my 26th birthday….

So todays my 26th birthday. I’m feeling old, feeling loved, and crunching on a bunch of slacked promotion for this birthday show me and Erik are throwing for me and Geno. If I could ask for anything today it would be to see my “lil man” (my son Noah Hunkin, He turns 4 on May 14th this year). But God knows thats not going to happen!

But any how, today has made me realize a lot of my accomplishments and things I’m slacking on and how much I need to change them and stop letting my ADHD control where my mind goes. for instance, this music ish! lol… But any ways its only 1:30pm today, and I need to get back on that promo hustle so Ill come back and fill in the rest of how today goes tomorrow… hope to see you there! peace…

So the night was a success! Ruffly 60-70 people came out to celebrate with us on a Tuesday night. The bartender Tiffany had to wake up early the next morning so she told us we had until 12am instead of 1am, but then at 12am she told me she was surprised on the turnout and said we could keep it going if people keep drinking! Thanks Tiffany!

So it started out with Erik coming to pick me up from my house. He gave me a real stinky birthday gift and we headed out to the kitchen. We got there around 7:45pm and Fice was already there to say happy birthday before he had to be at work at 10pm. I ate some of hellskitchens delicious $2 tacos and had a mac and jack then we started setting up.

For some reason I really had the itch to spin a little bit in the beginning, so i did a small set from ruffly from 9pm till 10pm then started running around to chat with people. There was a lot of new faces there that i didn’t know but ended up being real cool. Everyone and there mom was asking to buy me a drink! I think my most used sentence for the night was ” tequila, any kind except the well”. Everyone there was trying to buy me shots at the same time so i ran and hid back on the tables! lol… and came down and took everyone’s shot one by one though of course!

I think i started forgeting the night mostly around 1am but remeber bits and pieces. I remeber eating some Mcdonalds breakfast, comforting my homegirl Kaylan, drinking alot more beer untill 8 in the morning, and talking to my girl while she was going to work! lol. All in all it was a good night! Thanks so much for everyone that came out! You guys made my night! Well we got FRESHBLENDS coming up this upcoming wensday. Gotta start preparing for that! later guys!

WA bill would smooth voting restoration for felons

MARCH 23RD 2009

So I came across this looking for a new law that might be getting passed in june that states “if you get caught with 4 grams or less of marijuana in the state of Washington, you get a ticket for $100″! Well all of you that know me know im FAR from new with the law!!!

So I got pulled over… (those of you that know me know I ALWAYS have a suspended license)… I had .8 grams of weed on me. The cop cuffs me tells me hes going to let the weed slide and gave me a speeding ticket for 46 in a 35(it was down hill), and a driving while license suspended in the 3rd degree ticket and had me call a friend to drive me home… So I did! Then when i go to court everyone with “DWLS in the 3rd” got dropped down to ” driving without a valid drivers license” the public defender pulls me over and tells me ” you should pled not guilty because the prosecutor brought back up the weed charge on you”. So i did!

Then when I go to court on the date and time to the room I was told to go to MY NAME DOESN’T EVEN GET CALLED!!! So i ask them “whats up?” They go pull my file and then make me wait 3 hours before i even get to talk to a attorney! Then the attorney tells me that they want to drop the DWLS in the 3rd degree charge and stick me with the 40 grams or less MISTAMINOR CHARGE!!! and make me do 1 day in jail!

Well you guys that know me know i have 2 STUPID felony charges from when I was 18 and 19 yrs old (I’m 26 now). They told me I can get my felonys off my record in 7yrs if I stay out of trouble. Well I did! Now there telling me that if i get a mistaminor charge at all before then I have to wait another 7yrs!!!

Well Im still looking for info to help me on that! But one of the issues ive had as a felon in Washington (especially this election!) was not being able to vote! So I stumbled this and thought I would share it with you guys! So here you go! peace…

WA bill would smooth voting restoration for felons

by:Amy Sinisterra of the Tacoma News Tribune

For tens of thousands of convicted felons in Washington state, only one thing stands between them and the ballot box: debt.

Under current law, felons can’t vote until they have served their sentences, including the completion of any parole or probation, and paid all restitution and other court fees.

A measure to remove that payment requirement – opponents say it’s akin to a modern-day “poll tax” – has passed the House and awaits action in the Senate. If it becomes law, felons could simply re-register to vote once they’re no longer in state custody, including any parole or probation.

“The basic unfairness is that our system is currently based on someone paying off their legal obligations,” said Rep. Jeannie Darneille, a Tacoma Democrat who sponsored the measure. “If you have money, you can get your rights restored, and if you don’t have money, you won’t.”

Washington’s neighbor, Oregon, automatically restores voting rights to felons once they’re released from prison. Nearly 40 other states and the District of Columbia also have less onerous restrictions on restoring voting rights to felons.

But others argue Washington state is obligated to make sure felons complete all of their sentence, including all monetary obligations.

“Until they pay their fines and restitution, to me, they haven’t carried out their entire sentence,” said Rep. Ed Orcutt, a Kalama Republican who opposes the bill. “So their voting rights shouldn’t be restored.”

Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, a Seattle Democrat who sponsored a similar measure in the Senate, said felons will still need to pay off their debts, but won’t have to wait to vote while they’re doing so.

“It’s more an issue of fairness,” she said. “I don’t think the right to vote should be based on one’s income.”

Similar bills have been raised here before, but this is the first time the measure has gotten any traction. It passed the House on a 53-43 vote earlier this month, and has a public hearing Monday morning before the Senate Government Operations and Elections Committee.

Secretary of State Sam Reed, the state’s top elections officer, had not taken a position on the measure in the past, but this year he publicly supports it, saying the bill could foster greater civic engagement.

“When people have served their time and are out of prison, we want them to get involved in their community and get connected,” said Reed, a Republican.

Equally important, Reed said, the measure would help reduce the bureaucratic challenges in determining who is a legal voter.

The state’s voter database is able to track people who are currently in prison, or who are still under supervision by the state Department of Corrections. More than 12,000 felons have been removed from the rolls since the database went online in 2006. But people who haven’t yet had their rights restored, often because of unpaid court-ordered fines, are harder to track.

“It continues to be a problem,” Reed said. “We really need a bright line.”

It is unclear exactly how many people previously convicted of felonies are barred from voting in Washington solely because they haven’t paid their fines. A 2002 estimate calculated the figure at more than 46,000 people, but state elections officials say the actual number is impossible to know, because there’s no list of people who are no longer in the DOC system, but still owe legal financial obligations.

“There is no source of information that provides all of the people who are ineligible,” said Katie Blinn, Reed’s assistant director of elections.

In 2006, a King County judge had ruled that felons cannot be barred from voting just because they owe fines. The following year, the state Supreme Court overruled him, saying that the law did not illegally discriminate against poor felons who have trouble paying their legal bills.

The ACLU had sued on behalf of three convicted felons in that case, including Beverly DuBois of Chattaroy, who was convicted on a marijuana charge in 2002. The $10 per month she has been paying since her release in 2003 doesn’t cover the interest, and she said her $1,600 fine has increased to nearly $2,000.

“This last election, I was just beside myself because I couldn’t vote,” said DuBois, who was disabled after a car accident and can’t work. “It’s terribly frustrating.”

An estimated 5.3 million people nationwide are ineligible to vote because of a felony conviction, according to The Sentencing Project, an advocacy group in Washington, D.C.

“People want there to be consequences for committing a crime. But certainly once the sentence has been completed, there’s not that many people who think this should be a lifetime punishment imposed on you,” said Marc Mauer, executive director of the advocacy group.

Gov. Chris Gregoire, a Democrat, said she generally supported the idea.

“I do not have an objection for restoration of voting rights simply because they haven’t paid a fine,” she said. “I don’t want to create a debtor’s prison.”

Man held after wife, stepdaughter slain with ax near Orting

Pierce County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 52-year-old man Saturday on suspicions that he killed his estranged wife and his stepdaughter with an ax in a home south of Orting.

The man called 911 about 10:20 p.m. Friday night to say he had assaulted his wife, Sheriff’s Department spokesman Ed Troyer said.

When deputies arrived at the home on the 27200 block of 168th Avenue Court East, they found the man’s 52-year-old wife dead and his 33-year-old stepdaughter gravely injured. The younger woman died Saturday night at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

“It appears he took an ax to both of them,” Troyer said.

The man was arrested and jailed on suspicion of first-degree murder and first-degree assault, which was changed to first-degree murder when the younger woman died, Troyer said.

The wife had filed a restraining order against her husband, writing that she feared for the safety of herself and their family pets, according to Pierce County Superior Court records. In response, the court issued a “mutual restraining order” against both the husband and the wife, which Troyer said isn’t uncommon in divorce proceedings. The couple were estranged and no longer living together.

The News Tribune isn’t naming the man because he hasn’t been formally charged with a crime.

The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office won’t release additional information on the wife until Monday, although Troyer said she worked for King County Corrections.

The stepdaughter worked for the Renton Police Department, Troyer said.

At the couple’s home Saturday, there were spray-painted messages on the garage door and on a cinder-block shed near the front gate of the property. One message on the garage door read “I loved my wife.”

On one side of the cinder-block shed, scrawled red letters read “Could not find help. Nowhere to go.” On the other side of the shed, the words were “Living in hotel. Money running out. Nowhere to live.”

Another spray-painted message contained an apology: “Sorry to my friends.”

Deputies suspect the man attacked his wife and his stepdaughter and then spray-painted the messages before calling 911, Troyer said.

Troyer said the attacks were domestic violence-related, but deputies haven’t determined what caused the man to attack the women. “What his motivation was and why this happened we’re still investigating,” Troyer said.

The wife filed for divorce in late January, writing in court papers that the couple, who had married in December 2005, had separated on Jan. 28. She sought a restraining order as part of the divorce filings.

The woman wrote that she hadn’t told her husband she was filing for divorce because “I very much fear for my own safety and the safety of my family and our animals. (He) is both violent and very controlling – he’s always at our home and has been known to listen in on my phone calls. I am very frightened about how he will respond to my petition for dissolution.”

When he was angry at her in the past, she wrote, he threw mugs, the dog dish and his watch.

He threatened to shoot their cat with a BB gun to teach it not to hunt birds and claimed to have once hit her horse with an aluminum bat. She wrote that he disciplined their Labrador-mix puppies by slapping them on the head and ears so hard that they screamed.

The husband disputed the woman’s allegations. In his declaration dated Feb. 11, he said his wife is a corrections officer for King County who can take care of herself. He claimed that when she was angry at him, she slams doors, yells and “bunches up her fists and hits herself in the leg.”

“I do not abuse animals,” he wrote.

He wrote that he has suffered from “extreme anxiety and depression” since the early 1980s and had been unable to hold a job the past two years because of his mental health issues. He wrote that he was seeing a doctor for his problems.

Though he had been doing some work in their home garage, which was set up as a body and auto repair shop, he wrote that he no longer had a source of income, apparently because he was ordered out of the house because of the divorce proceedings.

“I do not deal with stress well,” he wrote.

On Feb. 3, a court commissioner barred both parties from entering each other’s home or workplace. They were supposed to appear in court Thursday .

Shawn Mullen, a neighbor who lived across the street from the couple, said that he was stunned to hear about the attacks. He said the couple moved into the green, one-story house two or three years ago.

Mullen said he was on friendly terms with the husband, but that he hadn’t met the wife. The couple owned several horses and greyhound dogs, he said.

“When they moved in they seemed fairly happy,” Mullen said.

Though Mullen said he used to chat with the husband regularly, in the past year the two haven’t spoken much. “He always has seemed like a good guy,” Mullen said.

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