30 April 2014, Vol.1, No.38 > WHY
WERE PARTS EDITED FROM CANDIDATE STATEMENTS?
The POCAHONTAS CRIER
‘When the Righteous succeed the people rejoice,
But when the bad govern, men groan!’ – Proverbs 29:2
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WHY WERE PARTS EDITED
FROM CANDIDATES STATEMENTS?
In the 24 April 2014 issue of The Pocahontas Times weekly
newspaper, candidates were told that they could each submit a biographical
statement with a maximum of 500 words – along with a photograph. Yet upon a review of the one submitted by PATTI HEINEMANN, Commission Candidate – Northern District,
it seems that ‘someone’ at the Times edited
part of what she wanted included, and did so without first conferring
with her!
Here at the Editorial Staff for The Pocahontas
Crier, an Internet News Service with the added twist of a
traditional ‘muckraking’
publication, we found it rather strange that the Times would disrespect the FIRST
AMENDMENT & FREEDOM OF SPEECH & THE PRESS for a candidate for
public office who must take an ‘Oath-of-Office’ to uphold the very ‘Freedoms’
in the Bill of Rights that the Times is now trampling upon! But what else is new at the Times, whether in the hands of Prices,
McNeels, Pritts, & now corporate – it has always remained the same – the Times
has NEVER placed THE COMMON GOOD BEFORE SELF OR ANY SPECIAL INTERESTS – it’s always placed ‘special
interests’ before We The People!
The biographical statement of PATTI HEINEMANN was first published here on 20
March 2014, Vol.1-No.20, and is republished below with the added yellow-marker
within for the sections OMITTED by the Times
– followed by what we believe are the reasons the Times again catered to the titular-head of the ‘Poverty Preservation
Society’ (PPS)!
IN THE NORTHERN DISTRICT…
THE CRIER ENDORSES:
PATTI HEINEMANN (DEM)
of Green Bank!
Patti is proud she is a direct descendant
of Thomas McLaughlin, one of the original families from Ireland that settled in this part of the Appalachia following the War Between the States. She and her husband, Jerry, have known each
other the whole of their lives since they were born in the same town on the
same street and walked to Bible
School together. Following his undergraduate degree, they were
married and raised 10 children, 7 boys & 3 girls, seven of whom were raised
in this county, and all are college educated & married with families of
their own, totaling 25 grandchildren to date.
Education
& Experience-wise
As for education, Patti has a Masters Degree in
Public Administration and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Communications &
Journalism, and has over 25 years experience in journalism, public
relations, and organizational administration.
She’s been a lifelong activist for Social
Justice. What made her decide to
run for County Commission, at the urging of friends
& family, was the total lack of
Ethics that she has seen taking place within this county in the last two
decades! Public servants seem to
want to advance themselves and their careers at the expense of the
Citizen-Taxpayer whom they are suppose to serve! As a direct & proximate result, Patti has set forth a series of important Issues that she
believes will advance this county into a fit place to live and raise a family.
A key issue facing this county is the need for a county economic
development authority instead of a private corporation from Greenbrier County
collecting all our money & land!
When Patti & her husband established a sewing enterprise to make T-Shirts
in Durbin at the urging of the late Carlos Jones, they
employed 15 persons at $5.00 per/hour with health insurance after 3 months when
the minimum-wage was only $3.50 p/hr.
In less than a
month a local banker, former commissioner & former sheriff forced Carlos
Jones to ‘lock-out’ the new business,
or be put out of business himself, since
no one else was offering such wages & benefits!
Other issues needing resolution include:
(1) Ending all solid waste authority lawsuits &
expunging all judgments & liens!
(2) Obtaining ‘Cell-Service’ for the entire county, and another
communications company besides Frontier! (3) ‘Wind Turbines’ as a source of electricity! (4) NO ‘FRACKING’ – EVER – Clean Water
is too precious to pollute! (5) Audit
all county agencies pursuant to Federal Law!
(6) A Citizen-Referendum on where excess county funds should be
spent! (7) Establishing Snowshoe &
Silver Creek as a CO-OP business!
This election we have a chance to elect two
Righteous persons at the same time to the county commission to restore an
Ethical Local Government, stemming from the Common Law, based upon the Divine
Laws! YOU have a chance to make history &
Vote for Social Justice! May Our Creator
Bless all your efforts accordingly.
Thank you indeed! See:
and
Now what is in
yellow-marker above is what the Times
left out!
Now we can understand the Times
not wanting to mention either website for The Pocahontas Commentator or The Pocahontas
Crier since the Times
considers both Internet News Services as competitors at the county level – but WHY would the Times
leave out what PATTI experienced trying to start a business in this county,
starting off employing 15 persons, and beginning training for another 15
persons for a second shift in the first month of operations? Only to have a local banker leading the pack
to stop the new business – you remember, don’t you Phil?
Well the answer lies in the
footnote also published on 20 March 2014, Vol.1-No.20, as repringed below – and
the commentary following:
[Editorial Staff Note: For
those who have asked, the ‘local banker, former commissioner & former sheriff
[that] forced Carlos Jones to ‘lock-out’ the new business, or be put out of
business himself’…was none other than Phillip
Cain of the then First National Bank & Pocahontas Development
Authority (PDA); former commissioner Dana Moyers
who was forced to resign after a Citizen-Taxpayer petition & trial before a
three-judge panel over numerous charges stemming from the ‘Howes Leather’ fiasco; and former sheriff Jerry
Dale who was disgraced after lying under oath in the first trial against
Jacob Beard when Beard was falsely charged & imprisoned over the ‘Rainbow Killings’! And this is the
same ‘Phil Cain’ that has had his
hands in almost everything in this county in the past 25 years, and is rumored
to be the recognized titular head of the Pocahontas County ‘Poverty Preservation Society’ for
everyone but himself and his fellow cronies!]
THAT’S RIGHT…MONEY TALKS…
&…TRUTH WALKS!
That’s right, the Times never mentions any
corruption, or any type of corruption within Pocahontas County, regardless if
it’s the theft of public land, resources, or funds by public officials or ‘quasi-government’
officials – or even the rape, pillage and plunder of so-called ‘law-enforcement’ officials – even when it stares
the Times right in the face – for fear of loosing a buck or
two in advertising, especially when it comes from a bank-ad on their front
page! But when
is ENOUGH, ever ENOUGH – to the point of making a real change and real
different for the COMMON FOLK?
The first duty of
government, at any level, is to protect the necessities of life, i.e., Food, Clothing & Shelter,
of its Citizens – and not to secure the highest possible profits for
moneylenders and profiteers!
But in this county for
the past three-decades, the SAME FOLKS have time & again stuffed their
own-pockets at the expense of the many – whether in
secret, or in the open – as set forth in the series entitled, ‘ENDING THE POVERTY
PRESERVATION SOCIETY’, in Vol.1-No.5 & No.6, of this Internet
News Service. Whether
it was trying to steal the federal funds from Cranberry Glades; to the actual
theft of Denmar State Hospital; to the toxic-fiasco at Howes Leather; to the grant-money-scam
of the West Virginia Shoe Company; to the give-away of public-land, resources
& county-income to the self-serving Greenbrier Valley Economic Development
Corporation (GVEDC); to the latest
scheme to ‘steal’ the property in
downtown Marlinton to COLLECT-RENTAL-INCOME for the GVEDC – the same few folks
keep popping up like a gnat or a fly at a picnic!
There is absolutely NO COMPARISON
between the local banks here in Pocahontas
County compared to the local banks in Greenbrier County!
In Greenbrier, the banks WILL WORK WITH NEW
BUSINESSES – they are progressive and know a good-thing when they see it
– and they are THRIVING IN LEWISBURG while the local banks here will not assist
new ideas! Why? Because the local
banks in this county are GREEDY – their boards of directors (BOD) are
loaded with the owners of the local businesses and
they LIKE THINGS THE WAY THEY ARE HERE FOR THEMSELVES – they want no
competition, they want ‘no middleclass’,
they only want THEMSELVES AT THE TOP and everyone else at the bottom – and few
in between!
Almost two-decades ago, the
Pocahontas County Organic Farmers Organization (PCOFO) offered
a two-fold SELF-SUSTAINING proposal for Small Farms to expand their
family-income in one or both ways:
(1) grow organic potatoes, peppers, and tomatoes from May – October;
and, (2) raise FISH from fingerlings to
full-grown for all farms with year-round-streams! Since one-seed-stock potato yields from
ten-fourteen tablestock the PCOFO was provided a tentative contract with a major food-processing facility that promised to build a
processing plant here in this county to employ upwards to 100 persons…full time! The processing-plant needed at least 3-Million pounds of potatoes
to operate annually; and with the cold storage facilities,
fresh-farm-raised-fish could be processed as well – thus year-round income for
all farms with flowing streams!
THE DRAWBACK…it wasn’t funding since 80% was federal, 20% local – it was the WV
Department of Agriculture that claimed that POCAHONTAS, RANDOLPH &
PENDLETON counties ARE DESIGNATED ‘TOURIST’ COUNTIES and therefore
no industry could be established!
And then you wonder WHY folks are leaving this county for lack of work,
low-wages, and no opportunities! And to
add insult to injury, the local banks would not even fund $100K, short term, to
set up Aquaculture-fish-farms on county farms with a sufficient year-round
water supply to raise fresh water fish – even when shown that the banks could be repaid in just one
year! The experts from Virginia walked away in
shock at the total ‘stupidity’ of the local bank delegation – that
said, ‘this is
cattle-country…we don’t know about raising fish’! The meeting with the PCOFO was
held in the office of the late Dean Jones in Marlinton. Need we say who one of the ‘bank-representatives’ was – you know,
the same one on the former PDA, now with the GVEDC, and involved in the ‘rebuild’ of Marlinton? Oh, yeah, the
same one that forced Carlos Jones to ‘lock-out’
PATTI HEINEMANN from establishing the Durbin
Sewing Works to make T-Shirts for silk-screening companies! That’s the kind of ‘economic-development’ that the
titular-head of the ‘Poverty Preservation Society’ wants for this
county – ALL IN THEIR HANDS…or none at
all!
One last thought, what do you
really think – when all the clichés are over with about supporting farming
& logging – when the federal government ENDS FARM SUBSIDIES because of yet
another war? These latest foreign wars
have already cost untold MILLIONS OF FOLKS to loose the ‘Food-Stamp’ subsidies for all
those on a ‘fixed-income’ – but what
if & when the ‘Farm-Subsidies’ are cut off, and the ‘timber-giveaways’ of
millions-of-board-feet to the area sawmills – what then? Where will the ‘minimum-wage’ jobs go then?
How long will Pocahontas remain ‘pristine’,
and who will be left here to see any of it when our new ‘masser’ Donald Trump gets his Snowshoe-RAD, a new ‘four-lane’ down the valley of Rt.92,
and who knows what’s next…from the self-styled ‘developer’?
THAT’S WHY…
THIS TIME…there’s no excuse…
IT’S YOUR
CHOICE…
TO CHANGE FOR THE BETTER!
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!
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
INTERESTS!
Keep up to Date – Stay tuned to these Websites:
► 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 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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