Federal election laws are not only for Federal Elections ----they cover any candidate for public office.
Four Exemptions
In 1959, Congress amended the Communications Act after the FCC ruled that Chicago broadcasters had to give "equal time" to mayoral candidate Lar Daly; the incumbent mayor was then Richard Daley. In response, Congress created four exemptions to the equal time rule:

(1) regularly scheduled newscasts
(2) news interviews shows
(3) documentaries (unless the documentary is about a candidate)
(4) on-the-spot news events




For those wondering why groups that appear to be community oriented would work against free and fair elections consider this-----most of the organizations are created and run by Johns Hopkins and directors are selected by Johns Hopkins to control public policy in all these communities.  So, people join these groups thinking they work for the public good and at the end find they have been taken.  East Baltimore is one great big Johns Hopkins global corporate campus having had a billion and more in public money because community organizations pretended to be supporting the people, not Hopkins.  Gentrification is one thing.....development moving money to a few full of fraud and corruption is another; moving people in the most brutal of ways.  Baltimore Education Coalition is simply a Michelle Rhee education privatization group created by Hopkins and BUILD is as well.  The individual non-profits in these groups are mostly national private corporate non-profits taking control of all public policy in communities across America.  They are often not working for the public good but getting plenty of taxpayer money to do so.

BALTIMORE MEDIA AND ELECTION EVENTS ARE SO CAPTURED THAT CINDY WALSH FOR GOVERNOR IS NOT MENTIONED AT ALL.  THE SAME THING HAPPENS EACH ELECTION TO ANY CANDIDATE WHO ADDRESSES FRAUD, CORRUPTION, AND THE BAD HOPKINS AGENDA.  Baltimore is one of the biggest voting districts and is the most poor.  Politics in Baltimore mirrors that in third world countries where fraud and corruption is rampant because of US development corporations and NGOs.

Those thinking it is OK to get rid of the poor and working class any way possible see that the middle-class is feeling the same loss of citizenship and civil rights.  If you allow a suspension of Rule of Law and Constitutional Rights for one group in the name of development-----the entire public justice system is dismantled as has happened in Maryland and Baltimore.




CIVIL CLAIM IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT IN BALTIMORE CITY

 
Parties in the complaint: 

Cindy Walsh vs   University of Maryland System---College Park;University of Maryland Carey Law School; University of Baltimore; Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland;Bowie State University;Salisbury University;Towson University ;Coppin State University;Universities at Shady Grove;UMBC - University of Maryland Baltimore County;WYPR Public Media;Maryland Public Television;WEAA Public Media; Baltimore Education Coalition BEC;Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development BUILD;Church of the Great Commission;Maryland Democratic Party;The Gazette's Corporate Office;Maryland Reporter.com;WBFF TV;Pennsylvania Avenue AME Zion Church;WBAL TV; WJZ TV; WMAR TV; Baltimore Sun;WOLB  AM Radio- Radio One Baltimore;Baltimore City Public Schools - City Springs School;Maryland League of Women Voters




1.  Cindy Walsh
2522 N Calvert Street                                   Civil Action #  __________________
Baltimore, Maryland 21218

Plaintiff

 

                   VS.

 


2.  University of Maryland System
William E. Kirwan- Chancellor
3300 Metzerott Road
Adelphi, MD 20783

  Defendant

 

3.  University of Maryland---College Park
Wallace D. Loh-President
1101 Main Administration Building
College Park, MD 20742-6105

 Defendant

 

4.  University of Maryland Carey Law School     
Phoebe A. Haddon-Dean
500 W. Baltimore Street   Suite 260
Baltimore, MD 21201-1786

Defendant

 

5.  Coppin State University
Mortimer Neufville-President
2500 West North Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21216-3698

 Defendant

 

6.  Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland
Lucy Dalglish-Dean
1100 Knight Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

  Defendant



7.  Bowie State University
Mickey L. Burnim, Ph.D., President
14000 Jericho Park Rd
Bowie, MD 20715

  Defendant



8.  Salisbury University
Dr. Janet Dudley-Eshbach-President
1101 Camden Ave.
Salisbury, MD 21801  

  Defendant

9.  Towson University
Maravene Loeschke- President
8000 York Road
Towson, MD 21252

  Defendant

 

10.  Universities at Shady Grove
Dr. Stewart Edelstein
9630 Gudelsky Drive
Rockville, Maryland 20850

 
Defendant


11.  UMBC - University of Maryland Baltimore County
Freeman A. Hrabowski, III - President
1000 Hilltop Circle
Halethorpe, Maryland 21227


  Defendant


12.   University of Baltimore
Robert L. Bogomolny
President
1420 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21201

Defendant


13.  Morgan State University
David Wilson
President
1700 East Cold Spring Lane
Baltimore MD 21251

 Defendant

 
14.  Maryland Public Television
Larry D. Unger
President and Chief Executive Officer
11767 Owings Mills Boulevard
Owings Mills, Maryland 21117

 Defendant

 

15.  WYPR Public Media 
Anthony Brandon
President & General Manager
2216 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21218

Defendant

 

16.  WEAA Public Media
Morgan State University--David Wilson-President
1700 E. Coldspring Lane
Baltimore, MD 21251

 Defendant


17.  Baltimore Education Coalition
Yasmene Mumby/ Jimmy Stuart Co-Chairs
Cathedral of the Incarnation
4 East University Parkway
Baltimore, Maryland 21218

Defendant

 
18.  Baltimore- Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development - BUILD
Co-Chairs
Rev. Andrew Foster Connors, Pastor of Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church
Rev. Glenna Huber, Pastor of Church of the Holy Nativity
2439 Maryland Ave
Baltimore, MD 21218

Defendant


19.  Church of the Great Commission

Rev. Joshua Kevin White is Host Pastor.
Collective Empowerment Group, Inc.
President, Rev. Anthony G. Maclin  Board of Directors
5055 Allentown Road
Camp Springs, MD.  20746

 Defendant
 


20.  Maryland Democratic Party
Yvette Lewis, Chair
33 West Street, Suite 200
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Defendant



21.  The Gazette's Corporate Office
Douglas Tallman,  Editor
Vanessa Harrington,  Editor
9030 Comprint Court
Gaithersburg, MD 20877

Defendant



22.  Maryland Reporter.com
Len Lazarick
6392 Shadowshape Place
Columbia, MD 21045

Defendant



23.  WBFF TV
Steve Moretz Operations Manager
2000 W. 41st Street
Baltimore, MD 21211

Defendant



24.  Pennsylvania Avenue AME Zion Church
Reverend Lester A. McCorn, Senior Pastor
1128 Pennsylvania Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21201

Defendant



25.  Maryland Municipal League  
Scott A. Hancock,  Executive Director
1212 West Street  
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Defendant



26.  WBAL TV
Dan Joerres  -- President & General Manager
3800 Hooper Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21211

Defendant

 

27.  WJZ TV
Gail Bending -- News Director
3725 Malden Ave
Baltimore, MD 21211-1322

Defendant

 

28.  WMAR TV
Kelly Groft --- News Director
6400 York Rd
Baltimore, MD 21212-2117

Defendant

 

29.  Baltimore Sun
Trif Alatzas -- Senior vice president, executive editor
501 N. Calvert Street
Baltimore, MD 21278

Defendant


30.  WOLB  AM Radio- Radio One Baltimore
Howard Mazer -  General Manager
1705 Whitehead Road
Baltimore, MD 21207

Defendant


31.  Baltimore City Public Schools - City Springs School
Rhonda Richetta - Principal
100 S. Caroline Street
Baltimore, MD  21231 

Defendant


32.  Maryland League of Women Voters
Susan Cochran- President
111 Cathedral Street Suite 201
Annapolis MD 21401

Defendant



Jurisdiction

Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland is filing in United States District Court for Maryland in Baltimore because plaintiff is a resident of Baltimore and the election irregularities identified in the Federal Court case include businesses located and operating in Maryland.  The plaintiff claims University of Maryland system is tasked with oversight and accountability of all universities under its umbrella and its Chancellor, the Deans, and Presidents of affiliated universities failed to abide by election law.  Violations include FCC and IRS laws protecting elections.

U.S. Code › Title 28 › Part IV › Chapter 85 › § 1343 28 U.S. Code § 1343 - Civil rights and elective franchise (a)(1)(2)(3)(4)


Statement of Facts and Claims

Cindy Walsh was approved by the Maryland Election Commission as a legally qualified candidate for the Democratic Primary for Governor of Maryland and was added to the list of candidates for this office on February 25, 2014.  The plaintiff immediately reached out to all election venues, organizations, and media making them aware of this candidate and the desire to participate in all election events during the course of the primary.  The plaintiff responded to invitations to forums across Maryland that this candidate would be participating within the time frame given on the request.  Candidate questionnaires were answered and returned to organizations participating in this primary election.  Cindy Walsh responded when an organization chose not to include and encouraged at several points in the primary to include this candidate as it was required by IRS and FCC election law making the defendants aware of there requirements in election law when they choose to participate in elections.  All of the defendants below violated either FCC, IRS election law or both as they censured the campaign of Cindy Walsh for election events and media coverage throughout the primary election going so far in some cases to create their own list of Democratic candidates for Governor always minus the plaintiff, actually changing the Maryland Election list of candidates to their own view.  The violations vary from failing to invite the plaintiff, to inviting and then refusing participation when the event occurred, to posting election information online or in print, radio, or television that gave a false representation of who was in this primary election.  Media may not have to give equal opportunity to all candidates but it does have to give opportunity and it absolutely does have to post a government document like the Maryland Election list of candidates accurately.  To change a government document is itself illegal and it is defamation of Cindy Walsh as a candidate, harming her professional aspirations with false statements.  A non-profit organization cannot partner with a media outlet that takes the stance of 'selecting' which candidates will appear in forums whether that media outlet is private or public.  The 501c3 laws regarding participating in elections are clear-----take no opposition or do no damage to a candidate in a campaign.  The FCC laws are clear that whereas media may not be required equal opportunity it must allow access to all candidates.  The FCC laws also make clear that media may not discriminate in elections as regards platform in forums and debates.  All issues in an election must be allowed to be represented in order that voters are able to go to the polls educated on the issues and candidates so as to make an intelligent vote.  This is guaranteed to every citizen as regards their civil rights to elections and voting.  The defendants in this lawsuit violated one or many of these requirements and thus the laws themselves.  Since the number of defendants is long, the plaintiff will attach a separate Facts and Claims and Demand for Relief for each defendant.  The plaintiff will prove these violations were systemic, that the people charged with the duties in these organizations and businesses were notified and chose to willfully, deliberately, and with malice ignore Cindy Walsh's calls for relief from these violations.

Please see individual claims and demands for relief for each defendant.

_______________________________________________________________________

Legal basis of complaint:

Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland is filing suit in Federal Court because of violations to Federal Election laws carried in FCC and IRS organization requirements when participating in elections.


The following IRS regulated organizations violated:

1.501(c)(3)–1; Section 1.501(c)(3)-1(c)(3)(i); Section 1.501(c)(3)-1(c)(3)(iii); 178 Rev. Rul. 66-256, 1966-2 C.B. 210;  Rev. Rul. 74-574, 1974-2 C.B. 160; Rev. Rul. 78-248, 1978-1 C.B. 154; Rev. Rul. 80-282, 1980-2 C.B.; Rev. Rul. 86-95, 1986-2 C.B. 73


The following FCC regulated organizations violated:

Section 312 [47 U.S.C. §312] (7) (f) (1) (2)

Section 315 [47 U.S.C. §315] (1) (2) (3)  (4)  Nothing in the foregoing sentence shall be construed as relieving broadcasters, in connection with the presentation of newscasts, news interviews, news documentaries, and on-the-spot coverage of news events, from the obligation imposed upon them under this Act to operate in the public interest and to afford reasonable opportunity for the discussion of conflicting views of issues of public importance.

Section 399 [47 U.S.C. §399] 
Section 73.1940 [47 CFR §73.1940] (a) (1) (2) (3) (b) (1) (3) (b) (1) (f)

Section 73.1941 [47 CFR §73.1941] (1) (2) (3) (4) (b) (c) (d) (e) )  Nothing in the foregoing sentence shall be construed as relieving broadcasters, in connection with the presentation of newscasts, news interviews, news documentaries, and on-the-spot coverage of news events, from the obligation imposed upon them under this Act to operate in the public interest and to afford reasonable opportunity for the discussion of conflicting views of issues of public importance.




To save the time and space of including this list in every defendants' claim below you see the common communication by the plaintiff to media and some of the largest 501c3 venues.  Cindy Walsh started with an introduction of my campaign in early March and this list shows the plaintiff tried to seek relief throughout the primary letting these organizations and businesses know the election laws were being broken and how they applied to this election.  The responsibilities these FCC and IRS election law place on the candidate of asking for opportunity and identifying violations as they occurred were met.  These communications show contact with media, 501c3s, and the Maryland Election and Attorney General tasked with upholding election law and providing Cindy Walsh with relief from these violations.  They also show escalating frustration by the plaintiff as the primary election approached with no response from any of these organizations and businesses.



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Mar 7

I include all of the information you'll need in highlighting my policy stances at the same time you speak of the other democratic candidates in the race for governor.  My website has all the policy issues and history of my stances and below is my personal information.  I look forward to interviews and don't forget to carry/link to debates from the Maryland League of Women Voters debate series.

Thanks,

Cindy Walsh
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Mar 27

cindy Walsh has been a candidate for Governor of Maryland for 30 days now with no mention in the media and I am waiting for time on station programming to share my platform at both the city and state levels.  Please contact me with a date for such an engagement.
Thank you,
Cindy Walsh



RESPONSE TO THE GAZETTE NEWSPAPER IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland would love to answer your questions. I sent a copy of my campaign platform and personal information and now will answer questions:

CINDY WALSH FOR GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND TICKET:

Cindy Walsh
2522 N Calvert St
Baltimore, Md 21218
cwals99@yahoo.com 

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Apr 13

From:  Cindy Walsh – Governor of Maryland democratic primary race
To:  Susan Goering -  Executive Director of Maryland ACLU
RE:  Election violations are systemic in the Baltimore area  
Cindy Walsh 2522 N Calvert St. Baltimore, Maryland 21218 443-825-7031 

Ms. Goering,   As a primary candidate for Governor of Maryland living in Baltimore City I request the aid of the Maryland ACLU and Maryland Attorney General’s office in addressing what is a systemic violation of election law that results in a crony and corrupt political process affecting all elections in Maryland, but especially the elections tied to Baltimore, the largest voting district in the state.  As a candidate I receive equal protection under law as regards elections in regions all over Maryland but in Baltimore I have not received one opportunity to advance my platform or to gain face and name recognition in this primary race for governor.  This is deliberate and it is why voting in the Baltimore is now down to 20%------there are no candidates getting the benefit of election law for whom voters want to vote. Election are the fundamental principal of a democracy and the US Constitution is unique in the world in stating very strongly that US citizens are the legislators and their rights as citizens who determine law will not be denied.  The US is unique as well in a Constitution that offers equal protections under law to all citizens.  American election laws clearly state that all 501c3/4 organizations will provide equal access to forums and/or debates open to the community.  This includes the political party machines, education institutions from K-college, churches, and private non-profits.  These include as well all public media outlets from public radio and TV to government public access media. I attended a public forum recently given by a private non-profit in Howard County that met every criteria in election law that was run efficiently and openly.  Every candidate in the election from local Howard County offices to governor race candidates were sent an email invitation and allowed to participate with equal time and freedom to share their platform to the public.  I have dates for similar events all over the state of Maryland.  In Baltimore, I am left out of every one.  Baltimore has a system where 501c3/4 either openly violate the election laws requiring invitation to all candidates and open forum to discuss their platforms or there is systematic exclusion with policy meant to circumvent the letter of election law with an institution hosting a forum or debate ‘sponsored’ by a private group of individuals that then select the candidates who are invited to speak to the public.  The election environment in Baltimore are the kinds of elections held in developing world nations having Constitutions not half as clear about protections of citizens’ rights and Rule of Law including law surrounding elections.  When I speak to a state politician whose district includes Baltimore I am told that’s just the way we do it.  Well, Rule of Law does not allow this. I will take one incident already past as a case for the MD ACLU and Maryland Attorney’s office for election violation with the knowledge that I am documenting many such violations to be pursued at the end of this primary session.  Violations of election law taint election results and bring into question the candidate designated as having won an election.  In the world of Rule of Law and Equal Protection, this election process would be NULL AND VOID.  A government cannot allow candidates in major voting districts to be silenced and state that they have free and fair elections.   I am going to start by identifying the Baltimore Education Coalition and its education forum in Baltimore that selectively invited 3 candidates for governor and failed to invite all candidates for governor.  Not surprisingly, the candidates for governor chosen were politicians backing the education reform supported by the BEC.  This is a clear violation of election law and since education policy in Baltimore is a major priority for parents in the city, the failure to allow politicians with education policy stances counter to what most residents of the city do not want represents a deliberate effort to corrupt free and fair elections and voter’s rights to know the candidates they will see on the primary ballot.  When we see a constant reference to the top candidates in the media or as I am known in Baltimore public media-----‘the two other candidates’, you have failed to meet election law requirements that all candidates be given time on public media.    Below we see two separate news journals and their approach to elections.  My campaign received an opportunity for input in many news journals across the state as they sent out a general email to all candidates in primary races.  In Baltimore, the Baltimore Sun which owns most of the news journals outside public media sent the email below and my campaign did not receive this solicitation…..again, the candidates chosen as the ‘top candidates’----which means global corporate and global market----were  included.  Now, election law does not require private media to meet election law, but media in America has always been pressured by government to provide a fair and balanced presentation of public events and especially elections.  I have received no solicitation from Baltimore public media for my campaign platform or time to speak of my issues----a clear violation of election law.  The Gazette, a Washington beltway news journal has a general solicitation policy to meet the spirit of election law:   Read candidates' responses to questions about minimum wage, the economy, taxes, education, Maryland Health Exchange, marijuana and the environment here.  Baltimore Sun’s North Baltimore Patch.   As part of its 2014 election coverage, The Gazette is asking all candidates for some basic information about themselves and to fill out a questionnaire. We will post this information on an election page on our website, www.gazette.net. Responses will not be edited, except for possible libel. We need the following information about you and the answers to the questionnaire below by 5 p.m. on March 21. If you run into any problems as the deadline approaches, please let us know. ********************************************************************  

The last avenue of election coverage comes with government public access media.  Montgomery County has democratic elections and a strong system allowing all candidates access to platforms sharing their views.  Maryland League of Women Voters holds its forum in Montgomery County and there is no such forum by the Baltimore League of Women Voters.  Its webpage links to this Montgomery County event.  Now, as a candidate I am happy to have at least Montgomery County branch adhering to the election laws and one can think that cost of providing this election event may be stopping the Baltimore branch, but again, the one strong source of free and fair elections does not happen in Baltimore, the largest voting district in the state.  Then again there is Montgomery County public access media that sends a general email to all candidates for office in primaries to come to their studio to record a platform stance to be available to the public, in Baltimore our government public access has nothing on the primaries:   The League of Women Voters of Maryland and its affiliated local leagues hope you will participate in this process and use this opportunity to reach out to voters in your district. For many years, voters throughout the state have looked to the League of Women Voters for fair and accurate information about candidates and their positions, as a nonpartisan organization that does not endorse candidates.     If you have already scheduled your appointment for Montgomery Community Media’s Candidate Spotlight, you may disregard this e-mail.  The deadline to reserve your space for Montgomery Community Media’s Candidates’ Spotlight is this Friday, April 11 at 12pm.  To make your appointment, please call  301-424-1730 ext 351 or 313. I have attached the information for your review. We look forward to seeing you at Montgomery Community Media soon! *************************  

I have shared these election violations and deliberate policies made to circumvent free and fair elections for a few election cycles to all the players I have listed above.  I have as well written formal complaints to the FEC and Maryland Election Board and Maryland Attorney General’s office for several years about this systemic problem in Baltimore elections.  I am submitting this letter to each of these agencies tasked with the protection and enforcement of election law once again, this time as the person victimized by this failure to uphold Rule of Law surrounding elections. I listened to Jon Cardin at a primary event embrace the issue of free and fair elections in his run for Maryland Attorney General.  Now, Jon is the head of Maryland Assembly elections committee….and it is no coincidence that his election district reaches into Baltimore.  I asked Jon how systemic election violations in Baltimore and his district over decades holds up to having free and fair elections as a platform stance and by extension running for Maryland Attorney General……the office tasked with enforcing election law.  Remember, the current Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler is not only ignoring Baltimore election violations, he participates in Baltimore forums-------like the Baltimore Education Coalition------that he knows violates election law.  As I inform the Federal Election Commission of all of these violations of election law by politicians tasked to upholding these laws we will see how the Federal government is protecting election law whether under a republican Bush or a neo-liberal Obama.  Remember, Rule of Law and Equal Protection requires laws to be enforced. What the citizens of Maryland need to know is that not only are your rights to free and fair elections being violated by the political appointments to government positions tasked with creating and overseeing election law…and/or candidates allowed to run for office as Public Justice tasked with enforcing law openly breaking the law.…but the American system of government has all your elected officials taking an oath of office to serve in the public interest and protect the US Constitution.  No matter the office being local, state, or Federal.  So, when a Maryland Assembly politician tells me that Election Law is a Federal Law and not his business, I am shouting that the Federal Election Commission would not be derelict in its duties if all of Maryland’s elected officials were shouting about systemic election violations in Baltimore.  It is their business and it is their job.   I thank you for your time,    Cindy Walsh Candidate, Governor of Maryland primary race

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May 1

We are in the last two months of the primary elections for 2014 and Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland has been mentioned a few times----never by name and yet I am just 10% away from being tied with the 'front-runners' with several months of media saturation.  Brown 25%, Gansler and Mizeur around 10% with over 54% undecided democratic voters.  Imagine if Cindy Walsh had received a fraction of that media coverage-----there is the platform 54% of democrats seek!  More would come.

Baltimore Sun and its many local news journals have never mentioned Cindy Walsh the candidate for Governor.  WYPR has mentioned her a few times as 'one of two other candidates' but now only act if 3 candidates are in the democratic race.  I searched Maryland Public Television----bastion of free and fair elections in Maryland and not a word.  I am not on the list of Governor's candidates in Baltimore Sun or MPT.  Morgan State and WEAA with Marc Steiner has not mentioned my campaign nor had me on.

Dan Rodricks had a show on the governor's race and all of the callers stated they did not want Brown or Ganser but someone 'like' Mizeur.  That is of course----Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland.

No Baltimore news program taped and aired the Montgomery County forums that had the one candidate from Baltimore included in the forum.  Having a candidate from Baltimore running in this governor's race is never mentioned.  I am 10% away from being a 'front-runner'  and 30% from winning the election and you will not hear it in Maryland media.

So, Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland has a Federal Election Commission complaint and will pursue this in court.  The citizens of Maryland will rebuild free and fair elections in Maryland!

Cindy Walsh


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May 7

As Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland moves to the FEC for election violations----public media still call 10% of polling making candidates 'front-runners' deserving all media attention!



May 6, 2014

To: Dr. Wallace Loh----- University of Maryland College Park
Dr. Ronald Daniels ---- Johns Hopkins University
Dr. David Wilson ----- Morgan State University
Dr. Mortimer Neufville ----- Coppin State University

From: Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland democratic primary
2522 N Calvert St.
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
443-825-7031

RE: Flagrant violations of Federal Election laws must stop

I am including a note to all of you so all can see how deeply flawed our election system is in Maryland. The citizens of Maryland have had enough and are demanding Rule of Law and respect of election law that allows all candidates in a race to be heard especially when 501c3/4 organizations are involved. Everyone understands the open invitation rule and most organizations in Maryland follow it, but for some reason, the very institutions that once held free and fair elections sacred and served as a political forum for all have chosen to be the source of election capture. I demand that the change happen now as my campaign want a voice in these last several weeks of this primary!

Dr. Loh --------President of University of Maryland College Park

Hello,

This is Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland on the democratic ticket. The one you did not include in this forum. As a 501c3/4 organization you are required to extend an invitation to all candidates in a race and to fail to do so is deliberate intent to damage the campaign of others running. Everyone knows that with a polling of around 10% of democratic voters supporting Gansler and Mizeur we have no 'front-runners' and indeed if my platform was heard the 54% of undecided will have found their candidate----or already have.

The public university is the bedrock of political debate and discussion. If you as President deliberately seek to silence a candidate because of political views you do not support you are failing as head of a public university. My candidacy is real------I am qualified and more capable than any of the candidates you 'selected' to appear. You have a responsibility as an education leader to uphold election law and allow all voices to be heard at all times but especially at election primaries and general elections. I am pursuing the failure of 501c3/4 in Maryland to meet the election law requirement of doing no harm to election campaigns and these events are front and center.

I demand that Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland be one of the participants in these forums. I wish acknowledgement and will be attending Wednesday's forum!

Thank you,

Cindy Walsh




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Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland is filing election complaints with election commissions and heading to Federal District Court (2)

 

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May 18

THIS DISCUSSION ON ELECTIONS IS RELEVANT TO ALL STATES IN THE US BECAUSE THIS IS HAPPENING IN YOUR NECK OF THE WOODS.

Who is your pol pledging allegiance to in a corporate state? Maryland is becoming a corporate state.
SEC. 9. Every person elected, or appointed, to any office of profit or trust, under this Constitution, or under the Laws, made pursuant thereto, shall, before he enters upon the duties of such office, take and subscribe the following oath, or affirmation: I, _______________, do swear, (or affirm, as the case may be,) that I will support the Constitution of the United States; and that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the State of Maryland, and support the Constitution and Laws thereof; and that I will, to the best of my skill and judgment, diligently and faithfully, without partiality or prejudice, execute the office of________________, according to the Constitution and Laws of this State, (and, if a Governor, Senator, Member of the House of Delegates, or Judge,) that I will not directly or indirectly, receive the profits or any part of the profits of any other office during the term of my acting as___________ (originally Article I, sec. 6, renumbered by Chapter 681, Acts of 1977, ratified Nov. 7, 1978).

I am pleased to be invited and participate in events all across Maryland because people do know election law and follow it. When the larger venues openly flaunt the law----it is a step to break down the process because of course if breaking the law is allowed----no one follows the law....which is the point. If public media and public universities are allowed to break law why should the smaller 501c3/4 follow law? If the Maryland Attorney General tasked with enforcing election law actively participates in a process he knows is breaking the law----

WE NO LONGER HAVE EQUAL PROTECTION AND RULE OF LAW.




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The time is now to stop the election rigging in Maryland. Crony party politics and media collusion will end.

 
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Jun 19

 

Hello WYPR and WBAL-TV, et al.

This is Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland on the democratic ticket reminding you once again that media are required to do no damage to any one candidate in an election race -----I listened this week and again heard all four republican candidates listed but only 3 democratic candidates.

Fraser Smith had a reporter on his commentary that actually did some investigative journalism.  She reported that over 630,000 voters had changed their party affiliation to independent this past year and you know why? The citizens of Maryland are fed up with the election rigging and party cronyism in this state.  There will be change.

I look forward to being on all of your media outlets over the coming general election.

Thank you,

Cindy Walsh





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May 23, 2014

To:         

The Carter Center
One Copenhill
453 Freedom Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30307

From:

Cindy Walsh for Governor of Maryland

2522 N Calvert St

Baltimore , Maryland 21218

RE:          US elections are now captured and systemic with election violations.

To whom it concerns,

We all know that money in politics in America will have severe consequences for free and fair elections.  This is why Federal election laws that require any 501c3/4 that participates in elections do so in a way that does not damage a candidate’s campaign must be enforced.  While I am being told that this has different interpretations----all 501c3/4s I have seen involved in the past in forums and debates followed this law and indeed, most of these organizations follow the law by inviting all candidates to a forum or debate.  If we do not have this non-profit venue ordinary people will be excluded completely which is the goal.

In Maryland, it is two venues that are targeted by this relaxing of law.  The places failing to follow these 501c3/4 laws are heavily found in Baltimore, Maryland , a city with strong civil rights and discrimination.  Indeed, the politics are so crony in Baltimore and in Maryland that we have politicians running as democrats and serving as neo-conservatives.  The voting turnout in Baltimore is 20% at best and that is because citizens do not want to vote for the people the establishment runs.  Good people have stopped running because it is assumed that they-----as is happening to me----will be censured/blocked from any media or election publicity.  Last election a sitting State Assemblyman ran against a Senator incumbent and was not mentioned once in Baltimore and surrounding areas once….the silence on his campaign was deafening as media used primary session ‘progressive legislation’ as the reason to have the incumbent in the media over and over again.

The fact that many of the major 501c3/4 venues for election primaries only allow those identified as ‘front-runners’ in the debates -----whether public media or public universities has captured Maryland politics for the global corporate crowd as we watch American Constitutional rights and freedoms  and public justice be dismantled.

If your organization supports free and fair elections you know that these 501c3/4 laws must be preserved and if larger non-profits are allowed to ignore them then all venues will as well.  This is how you dismantle law and make it obsolete.  The loss of equal protection and Bill of Rights has already harmed the very people fighting hardest for the inclusion of all people under this protection-----women and people of color.  We know that if public justice is allowed to further deteriorate and policy like Trans Pacific Trade Pact to move forward , democracy in America will end and we will become an autocratic society which is where neo-liberalism is taking us.

Please fight for these election laws in the US that will be the only avenue for ordinary people to have the exposure needed to get their platforms out to the people.  It is after all an election platform that makes an election----not how much campaign contributions or which union backs you.  I am running my campaign in a way that educates Maryland citizens how to handle the influx of campaign money into US elections……building networks and educating  people not to pay attention to TV and radio campaign advertising as much of it is spin and untrue.  Having people research all candidates in a race and think if they see that candidate out in the community working for these  policies for which they advocate in elections will tell voters  whether these candidates are simply throwing ‘progressive bones’ as I call them. No money is needed if we build networks from which we can get the word out about the candidate we support.  This is of course what being engaged as a citizen entails but we have become lazy and allowed others to make our decisions.

So, please take the time to speak to me and look at my campaign as a test for what I know is happening all across America.  Maryland has the worst record with fraud and corruption and that extends to elections and it involves many civil rights violations aimed at the poor and people of color but now have reached to the working and middle-class.

You can look at my campaign website----it is also my political and social justice website---Citizens Oversight Maryland for my posts on my taking these election violations to Federal Court.

Thank you,

Cindy Walsh

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B. EXCERPTS FROM TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE

§ 241. Conspiracy against rights

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, orintimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth,Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any rightor privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the UnitedStates, or because of his having so exercised the same; or If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on thepremises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his freeexercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured– They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more thanten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed inviolation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or anattempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commitaggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be finedunder this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, orboth, or may be sentenced to death.


§ 245. Federally protected activities (b) Whoever, whether or not acting under color of law, by forceor threat of force willfully injures, intimidates or interferes with, orattempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with– (1) any person because he is or has been, or in order tointimidate such person or any other person or any class of personsfrom– (A) voting or qualifying to vote, qualifying orcampaigning as a candidate for elective office, or qualifying oracting as a poll watcher, or any legally authorized election official,in any primary, special, or general election;* * * * *shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than one year,or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed inviolation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempteduse, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fireshall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than ten years,or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation ofthis section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt tokidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravatedsexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title orimprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may besentenced to death.



In 1941, the Supreme Court reversed direction, overturningNewberry. The Court recognized that primary elections are anintegral part of the process bywhich candidates are elected to office.United States v. Classic, 313 U.S. 299 (1941). Classic changed thejudicial attitude toward federal intervention in election matters andushered in a new period of federal activism. Federal courts nowregard the right to vote in a fairly conducted election as aconstitutionally protected feature of United States citizenship.


Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964)

Page 377 U. S. 565

Constitution, state legislatures retained a most important place in our Nation's governmental structure. But representative government is, in essence, self-government through the medium of elected representatives of the people, and each and every citizen has an inalienable right to full and effective participation in the political processes of his State's legislative bodies. Most citizens can achieve this participation only as qualified voters through the election of legislators to represent them. Full and effective participation by all citizens in state government requires, therefore, that each citizen have an equally effective voice in the election of members of his state legislature. Modern and viable state government needs, and the Constitution demands, no less.

Logically, in a society ostensibly grounded on representative government, it would seem reasonable that a majority of the people of a State could elect a majority of that State's legislators. To conclude differently, and to sanction minority control of state legislative bodies, would appear to deny majority rights in a way that far surpasses any possible denial of minority rights that might otherwise be thought to result. Since legislatures are responsible for enacting laws by which all citizens are to be governed, they should be bodies which are collectively responsive to the popular will. And the concept of equal protection has been traditionally viewed as requiring the uniform treatment of persons standing in the same relation to the governmental action questioned or challenged. With respect to the allocation of legislative representation, all voters, as citizens of a State, stand in the same relation regardless of where they live. Any suggested criteria for the differentiation of citizens are insufficient to justify any discrimination, as to the weight of their votes, unless relevant to the permissible purposes of legislative apportionment. Since the achieving of fair and effective representation for all citizens

Page 377 U. S. 566

is concededly the basic aim of legislative apportionment, we conclude that the Equal Protection Clause guarantees the opportunity for equal participation by all voters in the election of state legislators. Diluting the weight of votes because of place of residence impairs basic constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment just as much as invidious discriminations based upon factors such as race, Brown v. Board of Education,347 U. S. 483, or economic status, Griffin v. Illinois,351 U. S. 12, Douglas v. California,372 U. S. 353. Our constitutional system amply provides for the protection of minorities by means other than giving them majority control of state legislatures. And the democratic ideals of equality and majority rule, which have served this Nation so well in the past, are hardly of any less significance for the present and the future.