Ken Buck's last name rhymes with "Shmuck," and that's no hoax (like global warming)

• Felony Theft Victim Characterizes Weld DA Ken Buck and Chief Judge James Hartmann as, "Psychopaths". --- Craig Buckley and his common-law wife, Pamela Reynolds are on the verge of losing their home as the result of a lien on their home, obtained by fraud, by the couple's former employer, Dream Stone Marble & Granite. Dream Stone secretary/treasurer, Ida Murphy has engaged in a 3 year long personal vendetta against Buckley and Reynolds in which, according to former Dream Stone general manager Todd Coday, her stated goal is to destroy the couple, and see that they lose everything they own. Pamela Reynolds worked for Dream Stone from January, 2006 through January, 2008, and terminated her employment due to yelling, screaming,and severe emotional distress caused by what Ms. Reynolds has described as, "rampant illegal activity". "By the end, they had made me so sick, I was throwing up blood in the doctor's office", states Reynolds. "They had demanded that I get a notary stamp, but there was no way I was going to put my name on documents I knew were fraudulent." Ms. Reynolds has provided law enforcement, including the FBI, copies of documents alleged to prove such criminal acts as labor fraud, consumer fraud, and tax fraud. At the time of Reynolds' termination, she was owed 56 hours of accrued wages. Craig Buckley had worked for Dream Stone, Inc. from July 2006 through September 2008. Buckley terminated his employment, 8 months after Ms. Reynolds, also due to constant yelling, screaming, psychological abuse, and, "rampant illegal activity". Numerous other employees are known to have terminated employment for the identical reason. At the time of Buckley's termination, he was owed 40 hours of accrued wages. Colorado's Department of Labor and Employment: A Perfect Storm of Corruption and Incompetence. After Dream stone owners Scott Murphy, Ron Murphy, and Ida Murphy had belligerently refused to pay Ms. Reynolds her accrued wages as required by the Colorado Wage Act, Reynolds chose to file a complaint with the Colorado Dept. of Labor. The case was assigned to a compliance officer by the name of Saida Montoya, whom Ms. Reynolds would later describe as, "utterly incompetent". Daniel T. Goodwin of Donelson, Ciancio, and Goodwin, P.C. was retained by Ida E. Murphy, to spearhead a known fraudulent attack on Ms. R. Reynolds. Goodwin drafted a fraudulent letter to the Division of Labor in which he, on behalf of Dream Stone stated that Ms. Reynolds was unentitled to her accrued wages because she had left the company without notice. At the time Ida Murphy and Daniel Goodwin conspired to defraud Ms. Reynolds and the DOL, they were unaware that Ms. Reynolds had recorded her telephone exit interview with Mrs. Murphy. An audio CD of that evidence was submitted to the DOL and Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck, and the evidence contained therein wholly disproved Ida Murphy's fraudulent allegations that Ms. Reynolds had terminated her employment without notice. Having submitted clear and convincing evidence that Dream Stone, Marble & Granite secretary/treasurer Ida Murphy had deliberately and maliciously lied to the DOL to deprive Ms. Reynolds of her rightfully earned wages, Craig Buckley, on behalf of Ms. Reynolds, requested that her matter of accrued wages be transferred to a supervisor for further review. The matter was assigned to compliance officer Juanita Wright, whom rather than awarding Ms. Reynolds her wages based on having disproven the known fraudulent allegations of the employers, then allowed Ida Murphy to make up an entirely new story as to why Reynolds would not be paid. Clearly, Murphy had attempted, by fraud, to deceive a public official, now that official was to give Murphy yet another chance to make the story fit the new evidence. On behalf of Ms. Reynolds, Craig Buckley protested to Division of Labor Director Michael McArdle. In defense of the botched investigation, McArdle sent Buckley a threatening letter stating that he had better not ever attempt to contact anyone at the DOL ever again...or else. In Buckley's case, he had chosen to file civil suit in Weld County District Court, not only for accrued wages due, but to be "made whole", specifically seeking damages for pain and suffering inflicted on him and his family. The employers, and their criminally complicit attorney, Daniel Goodwin admitted by both express and implied consent, that the matter of accrued wages was before the Court. Shortly after their admission, Buckley filed a complaint with the DOL, not seeking a monetary award, as that matter was already before the Court, but seeking criminal charges and civil penalties payable to the DOL for their having violated the Colorado Wage Act. Ida Murphy of Dream Stone, Inc., immediately set out to quash Buckley's rights before the DOL, and in so doing, perjured herself before the DOL on the accrued wage issue, and thereby destroyed any chance of their prevailing in the Weld County District Court. Something had to be done: quickly. In an eleventh hour "hail Mary" attempt to destroy Buckley's accrued wage claim case once and for all, Ida Murphy, through her criminally complicit attorneys, Donelson, Ciancio, and Goodwin, P.C., swore simultaneously to the Weld County District Court, and the DOL that neither had jurisdicton over Buckley's accrued wage claim because the matter was before the other. Weld County District Court Chief Judge James F. Hartmann, whom had shown extreme bias, prejudice, and oughtright malice toward pro-se Plaintiff Buckley throughout his civil case, stripped Buckley of every shred of evidence necessary to prosecute his case, a mere 16 hours before Buckley's scheduled deposition. Hartmann's extreme bias and prejudice had manifested itself earlier in the case through numerous wild and irrational rulings designed to dispense with a pro-se Plaintiff whom Hartmann clearly considered to be a nuisance. Examples: Judge Hartmann allowed Dream Stone, through their criminally complicit counsel, to slap Buckley with Subpoena Duces Tecum, seeking hundreds of pages of clearly irrelevant evidence. Colorado Bar Association ethics opinion #86 clearly states that it is "unethical" to slap a party to litigation with subpoena Duces Tecum, without going through the standard discovery request, motion to compel,response, and ruling. Judge Hartmann's actions must therefore be considered unethical, according to the Colorado Bar Association's ethics report. Judge Hartmann also allowed the Defendants' criminally complicit attorney to falsify an affidavit, awarding the Defendants attorney's fees for preparation of an affidavit attached to a Motion for which no fees were awarded. There are more examples of Hartmann's outrageous/unlawful conduct to be published in a future release. The Defendants, and more importantly James Hartmann, caused Buckley to be stripped of all evidence necessary to prosecute his case a mere 16 hours before his scheduled deposition. Of particular significance is the fact that the Defendants used their response to Motion For Settlement Conference to assert their fraudulent pleading. The allegation was beyond the scope of the Motion, and was not incorporated into their prayer for relief. In other words, Hartmannn did this of his own accord, through his own fraudulent sua sponte ruling stripping Buckley of all evidence necessary to prosecute his case. Buckley filed Motion For Protective Orders, stating that he would not submit to deposition by an officer of the Court whom had worked a fraud upon the Court. The Motion was immediately denied by the staggeringly corrupt Judge James Hartmann, despite the fact that he, himself had admitted in previous orders by express consent, that the matter of accrued wages was within the jurisdiction of the Court. Dream Stone, Inc. through their criminally complicit attorneys, Donelson, Ciancio, and Goodwin, P.C., immediately filed Motion To Dismiss, which was immediately granted by Hartmann. In Hartmann's scathing Order he accused Buckley of making "serious" unfounded allegations against the defendants and their attorneys. The Defendants were fraudulently awarded attorney's fees, and they immediately slapped their fraudulently obtained lien on Buckley, and Reynolds' home. Buckley and Reynolds had received no notification that a lien had been filed on their home in of July 2011. Ms. Reynolds had been working at the Longmont Times-Call, and was scheduled to be laid off in May 2011 due to the buyout and restructuring of that publication. Buckley and Reynolds knew that in order to be able to keep their home on only one income, they had to refinance. In November 2010, Buckley and Reynolds had been approved to refinance, dropping their monthly mortgage payment from $1,500.00 to $1,100,00 per month. Buckley stated, "With Pam being unemployed, I knew we could make our mortgage payment if we could just get our payment lowered, and in November 2010 we were approved to refinance. Then, all of a sudden, mere days before we were scheduled to close on the loan, our mortgage broker calls us and says, 'hey, do you know there is a lien on your property?, I said no, and she emailed the verification, written on a Dream Stone letterhead, and signed by Ida E. Murphy." "I was livid", continues Buckley. The judge of the Court and the Defendants (Dream Stone) had admitted that the matter of accrued wages was before the Court, yet Judge Hartmann just decided he didn't care if we lost our home, just as long as he didn't have to deal with my case anymore." Evidence in hand, Buckley spent months begging the Weld County Sheriff’s department, the Weld County DA, and the Colorado Attorney General for help. Because it had been made public knowledge that the Chief Judge of the Weld County District Court was dir3ectly implicated in the criminal acts of the Defendants, nobody would help Buckley and Reynolds. The Colorado Attorney General's office was particularly biased against Buckley, as he had successfully sued the State of Colorado and the Colorado State Patrol some years before for having been falsely arrested for DUI, physically assaulted, and jailed by, now former, Colorado State Trooper Bradley Lawrence Keadle. Finally, as a direct result of the Defendant's and Judge Hartmann's wrongful acts, and the conspiracy to conceal Hartmann's involvement in the deprivation of rights, spurious lien, harassment, fraud, and criminal conspiracy inflicted upon Buckley and Reynolds, and after having pursued all lawful means to bring these individuals to justice, Buckley was forced to contact Ron Murphy, Scott Murphy, and Ida Murphy directly. The purpose of the contact was removal of the fraudulent lien: the motive for the contact was justifiable anger based on their felonious acts. On March 9, 2011 at 7:15 PM Buckley was forcibly removed from his home and jailed by the Frederick Police Department for allegedly "Harassing" Ron Murphy, Scott Murphy, and Ida Murphy. Interestingly, the arresting officer, Tim Maddigan, was the was the same officer whom had taken Buckley's report when the Murphys threatened to kill Buckley's dog if he did not "keep his mouth shut", and stop talking to OSHA one year prior. At first Court appearance, Buckley met with deputy prosecutor Steve Wrenn. Mr. Wrenn offered Buckley a very generous plea agreement, had Buckley ACTUALLY harassed Scott, Ron, or Ida Murphy. The deal consisted of 20 hours of community service, Court costs, and strangely enough, the alleged "victims' were not seeking any monetary restitution, despite being represented over the course of multiple days at the restraining order hearing by their $350.00 per hr. criminally complicit attorney Daniel Goodwin. The deal was refused, as Mr. Wrenn and Ken Buck are known to be in possession of evidence proving not only that the alleged victims had committed a felony, but also that Weld County Chief Judge James F. Hartmann was criminally complicit. Buckley states, "Wrenn was told that this matter will not be swept under the rug, and you will get the fraudulent lien off my home. Further, this now becomes a matter of restitution in a criminal case, somebody is going to pay me: I don't care if it's Buck, Hartmann, the state of Colorado, or the lowlife scumbags who attacked my family: somebody owes me $400.00 a month for the next 27 years, plus back payment dating to when my refinance was approved." Ken Buck is now pursuing the selective/malicious/retaliatory prosecution of Buckley with a, "ferocity unlike anything I have ever seen", states Buckley. In the months preceding Buckley's arrest, he was aware that the Division of Labor was in possession of evidence proving that Ron Murphy, Scott Murphy, and Ida Murphy had lied to the Court, and lied to the DOL. "It took me being thrown in jail to finally get the evidence I needed to prove these people are felons", Buckley laments. On March 30, 2011 a 7 pound FedEx package of evidentiary materials arrived at Buckley's home. "There were hundreds of pages of evidence proving that Ida Murphy and Daniel Goodwin had lied to the Court, and lied to the DOL, and had done so deliberately, and with malice". "I had, during this time period, begged Ken Buck and Deputy Colorado Attorney General John Lizza for help, clearly they have made their decision which side of the law they are on." Ron Murphy, Ida Murphy, and Scott Murphy on behalf of himself and his two daughters sought a restraining order against Buckley in Weld County Court. Interestingly, Scott Murphy's wife Rebecca Murphy chose not to be protected by a restraining order against Buckley. Buckley reasons, "If there was any legitimate threat for the safety of his family, wouldn't you think Scott Murphy would want his wife, the mother of his children, to be protected also? Scott Murphy is a psycho, and the fact that he is using his two innocent little children to fabricate a sense of danger is beyond depraved. I'm sure Becky is totally sick of his bullshit, and just refused to get involved in his little games." On March 21, 2011 Buckley and Ms. Reynolds met personally with Ken Buck. Of the fraudulent lien on their home, Ken Buck stated to Buckley, "You need to seek gainful employment and just get over it and move on with your life." Buck continued, "You need to lose my email address, and lose my phone number, there is nobody in this office who will help you." Ms. Reynolds expressed that she was frightened by Buck's menacing remarks, and wished to leave Mr. Buck's office immediately. Mr. Buck's statements were made in the presence of Ms. Reynolds, and Ed Jordan. Mr. Jordan is expected to perjure himself on the stand when confronted with Mr. Buck's statements. On March 31, 2011 Buckley made what he now realizes was a ,"grievous error". In response to Judge James Hartmann's scathing Order Of Dismissal With Prejudice and (fraudulent) award of attorney's fees, Buckley forwarded Hartmann 5 emails by USPS, from Ida Murphy, to DOL compliance officer Juanita Wright, and Cc'd to Daniel T. Goodwin, as obtained from Ellen Golombek, CDLE Director, proving beyond any reasonable doubt that allegations which Hartmann had previously characterized as "serious" and "unfounded" were now wholly substantiated. Ron Murphy, Scott Murphy, and Ida Murphy had, in fact, simultaneously sworn before BOTH the Weld County District Court, and the Colorado Division of Labor that Buckley's accrued wage claim was before the other, and that neither had jurisdiction. Hartmann, having ruled that Buckley's allegations were serious, now had taken a different approach. Rather than reporting the Defendant's actions as a Class 3 felony, and rather than abiding by his obligation to comply with the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct (Rule 8.3(a)), as a registered attorney in the state of Colorado, Hartmann lashed out against Buckley: "The urgency of the situation, and the fact that we are about to lose our home necessitated that I get this information to law enforcement fast. I mailed him the emails along with a brief handwritten note asking that the fraudulent lien be removed from my home. Hartmann stripped me of all evidence necessary to prosecute my case by sua sponte motion, he should be able to fix his mistake by sua sponte motion. I understand now that Hartmann's actions which caused the fraudulent lien on our home were not a mistake, but deliberate and malicious". On April 7, 2011, Buckley met with Ken Buck again with the evidence obtained from the DOL on March 30, 2011 in hand. Buckley reiterated his concerns about the fraudulent lien on his home, and Mr. Buck Menacingly stated, "I don't care. That's not my problem". Buckley was immediately ordered off the premises by 5 armed Weld County Sheriff's Officers, led by Court Services Commander Cindy Villegas, and told never to attempt to contact Ken Buck again. Judge James Francis Hartmann has ordered the Weld County Sheriff’s Department, at taxpayer expense, to stalk, harass, intimidate, and terrorize Buckley every time he is forced, as a result of Ken Buck's fraudulent charges, to go near the Weld County Courthouse. Of Hartmann and Buck's actions, Buckley states as follows: "Hartmann and Buck have screwed up, and screwed up badly. They are going to cause my wife and I to lose our home. If they were any kind of men, they would admit that they were wrong, I have no expectation that this will happen. The evidence clearly shows that the alleged "victims" have committed a felony, yet these sick little men refuse to admit that they made a mistake, if that's what it was, and fix this. They have chosen instead to dig in further, and victimize me and my family, and cause us to lose everything we own. Buck has a history of ethics violations dating back to 2001. In my opinion, Hartmann and Buck are degenerate psychopaths." On April 7, 2011, in sworn testimony before the Weld County Court, both Dream Stone CEO Scott Murphy, and his father Dream Stone VP Ron Murphy admitted that they had sworn simultaneously to both the Weld County District Court, and the Colorado Division of Labor that neither had jurisdiction over Buckley's accrued wage claim because the matter was before the other. Neither Ken Buck, nor John Lizza will prosecute: both are now accessories after the fact to Class 3 Felony Theft by Deception. Hartmann is criminally complicit. Mr. Buck has been reprimanded for, and exhibits a pattern of violation of civil rights. Mr. Buck was successfully sued for $300,000.00 by the American Civil Liberties Union for violation of civil rights. Mr. Buck will be sued again. Craig Buckley is currently out on a $30,000.00 bond, the highest bond amount ever in the history of Weld County, for a single count of harassment related to the email sent to the alleged victims demanding that the fraudulent lien be removed from his home. "This is nothing more than retaliation by Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck, and Weld County Chief Judge James Hartmann in their malicious attempt to conceal their criminal acts, and violation of my Constitutional rights," states Buckley.

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• More Ethics Violations by Weld County DA Ken Buck WELD COUNTY DA KEN BUCK SENDS A CLEAR MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO: PROTECT YOUR DOPE = GOOD  PROTECT YOUR FAMILY = BAD The Weld County District Attorney declined to press charges for second-deg­ree murder in the recent fatal shooting of one man, and the stabbing of another by Karen Eaine Cordova, 48, of Erie: known dope dealer. According to Ken Buck's spokespers­on, Jennifer Finch, the marijuana dealer will not be charged. Mr. Buck has, however, arrested, jailed, and charged Craig Buckley, 49, of Longmont, with Harassment for attempting to fend off the theft of his home by former employers, Dream Stone, Inc., Ron Murphy, Scott Murphy, and Ida Murphy. It is Buckley's understanding that Ken Buck intends to aggressively prosecute this case. "I sued the employers for accrued wages which they owed me at the time they forced me to quit my job. They admitted the matter of accrued wages was before the Court, yet in a last ditch effort to strip me of my Due Process rights, they falsely swore befort the Court that the matter was before the Division of Labor, causing me to be stripped of all evidence necessary to prosecute my case a mere 16 hours before my scheduled deposition", states Buckley. "The employers, by fraud,  obtained a default judgment for attorney's fees in excess of $20,000.00, than immediately used their fraud upon the Court to commit Class 3 felony theft by deception by slapping a fraudulently obtained lien on our home." "On March 9, 2011 I was arrested, jailed, and charged with harassment for demanding, via email, that the fraudulent lien be removed from my home."Buckley states, "I don't care what means you use to attack my family, whether by knife, gun, or by or fraudulent use of the Courts as your weapon, I still believe elements of Colorado's version of the Castle Doctrine apply. Anyone attacking my family and/or my home by any unawful means is not entitled to seek the protection of law enforcement. Evidently, Mr. Ken Buck feels very differently about that perspective."  In a March 21, 2011 meeting with Mr. Buck, he stated to Buckley and his common-law wife, Pamela Reynolds (of the fraudulent lien), "You just need to get over it and move on with your life". "Mr. Buck's statements are an outrage.", laments Buckley."Our home was encumbered by the fraudulently obtained July, we discovered the lien in October, after having been approved to refinance our home. Evidence of the former employer's criminal acts in hand, we begged the Weld County DA, the Frederick police, the Attorney General, and the Weld County Sheriff for help for months, all to no avail: we were ignored by all."   "We had a narrow window time to refinance our home, dropping our mortgage payment from $1500.00 to $1100.00 per mo. My wife was scheduled to lose her job, due to the sale of the Longmont Times-Call, and we really needed to refinance in order to be able to keep our home on one income. Due to the fraudulently obtained lien, we were unable to refinance, our credit ratings have been decimated, and we are financially tapped out as a result of Dream Stone's felonious act.", states Buckley.   On April 7, 2011, Buckley met with Mr. Buck again, armed with evidence of felony fraud by the employers as provided by Colorado Dept. of Labor and Employment Director, Ellen Golombek. This time the Weld County DA's tone was much more menacing. Buck stated, of the fraudulent lien, "I don't care", "That's not my problem". Buckley was then escourted out of the DA's office by 5 armed Weld County Sheriff's Officers and told by Court Services Commander Cindy Villegas, never to attempt to speak to Mr. Buck again. Craig Buckley still faces criminal charges for attempting to defend his family and home, and expects foreclosure on his property before the end of Summer.

• Oops I meant SENATOR of Colorado....

• Oops I meant SENATOR of Colorado....

• Ken Buck is irresponsible, and a horrible man. As DA in Weld County this man has no problems pressing false charges- even felonious charges! I know! He's doing it to me! I save 24 horses from Trenton Parker shooting them, get asked by Margorie the property owner to care for the dogs while that monster Trenton was in jail, get into a car accident WITH THE CAR I HAD IN WRITING I COULD USE and because that lunatic Parker had no insurance and he falsified the insurance card and was going to get charged said that I stole that car. Does it matter that Ken Buck's office has a DIGITAL VIDEO copy of me talking to Parker while he was in jail? NO, Ken Buck has no sense, if he'll press charges on the innocent and not on the guilty (the rapist) what will he do as Governor of Colorado? SCARY THOUGHT! F@$! Ken Buck!

• @Anonymous We don't need any rhymes to describe Bennet followers. They display their hatred by the words they post.

• Ken Buck also rhymes with dumb fuck, while we're at it. "I find Jonathan's collection of direct quotes from Buck's ravings to be both amusing and revealing" Brush up on your reading skills -- Jonathan clearly points out that this is a press release from the Bennet camp. Perhaps Buck's supporters names rhyme with his too.

• Bennet rhymes with "spin it" That explains his campaign and his voting record.

• Michael Bennet is nothing but an Obama puppet. Ken Buck uses his brain and says what he thinks, whether you like that or not. I will be voting for Ken Buck. He mostly represents my views. Bennet only parrots Obama's views. We don't need 6 years of a puppet.

• I find Jonathan's collection of direct quotes from Buck's ravings to be both amusing and revealing -- they don't make me want to vote for Bennett though. His tenure as superintendant of DPS does not commend him to me either, nor did his vote for Dianne Feinstein's pandering 'Saving Children from Dangerous Drugs Act'. The last straw came when he undercut the President's position regarding taxing people making over $250,000 per year. I am voting for Bob Kinsey (Green Party) despite the Green's anti-technological and irrational anti-nuclear bias. P.S. druid: your fascist side is showing (again). If you don't like what you read here you are free not to read it, but your statement that "Mr. Shikes ... should never be permitted to write another column for any publication" is totally over the line. Jonathan is right -- Buck is too embarassing for Colorado (at least for those of us capable of the emotion).

• Rain, if Ken Buck does release a commercial saying he's not a witch, he can use this one from Elvira as a model: http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2010/10/christine_odonnells_not_a_witch_and_neither_is_elvira_the_pride_of_colorado_springs.php

• Ken Buck speaking in his own words about his own beliefs is the best Michael Bennet campaigner on the circuit. Who needs Michelle Obama when you have the Ken Buck gaffe-a-minute? How long before Ken has to make a commercial declaring that he's not a witch?

• Typical abortive attempt at liberal humor, and irresponsible journalism at its best - or worst. Anyone who thinks electing Bennet will help our state hasn't been paying attention for the past two years. Buck will cut spending, reduce the intrusive size of the federal government and get us back to work. Mr. Shikes needs to remove his head from his hind quarters, and should never be permitted to write another column for any publication.

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