Saturday, July 14, 2007

697 Surrey-Sharons 1/2MillClaim

RECORDS FOLLOW THE OFFICE NOT THE PERSON.
So True Bill

PS. See Ya Later, and the Jesus Delivers Truck should be there today.

Subj:Re: 697Surrey:City-Saint Paul response/COUNTER DEMAND 1/2MILLION -SHARONANDERSON
Date:7/13/2007 1:36:22 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From:Sharon4Anderson
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Dated: Fri. 13thJuly07 TIME: 1:15pm
RECORDS FOLLOW THE OFFICE NOT THE PERSON
DEMAND LONG FORM COMPLAINT IN ITS ENTIRETY
FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS AT 697 SURREY.
LEGAL CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE
OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING
IN APPARANT CRIMINAL
MATTERS.
Pursuant to my call today to consolidate these issues of False Statement
by Joel.essling@ci.stpaul.mn.us apparantly acting in concort with
aaron.foster@ci.stpaul.mn.us indicted in the Murder of Barb Winn,
manager of the Police Impound Lot>
Andy you stated Sharon's car was abandoned and sold for $150.00, which is bizzare
as Sharon still holds Title, still paying $40 monthly car insurance etc.
You stated you would e-mail me what is on your computer screen so
Candidate Ward 2 Sharon Anderson must consolidate these issues
Please be so informed the owner Decedant http://cpljimanderson.blogspot.com
was Murdered, Intestate mandating the State Attorney General intervention.
Further please be so aprised that Sharon has over 30+ Blogs at $1,000.00 pr blog
plus Private Attorney fees at $240.00 pr hour to expose http://sicko-citystpaul.blogspot.com

In a message dated 7/12/2007 12:54:25 P.M. Central Daylight Time, Bruce.Engelbrekt@ci.stpaul.mn.us writes:
Ms. Anderson:

I am a manager in the Public Works Department, and I oversee the City's assessment activities. I was asked to respond to your recent question regarding the nuisance abatement assessments on 697 Surrey Avenue in Saint Paul.

Our records indicate the property owners are James R. Anderson and Lyle Rambo. All assessment notices have been sent to these names at the 697 Surrey Ave address.

The first assessment (Proj. no. J0707A, Assessment no. 8337) was approved by the City Council at its public hearing on July 5th. Notice of that hearing was sent to the property owner on 6/1/07. The assessment was for costs incurred by the City on 4/24/07 to "Remove pile of refuse from rear yard and refuse from camper trailer." The total assessment amount was $420.00, broken down as follows: garbage abatement fee for 1 hour of time ($260), general refuse fee for removal of 2.5 cubic yards of material ($70), mattress fee for two mattresses ($20), DSI/code enforcement admin fee ($50), PW/assessments admin fee ($20).

The second assessment (Proj. no. J0708A, Assessment no. 8350) has not yet been approved by the City Council. A public hearing notice for ratification of the assessment was mailed on 6/22/07. That notice announced both a legislative hearing (with a city staff member) on July 10th, and a City Council public hearing coming up on August 1st. The assessment was for costs incurred by the City on 5/16/07 to "Remove camper from rear yard." The total assessment amount will be $460.00, broken down as follows: garbage abatement fee for 1.5 hours of time ($390), DSI/code enforcement admin fee ($50), PW/assessments admin fee ($20).

I hope this provides the information you need. If you have any further questions, feel free to reply to this email message or call our assessments section at 651-266-8858.

Bruce Engelbrekt
Real Estate Manager

AFFIDAVIT OF SHARON ANDERSON CANDIDATE
WARD (2) VA WIDOW-WHISTLEBLOWER-PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Eighth Amendment

Adopted in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, the Eighth Amendment was inspired by language from the English Bill of Rights (1689). It declares: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” These three clauses provide the only substantive federal constitutional limits on the severity of permissible sanctions in criminal justice.

The Court has done little to interpret “excessive fines,” declaring that it would overrule a lower court only if the fine was “so grossly excessive as to amount to a deprivation of property without due process of law” (Waters‐Pierce Oil Co. v. Texas (No. 1), 1909, p. 86).




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... on bail, I believe that this "traditional right to freedom before conviction permits the unhampered preparation of a defense." Stack v. Boyle, 342 U.S. 1, 4 (1951). See also Kinney v. Lenon, 425 F.2d 209, 210 (CA9 1970), where the Court of Appeals found that "the appellant is the only person who can
to reexamine every order complained of. They represent exercises of discretion, upon questions, usually, of fact. Trivial differences or [342 U.S. 1, 13] frivolous objections should be dismissed. The Appellate Court should only reverse for clear abuse of discretion or other mistake of law. And ...
THEREFORE PLEASE CONSOLIDATE THESE ISSUES
PROVIDE A LONG FORMAL COMPLAINT
RATIFICATION OF ASSESSMENTS ARE HEREBY CHALLENGED
TO BE USED IN ELECTION CAMPAIGN RE: CRIMINAL STATUTES
MS. 211B.15 sub.3
Sharon challenges constitutionality of the Citys Foreign Government
Policies with Legislative Hearing Officer appointed by Council President.
City Charter Chapter sec.18.01, also www.oah.state.mn.us
Administrative Hearing do not, repeat do not have Jurisdiction of
Crimes of Theft, Trespass,Treason
FURTHER AFFIANT SAYETH NOT AT THIS TIME: EXCEPT WHY WAS THE COUNTY AUDITOR
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                      BlogItBabe2007 Candidate profile Sharon4Anderson's Legal BlogBriefs Sharon4Anderson St.Paul City Council Ward2 SA-Blogs2007
                      LEGAL NOTICE: /s/Sharon4Anderson@aol.com ECF_P165913Pacersa1299 telfx: 651-776-5835: Document's are based on SEC filings, current events, interviews, press releases, and knowledge gained as financial journalists, Private Attorney Generals, Candidates for Public Office documents expressly forbids its writers from having financial interests in securities they recommend to readers, affiliated entities, employees, and agents an initial trade recommendation published on the Internet, after a direct mail publication is sent, before acting on that recommendations, and may contain errors. Investment decisions should not be based solely on theseSHARON-MN-ECF: Judges-Greylord-Libby-Guilty LUFSKY Scap129FAnokaP2697(1976) Cpl James R. Anderson USMC 11022885 Bio for Sharon Anderson , TAKING DL_AOL Journal Legal Eagle SharonAnderson 1 Journalism Ethics Blogger: 1986 Petition Jane Duchene MN Bull SharonScarrellaAndersonUSBriefs - Buzznet Sharon'sFedCases1973to2006_13pdf Anderson + Advocates http://www.sharonanderson.org/ http://www.sharon4anderson.org/


                    • Monday, July 9, 2007

                      Dorothy no longer works for Ramsey County. Her position is currently vacant, but will be filled by the end of this year. Pat O'Connor, the former Hennepin County Recorder is currently under contract to Ramsey County to provide services in the Property Records Department.
                      -----Original Message-----
                      Subject:RE: Where is Department Head/Auditor Dorothy McClung
                      Date:7/9/2007 4:37:15 P.M. Central Daylight Time
                      From:David.Twa@CO.RAMSEY.MN.US
                      To:Sharon4Anderson@aol.com
                      Sent from the Internet (Details)

                      From: Sharon4Anderson@aol.com [mailto:Sharon4Anderson@aol.com]
                      Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 4:10 PM
                      To: Twa, David
                      Subject: Where is Department Head/Auditor Dorothy McClung

                      Why is Dorothy McClung missing from www.co.ramsey.mn.us ?
                      BlogItBabe2007
                      Candidate profile Sharon4Anderson's Legal BlogBriefs Sharon4Anderson St.Paul City Council Ward2 SA-Blogs2007
                      LEGAL NOTICE: /s/Sharon4Anderson@aol.com ECF_P165913Pacersa1299 telfx: 651-776-5835: Document's are based on SEC filings, current events, interviews, press releases, and knowledge gained as financial journalists, Private Attorney Generals, Candidates for Public Office documents expressly forbids its writers from having financial interests in securities they recommend to readers, affiliated entities, employees, and agents an initial trade recommendation published on the Internet, after a direct mail publication is sent, before acting on that recommendations, and may contain errors. Investment decisions should not be based solely on theseSHARON-MN-ECF: Judges-Greylord-Libby-Guilty LUFSKY Scap129FAnokaP2697(1976) Cpl James R. Anderson USMC 11022885 Bio for Sharon Anderson , TAKING DL_AOL Journal Legal Eagle SharonAnderson 1 Journalism Ethics Blogger: 1986 Petition Jane Duchene MN Bull SharonScarrellaAndersonUSBriefs - Buzznet Sharon'sFedCases1973to2006_13pdf Anderson + Advocates www.sharonanderson.org www.sharon4anderson.org


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                      July 5th,2007 Affidavit of Sharon Scarrella Anderson Candidate Ward (2)
                      Thanks Mike Mischke for Griffin Post.
                      Please read http://freedom-4you.blogspot.com/ with today's 5July07 Agenda
                      ISSUES:
                      Lantry in the legislative branch: acting signator for Executive Branch Realestate,Valuation Engineer position unfilled, Item 35 $140,000.xx taxed against your propertys
                      7.5% interest?????
                      TITLE 12 . BANKS AND BANKING - TOC Separation of Powers Doctrine.
                      Milking Cows or We the Citizenery
                      If Lantry is now the tax assessor, by illegal ratification of assessments in Sharons Case to Steal Cars, Trailers, Damage to property without Criminal Charges to Sharon, then the County Auditor Dorothy McClung former Tax Court Judge, Revenue Commissioner,Lawyer,
                      is complicit to Steal Realestate, Manulipate Elections/Residences etc.on your tax statements.
                      On the http://www.co.ramsey.mn.us/ web site I cannot find the Authority of Auditor
                      Anyone out there remember Lou McKenna, Indictments-Grand Jury of John Finley
                      Then and only Then WE had respect for County Attorney Sue Gaertner.
                      JURISDICTION/AUTHORITY
                      MS 2.724ChiefJustice Marcia Moermond has illegally condemned over 1,124 vacant buildings without Quiet Titles:or having a Law or Realestate License:
                      AFFIANT: Submits this Whistleblower Affidavit in Good Faith
                      under the guildines of Perjury and also as a Victim.
                      "You have to wonder whether James Griffin would have appreciated the
                      legacy he might someday be saddled with--if the proposed James
                      Griffin Garden Rowhouses ever do get built, that is.

                      The St. Paul City Council, acting as the board of the city's Housing
                      and Redevelopment Authority, voted 4-3 on June 20 to approve a
                      $673,000 public subsidy for the construction of the five-unit, $2.2
                      million townhouse development on St. Anthony Avenue in Merriam Park.
                      That's a taxpayer contribution of a whopping $134,600 per unit for a
                      project that will cost $440,000 per unit to build. The developers
                      apparently plan to sell the townhouses at a loss--for a reported
                      $350,000 each--a concession, perhaps, to the project's less than
                      Edenic location, hard by the traffic-choked Snelling Avenue exit ramp
                      from eastbound I-94.

                      "I havent seen anything like it in all my years on the City
                      Council," said Patrick Harris, who with Lee Helgen and Dan Bostrom
                      voted against the public subsidy. "It doesnt make sense on any level."

                      Actually, it does make sense if you appreciate the idiosyncrasies of
                      St. Paul politics and the tentacled nature of the familial,
                      religious, ethnic and other alliances that make up the social fabric
                      of the city.

                      Developers Erick Goodlow and James Garrett, boyhood friends and
                      partners in 4RM+ULA (Form plus Urban Land Acquisition), are not your
                      everyday neophyte developers. Goodlow is a member of both the St.
                      Paul Planning and Parks and Recreation commissions. Garrett is the
                      grandson of the project's namesake, the late James Griffin, a St.
                      Paul School Board member, St. Paul deputy police chief and patriarch
                      of a family that comes as close to African-American royalty as you
                      can get in St. Paul. The developers had the support of Ward 4 City
                      Council member Jay Benanav, ostensibly because of the project's
                      "green" construction features. And in an all-ward form of government
                      where political horse-trading holds sway in City Hall, that was that.

                      Mayor Chris Coleman and St. Paul Planning and Economic Development
                      director Cecile Bedor both opposed the public subsidy. In a statement
                      after the City Council's vote, Coleman called it "bad for business,
                      bad for our budget and bad for the city of St. Paul." The mayor, who
                      does not have veto power in HRA decisions, said he could not support
                      more than a half-bad subsidy of $300,000.

                      Bedor, reading from a six-page statement, said the Griffin project
                      only lends credence to the widespread belief that environmentally
                      friendly construction has to be costly, and invites criticism of
                      other "green" developments. She then proceeded to do the exact same
                      thing: "We could fund a great deal of sustainable construction with
                      these funds," she said.

                      The city did place two conditions on the public subsidy: that the
                      developers enter into an agreement that would require future owners
                      to give the city half of the appreciated value of any rowhouses that
                      sell within the first 10 years, and that four of the units be sold
                      before work even begins. The developers said both conditions will
                      pose a challenge in light of the current soft housing market.

                      Really.

                      The Griffin Rowhouses have been on the drawing board for the last
                      eight years, during which the developers have worked with four
                      general contractors, three mayors and four PED directors--and have
                      have already received and spent $166,000 in two private loans
                      guaranteed by the city.

                      Does this sound like the kind of investment youd willingly make with
                      your money?

                      Oh, that's right. It IS your money.

                      Michel Mischke
                      Summit Hill


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                      Summit Hill, St. Paul
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