Senator's Goose is in the Oven

The former Democratic strategist who investigated and exposed the campaign finance violations that ultimately put both state House Speaker Jim Black and NC House Rep. Thomas Wright in prison, told The Wilmington Journal first and exclusively Wednesday that he is calling on the NC State Board of Elections [NCBOE], the Wake County District Attorney, and the NC State Bar to investigate Sen. Julia Boseman’s claims that she had permission to forge the name of her former campaign treasurer on legal campaign disclosure documents in direct violation of state law.

And Sen. Boseman had to know better, Joe Sinsheimer, the political watchdog who brought both Black and Wright down, maintains. Not only is she a licensed attorney, but Boseman actually voted at least five times to pass the law in the state Senate just last year, after she served on the Senate committee which debated it prior to passage.

That law, NC General Statute 163-278.32, clearly states that the campaign treasurer’s signature on a campaign finance disclosure report “…shall be certified as true and correct to the best of the knowledge of the …treasurer.”

The statute adds, “A certification under this Article shall be treated as under oath, and any person making a certification under this Article knowing the information to be untrue is guilty of a Class I felony.”

According to the structured sentencing chart of the NC criminal courts system, punishment for the low-level Class I felony is a minimum of three months community punishment, and a maximum of eight months with no prior criminal record.

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Sen. Boseman investigated for forgery

The Wilmington Journal broke the news that the NC Board of Elections is investigating allegations made by the one time treasurer of the Boseman campaign that her signatures on several campaign finance reports are not hers. As a result of the breaking news the Journal's website has been shut down by hackers.

Senator Boseman has said to WRAL that she (Boseman) had the treasurer's permission to do so because the treasurer was too busy to sign the forms. Forms that hold the treasurer accountable under the penalty of perjury.

QUESTION: Why forge the treasurer's name when the law allows the candidate to sign her own name to the report?

A candidate may appoint himself or any other individual, including any relative except his spouse, as his treasurer, and, upon failure to file report designating a treasurer, the candidate shall be concluded to have appointed himself as treasurer and shall be required to personally fulfill the duties and responsibilities imposed upon the appointed treasurer and subject to the penalties and sanctions hereinafter provided. NCGS 163-278.7

Next thing to look into:

There is no signature at all on this report.

Don E. Adkins served as Boseman's campaign finance treasurer on the report filed 7/09/06. Where is his certification of treasurer? Is this where it is supposed to be?

CAMPAIGN FORGERY COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST SEN. BOSEMAN,
by CASH MICHAELS
The Wilmington Journal
Originally posted 7/28/2008

The Wilmington Journal has first and exclusively confirmed that Melissa Jarrell, the natural mother of state Sen. Julia Boseman’s adopted son and former companion, has filed an official complaint with the NC State Board of Elections (NCBOE) alleging that her name was “misused and forged” on at least eight campaign finance disclosure reports for Boseman’s campaign while Jarrell served as her treasurer.

If the allegations are proved true, the result “maybe” a criminal felony prosecution, a state BOE official confirms.

And the explosive allegations didn‘t stop there. Jarrell, the former UNC-Wilmington Women’s Softball coach who broke up with Sen. Boseman in 2006 and recently accused her of violating their joint custody agreement, added that Boseman made changes to property documents that they jointly owned “without my knowledge.”

According to a copy of the complaint to Kim Westbrook-Strach, deputy director of Campaign Reporting for the NCBOE - obtained Monday by The Journal and dated July 28, 2008 - Ms. Jarrell says she is even willing to “make a sworn statement as to the facts and testify if need be.”

“Without my knowledge Senator Boseman made changes in property documents that we jointly owned,” Jarrell wrote in her complaint to Westbrook-Strach. “This concerns me that anything found improper in the North Carolina Board of Elections finance reports may reflect negatively on me. So, I would like to bring this to the attention of the BOE and clear this matter up as soon as possible.”


Jarrell continued, “I have found that there have been Campaign Finance Reports filed on behalf of the Committee to Elect Julia Boseman, where my name had been misused and forged. From the NCBOE website, and out of the reports filed that could be viewed online, I have noticed that at least eight reports have my name and signature on them that have been forged.”

Candidates for statewide public office in North Carolina are required, under state law, to file quarterly campaign finance disclosure reports with the NC Elections Board to account for any fundraising and expenditures during designated periods.

Under North Carolina General Statute 163-278.8, “The treasurer of each candidate, political committee, and referendum committee shall keep detailed accounts, current within not more than seven days after the date of receiving a contribution or making an expenditure, of all contributions received and all expenditures made by or on behalf of the candidate, political committee, or referendum committee. The accounts shall include the information required by the State Board of Elections on its forms.”

Failure to comply can result in “criminal prosecution or the imposition of civil penalties.” All campaign treasurers certify their reports by signature. If the reports are found to be purposely incorrect, that treasurer could be charged with perjury.

Jarrell, who is listed as signing campaign disclosure reports as the “appointed treasurer” for Boseman from January 2004 until May 2006 during the period that the couple still lived together, then went on to list the dates that those Boseman campaign finance reports were filed as of Oct. 15, 2004; Jan. 11, 2005; July 20, 2005; Nov. 15, 2005. Jan. 27, 2006; April 24, 2006; April 20, 2006 and May 1, 2006, in that order.

Per the July 20, 2005 and April 20, 2006 reports, Jarrell indicates that she “can’t tell what the day is,” meaning that she can’t make out what date is actually written in as when the reports were completed, versus when the reports actually arrived and were stamped “received” by the NCBOE.

The Journal went online to check those reports, and indeed, as Jarrell indicated, while they were clearly marked received by the BOE campaign finance division on August 3, 2005, the date of completion is written over, looking as if both “July 20” and another July two-decimal date had been written over each other,

The “April 20, 2006” report Jarrell refers to actually appears dated “April 29, 2006.” That report was received by NCBOE on May 2, 2006

On both documents, however, the “M. Jarrell” signature does not resemble Jarrell’s actual signature on either the reports not in dispute, or the letter of July 28, 2008 complaint she sent to the NCBOE.

Towards the end of the letter, Jarrell adds, “I will be willing to make a sworn statement as to the facts and testify if need be.”

Kim Westbrook-Strach, deputy director of Campaign Reporting for the NCBOE, confirmed receipt of Ms. Jarrell’s complaint Monday, and forwarded a copy to The Journal. Under state law, that document, and subsequent notices to both Ms. Jarrell and Sen. Boseman, are considered public record.

Strach indicated that Sen. Boseman would be notified, in writing, as to the NCBOE being in receipt of Jarrell’s complaint.

When asked if an allegation of signature forgery on a campaign committee finance report is considered a criminal act, Strach replied, “Maybe.”

“What we’re concerned about is…the treasurer, by statute, has the responsibility of complying with [and] ensuring that the disclosure reports are true and accurate,” Strach told The Journal exclusively Monday. “They sign that under a penalty of perjury, so we are certainly interested in making sure that that, in fact, has occurred.”

“If the treasurer is saying that [she] didn’t sign that report, we want to make sure that first of all, we want to find out who did, and we want to find out if the contents of that report are true and accurate,” Strach continued, adding, “There may be some other criminal violations that are not of a criminal finance nature.”

According to NCGS 163-278.32, that treasurer’s signature on a campaign finance disclosure report “…shall be certified as true and correct to the best of the knowledge of the …treasurer.

The state statute continues, “A certification under this Article shall be treated as under oath, and any person making a certification under this Article knowing the information to be untrue is guilty of a Class I felony.”

Strach confirmed that she will be interviewing both Jarrell and Boseman to factually determine who did sign the reports in question. If the two-term District 9 Democrat disputes Jarrell charge, then evidence cold be gathered, including samples of Melissa Jarrell’s actual signature, to determine the truth, Strach said.

“Hopefully it will not take very long, the NCBOE official said. “We expect that people will be honest in their answers, and I have no reason to believe here that that will not be the case.”

“Hopefully we can get to the bottom of this in a pretty short time,” Strach assured.

The Journal called Tom Keating, Sen. Boseman’s campaign manager for comment, but the number he gave this newspaper is no longer in service.

Boseman Guilty

Civil contempt occurs when the contemnor willfully disobeys a court order. This is also called indirect contempt because it occurs outside the judge's immediate realm and evidence must be presented to the judge to prove the contempt. A civil contemnor, too, may be fined, jailed or both. The fine or jailing is meant to coerce the contemnor into obeying the court, not to punish him, and the contemnor will be released from jail just as soon as he complies with the court order. In family law, civil contempt is one way a court enforces alimony, child support, custody and visitation orders which have been violated.

Senator Boseman, in defiance of the judge's court order, took the child of Melissa Jarrell with her out of town without informing the child's mother. She was also in defiance of the judge's order allowed the child to be in the sole custody of an unauthorized person while staying with lobbyist Teresa Kostrzewa. Both of these issues were presented to the judge Wednesday.

Jim Lea, Boseman's attorney, claimed while Boseman agrees that she had violated the court order, she was unaware that she had done so, thus making it seem to be an unintentional violation. The judge heard the defense and basically agreed, however...

The judge was not fully convinced that the error should go unpunished so she ordered Boseman to pay the cost for bringing this act of defiance to the court's attention.

Now I ask you, why would a judge order an innocent person to pay the cost of bringing the charge to court?

Boseman was guilty, so says the big fat check she will have to write to prove it.

Boseman's White Lie

“I take it very seriously what my constituents have sent me to do,” Boseman later added. “Keeping my promises is most important. I guess that’s also my greatest fear.”

“She stood up to bigotry, she stood up to personal attacks and she stood up to meanness,” The Independent quoted Brian Lewis, director of development for Planned Parenthood Health Systems as saying when he introduced Boseman to a gathering then.

Ironically, three years later, Black constituents in Boseman’s district are accusing her of being guilty of exactly those things. Oh dear...

Apparently Boseman's headquarters didn't get the While You Were Out memo issued weeks ago from the Wilmington Journal demanding an audience with the reckless Senator. The question asked was simply, "Do you use the "N-word" when talking about African-Americans?" Yes or no senator, yes or no.

As mentioned before they are lining up to fill her seat over at the Democratic Headquarters. The feeling, even after the big media blitz ad campaign designed to "straighten" out her image, is that she is a weak candidate. A candidate that may jinx the election for some of those on the democratic ticket. I mean come on, 40% of all of her voters were African-American, and she called them a nigger, how do you think that is sitting right now over the kitchen table of some of Wilmington's darker skinned democrats looking at who is representing them and their concerns?

“The veteran community activist, who made it clear that she was only speaking for herself now, vows not only to skip Boseman’s name on the fall ballot again, but tell every other African-American Democrat in New Hanover County she knows, to do the same.

She didn’t do what I felt she should have [done] for my people,” longtime Wilmingtonian Sylvia Colbert told The Wilmington Journal this week. “She hasn’t done anything, as far as I can see.”

Even the State NAACP has words to say...

Boseman’s critics counter, however, that Boseman has been patronizing, at best, to the Black community, responsive instead to the big business interests in New Hanover County.

They say given her current poor record of service to her African-American constituency, it’s hard to see anyone else doing much worse.

“If your present senator had proudly and strongly lifted her fallen colleagues banners and fought for the recommendations of the [1898] Commission—ideas that have deep meaning to Black voters and their white allies in New Hanover—then the question of whether or not she did or didn’t unfortunately used the N-word would, I believe, pale in comparison to her proven commitment to her constituents,” Rev. William Barber of the state NAACP wrote in his June 30 missive to The Journal regarding Sen. Boseman’s disconnect with her Black constituents.

“Voters are human. We understand our representatives are human too. But when their commitment to our agenda is questionable, we tend to judge our servants by their utterances.”

I encourage each of you to go out and buy the latest edition of the Wilmington Journal.

Senator Boseman's 2nd Quarter Campaign Finance Report

The NC Board of Elections has just posted Senator Boseman's newest campaign report. The senator has over $100,000 in reserves to do with whatever she wishes. So far she has paid her mother $3,000 in rent and a pig farmer nearly $4,000 to rent his pig boat.

EXPENSES:

The senator used $3913.50 to "rent" the pig king's son, Dell Murphy's boat, the Wolfsea. Of course the pig farmers are represented by the same lobbyist that the senator moved in with last month.

There is no mention of any production costs, or ad buys for any of the new commercials Booseman is running on television this week.

There is mention of paying the senator's mother $1,500 a month rent for who knows what.

CONTRIBUTIONS:

There were 92 donations made to the senator's campaign, over $40,000 was received. Interesting, the State Democratic Party donated an in-kind contribution of $4,358.70 for the big "fund raiser" at the felon's house.

The thousand dollar, or more, donors this quarter were:

William J. Blair III - Wrightsville Beach
David Bohnett - Beverly Hills
D. Scott Corbett- Wilmington
David L. Dickey - Wilmington
Nick Garrett- Wilmington
GAY AND LESBIAN VICTORY FUND - Washington, DC ($3,000)
Kathleen Shannon Glancy - Wilmington ($2,000)
Alex M. Hall - Wilmington
David L. Jones Sr. - (republican) Wilmington
John A. Manning - Wilmington
Russell M. Maynard - Wilmington
Ronald B. McNeill & family - (nursing home developer) Wilmington
E. W. Merritt Jr. - Wilmington
Robert Page - Greensboro
David S. Robertson - ($3,000 to date) Wilmington
Nicholas A. Saffo - Wilmington
Tommy C. Spivey - (Inman Trucking) Wilmington
William G. Vassar Jr. & family ($3,000 EUE Screen Gems Studios) Wilmington
John I. Wilson (Director of NEA) Raleigh
Lanny T. Wilson & family - Wilmington

This report included April 20th thru June 30th. The fund raiser at the felon's took place on June 24th. There were several names on the invitation listed as sponsors that do not show up on the finance report, those missing are Rusty Carter, the Tabor City link who, including family and employees, gave over $100,000 last election, District Attorney Ben David, Craig Stevens, and Raiford Trask.

Delusions of Grandeur

Noun 1. delusions of grandeur - a delusion (common in paranoia) that you are much greater and more powerful and influential than you really are
delusion, psychotic belief - (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary
megalomania - a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur

Senator Boseman is spending other people's money to influence public opinion for an upcoming hearing in which Boseman may very well be found to have violated a judge's specific order regarding what she can and can't do with the child she pretends to have legally adopted.

Wearing the same worn-out, poor pitiful me expression as she sat on a porch somewhere in Bedford Falls, Boseman once again tries to convince us that she is a victim of some conspiratorial attack from everywhichaway.

This is the Senator's own doing. She is the one that abandoned her home for multiple sexual affairs, she is the one that lied to a social worker, Boseman is the one that did drugs, committed drunken sex acts in public, moved in with a lobbyist, cheated on her campaign finance report and don't forget it was the senator that used the "n-word" to describe her constituents.

Next time you hear this lunatic talk about how hard she is fighting for her child, ask yourself why she would jepordize what little time she does have with him by intentionally disobeying a judges order.

I'm telling you, senator Boseman is inches away from cutting all her hair off and talking in a foreign accent.

Truer Words Never Spoken

"I don't think creating controversy around yourself on issues not necessarily important to the majority of your constituency is being an effective politician," said Jim Lea, former chairman of the New Hanover County Democratic Party. "The controversy (s)he created over the years may unfortunately outweigh the good (s)he's done."

Jim Lea is Senator Boseman's attorney. The quote comes from his comments regarding the announced retirement of Senator Jesse Helms in 2001. If you took the above quote and applied it to Sen. Boseman you might begin to hear what we have been hearing this past couple of weeks, that there is a push by the local democrats to get Boseman to step down. Apparently the Dixie Democrats are not happy about the possibility of having the senator on the ballot which just might cause voters, particularly if the African-American voters are going to split the ticket, to screw up the elections for other marginal candidates. They feel they can win the senate seat and keep everything in tact with little effort by simply replacing Boseman with Mayor Bill Saffo before August.

All this makes you wonder exactly who is it that wants Julia Boseman to stay? Well besides all the out-of-state kooks. I mean really, who?

WECT Called Out Over Boseman On-Air Lovefest

Certainly not characterizing Kelli O'Hara's brownnosing of Senator Boseman as anything of a sexual nature, but there was some obvious chemistry between the two, I saw it, I did, really! There was the moment in the interview when O'Hara leans over and says, "I love you Julia." Either that or maybe I misunderstood her, maybe she actually said , “ Do you think that what happened with…your personal life in the trial that just happened…do you think that it just is…it was a smear campaign, and that it’s just come out, and it’s just ludicrous…I mean it’s just one thing after another?,”

The Wilmington Journal today released a scathing report in their series of articles demanding Sen. Boseman to come forward and answer the question, "Did you use the N-word multiple times in the presents of your 5 year old child?" It's a simple question and to the credit of O'Hara she asked it, and Boseman responded with a non-response, but it was there for the picking. O'Hara may have been star struck, may have been listening to some asshole news producer talk in her ear, (oh sorry, did I just say asshole? Excuse me) and missed out on what Sen. Boseman said, which was, , “You know, out of everything that has happened in this trial, in this press, that allegation has been the most hurtful. To say that I think that I’m racist or that I’m better than somebody is absolutely not true.”

Boseman continued, “Have I said things in the past and done things I’m not proud of? Yes, I have. But…I…that was the most hurtful and that testimony was totally false.”

There it was, a high slow pitch over the corner, even I could have knocked that one outta Fenway Park, "Answer the question, did you use the vulgar, inflammatory, and racist word NIGGER when talking about African Americans in front of your 5 year-oldchild, YES OR NO?" but no, O'Hara stumbled right to the next question, “ Do you think that what happened with…your personal life in the trial that just happened…do you think that it just is…it was a smear campaign, and that it’s just come out, and it’s just ludicrous…I mean it’s just one thing after another?,” and we are right back to where we started. Nothing new, just a missed opportunity that the Wilmington Journal caught and shoved right back up their bloomers.

Go get you a paper and pass it along. Or go to their online version, you remember, the one that was hacked a few weeks ago.

wilmingtonjournal.com

Boseman in the Ethernet

Mysterious deletions of posts from the Wilmington Star News forum, the vulgar message left behind on the Wilmington Journal web site along with the deletion of an editorial and article about Senator Boseman's use of racial slurs and of course whatever it was/is that happens to this blog, might just be the result of someone "taking them down" to protect the embarrased Senator from the unsightly public imagery of her dirty underwear.

Hopefully law enforcement's investigation into the hacking will uncover what exactly Sen. Boseman meant when she said “We’re taking them down.”

Oh and she also said she "respects their freedom of expression"...

as long as it isn't about her.

Boseman's Intern-shipped

Justice said Boseman was invited to the meeting but did not attend. A staff member who has been researching the issue for the senator went instead.

June 1, 2008 Wilmington Star News

Senator Boseman sent her intern, not a staff member. Her freakin intern. Way to show respect, Dick!

Internships are offered in virtually all areas of state government. One-hundred paid ($8.75) internships are available for 10 weeks each summer for undergraduates, graduate students and those in professional schools. Unpaid internships during the academic year can be arranged periodically, and part time spring internships are sometimes offered. Please contact Lisa Flint-Morris, Internship Program Coordinator at (919) 789-5880, lisa.flint@doa.nc.gov, or 'NCGovtIntern' on MSN Messenger, for more information.

Media or persons of interest should request Sen. Boseman's PPF (Project Proposal Forms) listing her intended use of her intern.

Senator Boseman's Funny Business

I just received a document that might as well be a handwritten signed confession. I need free legal advice, pronto!

I bet she wishes she had a wayback machine. Not that far back though. Just far enough.