Senator and Governor Caught on Tape Plotting Murder! Will Americans Demand Justice?

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/10/senator-and-governor-caught-on-tape-plotting-murder-will-americans-demand-justice-3049572.html

The following story by Preston James must be shared by every patriot around the world!  Nixon was impeached for so much less but yet here we have Senator Songstad and Governor Sundquist caught on tape plotting murder and discussing billions in bribe money and you haven’t heard one peep about this from the mainstream media or 99% of the alternative media!  Where is the “tip of the spear” man in alternative media?  Why is he silent?  Is it because he would lose 90% of his audience if they ever discovered the huge stories that Veterans Today was breaking and he was hiding from them?  Do all those in alternative media censoring this story  actually work for Senator Songstad who is a self described puppet master?  Is that why the “tip of the spear” man lied to his audience and said that Lee Wanta was as “real as the Easter bunny”!  Does this lie also show who he works for since Lee Wanta could pay off our national debt and End the Fed if the American people wake up and demand justice for Lee Wanta.

What patriot in alternative would not report this when it is legitimate and has already caused Eric Holder to be fired!  

Here’s the audio tape that leads to many in Congress right now that are involved in this murder plot and who think they are going to divide up $17 trillion dollars that Lee Wanta wants to use to pay off the national debt and End the Fed!  All those in alternative media that do not report on this are now exposed as working to keep Americans slaves to the Federal Reserve!  Anybody that supports them is an absolute fool!

Recorded Call starts at the 11:20 Mark  You should listen to the entire thing to hear the story about it!

Puppet gate, the Continuing Saga

by Preston James

… by Preston James and *Lon Gibby

The Silence is deafening!

In an earlier Veterans Today article, Puppetgate, a major X-ray or Snapshot into how the US Government truly functions was revealed.

We are very much at war. At the center of the conflict, oddly enough, is an online publication, Veterans Today, an odd mix of retired spies and generals, activists on both the left and right, perhaps the last of the real investigative journalists, the ones who don’t look the other way, folks who now have the following of millions.

This was never expected, that people would find themselves aligned with an idea, somewhere between a Hunter Thompson nightmare and that scene out of the film Network, you know the one:

“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.”

VT, as we call “Veterans Today,” is aligned behind a series of causes, one of them involves a confidant and adviser to President Ronald Reagan. This advisers’s name is Lee Wanta, whose story was once only told by a handful of bloggers. His story is now known around the world and being validated more everyday in numerous ways.

Besides the great number of previously secret documents that are now emerging which fully support Ambassador Wanta’s claims, the recent shocking Phone Message inadvertently left on Ambassador Wanta’s Washington DC Embassy voice mail.

Ambassador Wanta is now supported by the team at VT, protected by private security contractors with VT “affiliates” along with “rank and file,” the last of the best of our Military, our diplomatic corps and the remains of what Government America has left. Ambassador Wanta, the legal custodian on behalf of President Reagan of the very real and now proven wealth, enough to rebuild America for the generations to come, Wanta stands assailed.

Veterans Today, not so helpless as some stupidly assume, is assailed to, along with its affiliates, among them Press TV and Russia Today, the last vestiges of press freedom in a world gone mad.

Today we discuss Ambassador Wanta, an unimaginable fortune held hostage by the Federal Reserve, over 33 trillion US Dollars.

The money is Wanta’s technically, his dream and the dream of President Reagan who will not be there to see it, is a strong and free America, an America of plenty of good jobs and much hope for the future, an America free of debt and foreign control, of censored news and educational institutions steeped in misery, mediocrity and falsehood.

The wolves are loose, names like the Bushes and Cheney, the Clintons, and moreover, Congress itself.

They claim they are personally owed 17 trillion US Dollars from Wanta, which would make each minor crooked politician nearly as wealthy as Bill gates, their payment for authorizing the court ordered payout President Reagan intended to benefit the American people. Typically these crooked beltway politicians characterize the massive payoffs they routinely receive for various deals and special interest legislative votes as “set-aside allocations.”

We are hearing it everyday, the endless demands from representatives of Cheney and Bushes, the Clintons, of organized crime, politicians not only with their hands out but voicing death threats as well if their shakedown demands are not met.

So many want America fixed. Savings and pension plans gutted, families frowning in debt, homes worthless, over-mortgaged, foreclosed, jobs gone exported abroad, young graduates and veterans facing a lifetime of poverty and homelessness.

Worse still, an America enslaved, propagandized into unimaginable ignorance, self-hating, each new generation less aware than the last. Tell me you don’t see it.

Yes, this monumental and historic “smoking gun” Audio was inadvertently left on Ambassador Wanta’s DC Embassy answering machine.

In this Audio, two major Beltway Political Fixers, Former Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist and Former South Dakota State Senator Sheldon Songstad continued talking after they attempted to reach Ambassador Wanta for a conference call.

About six minutes and twenty seconds of the last part of their conversation was recorded on Ambassador Wanta’s Washington DC Embassy answering machine.

When Ambassador Wanta listened to his messages the following morning after Labor Day 2014, he was stunned at what he heard.

Ambassador Wanta and Lon Gibby, his Publicist who is currently producing a major movie about Lee Wanta entitled “Eagle One to Wanta”, had talked to Gov. Sundquist and Senator Songstad previously.

These two men called Ambassador Wanta wanting to discuss what they could do for him as far as helping him get his money. In this prior conversation, Senator Songstad called himself a Puppetmaster.

Since that time Veterans Today was given the original recording which has been voice-grammed and a match was made validating the identity of the callers to be the two mentioned individuals above —  Former Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist and Former South Dakota State Senator Sheldon Songstad.

This “smoking gun” recording is monumentally important for a number of reasons.

First, it provides instant credibility in regards to Ambassador Wanta’s claim that he earned an incredibly large amount of money taking down the Soviet Union.

And second, Ambassador Wanta’s access to his own money, an incredibly large amount that he earned honestly, has been blocked, just as he has claimed all along.

Yes, this audio recording immediately neutralizes all the numerous lies and false claims of all those skeptics who have been discounting Ambassador’s Wanta’s claims for many years. 

Here you have a respected former Governor and a State Representative expecting and demanding a massive personal payoff in Billions of US Dollars.

And this recording is also monumentally important because it provides an X-ray or Snapshot into the inner workings and influence peddling of bribery that characterizes the True situation inside the beltway, Congress and among various “Political Fixers”, Bagmen, and what many refer to as “Puppetmasters”.

 Full Article here:

 http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/10/22/puppetgate-the-continuing-saga/

Note by Glenn:  If you want your country back and want to End the Fed please share this article everywhere possible.  Post it to all groups and walls on Facebook.  Send to all email lists, and call your state attorney general and tell them you want something done about this!   Send the link to the story or youtube video and keep following up with them on what’s being done!

Bad week in the Legislature, but just the start by In the news Saturday, February 28. 2015

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Bad week in the Legislature, but just the start

by Sen. Jeff Kruse (R-Roseburg)

The balance of power in Salem has definitely moved significantly to the left this year. Elections do have consequences, and in a representative republic the winners do get to set the agenda. The reality in the Oregon State Senate is the Democrats can pass anything they want. Just going by the numbers it would require only two Republicans to be present when bills come to the Senate floor for a vote to meet the quorum requirement.

We are already seeing some heavy handed actions taking place. Under most circumstances the chairperson of a committee has the ultimate authority over the activities of the committee. There have already been a couple of times when the members of the committee were attempting to work towards a compromise on a bill only to get direction from leadership to pass the bill un-amended. That is the power of a super majority.

At the beginning of this Session the Senate President and the Speaker of the House convened a workgroup of ten legislators to begin work on a transportation package. I was asked to be part of the group, and over the last four weeks we have made significant progress towards the development of a very good plan. This package would not only help with commuter and freight traffic, but would also create a lot of jobs. I made it very clear to both the Speaker and the President at the front end that the passage of the low carbon bill would kill any plan we came up with because the proposed gas tax in the plan would be referred to the voters and defeated. I told them their choice was very clear, create jobs in Oregon and deal with an immediate need or pass a bill with no immediate benefit except to out of state corporations.

Last night, when the low carbon bill passed out of the House committee their choice became very clear. Because there had been comments made in the media tying the republicans in the workgroup to both bills, we were given no choice but to leave, which we did at six o’clock last night.

I think it is going to be interesting as this one-party agenda moves forward to look at who is actually benefitting from the actions and what the political ties are. Clearly the whole low carbon issue can be tied to Cylvia Hayes and John Kitzhaber, but I would suggest the connections actually go deeper than that. Hopefully the current investigation will be very thorough in its scope.

In politics as in life, it is all about relationships. My relationship with Governor Brown is actually relatively simple to explain. We work together where there is agreement; on some areas of disagreement we try to find middle ground; and in other areas we just simply disagree. What is common in all of these scenarios is we are honest with each other and respect the other person’s right to their opinion. I have the same type of relationship with the Speaker, President, and most members of the Assembly. I say most members because there are new people in the House I have not met yet.

This job can be very frustrating at times and I have been asked why I still do it. I think a good response would be a line Tom Hanks had in the movie Philadelphia. When he was asked why he liked being a lawyer, this was his response, “Because occasionally, not often but occasionally, you get a chance to do something that helps someone.” It is my hope that over the next few months while we will be doing things that I don’t think are in the best interests of our state we will be able to do some things that will actually be helpful. I continue to be optimistic that we will not totally lose sight of the core principles that make our State of Oregon unique.

Legal aid funding bill sails through House, raises ire of business groups

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/02/legal_aid_funding_bill_sails_t.html#comments

"Facing a crisis of unmet demand, Oregon's legal aid groups are hoping a bill that passed the Oregon House Monday will help them better serve the fast-expanding ranks of the Oregon's poor.
The fine points of HB 4143 and the legal aid endowment fund it would create were nearly lost this week in sudden heated opposition from business groups and high-powered attorneys like former Attorney General David Frohnmayer.

Dave FrohnmayerA.V. Club/The Onion/2011

Millions of dollars are at stake. Oregon is currently one of just two states in the country that sends uncollected class-action proceeds back to the defendant. Historically, that has meant defendant corporations even when they lost or settled a class action could count on recovering as much as 50 percent of the award simply because not enough members of the class bothered to file claims.
That practice would end under HB 4143. Instead, the money would go into the endowment fund generating interest income for the legal aid fund.
The bill would apply retroactively to class-action lawsuits currently in progress. That may help explain why prominent Eugene lawyers Frohnmayer and Bill Gary sent a letter to Legislators calling the bill "unconstitutional, unfair and fundamentally unworkable.
Frohnmayer and Gary represent tobacco giant Philip Morris in an ongoing class-action suit. Were the bill to pass and Philip Morris lose or settle its case, the tobacco giant would no longer be able to pocket uncollected damages.
HB 4143 was approved handily by the Oregon House on Monday and now awaits attention in the Senate. The Senate Judiciary Committee will consider the bill on Thursday.

Bill Gary

Legal aid lawyers provide representation on civil matters to Oregonians who earn 125 percent or less of the federal poverty guideline. In 2013, that amounted to $14,362 for an individual and $29,673 for a family of four.
Since 2000, legal aid officials say, the number of eligible Oregonians has increased by 62 percent while the number of legal aid lawyers has actually dropped from 92 to 90.
"There's just been a huge increase in need," said Judith Baker, director of legal services for the Oregon State Bar. "When the recession hit, so many people suddenly fell into this category."

House Bill 4143: Pro and Con

What are the leading legal minds saying about HB 4143? Below is the blistering critique from Eugene attorneys David Frohnmayer and Bill Gary.

Also below are links to analyses of the bill by the Legislative Counsel's Office and the Oregon Department of Justice, which largely refute the contention of Frohnmayer and Gary.
Gary and Frohnmayer Floor Letter
Legislative Counsel analysis
DOJ Analysis

Funding cuts and the historically low interest rates has hurt legal aid funding. Interest on lawyer trust accounts has traditionally funded legal aid.
There are four legal aid non-profits operating in Oregon: Legal Aid Services of Oregon and the Oregon Law Center, both in the Portland metro area, and the Lane County Law and Advocacy Center in Eugene and the Center for Non-Profit Legal Services in Jackson County.
"We have funding to meet less than 15 percent of the civil legal needs of the poor in Oregon," said Sandra Hansberger, executive director of the Campaign for Equal Justice. Oregon State Bar officials estimate the state's legal aid programs serve 22,000 Oregonians a year either through direct representation, self-help classes or other services.
Rep. Tobias Read, D-Beaverton, one of the bill's sponsors, said it's high time Oregon ends its status as one of only two states in the country that returns unclaimed class-action proceeds back to the defendant corporation. "We've got a situation where the company judged to be guilty of widespread wrongdoing is potentially not paying what they were judged to owe," Read said. "I don't think that's fair. We need to hold people accountable."

Rep. Tobias Read

Read noted that former Attorney General Hardy Myers and others have championed similar legislation in the past.
In their letter, Frohnmayer and Gary, his long-time deputy, opined the bill violates due process and Oregon's constitution. "The bill authorizes unconstitutional procedures, is unfair to class members and to defendants, and is fundamentally unworkable," they wrote.
Nowhere in their letter do Frohnmayer and Gary disclose their representation of Phillip Morris or the pending class-action suit against the company. When asked about the omission, Gary said: "I don't know the form in which the materials we prepared were shared with the legislature, so I don 't know specifically what was said about our representation.  We are working with a coalition of business interests who oppose the bill. We have made no secret about our representation of defendants in class actions that would be affected by the legislation."
Read asked the Legislative Counsel Office to review Frohnmayer's and Gary's claims. In a Feb. 17 letter, Legislative Counsel attorney Dexter Johnson dismissed their arguments as unfounded.
Associated Oregon Industries also counts itself among the bill's opponents. J.L. Wilson, AOI vice president for government relations, said the bill is more about attorneys' fees than legal help for the poor. The bill deletes long-accepted procedures about how the members of a class are determined and how they claim damages.

Rep. Jennifer Williamson

"If this were just about unclaimed damages, we wouldn't be arguing the issue, we'd be holding hands and supporting the bill, " Wilson said.
Rep. Jennifer Williamson, D-Portland, one of the bill's sponsors, said the opponents' arguments just don't hold water. "We have opinions from our legislative counsel and the state's lawyers at the Department of Justice that this is a very sound and straight forward way to ensure that corporations that were found to have injured, endangered or ripped off Oregonians will pay the full amount they owe," she said.

-- Jeff Manning

American Academy of Arts & Sciences adds Frohnmayer to board

http://staging.dailyemerald.com/2013/10/11/american-academy-of-arts-sciences-adds-frohnmayer-to-board/

Allen Heart from Eagle Point, Oregon, left this comment after he signed it! Moveon.org:

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/justice-for-nadia-sindi?source=c.url&r_by

"Lawyers in Oregon are showing a pattern of criminality stealing real estate by fraud with the complicity of judges and local officials. The State of Oregon is building a case for itself as illegitimate."

Rick Perry Could Be Facing 109 Years In Prison After Being Indicted For Abuse Of Power

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/08/15/rick-perry-facing-109-years-prison-indicted-abuse-power.html/comment-page-2#comments


I pray & hope Dave Frohnmayer & the bank robber will soon be locked in for the rest of remaining lives!!!


www.davefrohnmayer.com

Board of Trustees posts pre-redacted dockets for March 4-6 meetings. 02/27/2015

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Board of Trustees posts pre-redacted dockets for March 4-6 meetings.

  02/27/2015

While these are much more complete than in the past, and while the Board has helpfully abandoned its previous strategy of holding meetings when the students are away on break, Secretary Angela Wilhelms has pre-redacted some of the most potentially interesting info from the agenda (docket) links, saying it’s not ready yet, or will be passed out in dead-tree format at the meeting. In the past she’s done this because she didn’t want the public (or some board members) to find out what’s going on until the last minute when it’s too late to react. From http://trustees.uoregon.edu/meetings.

Alexandra Wallachly has some info in an Emerald story here, and I’ll post more later. Meanwhile if you see – or don’t see – something interesting, please post a comment.

Presidential Factors Committee Meeting
March 4, 2015
Notice  |  Agenda  |  Minutes

Finance and Facilities Committee Meeting
March 4, 2015
Notice  |  Agenda  |  Minutes

Executive and Audit Committee Meeting
March 4, 2015
Notice  |  Agenda  |  Minutes

Academic and Student Affairs Committee Meeting
March 4, 2015
Notice  |  Agenda  |  Minutes

Meeting of the Board
March 5-6, 2015
Notice  |  Agenda  |  Minutes

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Buying Dave Frohnmayer pays off big for Philip Morris and BP 03/06/2014

http://uomatters.com/2014/03/would-you-pay-to-take-a-uo-law-course-from-this-man.html

Buying Dave Frohnmayer pays off big for Philip Morris and BP

  03/06/2014

3/6/2014: Legal aid bill defeated in Senate, 15-15:

The concern, expressed openly by several Republican senators, is that they will now be painted as wanting to help Big Oil and Big Tobacco – both targets of class action suits in Oregon — instead of the average or low-income voter.

Dave is obviously a talented lobbyist. I wonder why he couldn’t get the legislature to give deals like this to UO, back when he was president? We didn’t properly incentivize him?

2/23/2014 update: RG Editors dismiss Frohnmayer and Gary arguments, note 48 other states now do this, and support HB 4143.

2/22/2014 update: Steve Duin has an excellent review of the conflict of interest issues swirling around Frohnmayer’s opposition to HB 4143, which would take unclaimed damages from class action settlements against his clients like Philip Morris, and use it to fund legal aid for the poor. Currently Oregon lets the corporations have it back, if they can’t find the people it’s owed to. In the Oregonian,here:

… LaMar said she was especially disappointed because Frohnmayer, as Oregon’s attorney general from 1981-1991, “was charged with prosecuting many of the violations of law that class-action plaintiff attorneys pursue.  Many of these class-action lawsuits develop because attorneys general can’t take on that kind of case-load.

“I respect Dave Frohnmayer,” LaMar said, then added, “Why has Dave changed so much?  That’s kind of painful.”

“The act of advocacy alters one’s opinions,” Portland attorney Greg Kafoury observes.  “When you have spent your career defending what large corporations do, much of it marginally criminal or against the public interest, you develop a point of view, and one diametrically opposed to the view that sent you to law school.”

Stoll is even more blunt:  “I think Frohnmayer is making a bogus argument.  He sold out to Big Tobacco, and now to Big Oil.” Referring to three prominent supporters of the bill, AGs past and present, Stoll added, “You can hardly say that Hardy Myers, Ted Kulongoski and Ellen Rosenblum are radical legal scholars.  They are very balanced in their approach.” …

To add to the stink, after retiring as UO President, Frohnmayer used his UO paid “research” sabbatical to restart his legal career at Harrang, Long, Gary and Rudnick PC. HLGR then successfully bragged about his UO connections when applying for (and getting) the contract to take over UO’s legal work, for which they are billing around $750K a year.

Why did UO start contracting out its legal work? Because SB 242, which Frohnmayer helped draft and worked on while he was on his UO and OUS paid sabbatical and leave, took that job away from the Oregon DOJ. More here.

OUS GC Ryan Hagemann was supposed to do a review of the contract for HLGR, but never did. I wonder where he’ll land after OUS closes up shop?

2/21/2014: The Oregonian has another piece on this today, as does WWeek. Still no news on whether Frohnmayer broke Oregon’s lobbying law, but HLGR was apparently able to stop the bill’s sponsor’s from speaking at a Legal Aid event, and more questions are being raised about the accuracy of Frohnmayer and Gary’s letter to the legislature:

At Thursday’s hearing, Read likened Oregon’s current arrangement to the police apprehending a burglar with 50 stolen televisions. Under current class-action rules, if the police couldn’t find the owners of 20 of the televisions, they would give the TVs back to the burglar.

BP is mounting a vigorous offensive. Besides trotting out Frohnmayer and others to testify the bill, the company was offering $5,000 to lobbyists in Salem earlier this week willing to work against it, according to multiple sources in the Capitol.

Bill Gary and Frohnmayer’s former aide Marla Rae are registered as lobbyists with the state for HLGR, but Frohnmayer is not – a potential legal problem for our ex-president.

2/20/2014: I’ve got no idea if it’s legal for a state employee like Dave Frohnmayer to engage in this sort of lobbying effort for his tobacco company clients, without disclosure. But if he’s going to do it, he should at least stop embarrassing UO’s Knight Law School with these exclamation points, bold fonts, ALL CAPS!, and utter lack of citations:

From the Jeff Manning story in the Oregonian, on former UO President Dave Frohnmayer’s efforts to protect his big tobacco clients from having to pay money for legal aid for indigent Oregonians. Compare with the sober response from Oregon’s Legislative Counsel Dexter Jordan, here. Or the letter from Frohnmayer’s former mentee and current Oregon AG, Ellen Rosenblum, here.

Nigel Jaquiss has more, including a letter from Hardy Myers, another former Oregon AG and Frohnmayer mentee, [thanks to commenter for correction] and an apology from Frohnmayer’s co-author Bill Gary admitting that they should have disclosed that Philip Morris and BP were their clients. Which is nice, though I’m guessing not many legislators were fooled into thinking they’d written this out of concern for the state and people of Oregon!

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UO drops claim against student

http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/32814464-75/uo-changes-counterclaim-in-federal-civil-rights-lawsuit.html.csp#

The University of Oregon on Thursday dropped its recent counterclaim to a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a student who says she was raped by three UO basketball players.

In an updated response filed in U.S. District Court in Eugene on Thursday, the university is no longer countering the victim’s lawsuit and is not asking the victim, or her attorneys, to pay what the UO has spent in attorney fees and other costs related to the case.

The move follows an online petition created this week that garnered more than 2,000 signatures from students, alumni and professors, urging the UO to “stop suing rape survivors.”

UO Interim President Scott Coltrane said Thursday that the UO heard from “many different people on campus, and we really wanted to get away from this distraction.”

Coltrane said the UO never intended to collect fees from the student, but was rather seeking money from her attorneys.

“We didn’t want it to look like we had anything against the student,” he said of the UO dropping the countersuit. The UO still is asking the court to dismiss the lawsuit and to rule in favor of the university.

Coltrane said he hopes the university’s move will help the community focus on the UO’s recent efforts to improve sexual violence prevention on campus.

Coltrane, however, criticized the online petition that characterized the UO as having filed a lawsuit against the victim, as opposed to responding to an existing lawsuit. He said he was advised by attorneys that it’s routine to counter a suit.

“Their suit would have us pay legal fees, and I was told it’s typical when you respond” to also file a counterclaim, he said.

High-profile Boulder, Colo., attorney John Clune, who is representing the student, along with Eugene attorney Jennifer Middleton, said the UO’s action was the first time he had seen a school make a counterclaim against a rape victim.

Clune declined further comment Thursday.

The student, referred to as Jane Doe, filed the federal lawsuit in January against the university and head basketball coach Dana Altman for allegedly violating her federal civil rights by recruiting Brandon Austin, one of the accused players, after he had previously been accused of rape at Providence College in Rhode Island.

The lawsuit argues that Altman and the UO had “actual knowledge of the substantial risk that Austin would sexually harass other female students at UO based upon his prior conduct.”

Jane Doe also argues that the UO and Altman prioritized winning basketball games over her claim that she had been raped repeatedly by the now former players, Dam­yean Dotson, Dominic Artis and Austin.

The Lane County District Attorney declined to file charges against the players, citing lack of evidence. The players were kicked off the basketball team and banned from the university for the incident.

The UO filed its response and counterclaim to the suit on Feb. 9, claiming the alleged victim’s suit is “frivolous, unreasonable and without foundation.”

The UO’s updated response does not describe Jane Doe’s lawsuit as “frivolous,” but still contends that her attorneys “filed a lawsuit with unfounded allegations that damage a good man’s (Altman’s) reputation in an attempt to curry favor and gain traction in the media and create pressure for a public university to pay a hefty sum to (Jane Doe) even though it has done nothing wrong.”

The university argues that Jane Doe’s allegations threaten not only the UO and Altman, “but all sexual assault survivors in Oregon’s campus community.

“The publication of false allegations about Oregon’s handling of a report of an alleged sexual assault creates a very real risk that other survivors will wrongly be discouraged from reporting sexual assault and sexual harassment to Oregon,” which conflicts with the goal of a federal civil rights law, known as Title IX, the response said.

Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program or activity. The law has been used as a basis for action in complaints against universities regarding their handling of rape cases.

UO psychology professor Jennifer Freyd said that dropping the counterclaim was a “good first step,” but still was critical of the UO’s response, which she argued still comes across as victim-blaming.

“If (Coltrane) doesn’t want this to be a distraction, he needs to have (the response) be corrected yet again so it is not blaming the victim and playing lawyers’ games because that’s not fixing the problem,” said Freyd, a sexual violence expert who has publicly criticized the UO for its response to Jane Doe’s case and other sexual vio­lence cases.

Freyd said the UO’s claim that Jane Doe’s lawsuit could prevent other victims from coming forward “has bothered me the most.”

“It’s extremely problematic,” she said.

Freyd sent a letter to Coltrane on Thursday evening, expressing her concerns. The letter was signed by Carol Stabile, a journalism and women’s and gender studies professor, and John Bonine, a law professor.

“The university cannot claim that it is devoted to survivors while at the same time saying that a survivor’s use of legal remedies will chill reporting by others,” the professors wrote.

Friday: UO Coalition to protest admin efforts to silence sex assault survivors 02/26/2015

http://uomatters.com/2015/02/friday-uo-coalition-to-protest-admin-efforts-to-silence-sex-assault-survivors.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Friday: UO Coalition to protest admin efforts to silence sex assault survivors

  02/26/2015

1PM Friday 2/27, outside Johnson Hall. Coalition members are trying to force the recalcitrant UO administration to reform its sexual assault prevention efforts. The UO Coalition to End Sexual Assault is the model of effective advocacy, but their work is far from done, and they need your support. Details here.

And on Monday, Interim President Scott Coltrane and Interim Provost Frances Bronet will host a “Campus Conversation” and Progress Report on Addressing Sexual Violence from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Ford Alumni Center Giustina Ballroom.

My guess is that instead of dealing with the obvious incompetence of AAEO Director and Title IX coordinator Penny Daugherty, and VP for Student Life Robin Holmes, Coltrane and Bronet will just promise to throw more money at the problem. But maybe they’ll surprise us all with some actual leadership.

UO drops counter-claim, still blames survivor for “damage to a good man’s reputation” 02/26/2015

http://uomatters.com/2015/02/dana-altman-and-uo-are-suing-the-alleged-basketball-rape-survivor.html

UO drops counter-claim, still blames survivor for “damage to a good man’s reputation”

  02/26/2015

2/26/2015, 4:20PM: That’s the rumor, anyway. If true it will be a first for Johnson Hall: admitting a mistake. Baby steps. 

No news on when Coltrane will apologize for his prejudicial allegation of an “unlawful release” of UO Presidential Archives.

4:30: Now confirmed in part, by Josephine Woolington in the RG, here. It appears Coltrane got some lousy legal advice, either from UO attorneys Doug Park and Sam Hill, or UO’s hired Miller Nash Attorneys, Michelle Smigel http://www.millernash.com/michelle-smigel/ and Michael Porter http://www.millernash.com/michael-porter/:

Coltrane, however, criticized the online petition that characterized the UO as having filed a lawsuit against the victim, as opposed to responding to a lawsuit. He said he was advised by attorneys that it’s routine to counter a suit.

“Their suit would have us pay legal fees, and I was told it’s typical when you respond” to also file a counterclaim, he said.

UO’s revised response to the lawsuit is less intimidating, though no less offensive: