25 January 2014, Vol.1, No.1 >
Opening Shots of 2014 Campaign
The POCAHONTAS CRIER
(Part of The Crier Coalition of Internet News
Services)
Greetings
Voter…
For
the First Time in YOUR LIFETIME – YOU
– have a chance to make History here in POCAHONTAS COUNTY! YOU – CAN ELECT TWO
RIGHTEOUS PERSONS TO THE COUNTY COMMISSION IN THE SAME ELECTION – YOU – can restore the Government
of this County back once again to ‘WE THE PEOPLE’!
For
the first time in memory, two (2) persons are running for County Commission
with the same proposals, the same agenda, the same promises, the same program
to restore an HONEST GOVERNMENT TO POCAHONTAS COUNTY – and PUT YOU – THE
CITIZEN-TAXPAYER FIRST! For far too long
those in public office within this county have served themselves first &
foremost instead of the property-owners & taxpayers of this county! Look at all the promises made in the past
about ‘jobs, Jobs, JOBS’ – well,
where are all those jobs?
- Former State Senator Walt Helmick – he got one for himself, didn’t he?
- And former County Commissioner Rita Griffith – she got one with Frontier Communications, didn’t she? And she left us with Frontier’s monopoly over our county communication service, i.e., telephone, SLOW Internet services, yet monthly service charges that are TWICE what is being charged in other counties! It ain’t right, is it?
- And how about the so-called ‘Greenbrier Valley Economic Development Corporation’ (GVEDC) a private-organization that is stealing about a quarter-million-dollars from this county EVERY YEAR while the current county commissioners grovel & kiss its feet! It ain’t right, is it?
- Hey! Would YOU like to have free-acres of PUBLIC LAND given to you so that you don’t have to pay any property taxes for the seven or more businesses that YOU operate? Ask Jacob Meck how he got FREE-PUBLIC LAND from the GVEDC & the current county commissioners – AT YOUR EXPENSE! It ain’t right, is it?
- And while you are at it, ask Jacob Meck why he wants to put RAW HUMAN SEWAGE from SNOWSHOE & SILVER CREEK – IN SIX-OPEN PITS right across the road from the Green Bank Senior Citizen Center & new Medical Clinic! It ain’t right, is it?
- Oh yeah! Would YOU like to get Free-Public-Land like Jacob Meck, pay only $150.00 per/month rent for ’99 YEARS’ – and have that rent go towards the purchase price to own in 25 years – with no interest/usury? Well, ask Phil Cain & the GVEDC if they will give YOU the same deal they gave Meck so YOU can buy yourself a home, farm or business – like Meck, and he doesn’t even vote! It ain’t right, is it?
- How about the Pocahontas County Solid Waste Authority (PCSWA)? Why is it that Ed Riley has been in total control of all PCSWA-funds – currently about $2.5 Million – for a quarter-of-a-century without any published Budget, Audit, or Statements – when those public-funds are supposed to be under the control of the County Sheriff, the Ex-Officio Treasurer of the County – who is supposed to report those funds every month to the county commission? It ain’t right, is it?
This
is only the ‘tip of the iceberg’
folks of the dirty-deals & schemes made behind your back by the current
county commissioners – and their collective failure to mange this county! So let’s STOP
re-electing these same Miscreants – let’s elect
TWO GOOD PEOPLE AT THE SAME TIME – that way YOU, Patti & Norman can make the difference this
Election Year! YOU can vote for TWO NEW COMMISSIONERS in both the Northern
& Southern Districts – to serve YOU
– first & foremost for a real change:
NORTHERN: Patti Heinemann (Green
Bank), DEMOCRAT:
Bachelor of Science in Communications, Masters Degree in Public Administration;
wife for 45 years, 10 children, 7 boys & 3 girls, (raised in Pocahontas
County, all college educated & equivalent) + 25 grandchildren; a good seamstress
& knitter; a lifelong activist for Social
Justice; 25 years in public-relations & church affairs; a CHRISTIAN,
MORAL & RIGHTEOUS PERSON believing in ‘People
Helping People’ & living it everyday of her life!
SOUTHERN: Norman Lee Alderman (Beaver
Creek), REPUBLICAN: Bachelor of Arts, retired Teacher,
retired IT Specialist with Board of Education, former County Commissioner;
active minister of Cummings Creek Victory Chapel; editor of The Pocahontas Commentator, an Internet News Service; a lifelong community
activist always striving for Social
Justice; a CHRISTIAN, MORAL & RIGHTEOUS PERSON believing in ‘People Helping People’ – and always working
for Liberty & Social Justice for Everyone!
Put
aside all the rumors & innuendos!
Put aside all the lies & falsehoods!
Don’t pre-judge until you know the Facts! Look at what has been done to help others without
care or concern for themselves! Norman Alderman & Patti Heinemann as two New
Commissioners can in their first month of office – that’s January 2015 –
require every government agency in this county to become accountable for the
first time in our lifetime! A FRESH START!
With two of three votes on the New County
Commission, here’s what they can do:
·
Organize a new Pocahontas County Development Authority & stop
the GVEDC from stealing our county land & county funds!
·
Require the PCSWA
to establish local rules in compliance with State Law – including exemption
from solid-waste-fees for senior citizens, folks that recycle, and for folks
that dispose of their solid-waste in ALL the legal methods allowable by Law!
·
ORDER
AN END TO ALL LAWSUITS BY THE PCSWA & EXPUNGE OF ALL JUDGMENTS!
·
Require an Audit
& Certified Budget from every government agency in this county!
·
Establish a
program to use the public land in Green Bank for a –Historic-public-park to
attract tourists to a reconstructed Fort Warrick & Native American Burial
Ground, with a boardwalk pathway through the seasonal-wetlands just as in
Cranberry Glades!
·
Let you the
Citizen-Taxpayer-Voter decide which county organizations should be funded with
YOUR TAX-DOLLARS, if any, and the amount to which they should receive any
public-funds via a public ‘cost-to-ratio-benefit’!
·
Establish
public-works projects that hire local Citizens for local projects that benefit
everyone – and not just a few private groups!
·
Establish an
honest-county-government in which every public servant knows their respective
duties & responsibilities that works towards the pubic interest instead of
personal gain!
These
Ideas are just the beginning of what a NEW ERA in local government can do by
those already trained in public-administration & public-relations, such as
Patti, and one who has already worked within public-administration such as Norman.
There is one thing that some folks receiving
government-paychecks don’t seem to realize yet – and
that’s that all the money they receive comes from the same pot as those on
fixed-incomes, unemployment, and whatever else –
it’s just that those working for the government get more money in their
checks! So, since we are all in this
together – LET’S WORK TOGETHER & show Respect where Respect is due!
Register to Vote by 22 April 2014 &
VOTE FOR A NEW COUNTY
COMMISSION &
GOVERNMENT ON 13 MAY 2014!
Thank you for your consideration….Norman Lee Alderman
(Southern) & Patti Heinemann (Northern), Candidates for Pocahontas County
Commission
Send comments & suggestions to: The Pocahontas Crier,
7837 Wesley Chapel Road, Green Bank, West
Virginia 24944-9063
&
Send all donations to: The United Campaign for County Commission
(UCCC),
c/o
Citizens for Common Sense Alternatives (CCSA), a registered Political Action
Committee, 7837 Wesley Chapel Road,
Green Bank, West Virginia 24944-9063
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