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The national presidential election is a distraction from local corruption. (1) You have no vote over the national election -- the electoral college does. (2) Local corruption (your congressperson, your local DA, your local Sheriff, your local county supervisors, your state attorney general) are the ones who you do have control over being in office or not, and they are the ones who are actively perpetuating corruption and these clown-show spectator-sport distractions in politics.

In my county, there was literally a torture ring in 2015 that was way worse than Guantanamo Bay^(2, 5). They were slamming people's heads into door frames and onto the floor, putting them into "figure 8" wrestling techniques and stretching their joints and ligaments while swearing at them and spitting on them. They caused several people "symptoms consistent with brain damage" and one internal bleeding. They then spent 3 years (spending probably over 100 million dollars in county and state tax funding) on attempting to cover it up, after the victims organized a lawsuit over it. They destroyed video evidence. They repeatedly lied under oath about it. Some of the videos were found by the attorney after the County spend years openly violating the public records act.

During those three years that they spent trying to cover it up and lie, other people were tortured and nearly murdered and sustained serious injuries such as permanent brain damage and serious kidney damage, and in 2019, they murdered someone using the same technique (the carotid chokehold) that people had been complaining was being used recklessly and without any reason, and blatantly allowing people who had been caught lying under oath, and committing wanton acts of brutality multiple times, to continue being employed as law enforcement. (Key words: David Ward, Charles Blount.)

The FBI later said that "justice was served" in the 2015 torture ring case because there was a lawsuit over it, and did nothing. All the cops who participated in the torture ring are still employed today, each making 250-280 thousand dollars a year off taxes, along with a 100k+/year retirement plan. You can reference the named individuals in the lawsuit^(2) on TransparentCalifornia.com, and see their current yearly salaries.

And then in 2021, the main victim who organized the lawsuit was shot at a protest in the face with a plastic/rubber grenade, shot at high velocity from a grenade launcher from close range, which exploded on impact, shattered his teeth into fragments, and caused horrific injury^(4). Other protesters were shot with rubber bullets. Everyone who was shot was shot in the head or face, meaning that the police were aiming at people's heads.

Nearby, there was a 100-person crime syndicate where the police were selling cocaine, steroids, illegal assault weapons, committing premeditated murders and other civil rights violations, targeting non-whites, taking bribes, and committing acts of fraud for money^(3). The FBI was supposed to indict people over it, but kicked the case down to the state attorney general, who did nothing about it for two years, until the FBI finally picked it back up and slapped two of the officers on the wrist with misdemeanor charges.

The mayor of one of the towns here has been caught in the act of raping or sexually assaulting 14 different women, including acts of violent brutality, using date rape drugs, and blackmail.^(1) The DA and Attorney Generally literally waited until after the statute of limitations had run out, and then said they wouldn't do anything because the statute of limitations had passed.

The Sheriff (Eddie Engram) literally participated in a coverup of a 2017 torture and near murder incident, lied about the camera's ability to record, oversaw the destruction of the records of the camera equipment, and signed his name on the act of suborning perjury from the witnesses who saw the event. This is on record.

The Sheriff's wife crashed into a house, completely wasted, after going over a rock retaining wall, went through a wall, and injured a resident inside the house, in a residential neighborhood. She had 3 prior DUI convictions. She was let off with no jail time, kept her license, and only had to pay $8,000 to the resident that was injured.

Our congressperson (Jared Huffman) endorses crime committed by government, endorses government corruption, endorses judicial misconduct, and endorses violations of constitutional "rights" committed by his own employees working in his own office.

These are people you can run against. They are people who win by popular vote -- not vote by electoral college -- in the single digits.

Our county supervisors ubiquitously violate all the laws, and defame victims in public, and are probably taking bribes based on the enormous disparate treatment (which is blatantly illegal under the Supreme Court case law, Willowbrook v. Olech).

Sources:

1. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=dominic+foppoli+rape+14+women&atb=v330-1&ia=web
2. https://www.docdroid.net/6zfUDtN/martinez-v-sonoma-2015-pdf#page=9
3. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/11/exclusive-impugned-east-contra-costa-cops-allegedly-schemed-to-fake-college-degrees/
4. https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2020/06/santa-rosa-native-leader-hospitalized.html?m=1
5. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sonoma+county+yard+counseling

Most people in this county DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS STUFF because it got covered up. Pay attention to LOCAL POLITICS.

Over at r/EndMassIncarceration, we are working on a list of criminal justice reform organizations in the United States. In California, we are aware of the following criminal justice reform organizations:

• The Anti-Recidivism Coalition: Empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network, comprehensive reentry services, and opportunities to advocate for policy change.
• California Alliance for Youth & Community Justice: Working t~~~~o drastically reduce incarceration and improve outcomes for system-involved youth in California.
• California Prison Focus: Works to expose and end human rights abuses against incarcerated people in California.
• Californians for Safety and Justice: Organizing Californians to deepen criminal justice reforms and build a foundation for shared safety.
• Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice: Unlocking the leadership of young people to dream beyond bars.
• The Insight Prison Project: Putting restorative justice into practice at San Quentin Prison.
• RJOY (Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth): Working to end the school to prison pipeline using the restorative justice paradigm.
• Silicon Valley D-Bug: A story-telling, community organizing, and advocacy organization based in San José, California.
• Smart Justice California: Educates and emboldens policymakers who support meaningful criminal justice reforms that promote safety, fairness and healthy communities.
• UnCommon Law: Providi access to justice and healing for people impacted by incarceration.
• Young Women's Freedom Center: Supporting self-determined, healthy and fulfilling lives, while building individual and collective leadership to change conditions, culture and policy toward decarceration and decriminalization.
• Youth Justice Coalition: Working to build a peoples movement to challenge America's addiction to incarceration and discrimination in Los Angeles Countys, Californias and the nations juvenile injustice systems.

If you are aware of any other criminal justice reform organizations in California, please post a link to their web site here, or PM it to me, u/ichabod801.

Thank you.

Judge Esther Salas Assigned to Epstein Deutsche Bank Case 4 Days Before Husband, Son Shot

https://www.newsweek.com/judge-esther-salas-shooting-deutsche-bank-epstein-1518974

Deutsche Bank staff saw suspicious Trump and Kushner activity – report

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/19/deutsche-bank-trump-kushner-russia-new-york-times?CMP=share_btn_tw

BREAKING: Here’s video of Trump with Jeffrey Epstein at Mar-a-Lago. You can clearly see they’re best friends. Both standing and staring at women dancing while talking about them. Bunch of creeps.

https://twitter.com/funder/status/1151471819247038469

Katie Johnson describes her alleged rape by Donald Trump. https://youtu.be/Jpstc9r_esA

Witnesses allege Trump hosted cocaine-fueled sex parties with girls as young as 15: report

https://washingtonpress.com/2019/07/10/witnesses-allege-trump-hosted-cocaine-fueled-sex-parties-with-girls-as-young-as-15-report/

Inside Donald Trump’s One-Stop Parties: Attendees Recall Cocaine and Very Young Models

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-donald-trumps-one-stop-parties-attendees-recall-cocaine-and-very-young-models?source=twitter&via=desktop

Trump Money Laundering...

https://www.reddit.com/r/RussiaLago/comments/hq0k99/trump_money_laundering/

The growing case of Trump Money Laundering: multiple bankrupt casinos, multiple violations. Secret cash purchases of Trump property. "We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia." (Don Jr.) "We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia." (Eric) -- lots more...

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Mueller/comments/9emebw/the_growing_case_of_trump_money_laundering/

Trump is 'owned by Putin' and has been 'laundering money' for Russians, claims MSNBC's Donny Deutsch

https://www.foxnews.com/media/donald-trump-russian-asset-msnbc

Russian Government Bank Deposited $500 Million into Deutsche Bank Subsidiary as it Lent to Trump

https://forensicnews.net/2020/01/21/russian-government-bank-deposited-500-million-into-deutsche-bank-subsidiary-as-it-lent-to-trump/

Trump Money Laundering Investigation Demand By Scotland Blindsides White House

https://bipartisanreport.com/2020/02/27/trump-money-laundering-investigation-demand-by-scotland-blindsides-w-h/

Trump’s Scottish Golf Properties Chart: Trump Turnberry and Trump International Golf Links Scotland

https://medium.com/@wsiegelman/trumps-scottish-golf-properties-chart-trump-turnberry-and-trump-international-golf-links-scotland-9e7dcd4bd905

Trump Scotland

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1P0e9dvgOQKU-FkgXefAZT2QMknMWK_RF

Hey there folks!

I'm registered as No-Party-Preference and I'm wondering come November, am I gonna run into any hiccups in voting? It only recently became clear to me that your party affiliation dictates who is on your ballot, which I find kind of odd.

I'd be as likely to vote for a Democrat as I would a Republican, and it would be less than cool if that wasn't a thing that a ballot allows.

Approval Voting is expected to reduce hyperpartisanship, and elect more broadly supported candidates, and is the preferred single-winner election system among experts in voting methods.

It passed by a landslide in Fargo, ND, and I talked with the guy who ran the successful campaign. He said he collaborated with Represent.US, the DSA, Our Revolution, the Libertarian Party, the Green Party, the Movement Voter Project, etc., and emphasized the importance of building coalitions. He also had a well-known Democrat and Republican Sponsor the petition. He ended up collecting a lot of the signatures himself, but even so it only took three months to collect enough signatures to get on the ballot.

In addition to California, Florida, is also going for it, along with some municipalities in North Dakota and Missouri.

Approval Voting seems like the best hope for making government work in the best interest of the people.

So, if you're interested in helping to get /r/ApprovalVoting on the ballot in California, check out /r/ApprovalCalifornia, or sign up at the Center for Election Science.

Aaron Hamlin, co-founder of the Center for Election Science, is also doing an AMA today (Monday 1/14/19) if anyone is interested in learning more.