28 February 2014, Vol.1, No.9 > SUMMARY
ANALYSIS OF DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES – NORTHERN DISTRICT
The POCAHONTAS CRIER
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SUMMARY ANALYSIS OF
DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES FOR
COUNTY COMMISSION – NORTHERN DISTRICT
In the Northern District of
Pocahontas County there are four (4) candidates running for the County
Commission on the Democrat Ballot, and whoever wins will be seated for the next
six (6) years! Those four candidates are
as follows:
(1)
KENNETH ‘BUSTER’ VARNER > businessman located in Durbin who is virtually into almost
everything, i.e., has earth-moving
equipment for hire, has both a lawnmower & tractor franchise for sales
& services, rents trailers & homes to
foreign-workers, transports foreign-workers in three separate repainted surplus
school buses to their work assignments at Snowshoe / Silver Creek and to
Interstate Lumber Co., and he is a person who has virtually run for numerous
public-offices to date including a couple of times for sheriff, and now for
county commission.
Trouble is, ‘Buster’ is simply looking to receive a
government-check each month, if not from renting to low-income foreign-workers
and receiving a federal-subsidy check, then receiving a government-check as a
public-official, etc. ‘Buster’ even tried to get himself ‘appointed’ to fill the seat on the
county commission for the Southern District upon the death of Dolan Irvine until
he found out that he actually had to ‘live
within’ the Southern District in order to qualify pursuant to State
Law!
And ‘Buster’ was one of the five-member-board
of the Pocahontas County Solid Waste Authority (PCSWA) which has caused so much
havoc within the county for the last decade-and-a-half with its refusal to follow the State Laws and its
alleged ‘mandatory-assessment-fee’, whether anyone uses the ‘open-dump-landfill’
or not, and its illegal lawsuits, default judgments, and Abstract of
Judgment Liens being imposed by an Elkins collection-agency-attorney!
Last summer ‘Buster’ resigned from the PCSWA in
order to make a contract- bid on expanding the ‘open-dump-landfill’ for another 10 acres – he actually won the
bid-contract – but when he found out the next closest bidder was $50,000.00
more, ‘Buster’ tried to change his
bid so that he’d be only $500.00 less!
He was caught and almost lost his business-licenses! So now
he’s a candidate for the county commission!
(2)
DAVID FLEMING > is currently the county commissioner now seeking a second
six-year-term. In the last election,
David was running against the late James Carpenter – the very same one who
signed a secret-deal with the
so-called Greenbrier Valley Economic Development Corporation (GVEDC), a
private-corporation, that’s really an ‘expensive
social club’ located in Greenbrier County that to date has taken
considerable land & money FROM this county!
The ‘secret deal’ gave the
GVEDC three-acres of land in Green Bank, that the GVEDC then ‘leased for 99 years’ to Jacob Meck who
now has over seven businesses using the same address and none of which pay any
property-taxes – since the land is public
land! As
soon as Fleming took office, he too became the ‘bootlicker’ of the GVEDC and is still listed as a GVEDC
board-member participating in all their social & ‘country club’ activities!
Six-years back after
taking office, Fleming divorced his wife and three-children and moved from
the Green Bank area in the Northern District, to move in with Tom Shipley in
the Slaty Fork area of the Central District!
By law Fleming disqualified
himself automatically, and when challenged on the record by former county
commissioner, Norman Lee Alderman, at a public commission meeting, Fleming
refused to answer on the record what either his current address was or provide
a current phone-number for folks to get in touch with him. The County Clerk
at the time had NO RECORD of Fleming’s address or contact phone-number – and
that’s what prompted Alderman’s inquiry!
To complete the deception, Fleming ‘rented’ a house in Green Bank so as to have an address in the
Northern District, but had his mail held at the Green Bank Post Office, along
with all UPS deliveries – while he continued to live with Shipley in the Central
District!
Yet within a day after
Alderman’s public inquiry, Fleming filed two false-charges against
Alderman who was arrested in a ‘mid-night
raid’ by the County Sheriff that included the Sheriff’s teenage son &
other ‘auxiliary-misfits’ who ended
up taking all electronic-computers, cameras & such from Norman Alderman – who now has become a candidate himself for
county commission for the Southern District – to make sure such nefarious ‘raids & such’ do not occur to others!
At any rate, while
Alderman was being denied his due process & equal protection of the laws,
Fleming, aka, 'the chicken man', apparently was too afraid & cowardly to come to court and take the
witness-stand in order to have a ‘speedy-trial’
as required in the ‘Bill of Rights’,
so the case lingered sixteen-months before it was finally dropped for
lack-of-evidence! Just shows the lack of
any honor or integrity on his part!
Fleming, meanwhile,
became such a ‘lap-dog’ for the GVEDC
that all Phil Cain of the GVEDC had to say was ‘Jump!’, and Fleming would ask, ‘How
high?’ It
was Fleming who initiated the giving away of the three (3) acres of
seasonal-wetlands to Jacob Meck & Co. when requested by the GVEDC, and the
additional nine-acre request to build six-open-pit ‘settling-ponds’, each to hold & store upwards to 50,000
gallons of raw-human-toxic-sewage-waste for Snowshoe & Silver Creek in
Green Bank – across from the Senior Citizen & new Medical Center! This scheme also entailed a ‘tank-farm’ to include 100,000 gallon
storage tanks approximately a mile south of the NRAO!
A Citizen-Taxpayer
civil lawsuit blocked the proposal so far – but who can trust David Fleming for
a second term? For that matter, who can
trust David Fleming for anything? Like
the saying goes, ‘Burn us once it’s his fault;
burn us twice it’s ours!’
(3) DAVID
McLAUGHLIN > is generally recognized as a
‘nice
guy’ by all accounts since he was a former mail
carrier working out of the Dunmore Post Office, and
he runs a small farm between the
Frost / Dunmore
area. But the problem is
that David does NOT seem
to know the ISSUES of what the
folks in Green Bank,
or Durbin, or anywhere else in
the Northern District
think should be accomplished. The folks in Green
Bank want a ‘Tourist Park’
not a ‘cesspool’ in their
midst; and the folks in Durbin want their new
Library completed with no further delays since the
funds are available!
But David, like ‘Buster’ Varner, also placed his name
in
the hat to be ‘appointed’ as the
county
commissioner for the Southern District
upon the
death of Dolan Irvine – apparently, David did not
know that one has to actually
live in the district that
they are supposed to represent! So just being a ‘nice
guy’ does NOT mean one
knows the ISSUES or the
requirements for public office
to represent all THE
PEOPLE and to put The People first & foremost! If
this
were a sporting event, would you as a coach
put in the ‘nice guy’ in the closing
seconds of a
game – or
would you put in the person with the best
talent,
know-how, & experience to get the job done
right?
In fact, that is what finally prompted
Northern
Commission Candidate Patti
Heinemann to finally
accept her invitation to run when
presented to her by
friends, neighbors &
family. Patti called and tried to
talk with David McLaughlin about
the ISSUES facing
the folks here in Green Bank
regarding the proposed
‘cesspool’ that Jacob Meck & the GVEDC wanted to
place across the road for the
Green Bank Senior
Center & new Medical Center – and David was
‘clueless’ about the ISSUE or about what the county
commission could actually do
about such a proposal!
When Patti tried to explain the duties &
responsibilities of a county
commissioner, and the
health & public-safety factors and environmental
impact studies involved, again
David was ‘clueless’!
So Patti decided to accept the donations for
the
‘filing-fee’ and registered as a candidate – especially
since over 300 persons from the
Green Bank area
signed a ‘citizen-petition’
opposing any type of
‘cesspool’ – in favor of a ‘Tourist Park’!!
(4)
PATTI HEINEMANN > is the only candidate running for County Commission actually
educated in government service with a Masters Degree in Public Administration,
with an undergraduate Bachelor of Science Degree in Communications &
Journalism, and 25 years experience in public relations, administration &
journalism with non government organizations (NGOs). Patti has set forth a list of ISSUES FACING THIS COUNTY IN IMMEDIATE NEED
OF SOLUTIONS, as found at this website, and as summarized below:
► STOP the Solid Waste
Authority lawsuits;
Expunge all Judgments & Liens
immediately;
& make the PCSWA FOLLOW
STATE LAWS!
► FIRE the GVEDC
and create a new Pocahontas
County Economic
Development Authority
(PCDA) to administer all county land
&
development funds & create jobs here!
► Turn Green Bank pubic land into a ‘Tourist
Park’ – not a private ‘cesspool’
for Intrawest!
► Create
a ‘Resort Area District’ for Snowshoe
&
Silver Creek, but with ‘checks & balances’ to
protect all current
landowners from any
corporation-debt; or let Snowshoe & Silver
Creek incorporate
into its own municipality;
or let the State
takeover Snowshoe & Silver
Creek because if its
$1.5 BILLION DEBT and
establish a
public-corporation administered
by this county via a ‘Workers CO-OP’!
► Establish ‘Cell Phone’
service for the entire
county plus another
communications
company besides Frontier!
► Bring in ‘Wind Turbines’ for low-cost
electricity, JOBS, and income for the county
–
forever!
► Establish ‘Pubic Works’ Projects for the
benefit of all Citizens – to
finish the new
Durbin Library and to rebuild Marlinton
for just the ‘Cost of Materials’ & ‘Cost
of
Labor’ without any interest/usury to
moneylenders or profiteers!
► NO FRACKING IN THIS COUNTY – EVER!
Establish bottling
Natural Spring Water as
the #1 Business in Pocahontas County via the
new Pocahontas Pure
Water CO-OP where
every owner of a Natural Spring SHARES IN
THE PROSPERITY – again forever!
This is just a
summary of the programs Patti Heinemann & Norman Lee Alderman have agreed
to accomplish should YOU the VOTER
decide It’s Time for a Change here in
this county whereby a couple of Honest, Moral, Righteous & Experienced
persons can make a big difference on the County Commission! YOU have the choice to
elect two (2) new county commissioners at the same time for the first time in
our lifetime! Just say NO to those
who want to keep this county in Poverty
& Pauperism – and just SAY YES to real Progress & Prosperity for the future!
Therefore on Primary Day – YOU have a chance to elect two persons
that will always put YOU first! They know that:
THE
GREATER COMMON GOOD ALWAYS COMES BEFORE SELF OR ANY SELF-SERVING SPECIAL
INTEREST!
Find out more – Stay tuned to these Websites:
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one a Republican & the other a Democrat – in addition to providing in depth
news reporting on important issues directly affecting the Citizens of Pocahontas County!
► IF YOU are registered to vote as a Republican,
you can
Vote for Norman
Lee Alderman in the Primary Election
on 13 May 2014;
► IF YOU are registered to vote as a Democrat,
you can
Vote for Patti Heinemann in the primary election on
13 May 2014;
► If you are not registered to vote, then you must
register
to vote on or before 22 April 2014;
► If you are registered to vote, but with no party
affiliation, then you must request
Loud & Clear either
a Republican or Democrat ballot
on Primary Day when
you go to the polls; &
► Since Norman
is unopposed, he recommends that you
request a Democrat ballot to vote for Patti so that
this
county can again have an Honest & Just county
commission!
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Citizens for Common Sense Alternatives (CCSA), a registered Political Action
Committee, 7837 Wesley Chapel Road, Green Bank, West Virginia 24944-9063
Phone:
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