Interveiw with Larkin Forney for state senate

1. I am running because over two years ago I was stalked and falsely accused, and I witnessed a serious lack of integrity in the legal system when their was no investigation and in the judicial system when I was wrongfully convicted/violated by the same judge who had previously ignored a restraining order against Brian Rooney. I don't think it is good for the system or society when lies are more important than the truth, and the people in charge of "judging" things make such bad determinations as is indicated in my situation. More about my situation can be read at my website, http://justiceforvermonters.org/.

2. Kids need protected from actual predators and pedophiles, and I would say that we need to use our resources to protect our children from people who prey on them, not everybody who is charged or convicted of some sort of "sex offense." I would say that anyone charged with a sex offense, such as sexual assault on a minor, which has a broad range of different conditions behind the charge, should be evaluated by a certified psychosexual evaluator to determine if they are predatory or pedophilic, or whether the relationship was consensual, and other mitigating circumstances that could arise from things such as a teen lying about his or her age. Those who are diagnosed to be predators or pedophiles should be held in jail for life, because I don't believe they can be treated. Anybody charged and convicted with sexual assault or contact with a person under 10 years old shall get a maximum of 20 years, unless if they are diagnosed predators or pedophiles, at which point they would serve life. We need to use our resources for actual predators and pedophiles, and not fill our jails with people who aren't actual dangers, but may have broken a "sex offense" law by peeing in an alley and getting charged with indecent exposure instead of public urination, and a person who has consensual relations with a sexually active lying teenager and a person who actually molests children or forces themselves on women.

3. I would start by having a couple more shelters built or opened in parts other parts of Chittenden County. Affordable housing is dependent on the supply and demand market. Right now, since there is a crisis, prices are low, but people are still going to have problems affording even seemingly affordable prices. As your Senator, I can't make a house that you can afford, but I can help reform laws and regulations to make it easier for businesses to come into Vermont to create more jobs so more people can afford a house, as well as encouraging other developers to come into Vermont to create more competition and thereby reducing prices on other existing properties.

4. I would support closing Vermont Yankee, if they continue to have problems that could endanger Vermont's citizens and environment, if their decommissioning fund isn't fully funded by 2012, and it is economically safe for ratepayers to afford electicity by other means, then I would support fully closing Yankee with the option of suing Entergy for the remaining costs in the decommissioning fund so that taxpayers are not left with the bill.

5. My goals for my first term would be to make sex offender laws more effective by preventing predators and pedophiles from ever having the chance of harming another child, woman, or even man again, and making sure resources are used for that instead of scapegoating somebody for having consensual sex with a lying sexually active teen who may have already been the product of abuse which should have been stopped sooner, but real predators and pedophiles are hard to catch. I would support an Internet task force in Vermont dedicated to catching people who are seeking people underage. I think the age of consent law should be reconsidered to 14, so that a lying 14 year old can't cause problems for somebody else by having consensual sex with them. Parents need to also pay more attention to what their kids are doing, and teens, and educating them, because the police can't be everywhere, and society really doesn't want them everywhere. We have to do what we can to protect and educate our kids ourselves so that they make the right decisions not to have sex with anybody, even their own age, when they are 14, but if they do, then it shouldn't be a crime, if it is consensual.

I would also legalize hemp (oil) and marijuana. More about my views with those can be viewed at my website as well.

I would also do things that would encourage more businesses to come to Vermont to provide more jobs, and possibly loosen some of the 2,000 mandates on insuarance providers so that more providers come to Vermont and make health insurance premiums more competitive and more affordable in the long-run.

Closing Statement:

Over two years ago, you would have never seen me in politics. I used to be a very introverted person, who just wanted to be left alone and be a part of my daughter's life, but then I was stalked and falsely accused by her mother's friend. The system went out of it's way to make the charges stick, didn't investigate anything, and wasted thousands of tax dollars in the process, just so they could prevent a precedent from being sent by allowing justice to prevail. If they had conducted an investigation, then they would have realized my daughter's mother and the person who falsely accused me was her friend, and that is why she did it--to help her friend eliminate me from my daughter's life, while they, actual predators and pedophiles, abuse my daughter, born 11-15-02, and my words and concerns are discredited because of a lying sexually active teenger. A lot of the things the system does doesn't make sense. Politicians make laws that say sex with teens is wrong, but then they're caught with pre-teen children, and sexually active teens are usually the products of abusive homes.

I have a lot of integrity and honesty, and I am courageous enough to admit when I'm wrong, and I am strong enough to fight when I'm wronged.

I have survived a lot of things, and I am stronger and wiser because of them. My past is my past, and the last time I got in trouble was in 2002, when games were being played surrounding the conception of my daughter, while her mother's friend pursued me and lied to me about her age.

I would fight to have a system that functions for justice and actually protecting society and preventing crime with things that actually work like a good early education with good schools and teachers, and more jobs in Vermont.

While I have no actual experience, I am a fast learner, and I would be shown everything I need to know after election, before being sworn in, and ready to hit the floor running by January, 2009. I am worth a vote, because you will always know at least where I come from and that I am not hiding anything.