Many people have been angered at the suit I prepared against the press, and I have not had too much time to rsvp to all the concerns. I hope to clear them up here. The premise is that YOU, the VOTER is in charge, not the press, and YOU must have the exposure to the platform to make a full decision.
The Press has its freedom of speech to allow for unbridled criticism of government, my running for governor is just that.
I do not feel I owe anyone an apology, and I do ask that people see beyond the suit to the problem that you do not get the full range of choices when the press does not cover, by their own intitiative, those servants who have gotten on the ballot. Yes, I am on the ballot, in November.
There have been 40 +forums, to which I was invited to 2. The ONLY paper in VT that has sought ME out was the Vermont Commons. All other press you see or have seen has been a result of lots of contact starting from me and my helpers behind the scenes.
The catch 22 is that they won't cover me before I am on the ballot ( before june) because I am unofficial, and then after they won't cover me until I get 5% of the polls.
Without coverage or a big bank account- gotten from smoozing, something I am not into, the majority do not have means by which to make an opinion.
Furthermore, freedom of speech, is not equivalent of supression of speech by one over another, although the legal industry has morphed it to mean, nonethless, it is not.
I had the unfortunate experience of being in a predicament of filing lawsuits against the Town of Bratt, and the Reformer and the Senior Ctr over a decade ago. Because I won them all I have a false sense of accomplishment, and am fooled into thinking I could use that experience to help make things fairer for voters in the future,if not now. So we don't always have to choose between 2 evils. You will have 4 or 5 evils to choose from (lol)!
In truth, I have the legal premise and the argument, but since the law has been co-opted by the commercial code, it would be a battle that would not only drain me personally, but possibly endanger me.
I have very little desire to repeat the stress of a lawsuit. The suits I won were only won because the defendants underestimated my intelligence and made stupid sloppy mistakes because I was a neophyte. As well, my then-husband could intimidate the lawyers and put the fear of God into them quite well. Also the Reformer made fun of the sitting Judge in a stupid way so that he was disposed to rule against them and for us.
We also had the truth. But the truth is not enough.
The truth is, that EITHER the Republican OR THE Democrat that you have a choice of in November, will do nothing more than re-slice an ever-shrinking pie; with YOU on the wrong end of the fork.
AS it appears on my website and was posted here,the suit is too long, and more a stream of thought than anything else. To be ready to file it should be shorter. Much shorter, one or two pages.
In short I do feel as if it is a civil rights issue, that we should have choices. Choices that we learn of through the free means of the press. So we can have Leaders that come from the common people, if you will. If we are to be a government by the people, and of the people, we need to find a way to allow humble people to lead us! Are we not now being ruled by the wealthy for the benefit of greed? !
I hope you understand this. I want the other candidates to answer to my platform proposals: see Free Money. I want them implimented for all of Vermont.
. My frustration is your frustration that things are going so badly for our economy when they don't have to !
I have a very important means to deliver to the people of Vermont by way of reclaiming the monetary system to benefit the people . WE are in a critical time. No one is offering these solutions that is running. I have no money, and do not want that much of it.
All these things being so I hope you can begin to focus on the platform and if I do file, it will be after lots of prayer, and work to word it shorter, and only after filing an intent first so that the recipients will have an opportunity to avoid litigation through mediation and compromise.
You will not find the record of these suits under Emily Peyton , but rather under Pezz, my former name.
Be well, and thank you for reading