From: Steve Fournier [stepfour@stepfour.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 6:43 AM
To: 'lwvct@lwvct.org'
Subject: Candidate Profile

Stephen Fournier

Attorney at Law

74 Tremont Street

Hartford, Connecticut 06105

Tel: 860 794 6718    Fax: 860 233 3044

stepfour@stepfour.com

 

Pat Donovan

Voter Service

Connecticut League of Women Voters

 

September 21, 2010

 

Dear Ms. Donovan:

 

I have attached my candidate profile.  In view of my inability to satisfy several of the candidate vetting criteria, I suggest that the League waive them and include me in the attorney general debate notwithstanding. 

 

My candidacy raises issues of public corruption that are important to voters but that won't be aired by major party candidates.  I am disposed to hold a considerable number of our leaders liable for malfeasance.  Public officials have not been held to account for the destruction of New Orleans, Iraq, the World Trade Center, Afghanistan.  They wage war in violation of the Constitution.  They sanction torture and hold people without legal process.  They militarize law enforcement, so that a uniform becomes a license to kill.  They spy on us.  They command our state militia illegally.  Millions of our dollars are looted, and nobody is held liable.  There is legal redress for all this, but Democrats and Republicans permitted it and can't say anything. 

 

My candidacy is an alternative to party politics.  I am endorsed by two emerging parties, each with its own distinct politics.  Independents and Greens endorsed me with full knowledge that I'm doing this as a people's lawyer and not to advance a particular political agenda.  I am none of the above.  Excluding me would be seen as censorship.  Recall that both the Democrat and the Republican in the congressional election of two years ago expressed open disapproval of my exclusion from that debate.  More than 7,000 First District voters cast a ballot for me in that election.   

 

My candidacy is subversive.  On principle, and most particularly as a candidate for this office, I object to the elections industry.  I consider the practitioners unethical.  I hate the idea of giving them money, and I hate the idea of asking for money to enrich them.  Modern technology empowers Connecticut voters to elect me without having to see my face on TV or cluttering their mailbox.  I wouldn't serve under any other circumstances.  The people of this state are literate, and it's easy to find out about me and easy to get me to speak.  My opponents will spend thousands of tax dollars battering each other.  Should a candidate be disqualified to debate because he refuses to take part in this gross underestimation of the electorate?

 

My candidacy depends on the secret ballot.  I have expressed opinions on every issue, and my opinions are controversial.   My Internet newsletter Current Invective receives hundreds of visits every month, and I have over 100 regular online subscribers.  I have been part of organizing teams advocating impeachment and war crimes prosecutions  (as well as nonviolence and Hartford Public High School spirit), and I have been passionate as an advocate.  I was a catalyst for the dismantling of a corrupt Hartford Board of Education some years ago.  It's risky to associate politically with me.  Should I be excluded from a debate among attorneys because of aggressive advocacy and lack of political correctness?

 

I trust the League of Women Voters to put the public interest in debate above arbitrary "vetting criteria" that effectively censor a broad swath of opinion.   

 

Yours sincerely,

 

//signed//

 

Stephen Fournier

 

League of Women Voters Candidate Profile

 

as of  September 21, 2010

 

 

Candidate Name And Contact Info:

Stephen Fournier, 74 Tremont Street, Hartford, CT 06105; Tel. 860 794-6718; email stepfour@stepfour.com

Party Affiliation:

Independent Party and Green Party

Campaign Phone:

860 794-6718

Campaign E-Mail:

stepfour@stepfour.com

Campaign Website:

www.stepfour.com

Campaign Headquarters Address:

Fournier 2010, 74 Tremont St., Htfd. CT 06105

Campaign Manager Name/Address/Contact Info:

None

Campaign Treasurer Name/Address/Contact Info:

Ruth Fournier, 74 Tremont Street, Hartford, CT 06105; Tel. 860 794-5787

Other Campaign Officials (Please List):

None

Approx. Number Of Volunteers And Staff:

None

Position Papers/Platform (Or Links Thereto)

www.stepfour.com

In-District Campaign Appearances (Please List)

Connecticut Bar Assn. Antitrust Section Forum (5/13/10)

Independent Party Briefing (on CT-N) (8/17/10)

Joint Press Conference State Capitol (on CT-N) (8/18/10)

Citizen’s for Ballot Initiative Briefing (on CT-N) (8/25/10)

Green Party Kickoff (on CT-N) (9/1/10)

Hebron Senior Center Candidate Forum (on CT-N) (9/7/10)

Hope Out Loud Peace and Art Festival (9/19/10)

Hartford Votes Candidate Forum (10/7/10)

Hartford Campaign Fair (10/14/10)

New London Public Access TV: 'Thinking Green' (10/13/10)

Junior Women’s Club of Wolcott Forum (10/27/10)

 

Money Raised

$250

In-Kind Contributions Raised

None

Campaign Disbursements

$100

 

 

submitted by candidate or authorized representative:

 

 

signature ___________________________________________

 

name (print or type)       Stephen Fournier, 860 794-6718, stepfour@stepfour.com

 

title (print or type)      candidate

 

Please submit this signed form to the LWVCTEF office

by fax to 203-288-7998 (this fax doesn’t work)

or by sending a PDF to lwvct@lwvct.org

 

 

 

CANDIDATE CAMPAIGN RESPONSE

 

PLEASE SIGN AND RETURN VIA EMAIL or FAX*

 

 

 

I, Stephen Fournier  (Candidate or Authorized Representative – Please print)

 

FOR THE  2010 attorney general   CAMPAIGN (please identify)

 

HAVE RECEIVED THE INVITATION FROM THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN

 

VOTERS OF CONNECTICUT EDUCATION FUND TO A CADIDATES’

 

DEBATE ON [October -------------] 2010.

 

I AM__XXX____  I AM NOT_________ PLANNING TO PARTICIPATE.

 

SIGNED__//signed//_______________________

 

NAME AND TITLE  Stephen Fournier, Green Party & Independent Party candidate for attorney general

 

DATE  _

 

Preferred contact  if different from above:

 

Name___________________________________

 

 

Telephone: (please include cell phones)___________________________________

 

 

Email___________________________________________