March 23, 2011
Dear Ms. Tringali:
Thank you for contacting me regarding parental alienation. I appreciate hearing from you.
As a mother of two, I believe strong families are the foundation of our country and provide an invaluable support system that allows our children to grow into successful adults. Children benefit from having both parents actively involved in their lives. Tragically, not all children have healthy family situations. I believe that it is important that the best interest of the children be paramount in making decisions when a healthy family situation does not exist. As your Senator, I will work to encourage strong family values that foster positive and loving environments for children.
Again, thank you for taking the time to contact me regarding this important issue. As your Senator, it is important for me to hear from those I represent regarding the issues affecting New Hampshire and our country. Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of any further assistance.
Sincerely,
Kelly A. Ayotte
U. S. Senator
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
A Pinky Promise
Several months ago my son Zachary and I had a conversation about some military items I had for him. He had wanted a military issued army helmet and I had gotten him one from my Dad. I also told him that his Grandpa had also given me a gas mask to give him. Zachary was so excited. During this conversation I promised to get his military gear to him right away. Zachary in turn made a pinky promise to send me a picture of him in his gear. I was excited as I had not had a picture of my son in several years.
As promised I made sure to drop off his stuff right away as he was expecting me to do. Zachary knows Mom always keeps her promises. He was so excited to get his stuff and it was all we talked about on our next telephonic communication. It made me happy to hear the pure joy in his voice. At the end of this conversation Zachary's voice changed as he sadly told me his pupa wouldn't let him give me a picture. He apologized that he couldn't keep his pinky promise. I told Zachary that is was okay and I knew that he meant to keep his promises but sometimes promises spoken are sometimes broken and I knew it was not his fault.
Recently my family had come to town for my Grandfathers 65th birthday. My Dad had brought up alot of military gear for Zachary b/c my Dad had just retired from the Army and he knew Zachary would love it. After my Grandfathers party, my sister Kristen, her son Ethan, my dad and Alana went to Zachary's house to drop off the military gear. They knocked on the door and Zachary answered. Kristen introduced herself and Eathen, my dad introduced himself, Alana just stood there, it took Zachary a minute and screamed out his sisters name. Zachary was in shock as this was an unexpected visit. He yelled up to his puppa who was coming down the stairs while Zachary invited my family in without his pupas approval LOL.
The visit went well. My Dad showed Zachary how to use the gear and made him do pushups as they both giggled. Ethan played with Zachary's army men destroying Zachary's fort but thats what 2 year olds do lol. It was okay that I was not there it was important to me that my family got to see him. It was good for Zachary to see he has family that cares and wants to have a relationship with him. My siblings have called Zachary many times in the past but was always denied by the guardian to speak with Zachary. They still send him cards and gifts and I know they miss him to.
The most important aspect for me with this visit was unexpected. Zachary's pinky promise was kept. How Ironic.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
A word to the wise.
As I continue to assimulate information I have become an astute observer. It is important that my explaination in this movement remain lucid for the people so that they not lose interest in egalitarian even when such intrests interfere with their own interests. I continue to remain deference to others so they may transend beyond their own cases. One of the most important tenets of our movement is that that the people feel they can permeate the knowledge they have gained.
My choice of words were chosen to explain that a simple person may not completely understand what I am saying. I raise this issue as I see some who use words that show their intellagence but does nothing for the people if people do not understand what is being said. When you want to get your point across please keep it simple.
My choice of words were chosen to explain that a simple person may not completely understand what I am saying. I raise this issue as I see some who use words that show their intellagence but does nothing for the people if people do not understand what is being said. When you want to get your point across please keep it simple.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
An American Parent
My daughter and I arrived in Union Station at 7:01 a.m. on July 26, 2009 for the F4J Parent Justice March. My first visit to our Nations Capitol was not intended for site seeing. What I am seeing from my government is a lack of respect to the American Family. I have had ENOUGH. It is our governments intention to give our parental rights to the UN. Bringing two bullhorns and two signs I was READY to tell America to wake up. As a concerned American Parent I used my voice to speak for us all. Using the bullhorn I let the people know of our governments intention and to inform them of the Parental Rights Amendment encouraging them to call thier local state Represenitives and Senators.I live here in New Hampshire. I have called, faxed and emailed asking them to support / sponsor the Parental Rights Amendment. All I got was a couple of KISS OFF LETTERS. So I think it is important to acknowledge their failure to sponsor / support this amendment. YES I will call them out on it. What an embarrassment to the citizens of New Hampshire.
Senator Judd Gregg (R- NH) 202-224-3324
Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D- NH) 202-224-2841
Representative Carol Shea-Porter (D - 01) 202-225-5456
Representative Paul Hodes, II (D - 02) 202-225-5206
Let your voice be heard. You can not be silent on this issue.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Law the court failed to follow
M.G.L. Modification of judgment as to care and custody of minor children; temporary orders
http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/215-6c.htm
I am very aware of this law and citied it in court and within my filings on many occasions. The sad truth in Massachusetts is Judges just don't care about the laws. Failure to notify a parent who had joint custody or hold a hearing within the five days required by law demonstrates their lack of respect of the laws. I just call them as I see them as nothing was done to correct this error and by their failure cost me my rights to my son Zachary.
http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/215-6c.htm
I am very aware of this law and citied it in court and within my filings on many occasions. The sad truth in Massachusetts is Judges just don't care about the laws. Failure to notify a parent who had joint custody or hold a hearing within the five days required by law demonstrates their lack of respect of the laws. I just call them as I see them as nothing was done to correct this error and by their failure cost me my rights to my son Zachary.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
“No Jail for being a Dad” -ACTION ALERT F4J
It is time for the united front of Fathers-4-Justice and all of its supporters to inform Prosecuting Attorney, Ron O'Brian, and his staff that we do not agree with his “Nifong” type application of the law in the cases, “ Ohio vs. Paul Fisher” aka Superman and “ Ohio vs. Donald Tenn” aka Spiderman.
Full story here
“No Jail for being a Dad”
It has been asked that you call
(614) 462-3555 and ask for Ron O'Brian between 9:00 AM and 2:00 PM eastern time. If he is unavailable, leave a message and request a return call.
As always, be polite and courteous. With the volume of calls expected, you will most likely be talking to over-worked secretaries, please be considerate.
Our message is simple:
Inform them that you will be watching these cases, and that you will be notifying other public officials of your disapproval of the conduct of Ron O’Brian’s administration. Also, state that you are displeased with the severity of the charges and feel this entire charade is wasting taxpayer dollars. It is self-evident that there was no malice or intent to cause harm. The demonstration was peaceful and brought much needed attention to government policies that are harming America 's families and children.
If you do not receive a return call, please call everyday until you do, or until the verdict has been reached on April 13th.
Full story here
“No Jail for being a Dad”
It has been asked that you call
(614) 462-3555 and ask for Ron O'Brian between 9:00 AM and 2:00 PM eastern time. If he is unavailable, leave a message and request a return call.
As always, be polite and courteous. With the volume of calls expected, you will most likely be talking to over-worked secretaries, please be considerate.
Our message is simple:
Inform them that you will be watching these cases, and that you will be notifying other public officials of your disapproval of the conduct of Ron O’Brian’s administration.
If you do not receive a return call, please call everyday until you do, or until the verdict has been reached on April 13th.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Courthouse missing trial tapes
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/03/05/missing_trial_tapes_spawn_an_impasse/
Missing trial tapes spawn an impasse
Stenographer denies she has themBy Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff / March 5, 2009
When they do their jobs right, court stenographers attract little attention. They tap quietly on a shorthand machine at more than 200 words a minute to make a record of testimony or repeat verbatim everything said in court into a tape recorder. But among the cast of characters, they seldom play a starring role.Jeanne Lentini, however, is getting a close-up, and not a flattering one. After working in the state courts under contract for eight years, she left Massachusetts in the spring of 2007 with tape recordings she made of 17 criminal and civil trials, court officials said. Despite demands to provide transcripts or return the tapes, which belong to the state, the officials said, she has sent back only seven recordings and some blank tapes.Transcripts are the lifeblood of the appeal process, so the missing tapes have stymied litigants in 10 criminal and civil cases, preventing them from challenging the verdicts. The individuals range from a former State Police sergeant convicted in 2006 of stealing cocaine from his department's drug unit to a 68-year-old Newton man who lost a malpractice lawsuit against a urologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.Lentini, 60, could soon be facing her own legal problems, although she insists she has sent the tapes back and has done nothing wrong.Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, whose office represents the trial courts in legal matters, wrote Lentini last summer demanding she return all the tapes. Coakley is "currently reviewing the matter" be cause of Lentini's failure to comply, a spokeswoman for the AG said yesterday. And a judge has ordered Lentini to attend a March 26 court hearing to explain why she should not be held in contempt - and face possible criminal charges - for disobeying court orders to return the tapes.Lawyers involved in the untranscribed trials are also taking action. The appellate attorney for the convicted state trooper asked a Norfolk Superior Court judge yesterday to free her client from prison on bail because 2 1/2 years have passed since she requested the transcript."This case is more than just a mere delay," Rosemary C. Scapicchio, the Boston lawyer for the former trooper, Timothy White, said in the motion filed in court. "It is a 30-month delay, and it appears that the missing transcript will never be produced." The judge has referred the request to a colleague on the bench.Court reporters convert their stenographic notes or tape recordings into transcripts and provide them to lawyers, who typically pay $3 a page.Lentini, who lives in Virginia Beach, Va., said yesterday that she has returned all the tapes sought by the courts and is baffled and irritated by claims to the contrary."I thought this was taken care of," she said in a telephone interview. "I sent them all back. I did that last summer."She said further that the court system treated so-called per diem, or contracted, court reporters with such little respect that she plans to send to the state all the tapes she saved from other trials she worked on since 1999 - hundreds of recordings - and reverse the postal charges. Contracted court reporters are authorized to keep recordings from trials for which they prepared transcripts, she said.Lentini said she has no intention of returning to Massachusetts for the court hearing about whether she should be held in contempt.The unusual dispute hardly marks the first time court reporters in Massachusetts have come under fire. In 2003, a committee of judges and lawyers appointed by the state Supreme Judicial Court issued a blistering report saying Massachusetts ranked among the worst states in providing timely, accurate transcripts.The median time for a transcript to be delivered for appeals in criminal cases was 300 days and 141 days in civil cases. The committee headed by Appeals Court Judge Mark V. Green faulted "inadequate resources, systemic inefficiencies, and a lack of effective management."But the allegations against Lentini are extraordinary, say court officials and lawyers involved, because she is thought to have deliberately ignored demands to provide transcripts or return the tapes so that another court reporter can prepare them.In some instances, Lentini was one of several court reporters on a case; the other reporters have provided transcripts for the testimony they heard."These transcripts can't be produced without these tapes being returned," said Joan Kenney, a spokeswoman for the judiciary.Among those who say they cannot file an appeal is William Singer, a Newton man who has been trying to challenge a 2006 verdict in Middlesex Superior Court in favor of a urologist he sued for alleged medical malpractice. Singer said he underwent surgery for a kidney stone but was left with severe blood clots in his legs.He said he paid Lentini $720 three years ago to prepare a transcript and is still waiting. Court officials have told him it might be possible to reconstruct a transcript based on the recollections of lawyers and litigants, but "that's asking people to try and remember what transpired three years ago," he said."The evidence is gone," he added, "and I think I'm entitled to a new trial."Saltzman can be reached at jsaltzman@globe.com.
Missing trial tapes spawn an impasse
Stenographer denies she has themBy Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff / March 5, 2009
When they do their jobs right, court stenographers attract little attention. They tap quietly on a shorthand machine at more than 200 words a minute to make a record of testimony or repeat verbatim everything said in court into a tape recorder. But among the cast of characters, they seldom play a starring role.Jeanne Lentini, however, is getting a close-up, and not a flattering one. After working in the state courts under contract for eight years, she left Massachusetts in the spring of 2007 with tape recordings she made of 17 criminal and civil trials, court officials said. Despite demands to provide transcripts or return the tapes, which belong to the state, the officials said, she has sent back only seven recordings and some blank tapes.Transcripts are the lifeblood of the appeal process, so the missing tapes have stymied litigants in 10 criminal and civil cases, preventing them from challenging the verdicts. The individuals range from a former State Police sergeant convicted in 2006 of stealing cocaine from his department's drug unit to a 68-year-old Newton man who lost a malpractice lawsuit against a urologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.Lentini, 60, could soon be facing her own legal problems, although she insists she has sent the tapes back and has done nothing wrong.Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, whose office represents the trial courts in legal matters, wrote Lentini last summer demanding she return all the tapes. Coakley is "currently reviewing the matter" be cause of Lentini's failure to comply, a spokeswoman for the AG said yesterday. And a judge has ordered Lentini to attend a March 26 court hearing to explain why she should not be held in contempt - and face possible criminal charges - for disobeying court orders to return the tapes.Lawyers involved in the untranscribed trials are also taking action. The appellate attorney for the convicted state trooper asked a Norfolk Superior Court judge yesterday to free her client from prison on bail because 2 1/2 years have passed since she requested the transcript."This case is more than just a mere delay," Rosemary C. Scapicchio, the Boston lawyer for the former trooper, Timothy White, said in the motion filed in court. "It is a 30-month delay, and it appears that the missing transcript will never be produced." The judge has referred the request to a colleague on the bench.Court reporters convert their stenographic notes or tape recordings into transcripts and provide them to lawyers, who typically pay $3 a page.Lentini, who lives in Virginia Beach, Va., said yesterday that she has returned all the tapes sought by the courts and is baffled and irritated by claims to the contrary."I thought this was taken care of," she said in a telephone interview. "I sent them all back. I did that last summer."She said further that the court system treated so-called per diem, or contracted, court reporters with such little respect that she plans to send to the state all the tapes she saved from other trials she worked on since 1999 - hundreds of recordings - and reverse the postal charges. Contracted court reporters are authorized to keep recordings from trials for which they prepared transcripts, she said.Lentini said she has no intention of returning to Massachusetts for the court hearing about whether she should be held in contempt.The unusual dispute hardly marks the first time court reporters in Massachusetts have come under fire. In 2003, a committee of judges and lawyers appointed by the state Supreme Judicial Court issued a blistering report saying Massachusetts ranked among the worst states in providing timely, accurate transcripts.The median time for a transcript to be delivered for appeals in criminal cases was 300 days and 141 days in civil cases. The committee headed by Appeals Court Judge Mark V. Green faulted "inadequate resources, systemic inefficiencies, and a lack of effective management."But the allegations against Lentini are extraordinary, say court officials and lawyers involved, because she is thought to have deliberately ignored demands to provide transcripts or return the tapes so that another court reporter can prepare them.In some instances, Lentini was one of several court reporters on a case; the other reporters have provided transcripts for the testimony they heard."These transcripts can't be produced without these tapes being returned," said Joan Kenney, a spokeswoman for the judiciary.Among those who say they cannot file an appeal is William Singer, a Newton man who has been trying to challenge a 2006 verdict in Middlesex Superior Court in favor of a urologist he sued for alleged medical malpractice. Singer said he underwent surgery for a kidney stone but was left with severe blood clots in his legs.He said he paid Lentini $720 three years ago to prepare a transcript and is still waiting. Court officials have told him it might be possible to reconstruct a transcript based on the recollections of lawyers and litigants, but "that's asking people to try and remember what transpired three years ago," he said."The evidence is gone," he added, "and I think I'm entitled to a new trial."Saltzman can be reached at jsaltzman@globe.com.
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