#projectxvi (mackenzie letter resend to his endorsers)
Dear elected officials and judges on Hon. Brian Mackenzie's reelection endorsement list:Â
 It's possible that one of the nearly 300 people I sent three different emails to on Wednesday may have forwarded you the goods or mentioned these letters to you. If not, on this -- the 13th anniversary of 911 -- please pardon my intrusion by re-sending to all of you the letter I sent to MacKenzie.
Some names on this list I have known personally for many years. Others, I don't at all.Â
And there are another set of names I've seen over and over again in my research this past year.Â
Regardless, because of your position as local leaders and lawmakers, I thought it was paramount that I open up a communication line to you.Â
And the general public, of course, as the book(s) I'm working on right now will feature many of them and some of you.Â
When I worked for the Michigan House of Representatives many years ago I met a bunch of extraordinary people who went above and beyond the call of duty. I even met some elected officials who weren't solely in it for power and greed.
That's why I'm directly sending you this. I want to believe in you.
I'll be following up shortly with interview requests. Please feel free to respond via email but do know that what I'm starting here is an independent and experimental publishing project so replies to me I plan to post -- negative or positive.Â
I have only revealed the smallest fraction of my evidence thus far and look forward to a spirited debate on what it means to be "Caring, Compassionate and Fair" as an elected official and a judge as I continue to reveal more and more pieces of the JAMs franchise and related collusion of private-public businesses.
"You're going to go to AA or NA three times a week. You will test at JAMS three times a week for 30 days, two times a week for 30 days, one time a week for 30 days: $780 fines and costs. Forty dollars a month probationary oversight expense; $300 partial repayment of your attorney's services. If you don't have the money I'll let you make payments. Do you understand that?"
-- From Judge Brian MacKenzie's legal response to Cooper's earlier allegations
  To  Hon. Brian W. MacKenzie,
 Understanding you're still being investigated by the FBI and are in the home stretch of your "Caring, Compassionate and Fair" re-election campaign to retain your seat of power on the 52-1 District Court bench, I'll try and keep my questions brief and thoughts concise.
 You and your business partners filed paperwork to establish JAMs on Oct. 27, 1997 yet you made the choice to answer "n/a" when asked to list other business interests and professional activities on your Oakland County Bar Association campaign questionnaire. Despite using the past two decades to push your special-interest courts (built around your JAMs-based alcohol-and-drug testing sentences) the Detroit Free Press' Dec. 30, 2013 article on Oakland County Prosecuting Attorney Jessica Cooper's investigation of you is the only public record reference I could find in which you actually admit to being a stakeholder in JAMs. And, of course, you addressed that by declaring there's no conflict of interest.Â
 Is it "Caring, Compassionate and Fair" for tens of thousands of people who live, work and play in metro Detroit to have been sentenced to testing at the JAMs franchise that you've secretly benefitted from?Â
 On Oakland County's Web site the JAMs (Jail Alternative for Michigan Services) description includes a section that states JAMs is funded privately. Is it "Caring, Compassionate and Fair" to mislead the general public by stating funds are donated privately when the reality is there are dozens of public-funded JAMs contracts (everything from $75,000 in 1999 to the more recent deals like $40,000, $45,000, $130,805)?
 And, as previously mentioned in my letter to Ms. Cooper, one of your original franchise members, Paul Ferrell has other public-funded, directly-related to JAMs community corrections businesses , including Sequoia Recovery Services (paperwork filed Sept. 1997).Â
 On top of Sequoia, which provides alcohol and drug testing, residential and counseling services, Ferrell's business-based paperwork trail includes direct connections to most of the other "recovery-based" Oakland County programs, including Completion House/Turning Point Recovery, Community Programs, Inc. (CPI), Common Ground Sanctuary, etc.
 I'm sure you're well aware that one out of three young Americans will be arrested by the time they turn 23. According to theMichigan Department of Corrections, there were 43,704 people locked into the prison population in 2013.Â
 Between 1986 and 2006, despite the fact that Michigan's violent crime rate fell by 30%, the state's prison population surged by 250%, according to a 2011 report published by the Citizens Research Council.
 Since 1980, Michigan's biggest growth industry has been the prison and community corrections system. The $2 billion the state uses to annually fund the program makes Michigan No. 6 in the nation on corrections spending. Ranked No. 1, the USA's prison industrial complex is the biggest in the world with about 7 million people (nearly 3% of the country's population) in jail or prison or on probation or parole.
 Certainly you must be aware of the 2008 judicial "Kids for Cash" kickback scandal in which two Pennsylvania judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, were accused of accepting money from the builder of two private, for-profit juvenile facilities in return for contracting with the facilities and imposing harsh sentences on juveniles brought before the courts to increase the number of inmates in the detention centers.Â
 How is it "Caring, Compassionate and Fair" for a judge to use his intimidating sentencing powers, legislative influence, growing business resources and private foundation friends to help grow the target population of his special-interest courts and related businesses that spirals out of control through multiple levels within Oakland County and the state of Michigan?Â
 Judge MacKenzie, please feel free to write me back your responses to the questions when you have a few minutes. I would also like to request a sit-down interview some time in October (with you and your wife) so we can talk in deeper detail about some of the history and policy questions I still have for the book project I'm working on through the election.
 P.S. I'll probably write you back in a few days as I'm very interested to talk about your "Extrajudicial Speech: Judicial Ethics in the New Media Age" paper. I love how you break down one part of the mainstream media industry by saying that the overworked and understaffed "journalists, like hamsters, are running even faster in place an effort to complete their daily quote of 'superficial stories.'"