Who Is The Bigger Problem? Hansen Or Those Who Support Her?
If this is the state of mind of public officials and some members of the public in the Virgin Islands, the question of whether Alicia Hansen should have been allowed to run for public office may be the least of our concerns.
But it would certainly explain the mess we are in.
At close of business yesterday we were satisfied to await the results of the complaint CIF filed with the St. Croix Board of Elections before commenting further on the determination of Alicia Hansen’s eligibility for candidacy in the November 2010 election.
But after listening to comments Hansen made on local media Wednesday defending her position, further immediate comment is demanded.
Hansen did not address the issue CIF has identified as critical in this matter: How was Hansen deemed eligible for candidacy for office when VI law stipulates that candidates must be “qualified voters” which Hansen cannot be since she is on probation now and at the time of the election?
But what she did address, and the manner in which she presented it, is textbook disregard for the law of the land and illustrates sharply why we are surrounded with inconsistent enforcement and general societal degeneration in this community.
This exercise in myopia began with Hansen saying the courts allowed her to run because she was the lone tax evader ever to be charged with the crime.
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Translation: A lot of people are doing it but I’m the one who got caught, so you should cut me some slack.
We go on.
Hansen then gave her interpretation of the difference between “failure to file” and “tax evasion.”
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Seems to us that failing to file your taxes is the action that precedes evading payment. Not in the Hansen world of tax management.
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Oh, now we understand. The fact that your payroll taxes were paid through automatic withholdings in the three years you didn’t bother to file a tax return should count as reporting your income and paying your taxes. Really?
Not even you can believe that. And surely you don’t believe anyone else does.
Moving on now to address the nature of her crime and her comments relative to an irrelevant factor in the question of her eligibility to run for office:
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Okay – one more time. The issue is not whether Hansen was convicted of a felony which, for the record, was never printed on these pages. The issue is that she is on probation and is not qualified to vote and therefore is not eligible to run for public office.
Period.
The depth of the ethical decay of this community is being played out in some of the comments recorded on this site in the past few days. Those who choose to ignore factual evidence despite how often it is presented to them; those who would choose to support an individual whose approach to the law is to break it and then complain that she is the one who got caught; those who choose to attempt to discredit the messenger, when the message should cause them alarm.
But this is how the Hansens of the world survive – because there are enough of these ignoramuses in the world that no matter how absurd the defense, they will support their false leaders – even when those leaders are driving them to financial and environmental destruction.
This is an elected official of the Virgin Islands. This is someone whose responsibility is to uphold the law, not break it. This is a person who is supposed to be accountable to the people she claims to want so badly to serve and the example she sets is to complain not about laws being broken, but about getting caught when she does.
This is a person that the rest of the Legislature is allowing to continue to serve, without comment or acknowledgement of the controversy at hand.
That may actually be the biggest problem that we face.
Stupid, only VI and US laws are applicable in this case. Chucky is eligible based on these laws. Go read pertinent documents on this site that prove this point.
CIF Can you please put Recon’s cell number or any of his contact information up on a side bar please. Their are alot of people that has been trying to reach him to give him some important information. Thank you.
@ 8.09
Your request should be directed at Recon.CIF will not publish personal info
on anyone…..unless it wants to get sued.
Thanks the thing is though I don’t know how to contact him.
I guess I will try to see how I can reach him, thanks anyway.
@ anon 8:26 Here is a suggestion. Leave your name and contact number with attorney Jeffrey Moorhead.
@ 8.37
If,as you say,a person who is convicted of a misdemeanor ‘probably could be elected to the senate’,but the Organic Act of 1954 and the V.I.Code says such a person ‘cannot serve’,Who,in your judgement,should have been the one
to have prevented her swearing into office?
The BOE certainly didn’t see Chucky as being ineligible to run for office and
nobody in the senate (as best as I can tell) tried to prevent her being sworn
in.
So,who ‘dropped the ball’ here?
The only people who drop the ball are those that supporting the filing of a complaint at BOE. They drop the book too since they cannot read & understand the laws. Chucky is eligible!
Eligible for what? To have run for office and now be serving as senator? Or,is she eligible for imprisonment?
The mind is boggled.
Chucky is eligible to be I’m the Senate, boggled bozo!
“eligible for imprisonment”, I like that.
Chucky also “appears” to be the owner of an abandoned property – 1 Lagoon St., F’sted – as listed in today’s Daily News. Date of last transaction 5/16/2002
Some folks seem to do what they want and always get away with it. Maybe, they have a better game-plan.
Those who chooses to engage others in “any” battle should know this: There is a big difference between planing-to-fight and fighting-the-plan.
It is like chess. You have to read the board three-five-seven moves deep to be successful!
You can’t bring a Dominoes-Domination mindset to a game of strategical Chess-Calculation and expect to win!
@3.37
Just so you know,it isn’t only the ‘Chuckster’ who is ‘eligible for imprisonment’.When the time comes she’ll have lots of company.
More spin from Cluckie Chuckie this AM. She said her ‘discrimination’ bill was for the Hovensa workers who were locked out because they had no contract.
NO CONTRACT was in place, it has absolutely NOTHING to do with discrimination. We need to constantly monitor the BS coming out of Hansen’s mouth. She is already running for senator next term when in fact she should be booted out this term.
Why no majority president or majority senators are speaking out about this, much less our AG or BOE is beyond belief. This would be all over the US news if it happened in the US senate.
i didnt know they gave parole for misdemeanors, i belive for misdemeanors the courts use probation, parole is the term for those who have been found guilty processed into prison and released for good behavior or mitgating circumstances like bad health ect..
All in all who is responcible the judge? the election board, the election supervisor? we my never know. What we do know is chuckie is responcible and if she was what she claims to be she would step down and remove her self. ultimate power corrupts ultimately she is a prime example
Anon@6:52.
The clown has no shame. She is a media hog who plays politics with everything
and manipulates the ill-informed, un-eduacted into believing she is for the little people. When all she does is prey on them to get elected and put her family on the government payroll. She is the lowest of the low and a disgrace to the race.
Simplify the next election by passing legislation that all candidates must produce a tax-clearance letter. If you can’t pay you’re own taxes why should you be trusted with the keys to the vault!