Cocktails & Popcorn: Vinson v. Maceroni - Warren Has An Election Commission Situation - There Is More Than One Way To Breach The Children's Trust

Do you see the children in the trust?

This is the Seal of the City of Warren.

Contained within the seal are the arms.

Basically, you could look at it and figure out what was going on.

It was incorporated right after the Highway Act, where I like to color as literally paving the roads to the draining of resources of the inner city of Detroit.

You can also see that cities are incorporated under state law, which means they can also be dissolved, or rather, in this instance on the lower lever of extreme, held accountable as administrators of the public trust.

Very few realize the entire process of becoming an official candidate of office is through the official record of your arms, rather how ethics is measured in society through multiple attestation of the public record.

If you breach the public trust, well, that is just child abuse, because the public trust contains our most precious treasures, children, the posterity of a society.

From the 2019 City of Warren Budget:

The inscription “City of Warren, Michigan -Seal-” encompasses the circular seal. The hand holding a sheaf of wheat at the bottom represents the agricultural heritage of the community. The residential dwelling on the lower left hand side represents the residential character of the community. A factory on the right side represents commerce and industry. A hand holding a rocket on the upper left side represents national defense technology. The heads of a young man and young woman in center at the top represent the youth of the City.

Ethan Vinson

In this instance, playing word games on justifying breaching the charter itself, is worthy of being kicked off the ballot and considered child abuse.

I want to know what is going on with the Election Commission and its City Attorney coming up with his "Legal Genius" (trademark pending) analysis.

On that note, I would like to know what is going on with the Detroit Election Commission.

This is a nice transposable model for election integrity - argue it out under the tolling of election deadlines.

I can see a VR game.

Jim Maceroni

I was not allowed this luxury, provided below.

Just as people have died to vote, so have they died to run for office, so let us remain uplifted for a swift, final judicial determination.

Economy of time is important in elections, you know.

I believe we have ourselves a battle between the City Attorney, Ethan Vinson and the Judge James Maceroni because there is much more going on than meets the land development eye.

This case is going to be very cocktails & popcorn worthy because I see gerrymandering.

Judge boots 4 Warren council members off ballot, cites term limits

Mount Clemens — A Macomb County judge ruled Friday that four Warren City Council members must be removed from the August primary election ballot because they have exceeded the city’s term limits and are ineligible to run again.

Warren council candidate Connor Berdy had filed a complaint May 10 against Warren’s city clerk Sonya Buffa; the Warren City Election Commission and County Clerk Fred Miller, arguing that incumbents who exceeded 12 years of service in city office should not be permitted to run for another term.

Berdy requested that council members Scott Stevens, Steven Warner, Robert Boccomino and Council President Cecil St. Pierre all be removed from the ballot. Judge James Maceroni of Macomb Circuit Court agreed Berdy had “no other adequate legal remedy.”

Berdy celebrated in a news release, saying, “this was a thorough 11-page opinion that the Judge spent several days working on. We fully expect it will be upheld if the City appeals.

“It’s a new chapter for Warren city government.”

Not so fast, said Boccomino, the Warren City Council secretary, when reached for comment Friday.

“There’s no need for panic,” Boccomino said. “Regardless of which way the judge ruled on this, an appeal was expected — either by Berdy, if it was not in his favor, or by the city.”

“We have a right of appeal to the state’s higher court and I expect we will fast-track this and have something filed on Monday and hopefully a decision back by the end of the week,” he said.

Boccomino noted: “The final ballots don’t have to printed up before the beginning of July.”

“None of us want to be removed by a judge,” he stressed. “If the voters don’t think we are doing a good job, let them decide by electing someone else in to office.”

Boccomino said the issue stems from Warren City Council amending the city charter in 1998 to provide for term limits of three terms or 12 years on the council. In 2010, voters approved an amendment to change the council from nine members to seven, with five elected by districts and two at-large.

A city attorney opined that the district and at-large seats were distinct offices, and a council member could serve three terms in each.

It’s Boccomino’s view — and, he believes, of his colleagues — that the term limits began in 2010, not when council members were elected under different rules. Boccomino, who seeks a district seat, has served one term as an at-large councilman and two terms as a district councilman.

St. Pierre has been on council for six terms, four before the amendments and two after the amendments, and has filed to be an at-large councilman. Stevens, an at-large councilman, has served three consecutive terms as at at-large councilman and seeks a district seat in 2019.

Warner, the council’s vice president, seeks a district seat and has served two terms as a district councilman and one term as an at-large councilman.

“I think we will work this out in an appeal,” Boccomino said. “If not, perhaps there are other options.

 Someone might even run as a write-in candidate and set up another legal question of whether they were being denied a right to run for office and denying voters their right to vote.”

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