American Mothers Political Party Launched Today!
We will never shut up, give up, or go away!
Today is the 162nd anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony launched the women’s movement to prevent domestic violence. It never caught on with the suffragettes or the feminists or NOW. But, the Battered Mothers Custody Conference, Mama Liberty, Rights for Mothers, Randi James, and Angel Fury are kicking butt and taking names!
Today, they launched the American Mothers Political Party. Their new website is loaded with valuable information and resources. You will be able to easily access them by clicking on their signature photo on my blogroll.
I admire these women tremendously. They are leveraging the hell out of exceedingly scarce resources. They are clever, fiercely protective, brilliant, diligent, irreverrent, fearless, courageous, funny, and strong. They have done a phenomenal job of digging up research and ferreting out experts. They networked and brainstormed ideas. They started web sites. They raised holy hell and looked for solutions. They went after a judge in California and got his sorry butt voted off the bench. And, they’ve gotten the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence off the dime too.
- National Dialogue, July 20, 2010 at 12:00 – 1:00 EDT
When a clueless twit of a judge snatched their kids from their protective arms and gave these innocent babes to a known abusive man, these women didn’t whine. They didn’t wait to be rescued. They kicked butt. Bravo!
If you are having a bad day, I hope you’ll check out their YouTube video. It will make you proud to be a woman. . .or a man who supports us.
This story is similar to some of the other stories. Except this one happened to the daughter of an LA County Judge. This is how they take the children away. The San Bernardino judge, Katrina West, threatened the judge through the mother’s attorney, that if he took the stand and lied, she would report him to the Cal Judicial Performance Board. This story involves a commissioner, Michael Gassner, who made biased rulings in favor of Atty. Richard Tuckerman for the deadbeat dad. A 170.1 Motion was filed against him for bias. He recused himself after becoming a member of the Elkins Family Law Task Force (created to – among other things – prevent such bias from occurring. It was sent to his good friend, Judge Katrina West, who held a kangaroo court. West gave 50/50 custody to deadbeat dad, who refused to even visit his daughter in Texas for the year she was there. Mother had moved to Texas with daughter because with no child support and without help with daycare costs, she could not afford California. The deadbeat didn’t even want to help in the care of the child. But the deadbeat’s family has money and he is now a resident in a Southern Cal hospital. He expected his ex-girlfriend (Dawn, the mother of his child) to live near him in order that he could come by to visit if he had nothing else to do, and also did not want to pay child support. 15-month-old girl given to deadbeat four nights straight without contact with her mother. The toddler was returned in a transce-like state, lethargic. Later returned with bruises, extremely bad diaper rashes. Mandated reporter called police and CPS. CPS contacted deadbeat. He ignored them for two months until CPS worker left message saying will be sent to a different department. He called. He and his mother lied. But the bruising stopped. And the daughter gradually stopped yelling at her baby doll to “Shut up, My God, shut up!!!!” This wacko dad yelled at this two-week-old baby to “SHUT UP!!!”. Crazy. A 170.1 was filed against Judge Katrina West. It was granted and she was removed from the case and her order vacated. Her presiding judge, Raymond Haight, agreed that Dawn did not have a fair trial. But he kept her order in place by threatening the mother that “Parents that don’t want to cooperate can lose custody.” He sent to Mediator Deborah Bowser, who was mainly concerned with why the mom had filed the 170.1 against Judge West. She ruled in West’s favor so Judge West’s biased order is in place until next trial. A website, CourthouseCollusion.com was started by women to expose this injustice. The mother lost her job at NBC News in Fort Worth, Tx. and is now on welfare in CA. Her daughter is two and a half now but still does not want to go. Pro-daddy lawyer Sheryl McDonnell from Riverside (according to several law offices in Riverside and San Bernarndino) is now going to trial to get full custody for the father because the mother (Dawn) would not sign an agreement which included the mom having to contact any and all websites and have comments about the father removed…but wait…she added that the mother has to email all sites that even discuss the case in SB County!!! Cover up! Plus this woman is known to go after full custody for the fathers. What a piece of work she is. Disgusting. Men are doing mothers in without needing these mother-hating women making a living and reputation as pro-daddy. This attorney also said no child support order in place since Judge West’s order vacated. So deadbeat stopped paying the $71 ordered by the corrupt judge West. But they all sure kept the vacated custody arrangement in place. http://courthousecoverup.wordpress.com/
New trial set for 2011.
With the women involved in this case of corruption and anger towards mothers, it’s good to hear the good that most women do with their lives and their careers.
Together we can.
Another good woman who is making change happen is Kathleen Russell of Center for Judicial Excellence. See her website.
I currently have a case in front of Commissioner Gassner. I have experienced first hand, the unethical and biased behavior that goes on as “common place.” He should be removed from the bench. There is favortisim. Gassner turns a blind eye to the procedural rules when they are not followed by “one of the boys” that appear regularly in his court. Donald Haslam is known to be one of his “Golden Boys” that consistently gets away with not having to follow the rules. Commissioner Gassner violates very important Ethical Canons under the judicial handbook. He allows members of the “old boys club” to mistreat other parties, namely self-represented litigants. He has ex parte communications with lawyers, has private meetings in his chambers, and has a predisposition before the parties even begin speaking. It is disgraceful, and I am embarassed to work in the legal field. Something needs to be done about it.