Streisand payment, also received on September 9, 2006, this time paid to Connecticut U.S. Senator Chris Murphy. I saw something really weird about these payments.<br />
<br />Item A from <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?26940922555" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>image 2</b></a>, and <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Item B from <a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?26940431288" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: large;" target="_blank"><b>image 1</b></a>, both clearly show that these political campaigns received these separate PCCM payments on the same day: September 9, 2006. The items show the name and address payment information<br />
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Item A (image 2):<br />
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<b>Barbra Streisand<br />
C/O Boulevard Management<br />
21650 Oxnard St.<br />
Woodland Hills, CA 91367</b></span>
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Item B (image 1):<br />
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<b>Barbara Streisand<br />
c/o Boulevard Management<br />
21650 Oxnard Street, Suite 1925<br />
Pomona, CA 91767-7888</b><br />
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for the payments. For some unknown reason, the first names differ by one letter. However, the address information for the payments has huge differences. <a href="https://www.bing.com/maps?q=21650%20oxnard%20st.%20woodland%20hills%2C%20ca%2091367" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Bing Maps</b></a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/21650+W+Oxnard+St,+Woodland+Hills,+CA+91367" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Google Maps</b></a> both independently show that the Item A (image two) address exists. When I typed the Item B (image one) address for Barbara Streisand in the <a href="https://www.bing.com/maps" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Bing Maps</b></a> upper left textbox, it returned<br />
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and for that address, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/21650+Oxnard+Street,+Suite+1925+Pomona,+CA+91767-7888/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Google Maps</b></a> returned</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and these both mean that these mapping tools did not find the Pomona address. Neither tool could find the address even when I removed <b>Suite 1925</b>. Then, I used <a href="https://smartystreets.com/products/single-address" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>SmartyStreets</b></a> for a reverse lookup based on the Item B Zip Code</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">91767-7888</span></blockquote>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">value. For a <a href="https://smartystreets.com/products/single-address?city=&state=&zipcode=91767-7888&address-type=us-zipcode" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>ZIP Code lookup type and ZIP Code "91767-7888,"</b></a> SmartyStreets returned <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pomona,+CA+91767/@34.083685,-117.743201,17z/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>a map</b></a> that did not show a street named "Oxnard."<br />
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This research verified that an "Oxnard Street" in Pomona, CA does not exist and did not exist in since late February, 2019. This street very likely never existed, but I decided to do some research to make sure. I found a Thomas Guide from 1990</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Los Angeles County / Orange County Thomas Guide - 1990 Edition</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">and in the L.A. County index, I looked at page 278<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">1990 Thomas Guide, page 278 - looking for Oxnard Street, Pomona, CA</span></td></tr>
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and page 279</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">1990 Thomas Guide, page 279 - looking for Oxnard Street, Pomona, CA</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">to find Oxnard Street. The CITY column for each Oxnard Street record shows "LA", which means "Los Angeles". Woodland Hills lands inside Los Angeles City territory, so the city looks correct for these Oxnard Street records. Then, I looked for a proven Pomona, CA address in the Thomas Guide index, to verify the findings. Starting at the bottom left of this image<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">1990 Thomas Guide, page 299 - an actual, Pomona, CA record at the lower left</span></td></tr>
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I found two records for Temple Avenue in Pomona. Cal Poly Pomona has a <a href="https://www.cpp.edu/contact.shtml" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>verified mailing address location</b></a> of</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> Cal Poly Pomona<br />
3801 West Temple Avenue<br />
Pomona, California 91768<br />
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and page 299 of the 1990 Thomas Guide shows that a Pomona, CA address has a CITY column code of "POM". So, all of this information, starting with the 1990 Thomas Guide, proves that Oxnard Street in Pomona, CA never existed in 1990. Pomona, CA most likely never built a temporary Oxnard Street, inside its territory, for the one-day September 9, 2006 personal use of Barbara Streisand. All the evidence shows that the address<br />
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21650 Oxnard Street, Suite 1925<br />
Pomona, CA 91767-7888<br />
<br />that Barbara Streisand used for <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?26940431288" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>this September 9, 2006 political campaign contribution money payment</b></a>, as described above, almost certainly never once existed. The Los Angeles County Assessor Portal <a href="https://portal.assessor.lacounty.gov/?b=21650%20Oxnard%20Street%20Pomona,%20CA%2091767" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>verifies</b></a> that this address never existed. The September 9, 2006 Barbra Streisand / Barbara Streisand payment information described here does not involve a simple typo. It involves major differences and logically, at least one impartial stakeholder, including the Federal Election Commission, should have raised red flags and asked questions about it. The campaign of <a href="https://courtney.house.gov/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>House member Joe Courtney of Connecticut</b></a> received the payment, and Rep. Courtney should have asked questions about it himself.<br />
<br />Taken together, all these facts look really improper - at best. It makes no logical sense that someone would pay two separate political campaign contributions, with
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<ul><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">
<li>two different names</li>
<li>two source locations</li>
<li>almost identical street addresses</li>
<li>completely different cities and zip codes</li>
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and so close in time. These payments must have happened within a few days of each other because different political campaigns received them on the same day. This means that the person who wrote the paperwork for them probably knew to use consistent street address, city, and zip code information for those payments. At this time, I definitely don't understand why this "combined" paperwork would show an address that does not exist. These payments raise many questions. In no specific order:<br />
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1. If Barbra Streisand made both of these payments - within a few days of each other at most - why did she use two different names for them? If someone else filled out all the paperwork for these payments, did Barbra Streisand and / or Barbara Streisand approve the use of those different names?<br />
<br />2. If Barbra Streisand made both of these payments - within a few days of each other at most - why does one payment show an address that three websites can't find? Did Barbra Streisand and / or Barbara Streisand approve the use of this address information?<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">3. If one payment has incorrect address information, does that payment also have incorrect payment amount information?</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">4. Does and / or did the FEC approve the Barbra Streisand political campaign contribution payment with the apparently inconsistent information? If yes, why? If no, why not? Did the FEC ever investigate this issue?</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">5. Extending question 4, if the FEC investigated, they need to release the results of the investigation. If they did not investigate, why not?</span>
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The IRS investigates and punishes incorrect tax return information wrongdoing from taxpayers, so based on <a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendments/amendment-xiv" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Amendment 14, Equal Protection Clause, United States Constitution</b></a>, the FEC must do the same with political campaign contribution money payments.<br />
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6. What do Representative Joe Courtney (D-CT) and Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) know about these payments, and when did they know it?<br />
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7. If at least one of these payments involves illegal behavior, and Representative Courtney and / or Senator Murphy did not know about it, how do they plan to handle the situation, once they become aware of it?<br />
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8. Does other Barb(a)ra Streisand government paperwork (for example and including, but not limited to, IRS, SEC, California FTB, L.A. County Assessor's Office, etc.) show information that raises questions in a similar way? If yes, then law enforcement agencies must openly, publicly, and fully investigate the situation(s), and prosecute any detected illegal behavior, to the fullest extent of federal, state, and local law.<br />
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9. At least one piece of government paperwork shows that Barbara Streisand used a non-existent Pomona, CA mailing address (see above). "Barbara Streisand" is one letter away from "Barbra Streisand." If the Los Angeles County (LAC) jury duty system also shows that she / they use that Pomona, CA address, then she / they will never receive any jury duty paperwork sent to that address, because the address does not exist. The L.A. County jury duty system would have a major bureaucratic hassle to get the paperwork to her / them, at best. If this happened with her / their jury duty paperwork, I demand to know
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<ul><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">
<li>under what circumstances did the LAC jury duty system receive that address information?</li>
<li>what steps / procedures transported that information to the LAC jury duty system?</li>
<li>when did the LAC jury duty system receive that information?</li>
<li>which LAC jury duty system employee(s) placed this information into the LAC jury duty system?</li>
<li>did the LAC jury duty system ever audit the information for accuracy?</li>
<li>if yes, what did it find?</li>
<li>if no, why not?</li>
<li>did the LAC jury duty system send jury duty paperwork to that address? If yes, when did it send that paperwork? If yes, what name(s) did it use to address the paperwork? If yes, then what happened?</li>
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immediately.<br />
<br /> <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-902-1996-amendments-18-usc-1001" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>18 U.S.C. § 1001</b></a> states<br /><br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">" . . . whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully . . . makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry; shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both . . ."</span></blockquote><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br />Barbara Streisand clearly did this behavior three (3) times. FEC paperwork is a matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch(es) of the Government of the United States. The September 9, 2006 payments shown above alone clearly involve false writing, known to contain materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry. Therefore, Barb(a)ra Streisand needs to get prosecuted in a federal court, and based on the evidence shown in this article, she needs to get fined and imprisoned if convicted. Otherwise, when I get answers to the above questions, I will publish a new article with those answers.Frank Solomonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12965626268867370839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693193973984630274.post-53166225604555860122019-02-22T20:47:00.002-08:002021-01-14T22:46:40.399-08:00Questions About Certain Streisand / Steyer Political Campaign Contribution Money (PCCM) Payments, Part Two<b style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; color: black;"><a href="https://ijuror.blogspot.com/2019/02/PCCM-Part-One.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large; color: black;">Part One</span></a></b><span style="font-size: large; color: black;"> of this article described certain political campaign contribution money (PCCM) payments made by Barbra Streisand. Then, it asked questions about those payments. This second part will describe a sample of PCCM payments made by Thomas Steyer, and ask questions about those payments. <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TdAkqe3lTBXwjh2FazSv5-0vxDK4xkb50RA7RQ1yLQ8/edit#gid=0" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">This spreadsheet tab</a> shows those Steyer payments, summarizing a row sample from <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ymexbgHiN72AK0LX73KZxcFgGPDrohT45TXYRQ0KIDg/edit#gid=623605950" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">this I, Juror spreadsheet tab</a>. With a Google account, download the spreadsheet file <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ymexbgHiN72AK0LX73KZxcFgGPDrohT45TXYRQ0KIDg/copy" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">here</a>. All the information about these payments originally came from <a href="https://classic.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/norindsea.shtml" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">this old version of the Federal Election Commission website</a>. <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">This newer version</a> has since replaced that older version..<br />
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TdAkqe3lTBXwjh2FazSv5-0vxDK4xkb50RA7RQ1yLQ8/edit#gid=0" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">This spreadsheet tab</a> shows PCCM payments made by gentlemen named "Thomas Fahr Steyer," "Thomas F. Steyer," and "Thomas F Steyer." The <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Federal Election Commission website</a> shows receipt dates for those payments between August 29, 2016 and August 31, 2016.
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<li>"Thomas Fahr Steyer" made <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TdAkqe3lTBXwjh2FazSv5-0vxDK4xkb50RA7RQ1yLQ8/edit#gid=0&range=A8" style="font-size: large; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">one PCCM payment</a>, received on August 29, 2016 by the Raul Ruiz Congressional campaign.</li>
<li>"Thomas F. Steyer" made 63 PCCM payments, received on August 29, 2016 by organizations and candidates all around the U.S.</li>
<li>"Thomas F Steyer" made <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TdAkqe3lTBXwjh2FazSv5-0vxDK4xkb50RA7RQ1yLQ8/edit#gid=0&range=A136" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">one PCCM payment</a>, received on August 30, 2016 by the Democratic Party of Santa Cruz County. (Scroll to row 136 if necessary)</li>
<li>"Thomas F. Steyer" made <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TdAkqe3lTBXwjh2FazSv5-0vxDK4xkb50RA7RQ1yLQ8/edit#gid=0&range=A138" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">one PCCM payment</a>, received on August 31, 2016 by the Jerry McNerny Congressional campaign. (Scroll to row 138 if necessary)</li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Certain aspects of the Steyer payments shown in <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TdAkqe3lTBXwjh2FazSv5-0vxDK4xkb50RA7RQ1yLQ8/edit#gid=0" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">this spreadsheet tab</a> stood out. First, contributor "Thomas Fahr Steyer" made one PCCM payment - number 1 (one) in the spreadsheet tab, received on August 29, 2016 - from the
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1438 Webster St Ste 100</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Oakland CA 94612-3229</b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">address. Then, contributor "Thomas F. Steyer" made sixty-three contributions, all received on August 29, 2016, from the</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">3 Lagoon Dr Ste 400</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">Redwood City CA 94065-5157</span></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>3 Lagoon Dr Ste 400</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Redwood City CA 94065-1565</b></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">addresses. Similar to the Barbra Streisand PCCM payments of September 9, 2006 described in <a href="https://ijuror.blogspot.com/2019/02/PCCM-Part-One.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Part One</a>, Steyer paid PCCM money, from mailing addresses that have unexplained differences, on the same day. <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TdAkqe3lTBXwjh2FazSv5-0vxDK4xkb50RA7RQ1yLQ8/edit#gid=0" style="font-size: large; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The spreadsheet tab</a> shows those payments, numbered</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">2 (two) through 64 (sixty-four).</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">We'll explore these payments shortly.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Contributor "Thomas F Steyer" made one PCCM payment - <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TdAkqe3lTBXwjh2FazSv5-0vxDK4xkb50RA7RQ1yLQ8/edit#gid=0&range=A136" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">number 65</a> (sixty-five), and received on August 30, 2016 - from the</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>111 Sutter St</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>San Francisco, CA 94104</b></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">address. Finally, contributor "Thomas F. Steyer" made a PCCM payment - <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TdAkqe3lTBXwjh2FazSv5-0vxDK4xkb50RA7RQ1yLQ8/edit#gid=0&range=A138" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">number 66</a> (sixty-six) on the spreadsheet tab, from the</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">3030 Pacific Ave</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">San Francisco CA 94115-1014</span></b></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">address, and received on August 31, 2016.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">This list</span>
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<tr><td><b>PAYMENT AMOUNT</b></td><td> </td><td> </td><td><b>COUNT</b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">$ 878.92</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> 6</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">$ 878.95</td><td> </td><td> </td><td>13</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">$ 878.96</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> 9</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">$ 6850.55</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> 7</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">$ 7207.95</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> 7</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right">$ 7535.59</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> 7</td></tr>
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summarizes the Steyer PCCM payments received on August 29, 2016. The sixty-four (64) Steyer PCCM payments, received on August 29, 2016, as shown in that </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">list, raise many questions.</span><br />
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1. Why did people named Thomas Steyer use so many addresses for the PCCM payments received starting on August 29, 2016 through August 31, 2016?</span><br />
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"Thomas Fahr Steyer" issued a PCCM payment received on August 29, 2016, from an Oakland, CA address</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
"Thomas F. Steyer" issued 63 PCCM payments, 61 from the exact same Redwood City address, two from another Redwood City address that differs from the first group address only in the second zip code digit group, and all 63 received on August 30, 2016</span></blockquote>
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"Thomas F Steyer" issued a PCCM payment, received on August 30, 2016, from a San Francisco, CA address</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">
"Thomas F. Steyer" issued a PCCM payment, received on August 31, 2016, from a different San Francisco, CA address</span></blockquote>
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2. The distance between the Oakland and Redwood City addresses </span><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/dir/1438+Webster+St+%23100,+Oakland,+CA+94612/3+Lagoon+Dr+%23400,+Redwood+City,+CA+94065/" style="font-size: large; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">exceeds thirty miles</a><span style="font-size: large;">. The distance between the Redwood City and San Francisco Sutter Street addresses </span><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/dir/3+Lagoon+Dr+%23400,+Redwood+City,+CA+94065/111+Sutter+St,+San+Francisco,+CA+94104/" style="font-size: large; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">exceeds twenty-two miles</a><span style="font-size: large;">. For the third and fourth PCCM payments described in the above list, the San Francisco addresses have a distance of about </span><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/dir/3030+Pacific+Ave,+San+Francisco,+CA+94115/111+Sutter+St,+San+Francisco,+CA+94104" style="font-size: large; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">2.8 miles between them</a><span style="font-size: large;">. Why did people named Thomas Steyer travel between so many different addresses, and so fast, to make so many PCCM payments?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
3. As an example, "Thomas F. Steyer" has </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ymexbgHiN72AK0LX73KZxcFgGPDrohT45TXYRQ0KIDg/edit#gid=623605950&range=A676" style="font-size: large; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">paid $11 million</a><span style="font-size: large;" target="_blank"> for one PCCM payment, received less than two months after his PCCM payments received on August 29, 2016. Compared to that massive payment, why did he make 63 comparatively small PCCM payments, and all on one day, as described in the list of question 1) above? Why did Steyer make so many PCCM payments for the same small amounts? Why did Steyer choose these "non-round" numbers for these payments in the way he did?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
4. These images</span>
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<li><a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?201703209050962600" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">image 1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?201703189050884981" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">image 2</a></li>
<li><a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?201709059072958391" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">image 3</a></li>
<li><a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?201704199052327212" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">image 4</a></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">show that "Thomas F. Steyer" made four PCCM payments, each for $878.96, and each received on August 29, 2016. They also show that <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-taylor-28a6974b/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Kathryn Ann Taylor</a> made four PCCM payments, each for $878.96, and each received on October 12, 2016. The Kathryn Ann Taylor PCCM payments happened from an address inside the same building where "Thomas F Steyer" <a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?201609159030822447" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">made one PCCM payment</a> received on August 30, 2016. So . . . for all of these payments, why would Taylor and Steyer choose the same "unusual" amount, and so many times?</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">______________________</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Work to answer these questions proceeds because these questions directly relate to American government operations. Because these questions arose as part of research into and investigations about American jury duty law, <a href="https://ijuror.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">I, Juror</a> will report the results of its investigations into these questions.</span>Frank Solomonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12965626268867370839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693193973984630274.post-35100113131479260412018-08-11T16:12:00.017-07:002022-12-27T14:47:55.003-08:00The Hollywood 'Elite': Political Activism, Money, and Jury Duty . . .<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large; color: black;">T</span></b><span style="font-size: large; color: black;">o help explain the American Health Care Act, "expert" and Harvard economics PhD Jonathan Gruber <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G790p0LcgbI#t=00m34s" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>freely ranted</b></a> about " . . . the stupidity of the American voter." No one noticed or cared until Rich Weinstein</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large; color: black;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/phillyrich1" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>@phillyrich1</b></a></span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; color: black;">discovered and publicized that rant. Rich's efforts caught on and America saw and heard the truth. As a result, we have a new verb: "<a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=grubering" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>to gruber</b></a>." Rich motivated other " . . . </span><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/11/rich-weinstein-jonathan-gruber_n_6142340.html" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>idiots like [himself]</b></a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; color: black;">" to find other examples. Well, a Hollywood screenwriter freely grubered in August, 2018 - in print - and I'm the idiot who caught the whole thing. This article describes what I found and the so-far unanswered questions behind it. Those unanswered questions reach into jury duty service fairness and equality.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; color: black;">On August 2, 2018, The Hollywood Reporter published <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/is-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-far-left-hollywood-1131514" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Too Far Left for Hollywood?</b></a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/peterkiefer" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Peter Kiefer</b></a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/@chrissgardner" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Chris Gardner</b></a>. The article covered a late July / early August, 2018 visit to the Los Angeles area by Congressional candidate <a href="https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Alexandia Ocasio-Cortez</b></a>. The reporters interviewed Hollywood screenwriter Jennifer Levin for their article. The article focused on Levin in one paragraph, and it included direct quotes. The article explained that Levin has worked on Hollywood productions as a screenwriter, and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0505622/" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>IMDB</b></a> confirms this. In the paragraph, Levin made a comment about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Then, the paragraph explained that Levin</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; color: black;">" . . . moonlights as a grassroots activist working to flip a number of California [Congressional] seats . . ."</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; color: black;">and as a free, free-thinking American, Levin obviously has all the rights in America to do this. The article paragraph continued with Levin's quoted statement<br />
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"Let's be honest: <span style="color: red;"><b><i>We represent the money</i></b>. <b><i>We are the elite.</i></b></span>"</span></blockquote>
where she described herself and her colleagues. Note that I added the <b style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: red;">bold / italic</span></i></b><span style="font-size: large;"> formatting.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Wow. In my opinion, those two sentences look explosive. They sure scared the hell out of me because combined with Levin's "grassroots activis[m]," they tied money and "elite" status all together. One would think that reporters Kiefer and Gardner would ask her questions about these statements. I would have thought that <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/p/masthead" style="font-size: large; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>The Hollywood Reporter leadership</b></a> would instruct Kiefer and Gardner, and / or other employees of The Hollywood Reporter, to further investigate these statements. To the best of my knowledge, no one at The Hollywood Reporter did any of this, so I did it for them. They're welcome.<br />
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I don't have much money. Therefore, I need Member of the Elite (MOTE) Levin to help me understand just exactly what " . . . We represent the money" means - more about this later. However, as a commoner American</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2693193973984630274#1" name="top1" style="font-size: large; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><sup>1</sup></a><span style="font-size: large;">, I most definitely understand that " . . . We are the elite" part. As a non-lawyer, I have read the United States Constitution - cover to cover. The U.S. Constitution outlaws both federal-level and state-level titles of nobility. To the best of my knowledge, MOTE Levin and her colleagues do not have any titles of nobility - but that "elite" business sure looks noble to me. That "elite" sentence ties into our old friend <a href="https://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/amendments/14/essays/171/equal-protection" style="font-size: large; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Amendment 14, Equal Protection Clause, United States Constitution</b></a>. I can't get enough of this clause. It works like <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=duct+tape" style="font-size: large; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>duct tape</b></a>, or <a href="https://www.wd40.com/" style="font-size: large; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>WD-40</b></a>. A non-lawyer commoner American like myself can use it everywhere to repair everything. Since MOTE Levin and her colleagues</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. "represent the money"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. have "elite" status</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">then first, I want MOTE Levin to explain what these items exactly mean, in light of the Equal Protection Clause. In other words, I want MOTE Levin to explain just exactly how she / her colleagues "represent the money." Then, assuming the Equal Protection Clause works, I want her to explain what I <b><i><u>can</u></i></b> represent if I have no money <b><i><u>to</u></i></b> represent. Second, I want to know if MOTE Levin and / or her "elite" colleagues receive any sort of benefit from government employees, in any way, that is unavailable to commoner Americans like myself. If she / they do receive these benefits, I want the full story, background, and picture about that / those benefits. The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Noguez#Corruption_scandal" style="font-size: large; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>alleged allegations</b></a><span style="font-size: large;"> about former Los Angeles County Property Tax Assessor John Noguez - unproven one way or another so far - make these questions totally relevant. The more recent </span><a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/real-estate-developer-arrested-federal-bribery-case" style="font-size: large; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>arrest</b></a><span style="font-size: large;"> of Beverly Hills real estate developer Arman Gabaee also makes these questions totally relevant. Both Hollywood and Beverly Hills land in Los Angeles County territory.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In my journalist role, I wrote up what became a list of questions</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. the jury duty history of other folks who "represent the money" and / or who have "elite" status</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">to learn more about how the "elite" handles American jury duty. I have the qualifications for this because in my role as a non-lawyer commoner American, I became the best jury duty law expert in America. <a href="https://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/amendments/1/essays/140/freedom-of-speech-and-of-the-press" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Amendment I, Freedom of the Press Clause, United States Constitution</b></a> guarantees me the right to ask these questions and to publish and report about these questions. Full disclosure: I researched the jury duty history of MOTE Levin the same way I researched the jury duty history of <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ymexbgHiN72AK0LX73KZxcFgGPDrohT45TXYRQ0KIDg/edit#gid=403003048" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Barbra Streisand</b></a> and <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ymexbgHiN72AK0LX73KZxcFgGPDrohT45TXYRQ0KIDg/edit#gid=702444167" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Thomas Steyer</b></a>. I did my best but once again, I found no information on this topic. Then, I had to find a way to contact MOTE Levin to send her the questions. After some research, I found the</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://twitter.com/JenniferLevin22" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>@jenniferlevin22</b></a></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">Twitter handle. I sent <a href="https://twitter.com/fbsolo1/status/1025482179306868736" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>this tweet</b></a> to </span><a href="https://twitter.com/JenniferLevin22" style="font-size: large; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>@jenniferlevin22</b></a><span style="font-size: large;"> through Twitter. So far, MOTE Levin has not answered. I figured I waited long enough, so I published this article. I welcome answers to these questions from MOTE Levin and I will write a new article about her answers after she sends those answers to me.</span><br />
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Frank Solomonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12965626268867370839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693193973984630274.post-24344018967021714012018-07-27T14:26:00.015-07:002022-12-26T15:44:22.330-08:00Lawyers, Judges, and Jury Duty - Q & A . . .<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large; color: black;">I</span></b><span style="font-size: large; color: black;"> recently reached out to certain lawyers with questions about jury duty and jury duty law. I focused on lawyers that I personally employ here in California, because as my employees, I figured they would want to answer those questions. After all, I directly pay them at least minimum wage for jobs they voluntarily accepted.<br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. <a href="http://www.courts.ca.gov/27264.htm" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Los Angeles County Judge Daniel Buckley</a></span><br />
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I employ Judge Buckley in his job as Presiding Judge of Los Angeles County. <a href="https://becomingadifferentkindofprofessional.org/2017/02/06/running-the-los-angeles-county-superior-court-a-conversation-with-judge-daniel-buckley/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Becoming a Different Kind of Professional</a> explained that Judge Buckley " . . . manages the largest unified court in the country and likely in the world." He has worked in courtrooms as a litigation attorney and a judge, and because of this professional experience, I figured he would have direct knowledge about jury duty.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">2. <a href="http://www.courts.ca.gov/13338.htm" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">California Supreme Court Justice Tani Gore Cantile-Sakauye</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I employ Justice Gore Cantile-Sakauye in a California Supreme Court Chief Justice job. She worked as a lawyer for more than twenty years in California courtrooms, so I guessed that as a lawyer, she would have direct knowledge about jury duty.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">3. <a href="https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/jf" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Federal Judge Jeremy Fogel began working as a private-practice attorney in 1974. I employed him as a California county-level judge for seventeen years, starting in 1981, and I first employed him as a federal judge in 1998. He clearly <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax7QHQTbKQE#t=00m39s" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">knows</a> all about jury duty.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">4. <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/erwin-chemerinsky/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">UC Berkeley Lawyer School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Attorney Chemerinsky has handled law cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, but apparently works primarily in the law school industry, with additional work as an author. Because I employ him to lead an accredited University of California law school at UC Berkeley, I thought that he must have some knowledge about jury duty.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">5. </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.americanbar.org/groups/judicial/american_jury.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Arizona attorney Stephanie McCoy Loquvam</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I do not have an employer / employee relationship with Atty. McCoy Loquvam. Also, Atty. McCoy Loquvam practices law in Arizona, not in California. However, I learned that she </span><a href="https://www.americanbar.org/groups/judicial/american_jury.html" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">runs</span></a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> the Commission on the American Jury of the American Bar Association. Based on this ABA leadership role, I figured she would have a lot of background knowledge to answer questions about jury duty, and I believed that she would want to answer questions about jury duty.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">these questions about jury duty and jury duty law</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and I waited. Note that I added the page footers later, when I wrote this article. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tk1sDqESxH1Mo2MnXMTQSnNjyKEyDB5w/view?usp=sharing" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Click here</a> to open the questions in a new brower tab for download as a PDF. At first, I never got a reply from Judge Fogel, so I made some follow-ups. Soon enough</span></span><br />
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Dear Mr. Solomon,<br />
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Thank you for your voicemail following up on the email below from last Thursday.<br />
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Judge <span class="il">Fogel</span> is not currently handling cases in our court and he will be leaving the bench in a few months. Furthermore, although he was a state court judge in the past, he has been a federal judge for 20 years. It is very unlikely that Judge <span class="il">Fogel</span> will have opinions on the California jury-related topics that are the focus of your questions.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">a Judge Fogel staffer wrote back. It's not lost on me that I personally pay that staffer at least minimum wage. Judge Fogel starred in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax7QHQTbKQE#t=00m39s" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">video</a> all about jury duty, and combined with his professional lawyer and judge employment experience, I knew he would have more than enough background knowledge and opinions to answer my questions. I definitely would have valued his answers. In the same way, I made some follow-ups with Judge Buckley. A staffer for Judge Buckley also wrote</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Good Afternoon Mr. Solomon,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I am responding to your email on behalf of Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Daniel <span class="il">Buckley</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">From Judge <span class="il">Buckley:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">“Mr. Solomon, I am in receipt of your questions about various aspects of the jury system. As Presiding Judge, I am charged with applying laws regarding the administration of justice; it would be inappropriate for me to comment upon them.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Please let me know if you have additional questions.</span><br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #244061; font-family: "tw cen mt" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Staffer's Name</span><span style="color: #244061; font-family: "tw cen mt" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #244061; font-family: "tw cen mt" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Staffer's Title</span></b></i><span style="color: #244061; font-family: "tw cen mt" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #244061; font-family: "tw cen mt" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Los Angeles Superior Court</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br />back. Hmmm. <a href="http://www.courts.ca.gov/27264.htm" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Judge Buckley has more than fourteen years experience</a> as a judge, and based on that, I thought he must have some opinions about jury duty. I don't get his reluctance to answer those questions. Some years ago, I had an exchange with now-retired Los Angeles County Judge Connor about jury duty. I sent her this letter</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Judge Connor obviously had no problem commenting on various aspects of the jury system. It looks like she pretty much agreed with what I wrote in that letter to her. Additionally, she alerted other judges, and the head of the Los Angeles County jury duty system at the time, about the issue. More than one of the people - mostly lawyers - directly or indirectly made aware of these issues in this mail traffic logically would and should have contacted me, made some general comment(s) about jury duty, and / or maybe even tried to reform jury duty itself in a public way. Focusing on Judge Buckley, maybe some new big post-July 2, 2002 policy forced him into silence. If so, I oppose that policy because Judge Buckley has an Amendment I, Freedom of Speech Clause, United States Constitution right - like everyone else - to speak up and speak out about all this. Judge Buckley himself should know to oppose a silencing policy because like myself, he must have read the United States Constitution, cover to cover.<br />
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I never heard from California Supreme Court Justice Cantile‑Sakauye or UC Berkeley law school Dean Chemerinsky. I decided to avoid follow-up emails to them, to compare their answers with those of Judge Fogel and Judge Buckley. After about two and a half months, I figured I waited long enough. Additionally, I never heard from Atty. McCoy Loquvam and I did not follow up with her.<br />
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In my opinion, all of these lawyers have more than enough qualifications, education, knowledge, experience, and rights to answer the questions. I directly employ most of them, and I don't like their non<b>‑</b>answers to my questions. After all, I have read that jury duty trial witnesses must answer every question a lawyer asks. If I land in a courtroom as a juror, I remember how all the lawyers can ask me a whole bunch of voir dire questions. If I don't answer the questions put to me in a jury duty trial, either as a witness or as a juror, bad things will happen to me. Amendment 1, Freedom of Speech Clause, United States Constitution alone guarantees that all of the lawyers listed above can freely answer the questions I asked <b><i><u>them</u></i></b>. This clause overrides all prior restraints that might silence them. I know this, and all of them should know this as well.<br />
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The taxpayer / government role I have with lawyers one through four above obviously requires them to answer my questions. The lawyer / non-lawyer role I have with all of these lawyers obligates them to answer my questions because as a non-lawyer, I want to know about the internal mechanics of the judiciary system and the lawyer industry. These obligations operate the same way as the government laws and the United States Constitution that obligate me to serve as a juror. I perfectly understand my roles, rights, and responsibilities. It looks like these lawyers might not correctly understand their own roles, rights, and responsibilities.</span></span>Frank Solomonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12965626268867370839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693193973984630274.post-92107844860804508362018-03-24T15:10:00.004-07:002022-12-26T15:38:14.183-08:00American Jury Duty Has Major Zero-Day Flaws<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large; color: black;">I</span></b><span style="font-size: large; color: black;">n America, the United States Constitution guarantees that everyone with a civil law or criminal law dispute has the right to a trial by jury. For this to work, American citizens have to serve as jurors. Most Americans likely don’t want to deal with jury duty, but eventually, they understand the situation - <i><b>I have to do this because I would want a jury trial option for myself</b></i> - and they proceed. American jurors might not realize that the United States Constitution guarantees jurors the right to minimum wage and fair mileage in return for their service. Existing jury duty pay and mileage levels have become zero-day flaws in the American justice system, and government employees must fix those flaws immediately.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; color: black;">In 2017, the <a href="http://www.lacourt.org/division/jury/JR0010.aspx" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>Los Angeles County Juror Services Office</b></a> sent me a jury duty summons. It sure wasn't my idea - and I had no choice. I did exactly what they told me. Just as the paperwork told me, I first called the Los Angeles County Superior Court (LACSC) phone number to register. Later on, I watched an online jury duty training vid. Then, I took a jury duty test to qualify as a juror. I read all the jury duty paperwork, and I learned that starting day <b><i><u>two</u></i></b>, I would receive $15.00 a day - taxable - as my jury duty salary. That sure looked wrong. Based on what I learned from the the jury duty paperwork and the training vid, I saw jury duty as a job, even at that early stage. As a job, jury duty entitled me to minimum wage for ALL hours that I worked as a juror. This would cover day one, and the personal time I used for the required jury duty training and test. I also learned that Los Angeles County would pay me seventeen cents a mile - taxable - for my jury duty commuting expenses, also starting on day two. That mileage price also looked wrong. Gasoline in the Los Angeles area costs much more than $3.00 a gallon. Seventeen cents a mile would never cover my fuel expenses, wear and tear on my car, or wear and tear on me.<br />
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After a little more research, I learned that California jurors last got a raise sometime around the turn of the century, through a California government law. California jury duty pay and mileage amounts did not rise with federal / state minimum wage level increases or inflation. The basic <a href="https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/employee-common-law-employee" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>IRS definition of a job</b></a> clearly covers jury duty. It still amazes me that a federal judge <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax7QHQTbKQE#t=00m39s" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>defined jury duty as a job</b></a>, to explain what he demands from jurors, but somehow, he stayed silent about how jurors therefore earn minimum wage as jury duty employees. Los Angeles County government obviously agrees with him, because they embedded <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25wMdNtCeKY#t=01m23s" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>this vid</b></a> at the official <a href="http://www.lacourt.org/division/jury/Jury.aspx" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>Los Angeles County government jury duty website</b></a>. California government alone has increased minimum wage rates many times since 1999, but those increases don’t cover jury duty. California has increased direct and indirect gas taxes many times, including a new twelve cent per gallon gas tax this past November. I'd sure like to know why California legislators never increased the jury duty mileage payment to compensate for those increased taxes. However, as a California taxpayer, <a href="http://www.ncsl.org/research/about-state-legislatures/2017-legislator-compensation-information.aspx" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>I pay all California legislators</b></a> a $104,000 annual taxable salary. I gave them <a href="https://www.calhr.ca.gov/cccc/Pages/cccc-salaries.aspx" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>plenty of raises</b></a> since the year 2000. I pay each of them a $183 daily per diem, and <a href="https://www.calhr.ca.gov/Documents/cccc-ftb-response-on%20taxability-of-per-diem-20110627.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>they made sure</b></a> they pay zero tax on that per diem. I also pay each of them <a href="http://www.ncsl.org/portals/1/documents/legismgt/2016_leg_comp_session_per%20Diem_mileage.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>53 cents a mile</b></a> for their own commuting expenses - also tax-free. When they call it "per diem" "travel expense" money, maybe they think it sounds better when they pay zero tax on it. Based on these facts, California legislators can't wait to invent government laws that pay tax-free minimum wage for all hours that Californian jury duty temp job employees work as jurors. Those legislators can't wait to invent laws that pay California jurors 53 cents a mile - tax-free - for every honestly-counted mile every California jury duty employee drives between home and the official jury duty parking lots. Those legislators will just need a little motivation to get going.<br />
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Soon enough, LACSC told me to get to the L.A. County Airport courthouse on May 24, 2017 at 9:30 AM PST. I did exactly that, and except for the lunch hour, I spent my whole time there in the jury duty ready room. I never landed in a trial, and the jury duty staff released me at about 3:30 PM PST. When I got home, I read the U.S. Constitution because I remembered that it would guarantee my rights, even as a juror. I just needed to find the exact amendment. Yup - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_servitude" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>Amendment 13, Involuntary Servitude Clause, U.S. Constitution</b></a> covered me. After all, my full-time jury duty employers, at least one major federal judge, Los Angeles County government, and myself all agree that jury duty is a job. I never applied for that job. I received no pay and no mileage compensation at all for that job. As a non-lawyer American, my cynicism about jury duty grew and I researched all these issues. To learn more about how eligible Americans deal with jury duty, I investigated the jury duty history of both <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ymexbgHiN72AK0LX73KZxcFgGPDrohT45TXYRQ0KIDg/edit#gid=702444167" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>Thomas Steyer</b></a> and <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ymexbgHiN72AK0LX73KZxcFgGPDrohT45TXYRQ0KIDg/edit#gid=403003048" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>Barbra Streisand</b></a>. I ended up with many questions and no answers about them because I hit massive government secrecy walls. I taught myself jury duty law, and when I wrote and published <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076NB2TSB" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>Common Sense - Third Millennium</b></a>, I became the best jury duty law expert in the United States of America.<br />
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If I paid political campaign contribution money, I believe that government employees would reform jury duty pay and mileage, and would de-taxify jury duty, if I explained - with my payment - those exact demands. I have never touched political campaign contribution money, and I never will. I now see jury duty service as a political campaign contribution. This makes perfect sense, because government employees have something I want - jury duty reform. Eventually, I will once again have something government employees want - jury duty employment. If government employees, including legislators, don’t reform jury duty, then during my next jury duty voir dire temp job interview, I will have to explain the situation to the hiring judge. If that judge does not build and / or arrange to build a pay and mileage jury duty employee compensation package that must obviously happen, I will resign to that judge. I will do this to protect my Constitutional rights and economic survival. I have <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_petition_in_the_United_States" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>the right</b></a> to do this. My resignation will help motivate government employees to reform jury duty. This means that jury duty will begin to formally operate just like political campaign contribution money. Ideally, full-time government employees will reform jury duty before any of this happens.<br />
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Earlier, this piece explained that existing jury duty laws have become major <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_(computing)" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"><b>zero-day flaws</b></a> in the American justice system. That looks like quite a claim, but it has total accuracy. The existing structure of American jury duty obviously violates the Constitutional rights of jurors. Anyone who lost an American jury duty business model trial can very easily say<br />
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“<b> . . . None of my peers would serve on a jury for these mileage and pay rates. That proves that I never got a fair trial!</b>”</span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">and then demand a mistrial to throw away the verdict. Full-time government employees have a really easy way to fix this. They only need to pay highest prevailing minimum wage and highest possible mileage rates to jurors, for all hours worked and all miles driven, with zero tax and zero tax paperwork. In California, the legislator mileage rate of tax-free 53 cents a mile - the latest rate - becomes the required jury duty mileage rate. Government employees must also pay back jury duty wages and mileage. Government employees must also audit all jury duty hiring systems, focusing on the jury duty summons history information, and relevant jury duty service history information, of those people. The auditors must release those audit results, without restriction - immediately. This information will help show whether or not jury duty service operates in a fair way. Lastly, I expect prosecution and punishment for everyone - both inside and outside of government - involved in any sort of jury duty service corruption. Government employees will not successfully hire me for a jury duty temp job until they choose to make these fair, reasonable jury duty reforms, to fix the zero-day flaws of jury duty. In addition, government employees will have an increasingly hard time hiring other Americans as jury duty temp employees. If they drag their feet, it will become impossible soon enough. Americans have every incentive, and plenty of Constitutional rights, to resign from and avoid the present structure of American jury duty. That will destroy the American jury duty trial business model.<br />
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It might look like I want the jury duty trial system to completely implode. No way. Since we opened for business in 1789, American civilization has relied on citizen jury duty. I would never volunteer for jury duty, but I would accept my role and responsibility as a juror, and I would do more than my best work in that role. In return, I have expectations of my own. I expect government to see me as a valued partner, working in a job that I did not apply to get. I expect government - as my jury duty employer - to pay me highest possible minimum wage and fair mileage compensation, with zero tax and zero tax paperwork. I expect full jury duty history information disclosure for everyone who ever touched political campaign contribution money. Government, lawyers, and law schools all should have known better. They should have noticed and fixed these problems years ago. They certainly all had - and have - the means, motive, and opportunity to do this, and I expect them to do it. If they decide that they don’t feel like it, they can expect nonviolent jury duty strikes, in California and across the nation. My government employees, the lawyer industry, and the law school industry all completely and exclusively own these problems. Working together, they can easily solve these problems. The choice to do so is theirs alone.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693193973984630274.post-82460532794998271712017-10-24T16:04:00.000-07:002020-02-20T14:05:32.056-08:00Common Sense - Third Millennium launched on October 21, 2017 at Kindle!<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076NB2TSB" style="font-size: large;" target="_blank">Common Sense - Third Millennium</a><span style="font-size: large; color: black;"> launched on October 21, 2017.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com