13 March 2014, Vol.1, No.18 > RESPONDING
TO QUESTIONNAIRE OF EIGHT RIVERS COUNCIL!
The POCAHONTAS CRIER
(Part
of The Crier Coalition of Internet News Services comprised of
The
Pocahontas Commentator, The Pocahontas Crier,
Signal
Fires of WV & Echoes from the Holl’r)
8 RIVERS COUNCIL ASKS THE CANDIDATES!
Dear County
Commission Candidates Norman Lee Alderman (Rep-SD) & Patti Heinemann (Dem-ND)…
The ‘Eight Rivers Council’ has polled its members and
derived 13 questions they would like to have candidates for Pocahontas County Commission answer. We forward them to you
and ask that you respond by March 28.
We will publish your responses to our membership only.
If you would be so kind as to Email those responses to us so
that we do not have to run the risk of typographical errors in retyping your
responses, that would be helpful. We distribute to our members by Email
to save the time and expense of copying and mailing.
Thank you.
Beth Little, Member & Cyla Allison, Ph.D., President
Eight Rivers Council < www.eight-rivers.org
>
[NOTE: Since
Norman Lee Alderman (Rep-SD) & Patti Heinemann (Dem-ND) are running a united
campaign in support of the same issues so as to give Pocahontas County
a ‘Fresh-Start’ in January 2015 – the
following joint responses to the proposed questions are as follows!]
The Questions:
1. What kind of development do you
see as appropriate / inappropriate for this county? Why?
Answer:
Appropriate development > PURE WATER PROCESSSING! We are excited about expanding on the example
set by former State Senator Walt Helmick (now Commissioner of Agriculture) when
he established a small-scale water-bottling facility following a suggestion in
2002 for the Minnehaha area of the county instead of blowing up Brown’s
Mountain for the mining of dangerous ‘silicon’. However, we would like to see a fresh-water bottling company established
as a CO-OP which includes all interested property-owners in the county with
major natural spring water thereby providing a diverse source for pure water
as well as new income to individual landowners. This idea has created the Pocahontas Pure Water CO-OP whereby
all members will share in the prosperity and make bottling pure water the #1
business in Pocahontas
County.
Furthermore, this has the intended side benefit of focusing
community attention on the importance of good water quality for not only our
own lives, but for the benefit of others! As we increase the
community's new income financially upon bottling good, clean water, there will also
be an increased citizen awareness protecting our precious natural water
resources!
As new County Commissioners, if elected, we will advocate
the county sponsorship of a ‘baseline’
study for the purity of all major natural spring & stream water resources
so as to protect the county from any & all ‘drilling companies’, i.e., from any so-called ‘fracking’, since such companies will have to prove beyond all shadow-of-doubt
that they will NOT disturb our pure water resources based upon definite empirical
data – and it’s obvious that adding or injecting any type of chemicals into
drilled-wells will NOT be compliant as shown in over 25 States so far that ‘fracking’ simply poisons the area water supply – forcing
people to flee!
Further, as new County
Commissioners we will
establish a partnership, a ‘shared support’, with any landowner who wishes to protect their natural water
resource. In force & effect, we will
form a ‘Treaty’ with each landowner
of natural water resources that basically unites the County Commission as a
government body with any landowner who seeks to protect their respective water resource
in conjunction with their other property rights.
Additional appropriate development: ‘Cell Phone’ service for the entire county
that will include ‘Medic-Alert’ for
all Citizens. ‘Wind Turbines’ is a clean energy resource.
And ‘Public Works’ projects that benefit the
greatest number of persons, such as completing the Durbin Library, providing a
Covered Pavilion for the Farmers CO-OP, helping families relocate out of the
flood-plain in Marlinton, assisting those who wish to stay within the
flood-plain after the fire, and preparing to replace the municipal water &
sewer-treatment facilities for Marlinton & Durbin, as necessary.
Inappropriate development: No ‘Fracking’ of any kind! No disposal or
storage of raw-human-sewage from Snowshoe or Silver Creek ski resorts in any
open-pits or storage tanks! No
federal-land-grab that is going to establish yet another federal police force!
2. How would you create jobs?
Answer:
► Pure Water in a countywide
bottling CO-OP that
would provide new income to lots
of individuals &
families as the #1 business for Pocahontas County;
► ‘Cell Phone’ service for the entire county,
including
‘Medic-Alert’ for all Citizens;
► ‘Wind Turbines’ as a clean energy resource,
increased tax-base, and ‘Living
Wages’ instead of
‘Minimum-Wages’;
► ‘Public Works’ projects employing persons for
projects
that benefit the greatest number of
persons as summarized herein; and,
► Establishing a ‘Workers CO-OP’ to assume &
continue day to day operations over Snowshoe &
Silver
Creek resorts upon Receivership of the State
of West Virginia pursuant to the massive Debt
now
in excess of $1.5 Billion owed
by Intrawest &
Fortress corporations and their
pending respective
bankruptcy!
3. What is the role of tourism?
Answer:
Since Randolph, Pendleton & Pocahontas Counties are designated as ‘tourist counties’ with limited industrial
development, ‘Tourism’ is essential to our
county. Historically, timbering,
farming, and natural resource management has been placed first and foremost for
consideration, but unfortunately, ‘minimum-wages’
have been the norm across the board rather than ‘Living-Wages’ whereby the county could prosper and grow in all
aspects. As a direct & proximate result, the timber companies
receive ‘corporate welfare’ in the form
of 2½ - 3 Million board-feet of timber to cut each year; and the largest farms
receive ‘corporate welfare’ in the
form of government-subsidies to not grow certain crops, and for their livestock
each year. While a few profit
handsomely, the rest must subsist on a ‘fixed-income’
or ‘minimum-wage’! Until we can move beyond such dependence and
disparity, Pocahontas
County will have to exist
on ‘grant-funding’ as hand-me-down
bread crumbs & scraps from the welfare table!
‘Tourism’ is supposed to provide seven dollars within the community for
each one-dollar spent by a ‘tourist’
– but that
so-called ‘income’ goes to the area
business owners of the gas-station convenience stores within the county, or exits
the county to the corporate HQs of Intrawest & Fortress as the owners of
Snowshoe & Silver Creek – trapping the rank & file Citizen on a ‘fixed-income’ or ‘minimum-wage’!
While demographics claims that 25% of
the county is supported by ‘tourism’,
the overwhelming majority are employees working for the ski resorts, but not
for ‘Living-Wages’!
The current county commission seems content to sit silent and
watch the county fade-away in both income and Citizens by doing the same things
it’s always done, yet expecting different results! Meanwhile
the county faces massive infrastructure repairs & replacement with a
shrinking population, higher costs, and failed policies that continue to weaken
the county in general. Only a change of policies, attitude, and county
commissioners with a new vision can restore a sustainable balance once again.
4.
How important is internet/broadband? How would you improve
it?
Answer:
Internet & Broadband are crucial to our future! Not only is Candidate Norman Lee Alderman (Rep-SD) dependant
upon the Internet & Broadband for his daily activities as a ‘Web-Developer’; but so is Candidate Patti
Heinemann (Dem-ND) who uses her Masters Degree in Public Administration, and Bachelors
Degree in Communications & Journalism, for her writing and work with NGOs
that she has been associated with for the past 25 years. However, the Internet & Broadband service
from ‘Frontier Communications’ is
horrible and time-consuming!
That’s why we as candidates are concerned that the Citizens of this
county are being cheated with respect to their ‘civil rights’ by being denied ‘Cell
phone’ service countywide, as well as the other technological advances now
in effect!
The Citizens of this county are currently trapped within the monopoly of ‘Frontier Communications’, perhaps the worst communications company in America. As a direct & proximate result we all are being denied our respective due process & equal protection under the laws by being charged ‘double’ for basic services compared to what other Citizens in other counties are being charged, as well as facing severe physical danger without ‘Cell phone’ service in extreme weather conditions and without ‘Medic-Alert’ for personal emergencies – thereby forcing people to crawl to a phone to dial 911! This county needs affordable options other than Frontier for its communication needs – and ‘Cell Phone’ service would provide a more affordable alternative! These problems are faced by anyone who works at home and is dependent on the Internet!
The Citizens of this county are currently trapped within the monopoly of ‘Frontier Communications’, perhaps the worst communications company in America. As a direct & proximate result we all are being denied our respective due process & equal protection under the laws by being charged ‘double’ for basic services compared to what other Citizens in other counties are being charged, as well as facing severe physical danger without ‘Cell phone’ service in extreme weather conditions and without ‘Medic-Alert’ for personal emergencies – thereby forcing people to crawl to a phone to dial 911! This county needs affordable options other than Frontier for its communication needs – and ‘Cell Phone’ service would provide a more affordable alternative! These problems are faced by anyone who works at home and is dependent on the Internet!
5. Would you support land use
planning if it grandfathered in all existing uses?
Answer:
The phrases, ‘land use planning’ and
‘all
existing uses’, are nebulous terms that can have several possible
meanings, and a candid answer is dependent upon knowing the specific respective
meanings of who is doing the asking! For example, ‘land use
planning’ can refer to ‘zoning’
and both County Commission Candidate Norman Lee Alderman (Rep-SD) & County
Commission Candidate Patti Heinemann (Dem-ND) are OPPOSED to all aspects of ‘zoning’ when it comes to infringing
upon private-property rights! By
the same token, the phrase ‘all existing uses’ can also imply permitting oil
& gas exploitation which includes permitting ‘fracking’ – which is detrimental to all surrounding properties – and
as shown herein, both Candidates are OPPOSED to any form of ‘fracking’ within Pocahontas County!
By the same token again, ‘land
use planning’ when it comes to forested areas of landowners in order to
preserve & improve forested areas is a ‘good
thing’ for the benefit of all living creatures & the environment,
etc.! Yet if the term is being used to
refer to the so-called ‘Birthplace of Rivers National Monument’, then it is clear that no one
at this time knows the final terms & conditions for the ‘federal-land-grab’ designation. In short, the phrase ‘all existing uses’ again implies permitting Oil & Gas
exploitation which includes permitting ‘fracking’! And since the issue of ‘fracking’ has been so devastating in
over 25 other States to date – regardless of the designation of the so-called ‘Birthplace of Rivers National Monument’ – isn’t an honest assessment of ‘all existing uses’ simply dependent on which Lobbyists are the most
successful with either the current or a future
ruling-regime? And cannot all
designations, terms & conditions, be changed at any moment, whether within
five-years or sooner than later?
Clean water resources – left undisturbed – are more
important to the future of everyone than any proposed so-called ‘tourist’ designation with no guarantees
of anything being ‘grandfathered in’!
6. What would you do about the drug
problem among our youth?
Answer:
First of all, the so-called ‘War on Drugs’ has been used by
law enforcement as a pretext to arrest & imprison whomever
they actually caught with either prescription or illegal drugs in their
possession, or were planted upon those arrested for purposes of furthering the
careers of law enforcement personnel! Everyone in this county knows of
a particular doctor, who prescribed prescription drugs, & his pharmacist
partner who filled the prescriptions placing Pocahontas
County in the top five counties in America
with the worst prescription drug abuse problems! And while the doctor
went to federal prison for Medicare-fraud, neither he nor his partner were ever
arrested or convicted for their rampant prescription drug abuses. Therefore perhaps it’s the doctors and pharmacists providing this ‘dope’ to our youth & Citizens who
should be controlled first & foremost!
Secondly, most of those arrested & convicted with a drug
problem in this county were users as well as distributors since most were
unemployed otherwise and used distribution as a means to derive an income. That scenario obviously means that there are
not enough jobs to go around unless governmental policies are changed for the
better and new persons elected to public office willing to implement those new
policies towards creating real & lasting employment.
7. What do you think are the top
three issues facing the county? What are your ideas about addressing
them?
Answer:
1. PRESERVING CLEAN WATER!
Fighting for clean water began when former State Senator
Walt Helmick became the so-called ‘Economic
Coordinator’ for Pocahontas County in charge of the clean-up of the
toxic-waste site known as ‘Howes Leather’,
located in Frank, WV. The estimated ‘clean-up’ cost was $15 - $20 Million,
but since Howes Leather was a large donor to State Senator Helmick, Howes
simply ‘donated’ their toxic-waste site
to the county for a $250,000.00 tax-write-off, and the county then became
responsible for the ‘clean-up’. Helmick simply had the berms of the
toxic-holding-ponds shaved from 12 feet to 3 feet, then siphoned off the toxic-waste
until a rain storm broke open the remaining berms and poured 13 Million gallons
of toxic-waste into the Greenbrier River closing the water intake for Lewisburg
for up to a week – since Lewisburg uses the Greenbrier River for its city drinking
water!
Commission Candidate Norman Lee Alderman videotaped the
shaved berms & the siphoning of the toxic-pond into the Greenbrier River,
placed the video on the Internet, and the county was fined $9,000.00 for its
violations. Alderman is proud of raising the
issue of clean water, and spend much time in Charleston trying to get the
State-DEP to enforce the laws, including escorting a team from DEP and DNR around the former Howes
Leather site, showing them where carcinogenic transformers were buried. The DEP did little to nothing!
One of the first things that Candidates Norman Lee Alderman
(Rep-SD) & Patti Heinemann (Dem-ND) will do at the first meeting in January
2015, if elected, is to finish the clean-up of Howes and have the dangerous
buried transformers containing PCB & Chromium IV immediately removed so that these toxic chemicals
are no longer a health threat to the people of Frank and Durbin.
2. PROPER SEWAGE MANAGEMENT!
Does it make sense to bury known leaking tanks, which
required replacement from a gas-station, next to Deer Creek and then fill those
leaking-tanks with 60,000 gallons of raw-human-sewage from Snowshoe &
Silver Creek – as done by Alleghany Disposal, LLC in Green Bank? Fecal matter in the drinking water, streams & rivers is
the most dangerous element next to toxic-chemicals! Therefore there needs to be an inventory of
all underground storage tanks for their structural integrity, location, and
removal away from any flood-plain or natural water source. Our collective health & safety is too important than
risking toxins & deadly bacteria into our common environment!
Further it is a known fact that the municipal water supply
in Marlinton is in desperate need of repair & replacement! The same applies to their sewage-treatment
facility! And that also applies to the
Town of Durbin
– made worse by the fact that Durbin has been included in the Public Service
District with Snowshoe & Silver Creek that has over developed itself to the
extent that they need an entirely new sewage-treatment facility on the
mountain! Yet with the massive Debt in
excess of $1.5 Billion, there is little chance that either Intrawest or
Fortress holding companies will ever be able to afford or get credit for a new
sewage-treatment facility that will cost upwards to $30 Million! That’s why the State of West Virginia needs
to take Receivership of both resorts, and relegate the day to day operations to
Pocahontas County since it’s our county Citizens that are operating the resorts
already – then split the profits 60% to the State & 40% to a ‘Workers CO-OP’ for the county!
3. MORAL & ETHICAL LOCAL
GOVERNMENT!
This election is the first time in a lifetime that two (2)
County Commissioners can be elected at the same time in the same election in order
to bring about a majority for real change, new policies, and establish a Moral,
Ethical & Righteous county government.
For far too long public officials have only considered their own careers
and forgotten their primary responsibilities & duties! That’s why this time there are two-candidates
for the county commission in a ‘United
Campaign’ that will put ‘THE GREATER COMMON GOOD
BEFORE SELF OR ANY SELF-SERVING SPECIAL INTEREST!’ In this election
year, the Citizens of Pocahontas
County can, “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!”
8. What threatens the county?
Answer:
♦ Poverty
& the Disparity of Income!
Taking into
account inflation & the cost-of-living, a ‘Living-
Wage’ of no less than $13.00 per/hour should
replace the current ‘Minimum-Wage’! This can be
corrected in part with necessary ‘Public
Works’
projects as shown
herein!
♦ ‘Fracking’! The
threat of pumping toxic-chemical-
poisons into our underground
water supply, surface
water contamination, and destruction of our county’s
drinking water &
natural springs constitutes an ‘act of
war’ by definition!
war’ by definition!
♦ State
Department of Environmental Protection! The
DEP has no policies or
regulations for storage tanks
along water-ways and leaves such inspections
up to
the owners – as seen in the recent spill in
southwestern West Virginia – and the same is
pending here in this county at Green Bank
&
elsewhere!
Just because the owner can be held liable
after a tragedy occurs doesn’t mean
it cannot be
prevented beforehand by prudent
practices!
♦ Corruption of local
officials! This county has
undergone the worst period in its
history with
corrupt & self-serving public
officials for the past
two decades, whether in
government or so-called
‘economic
development’! Also as a county, we
have
suffered through the worst period
of law
enforcement corruption with
theft, rape, and other
‘moral turpitude’ charges, indictments, and
convictions against deputy
officers!
♦ Corruption of the Pocahontas County Solid Waste
Authority (PCSWA) by improperly creating an
‘assessment fee’ for every household, then having a
collection-agency pursue
collections via lawsuits
including Abstract of Judgment
Liens – while the
current county commission sits
silent!
9. What do you know about the
Pocahontas Water Resources Management Plan? What would you do to protect
our water?
Answer:
Both County
Commission Candidates
Norman Lee Alderman (Rep-SD) & Candidate Patti Heinemann (Dem-ND) have a
copy and are familiar with the water resources management plan. And both as shown herein and on their
respective websites have taken the same position to protect & secure the
best quality of water possible – and to make the bottling of Pure Water the #1 business for
Pocahontas County to produce new income & employment for as many as
possible as a way to sustain this county into the future!
Protection of the county’s water resources is TO KEEP IT AS CLEAN AS POSSIBLE – and that means the
identification, location, and removal of all storage tanks from any & all
flood-plain areas! And that also
requires NO ‘FRACKING’ or Drilling for any Oil or Gas
exploitation! In
short, no one has the right to poison someone else’s water, well, or land
pursuant to the current civil & criminal codes, the Common Law, and The
Divine Laws as set forth in the Biblical presentation!
10. What do you think about the Wilderness
Society's
proposal for a National Monument in Pocahontas
County?
Answer:
As set forth on their respective websites, neither Candidate
Norman Lee Alderman (Rep-SD) nor Patti Heinemann (Dem-ND) is in favor of the
federal government designating 123,000+ acres, about 37% or our forested area,
as ‘The Birthplace of Rivers National Monument’! For all intent and purposes, this seems like
just another ‘federal-land-grab’ in
order to establish yet another ‘federal-police-force’
where one neither currently exists nor is wanted! We can
ask any Native American or Citizen of Iraq
or Afghanistan
how well that worked out for them!
Although the land now is already under the control of the
federal government, it is at least accessible to the general public and
maintained to prevent stream & bank erosion and water quality for all
wildlife. This may not be the case once ‘designated’. And of major concern is that no one at this time knows
anything about the final terms & conditions once such a ‘designation’ takes effect! Further although the impression is being given that a ‘designation’ will protect the
wilderness – there is no guarantees that Oil & Gas
& Mineral exploitation won’t be granted and divvied out at any given time
depending on which Corporate-Lobbyists are making the largest donations to
Congress & the White House! The same goes for any sort of ‘designation’ – it can be done with or
without this county’s approval or disapproval! In short, no
one has any say in the matter whatsoever –
only ‘smoke & mirrors’ is
presented as a sideshow while the main-circus will simply limit the number of
persons who can enter the ‘designated
area’ upon payment at the tollbooth – to pay for the new
federal-police-force to patrol the new ‘designated
area’! The irony is that while Pocahontas
County was not occupied
during or following the War Between the States – upon ‘designation’ the ‘federals’
will be here – in uniforms!
And what about the ‘corporate welfare’ provided to the timber
companies whereby they are given 2½ - 3 Million board-feet of lumber to cut in
order to keep their mills in operation each year? Doesn’t a part of the ‘severance-tax’ go to each county school board to cover expenses – or more
accurately – increase the salaries of the
administrators while teachers & staff are laid off? Just what kind of ‘deal’ is this anyway?
11. What do you know about the proposed dumping of
fracking waste? Do you think it is
a good idea for
Pocahontas County?
Answer:
ABSOLUTELY NOT! No ‘fracking’
waste in this county – ever! It’s bad enough that the
Pocahontas County Solid Waste Authority (PCSWA) has allowed toxic-waste to be
buried in their ‘open-dump-landfill’
to the point that none of its previous ‘cells’
can be emptied and used for ‘compost-fertilizer’
as set forth within the laws of this state had they only buried household garbage
to turn into compost – thus the PCSWA is forced to expand their sprawling dump
for another ten-acres! But dumping ‘fracking-wastewater’ is so toxic that it is as bad as trying to
get rid of nuclear-waste!
California is already preparing legislation to stop the dumping of 9 Billion-gallons off it coast, and now Ohio & New Jersey are faced with uncertain futures pursuant to ‘fracking-wastewater-disposal’ – so why invite such a nightmare here when we already have leaking storage tanks threatening our county’s natural water resources? It’s lunacy – except to the predatory-corporations only care about profits and not about the health & safety of others!
As clearly set forth herein and on their respective websites, both Candidate Norman Lee Alderman (Rep-SD) & Patti
Heinemann (Dem-ND) are OPPOSED to any form of ‘fracking’ in Pocahontas
County – including disposal
of ‘fracking-wastewater’! When the nuclear power industry got
underway it needed a place to get-rid-of its nuclear waste and started dumping
such into abandoned coal mines – only to find that
such waste leaked into the underground streams and water resources! The same occurred with the disposal of
chemical-wastes with the exception that chemical-waste-salts were added to road
cinders in snowy-weather under the pretext to melt ice only
to find that the chemical-waste-salts caused serious rusting of vehicles,
bridges, underpasses, and polluted the streams & waterways killing fish
& wildlife! So why does
anyone think that pumping chemical-waste deep into underground wells is any
safer for the health & safety of people or wildlife? It is a proven fact that such waste is a
danger to every living organism – if not,
then why aren’t those doing the ‘fracking’ drinking the same water?
12. What do you think about fracking? Please give
consideration
to roads, noise, water and waste
disposal
as well as any other concerns in your
answer.
Answer:
‘Fracking’ is simply a method for the
chemical-industry to dispose of its chemical-wastes in the same manner that the
aluminum industry disposes of ‘fluoride’
by placing it too in either the drinking-water or the toothpaste of the public! Over 25 States that have allowed ‘fracking’
are now experiencing the wholesale destruction of the drinking-water of their
respective states – the deterioration of the health of their respective
populations, the loss of property values, the loss of tax-revenues, and the
loss of their respective populations who are moving elsewhere and abandoning their
once healthy communities. And all of
this is for what, the ‘predatory-profits’
of a handful of corporations under the pretext of providing a handful of ‘jobs’ – when alternative ‘green energy’ is at our fingertips!
The findings of scientists suggest that even small man-made earthquakes, such as those of just a magnitude 1 or magnitude 2, can trigger damaging earthquakes as occurred in Oklahoma on 06 November 2011, as its worst earthquake in history, according to Elizabeth Cochran, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, who recently reported, “Even if wastewater injection only directly affects a low-hazard fault, those smaller events could trigger an event on a larger fault nearby,” she told Live Science. So not only is ‘fracking’ a toxic-hazard, it’s also an earthquake hazard – and at all times it’s the general public that suffers!
Clean, fresh, pure water is too precious a commodity to threaten with ‘fracking’ or any other predatory-drilling or dumping practice! The only solution is to always place ‘THE GREATER COMMON GOOD BEFORE SELF OR ANY SELF-SERVING SPECIAL INTEREST!’
13. Numerous municipalities, even whole countries,
have
banned fracking. Would you vote to do so?
Answer:
ABSOLUTELY!
THE GREATER COMMON GOOD
ALWAYS COMES BEFORE SELF OR ANY SELF-SERVING SPECIAL INTEREST! No one
has the right to poison someone else’s water, well, or land pursuant to the current
civil & criminal codes, the Common Law, and The Divine Laws as set forth in
the Biblical presentation! That’s why bottling clean, pure water
should become the #1 business in Pocahontas
County pursuant the
Blessings of our Natural Water Resources!
It’s time
we help others in America and around the World enjoy a clean, cool, fresh drink
of water – there are over a Billion people denied that opportunity at any given
moment of any given day at the present time! We should thank Our Creator for His Blessings upon us indeed!
* * * *
* * *
These
are the joint statements and official positions of NORMAN
LEE ALDERMAN (REP-SD) & PATTI HEINEMANN (DEM-ND), Candidates for the
County Commission
of Pocahontas County for the primary election being
held on 13 May 2014, and 04 November 2014 that will take effect on the first
meeting of the county commission in January 2015! It’s time for a new change of policies and a
new direction for the people of Pocahontas
County!
This Time…The People can…
Just say ‘NO’ to those who
want to keep this county in Poverty &
Pauperism for their self-serving special interest – and –
Just SAY ‘YES’ to real Progress & Prosperity for the future
and the mutual benefit of all concerned!
PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC VIA:
&
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!
The Pocahontas Crier
is an independent Internet News Service that has so far endorsed two candidates
for County Commission,
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!
► Early Voting is from 30
April 2014 to 10 May 2014 – so
Vote Early & avoid the rush!
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Crier at
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