Town Attorney General as the New Sheriff

I came up with the concept of a "Town Attorney General" in 2003, and have been trying to get towns and villages to appoint a town attorney general. There is nothing special about this. Any attorney for the town or village could be the town attorney general. It is a question of what the attorney does. Many town attorneys are quite good at handling zoning issues, but have no idea about securities laws, antitrust laws, copyright statutes, trademark statutes, insurance laws, civil rights laws and are not well versed in commercial litigation. See my websites http://election-issues-us.com/townattorneygeneral_2.php and www.townattorneygeneral.com

To keep up with the thieves who are stealing vast sums of money and property from the nation, states, towns and their populations, a town attorney needs to be familiar with a Wall Street practice. After all, the largest thieves probably are represented by one or more major law firms, which protect the thieves legally and politically, in what amounts to a policy of non-enforcement by federal and state governments and a revolving door policy where lawyers learn how to regulate in the government agencies for the primary purpose of getting a job in private enterprise at a much higher salary and using their regulatory skills to enable their new employer to avoid compliance with the regulations.

It is up to towns, villages, cities and counties in the U.S. to enforce the laws not being enforced by federal and state governments and agencies. This is where the town attorney general comes in.

If elected NYS Attorney General, I would create a website with information needed to help towns appoint and use a town attorney general, to extend the office of the NYS Attorney General to the local level, similar to the way that criminal prosecutions take place, too successfully, at a lower level than state (i.e., prosecutors are elected and paid at the county level, even though they are state officials enforcing state laws).

The sheriff with a gun is not effective to police the major corporations that are being guided in their practices by major law firms. Instead, you need to have someone with the skill of an attorney general (hence the term "Town Attorney General") to regulate these corporations through law suits brought by towns and villages to enforce the rights of their residents.

Carl E. Person
Candidate for NYS Attorney General - 2010