PART 3 - Protect Moms from Florida Politicans and Legislation Written BY and FOR Hate Groups - NATIONAL Organized MRA Hate Groups Lobbying and ROBO-calling Florida's Politicians to Push Anti-Mom/Woman Agenda.

6.30.16 PART 3 OF 3 -  Protect Moms from FLORIDA Politicians and Family Law "Reform" Legislation Written By and FOR Hate Groups:  National Organized MRA Hate "Female Front-Groups" --  Lobby the FL Capitol with Their National NON-FLORIDA Network.

Earlier in March of 2016, the Leaders and the primary attorney (Barkus Law) for the controversial "Family Law/Alimony Reform" FLR/FAR PAC (aligned with key Florida Legislators as shown in Part 1 and 2 of this blog series); met with Capitol staffers in Florida Gov. Scott's office to deliver the governor's aides their "research" AND an official SB668 support letter from a highly questionable, national organization that is a feminized front-group for notorious "Men's/Father's Rights" Activists (MRAs). 

FOR MORE  BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON FLR/FAR PAC SEE:
http://protect-our-moms-and-children.blogspot.com/2016/03/part-2-fl-gov-rick-scott-please-veto.html

http://protect-our-moms-and-children.blogspot.com/2016/03/fl-gov-rick-scott-please-veto-family.html

This national 'feminized' group is called "Leading Women for Shared Parenting" (LW4SP).  Its Trustee is the likewise controversial "Father" of the U.S. and international "Men's Rights" movement, Dr. Warren Farrell (See more below).

One of LW4SP's key purported founding leaders along with Farrell is controversial advocate Phyllis Shlafly.  Images of the official LW4SP organization letter to  Florida Gov. Rick Scott are below.  Please note also that the letter is replete with SB668 and 50/50 time sharing mis-information and mis-representations which are likewise refuted herein.  The LW4SP based in Washington DC, is one of many controversial NON-Floridian "men's/father's" rights organizations claiming hundreds of thousands of global followers, who have been heavily lobbying both Florida's legislature and governor with national and international phone call and email campaigns, including 'official letters' in support of SB 668.

Additional and even more controversial NON-FLORIDIAN groups that are heavily funding print media and national/international social media campaigns intent on influencing Florida Family Laws include:  the Alaska-based "The Father's Rights Movement"; the Massachusetts-based National Parenting Organization (more recently known as "Fathers and Families"); the litigious National Coalition for Men MRA activist group and the highly contentious "A Voice for Men" (official recognized and tracked as an open hate group).  Many of these groups have direct ties to and funding from Dr. Warren Farrell and his MRA movement (see more below on Farrell).

Below is evidence regarding this movement, its direct ties to the SB668 Florida Family Law/Alimony "Reform" Inc. PAC, and its controversial MRA leaders who are Trustees of this National legislative lobbying LW4SP organization.

 Starting with the National Public Facebook page: 

https://www.facebook.com/LeadingWomenForSharedParenting

The LW4SP's National Facebook page above clearly shows this active national movement has been openly urging its network of NON-Floridians to email and call Florida Gov. Scott in support of SB668.

This is an organization with a Nationwide MRA/"Father's Rights" founder and agenda to spread a dangerous and ill-conceived 50/50 child time-sharing presumption into State Family Law statutes nationwide.  Readers will note that this organization also continues to promote junk theories designed to penalize mothers from speaking out against abuse in  Family Courts, such as the now debunked and courtroom prohibited Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS).  PAS is a false "syndrome" that has now been officially rejected by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and by researchers for the U.S. Department of Justice. See why the official rejection of PAS by the APA matters here:  http://nomas.org/official-rejection-pas-matters/


(NOTE:  PLEASE REFER TO Part 2 of this series for more on the SB668 FLR/FAR PAC, their First Husband's Advocacy Group and Actual Hate Messaging.  Please also see Part 1 of this series for apparent close Florida Politician Alignment with this controversial Florida PAC.)

http://protect-our-moms-and-children.blogspot.com/2016/03/part-2-fl-gov-rick-scott-please-veto.html

http://protect-our-moms-and-children.blogspot.com/2016/03/fl-gov-rick-scott-please-veto-family.html

PLEASE Scroll below to for more details that are even more disturbing regarding FLR/FARs links with LW4SP, its founders and the national MRA network....

The Family Law Reform/Florida Alimony Reform (FHG) Leadership Team March 10, 2016 posted of their personal meeting with Florida Gov. Rick Scott's legislative team/aides.  Middle is  FLR/FAR leader Terry Powers (see Part 1 and Part 2).  Far Right is the FLR/FAR team member and attorney Lori Barkus of Barkus Law.

See the bottom of page 2 in the URL below evidencing that FLR/FAR's Ms. Barkus is also a leader in Farrell and Schlafly's LW4SP organization.  A national organization which was founded in 2013 (months after Gov. Rick Scott VETO'd similar dangerous Alimony/Family Law Reform Legislation in Florida.)

 http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5154a075e4b08f050dc20996/t/556f7b6fe4b0bb277306e089/1433369455463/LW4SP+Leading+Women+06032015.pdf

More can be learned about LW4SP's leader Schlafly, her social policies and  ideology here.  Ms. Schlafly believes that motherhood is the best job option for women seeking career fulfillment, and that “it is ludicrous to suggest that [other jobs] are more self-fulfilling than the daily duties of a wife and mother in the home”. A tragic irony exists however in that SB668's Alimony/Child Support "reforms" intentionally undermine and economically endanger traditional Stay-At-Home Mothers and Homeschooling Mothers more than any other demographic -- which is a key marital role that Ms. Schlafly purports to promote and defend.  Likewise the SB668 legislation financially and socially incentives the primary breadwinner in a home to more readily walk away or abandon their marriages by intentionally reducing the long term financial/social consequences and support obligations they may experience under current protective Florida Family Laws:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_policies_of_Phyllis_Schlafly

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=134981902

Exponentially more disturbing is that the core Trustee for LW4SP is the long-recognized "Father" of the "Men's (Father's) Rights Activist"  Movement (MRA), Dr. Warren Farrell. 

http://lw4sp.org/trustees/

http://lw4sp.org/trustees/

The Following Links Profile LW4SP Trustee Warren Farrell's Pioneering of The Men's (Father's) Rights Activist (MRA) Movement and Its Spread of Misogyny, Hate Messaging Against Women and Mothers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_rights_movement
This detailed overview of the Men's (Father's) Rights Movement with extensive citations, likewise notes: "Most men's rights activists in the United States are white, middle-class, heterosexual men.^{[34][44][45][46]} Prominent activists include Warren Farrell,^[14] Herb Goldberg,^[14] The Rape of the Male author Richard Doyle,^[47] A Voice for Men's Paul Elam,^[35] and Asa Baber.^[48][49]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/warren-farrell-mens-rights-movement-feminism-misogyny-trolls

LW4SP Trustee, Farrell and His MRA Movement Promotes "Rape as Myth", "Domestic Violence Conspiracy Theories", "Positive Aspects of Incest" and More: 

The following researcher and blogger has done ongoing investigation into this and the MRA movement.  A note of caution: some of this material is raw in content.

Note that many of these same MRA themes are echoed by the Florida Family Law/Alimony Reform Inc. movement and its associated social media groups (FHAG/FLWAR) as evidenced in Part 2 of this Gov. Rick Scott Please VETO series:

http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2013/05/01/the-myth-of-warren-farrell-farrell-on-rape-part-one/

http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2013/05/03/putting-warren-farrells-notorious-comments-on-exciting-date-rape-in-context/

More Research, Evidence of What LW4SP Trustee, Farrell Actually States About the Allegedly "Positive Aspects of Incest":

http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2012/11/21/what-mens-rights-guru-warren-farrell-actually-said-about-the-allegedly-positive-aspects-of-incest-note-its-even-more-repugnant-than-that-sounds/

Men's (Father's) Rights Activist groups such as the Family Law/Alimony Reform Inc. PAC and its Florida and national network (see Part 1 and 2); persistently echo the same anti-woman, anti-mother themes.  In essence, themes and misrepresentations designed to economically and socially discount mothers, women and children by undermining protective statutory alimony, child support, child custody, child time sharing and domestic abuse laws.  Themes to market and promote the passage of unsubstantiated laws like SB668 which economically benefit primarily male fathers and husbands seeking to reduce or terminate their child support and alimony obligations and/or retain control over their abuse victims.

http://nomas.org/lies-fathers-rights-groups/

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2012/men%E2%80%99s-rights-movement-spreads-false-claims-about-women

Menzies, Robert (2007). "Virtual Backlash: Representation of Men's "Rights" and Feminist "Wrongs" in Cyberspace".

Unfortunately, many Florida Legislators including repeated Family Law/Alimony "Reform" and 50/50 Equal Time-Sharing Bill Sponsors Rep. Ritch Workman, Sen. Tom Lee, Sen. Kelli Stargel and Rep. Colleen Burton; appear to have bought into and echo these same "themes". (See Part 1 and Part 2)

http://protect-our-moms-and-children.blogspot.com/2016/03/fl-gov-rick-scott-please-veto-family.html

http://protect-our-moms-and-children.blogspot.com/2016/03/part-2-fl-gov-rick-scott-please-veto.html

Before this article is concluded, it takes a moment to examine the LW4SP's controversial letter to Florida Gov. Rick Scott and its claims about the "benefits", "need" and "majority public support" for SB668 and it's equal child time sharing presumptive "premise":

Leading National Marital Law Experts and Researchers have closely examined this LW4SP letter and its claims and have written the following to our Governor -- clearly discrediting LW4SP's claims. QUOTE:

 

"Claims by LWSP (Leading Women for Shared Parenting) that studies on what is best for children support the equal time-sharing language in SB 668.  They do not.  What the studies show is that “shared parenting, including frequent overnighting with both parents” is good for children.  SHARED PARENTING is not the same as EQUAL PARENTING.  SB 668 goes way beyond shared parenting, requiring courts to begin deliberations with the premise that EQUAL time is good for children.       

EQUAL TIME is often NOT good for children—where there is a history of domestic violence, where parents cannot communicate, where parents do not live close to each other, etc.   Please do not assume that “all credible research” supports equal time.  It does not.    

Moreover, Florida law ALREADY recognizes that frequent contact with both parents is usually good for children.  (“It is the public policy of this state that each minor child has frequent and continuing contact with both parents after the parents separate or the marriage of the parties is dissolved and to encourage parents to share the rights and responsibilities, and joys, of childrearing.” Fla. Stat. 61.13)  Florida law is already consistent with research on what is usually best for children."

"Please VETO SB668 and appoint a task force to ensure that any change in Florida law is truly in the best interest of Florida children."

As for the LW4SP public opinion "polling" results that they claim to be a valid reason to pass SB668 -- their polling methodologies, sampling and conclusions are highly controversial and questionable; thus negating the validity of their contentions.  Even their own purported "peer reviewed" reports in support of their agenda point out the lack of substantiating, credible research and while endorsing a level of shared parenting, do not support a legislated presumption of 50/50 equal time sharing.

In Conclusion, the U.S. Department of Justice recently commissioned an extensive empirical study of Child Custody Evaluators Belief About Domestic Abuse Allegations in U.S. Family Courts.  This empirical research study, clearly shows a predominant bias of Court Custody Evaluators against women and in favor of men (as shown in Figure 1 from the report below). The research study widely demonstrated the endemic prevalence of Court Custody Evaluators to hold invalid, untrained beliefs that produce biased recommendations against abused mothers and overprotect the "Father's Rights" of violent and abusive men.  The study called for significant reforms in current U.S. Court evaluation practices and Evaluator Training to better identify, assess and protect Women and Children domestic abuse victims in Custody/Time-Sharing cases.

Please see pages 18-23 in this U.S. DOJ report linked below and reference page 26 on how the "Father's Rights" movement has pushed this harmful "belief" bias against abused mothers and women into our U.S. Family Court System and Custody Cases.  The BELOW model contained within this U.S. DOJ report is what Family Law "Reform" bill SB668 will exponentially ignite to further endanger Florida and our Nation's Mothers and Children.  This conceptual "belief" model is a goal and "theme" of the movement behind SB668 too:

THE FULL U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE STUDY CAN BE FOUND AT:

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/238891.pdf

Dear Gov. Scott: Do you really want to continue to embolden future legislation EXCLUSIVELY written for organized "Family Law Reform/Florida Alimony Reform Inc.", their non-Florida MIS-LEADING "Leading Women for Shared Parenting",  and their NATIONWIDE NETWORK of  controversial MRA Groups intent on harming women, mothers and children? 

YOU WISELY VETO'D SB668.   

BUT to truly STOP the ongoing Politics of Hate against Florida's Moms, Women and Children you must ensure that they are safe by NOW forming a bi-partisan, neutral expert family law Task Force to expose the hate, vet the junk-science/"formulas" and properly study/develop family law legislation that is not one-sided placing Florida's mothers, women and children at increased socio-economic risk.  Special-interest, hate group driven bill's like SB668 that intrinsically promote the degradation of and violence towards Mothers, Women and Children must never happen again.

Florida Families, Moms and Children deserve better and they deserve a proper Task Force instead of mal-conceived, legislated hate.

Thank you.

 

PART 2 - Protect Moms from FLORIDA Politicians and Legislation Written BY and FOR Hate Groups: THE DOCUMENTATION of Florida's Political Hate Movement Against Mothers, Women and Children - Mature Audiences Only

This multipart image gallery is a small sample of the actual organized, virulent messaging and threatening attacks repeatedly made upon Florida mothers, women and children --  including mothers, women, children and disabled Floridians who bravely opposed and testified against anti-mom, anti-woman, anti-child Family Law "Reform" Bills SB668/HB455 during the 2015-16 Florida Legislative Session.  The shameful alignment and open collaboration of key Republican politicians with the agenda of organized racist, misogynistic hate groups is EXPOSED below and also in Part 1 and 3 of this series. (See Florida Legislators: Rep. Ritch Workman, Sen. Kelli Stargel, Rep. Colleen Burton and Sen. Tom Lee).

Note Also: For a $10k donation, wealthy donors to these special interest hate groups are also assured "special access" to key Florida Legislature Politicians.

KEEP SCROLLING TO CLEARLY SEE THE SHOCKING EVIDENCE OF THE TWISTED MINDSET AND POLITICS OF HATE THAT IS DRIVING ANTI-WOMAN, ANTI-MOM FAMILY LAW AND RELATED LEGISLATION IN FLORIDA.

FLORIDA VOTERS, MOTHERS AND WOMEN:  PLEASE GO TO THE POLLS during the critical August 30, 2016 Primary and the November general election to Cast Your Vote Against the Politics of Hate.   

(For more on the Organization of "Family Law" Hate Groups and more IMAGES of Florida Politicians alignment with and direct support of these groups, use the link below where you can also see more on Florida Career Politicians directly collaborating with these groups.)

http://protect-our-moms-and-children.blogspot.com/The Organization and Politics of Hate Groups Driving Family Law Overhauls in Florida

FLR - FAMILY LAW REFORM INC. PAC

FAR - FLORIDA ALIMONY REFORM/FLORIDA ALIMONY REFORM 2016 (the Registered Fictitious Name Owned by the FLR PAC)

FHAG - Their Coordinated "First Husband's Advocacy Group" Arm

FLWAR - Their Coordinated "Florida Women for Alimony Reform" Arm

CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR ALIMONY REFORM is their latest co-coordinated entity

BELOW IS CLEAR coordination between Family Law Reform Inc. (leaders Alan Ross Frisher and Terry Power publically posted image below) and FHAG entity.  Hundreds of examples evidencing this close coordination have been archived by Anti-Defamation and DV Advocates statewide.  Below is a sample -- scores of additional direct public evidence of coordination, co-leadership and co-authoring coordination have been captured and archived.

NOTE: "Florida Alimony Reform" is a Registered Florida Fictitious Name Owned by the Family Law Reform Inc. PAC according to the Florida State Department of Corporations (search under Fictitious Name Registrations)

OPEN INCITING OF ATTACKS ON DV TESTIFIERS AND MOTHERS OF DISABLED CHILDREN.

PROMOTING LINKS TO TESTIFIERS HOME ADDRESSES AND EVEN THEIR TELEPHONE NUMBERS.

CALLING MOTHERS AND THEIR SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN AT COMMITTEES 'FREAKS', "CREEPY", RACIST IMAGE REFERENCES TOWARD WOMEN OF COLOR WHO TESTIFIED AND WORSE...

OPEN PROMOTION OF RACISM, DEFAMATION, ANTI-SEMITISM AND HATE AGAINST WOMEN

OPEN PROMOTION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INCLUDING MURDER

Note intimate Reference to leader "Alan" in above. Family Law Reform Inc. President is Alan Ross Frisher.

OPEN HATE AGAINST CHILDREN- ESPECIALLY DAUGHTERS

"Family Law Reform/Florida Alimony Reform" Bill Sponsors:  Florida House Rules Chair Rep. Ritch Workman, Rep. Colleen Burton and Rep. Kelli Stargel's Long-Standing Close Alignment and Collaboration With These Groups -- including guest speaking at their private Summits and their VIP Fundraising Events:

(See Montage of Sen. Kelli Stargel SB668 Sponsor and Rep. Ritch Workman HB455 Backer and SB668 Co-Driver Below:)

Rep. Colleen Burton receiving and reviewing the Family Law/Alimony Reform Bill directly from the Family Lay Reform Inc. PAC president and their Lobbyist:

Family Law Reform/Florida Alimony Reform Inc. President Alan Ross Frisher With Florida State House Representative Ritch Workman.

Rep. Ritch Workman is not only an active Family Law "Reformist" who proudly sponsored his first in a series of "family law/alimony reform" bills for his "Poker buddies" and "hate group" associates within days of his own divorce....Workman has also been exposed as a client of the adultery dating site Ashley Madison along with his actual profile where he calls himself "Lance"....

http://floridapolitics.com/archives/188733-first-hes-an-uber-driver-now-state-rep-ritch-workman-is-on-ashleymadison-com

Rep. Ritch Workman further engages in direct online banter and political coordination with hate groups where Rep. Workman assures them that he has "worked in good faith on their reform for years". And that he "wants it passed at much as they do".

 

 WORKMAN'S PRIVATE CELL PHONE CONVERSATIONS WITH GROUP LEADERS.  Note: Rep. Workman clearly states below that he has provided the FLR leaders (his "friend") with his private cell phone and they apparently hold private legislative bill discussion telephone conversations per Workman's Public Facebook Post made to FLR leader Terry Power.

 Rep. Workman Ultimately Does Their Bidding After This Exchange: 

On March 7, 2016 Rep. Lori Berman Files an Critical Amendment to Correct the Unconstitutional Retroactivity of the Family Law "Reform" Bill SB668/HB455.  In response, Rep. Ritch Workman used his position and power as the House Rules Chair to BLOCK this key Amendment from being presented and heard on the House Floor at the time. 

In the hours BEFORE, the FLR Leader Terry Powers openly messages to assure followers regarding Berman's SB668 Retroactivity Corrective Amendment that the corrective amendment on the House Floor will be "Dead on arrival." and "No Worries. We have friends...."

Sen. Kelli Stargel and Rep. Colleen Burton are praised by hate groups as they meet with their "Family Law Reform" PAC leaders and sponsor their bills....

Divorced and purported child support payor, State Sen. Tom Lee is likewise a "Huge Supporter" of the Politics and Legislation of Hate ... 



FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND EXAMPLES OF THE FLORIDA LEGISLATORS ALIGNED WITH THE POLITICS OF HATE AND IT'S "FAMILY LAW REFORM" AGENDA SEE PART 1 OF THIS SERIES:

http://protect-our-moms-and-children.blogspot.com/The Organization and Politics of Hate Groups Driving Family Law Overhauls in Florida

TAKE ACTION AND STOP the re-election of Florida Politicians who support Hate Groups.  VOTE FLORIDA HATE  POLITICIANS OUT of office this August 30 and November.  Help expose the hate and actively SUPPORT THEIR OPPONENTS WHO NEED YOUR HELP AND CAN BE FOUND HERE:

http://dos.elections.myflorida.com/candidates/

And contact your Governor to tell him....

FLORIDA GOV. SCOTT PLEASE PREVENT

FUTURE ANTI-WOMAN, ANTI-MOM HATE LEGISLATION.

FORM A PROPER NEUTRAL FAMILY LAW TASK FORCE TODAY!