11 MAY 2014, Vol.1, No.48 > IT
AIN’T PRETTY – CURRENT
STATE OF THE COUNTY!
The POCAHONTAS CRIER
‘When the Righteous succeed the people rejoice,
But when the bad govern, men groan!’ – Proverbs 29:2
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IT AIN’T PRETTY – CURRENT STATE
OF THE COUNTY!
Has anyone wondered just WHY those living in Elkins in Randolph
County to the north, and those living in Lewisburg in Greenbrier County to the
south, all seem to be thriving with Progress & Prosperity – while the over-whelming
majority living here in Pocahontas County – in the middle – are living in Poverty &
Pauperism? The comparison is appalling! Is it because Randolph &
Greenbrier have fewer Senior Citizens on a ‘fixed-income’? NO! Is it
because they have fewer employees on ‘minimum-wages’?
YES! And
is it because those counties have more modern conveniences – like Cell-Phones & Broadband – than
we do? YES! A
drive through Elkins, or Lewisburg, explains it all – compared to a drive through
Durbin or Marlinton! Seeing is Believing! Like it or not, Deny it or not, the ‘STATE OF THE COUNTY’
at the present time is DEPLORABLE…and getting
worse by the day! IF ONLY folks in this county had been wise
enough to KEEP THE RAILROAD between Elkins & Lewisburg!
Randolph County has ITS OWN county
development authority that caters to the needs of its Citizens – does Pocahontas County?
NO! And while Greenbrier County is
linked into the cursed ‘Greenbrier Valley Economic Development Corporation’
(GVEDC), a private-corporation allegedly serving Monroe, Greenbrier &
Pocahontas County – the bulk of its efforts is in GREENBRIER COUNTY – to the
point that the GVEDC claims it has to build a ‘bigger-parking-lot’ for itself – while
the least of its efforts for ‘development’
is here in Pocahontas! Besides, in
Lewisburg there is a strong ‘business association’ that takes care of itself
independent of the GVEDC unlike here in this county where the Chamber of
Commerce is a hand-puppet of the
GVEDC and does about as much for Pocahontas County as the GVEDC – which is nothing! Here in Pocahontas,
the GVEDC takes all our county-rental-income – about $250K a year – back to
Greenbrier for its own private ‘corporate-use’
– but it doesn’t touch the funds of Lewisburg as it does here from both
the County Commission & Marlinton – so the GVEDC theft & plunder of
Greenbrier County is not as noticeable as it is here! That’s why we wallow in Poverty & Pauperism while
others around us thrive!
A
COUPLE OF CASES IN THE PAST
As stated several times, our dear-ole Phillip Cain – once president of
the First National Bank (FNB) before it was ordered sold by the Federal Banking
Commission for its nefarious activities – was on the Pocahontas Development
Authority (PDA) when it first formed over 25 years ago and one of his first
acts was to transfer about $128K of federal funds earmarked for Cranberry
Glades to the PDA. Norman Lee Alderman was a county commissioner at the time
and stopped the illegal transfer.
Then along came the ‘Dean-Callison
Group’, i.e., Summers Dean & Joel Callison, et al., with relatives on
the BOD of the First National Bank, and they allegedly bought the former Denmar
State Hospital for $20K (that’s all they could prove they paid), and sold it
back to the State of West Virginia seven months later in excess of $770K. Selling 'Denmar' was supposed to be money for the COUNTY –
and that’s why THE
POCAHONTAS CRIER has labeled Phil Cain as the ‘titular-head’ of the Pocahontas
County ‘Poverty
Preservation Society’ (PPS) since he’s been grabbing what he can for over three
decades so far – taking as much as possible FROM those of low-income and
transferring it TO the rich & infamous in the county – starting with ‘you-know-who’ first!
But while always masquerading as
favoring ‘economic development’, it
was the same Phil Cain of the FNB & PDA, along with Dana Moyers as a county
commissioner, and Jerry Dale as county sheriff, that went to the late Carlos
Jones and forced Carlos to ‘lock-out’ & prevent Patti
Heinemann from operating her new Durbin Sewing Works in a vacant
building that Carlos had in Durbin that once housed a dress-making business. For over three-months Carlos & his wife
encouraged Patti to move her sewing enterprise from Edray to Durbin. So ‘The Durbin Sewing Works’ began making
T-Shirts for a silk-screen company, employed 15 workers @$5 per/hour when the ‘minimum-wage’ was only $3.50 in 1993, and
Patti offered free health insurance after 3 months – and she was
training 15 more women for a second shift whose husbands were truck drivers and
didn’t return home until after midnight!
Since no other businesses in the county were offering $5.00 p/hour
wages, let alone ‘health benefits’,
and since many of the county business owners sat on the BOD of the FNB – Phil & Dana & Jerry all came and told Carlos to ‘lock-out’ Patti and stop her new
business in Pocahontas County – or Phil’s bank would accelerate the mortgage on
Carlos & put his ‘OMT-Mart’
out-of-business!
The irony is that since
Carlos did ‘lock-out’ Patti, she in
turn contacted the U.S. Department of Labor, and within 24 hours a
representative was here interviewing Patti and all her employees, and then made Carlos & Eagle Point Sportswear pay in excess of
$8000 in wages to all the employees, plus Carlos had to take all the sewing
machines & equipment back to Charlotte, North Carolina, from whence it was
being leased-purchased! So much for
economic development under Phillip Cain in Pocahontas
County as the ‘titular-head’ of the Pocahontas County ‘Poverty Preservation Society’ (PPS)! A further irony ensued as Dana
Moyers was removed as a county commissioner by public petition, when he stood
trial before a three-judge panel; and Jerry Dale as county sheriff was removed
as a witness in the second trial of Jacob Beard, for giving false-testimony in
the first trial. Beard was accused in
the Rainbow Killings – upon his acquittal in the second trial, Beard received
in excess of $4-Million for his time incarcerated & the false charges against
him.
Why mention this now on the eve of
a county commission election? Because at
least TWO CANDIDATES know first-hand the dirty-tricks, deception, and outright ‘Lies’ told by those within the ‘Poverty
Preservation Society’ who want to keep things as they are for
themselves – with
a handful owning everything at the expense of everyone else! But these (greedy)
‘codicioso-bastardos’ don’t seem to
realize a second after their last-breath – they
can’t take anything with them! In fact, in ‘Dante Inferno’,
he consigned banker/usurers to the Seventh Circle
– the very bottom – along with blasphemers & sodomites! Check it out:
“Release from debt
was revolutionary in Biblical times because it took power from the hands of
rulers and became a sacred popular commandment. Deuteronomy directed that the laws on
cancellation of debts be read aloud in public every seven years, so that the
population would know that they were to be freed from bondage, this at a
time when anyone unable to repay a debt became a slave…[but since banker/usurers hated freeing people of debt]…the Biblical tradition of
canceling debts was lost.
The ancient law in Exodus that forbids the charging of interest on a loan to a fellow Israelite was breached when the Israelites came in contact with a wider world.
Thus, in Deuteronomy, interest was permitted when dealing with a foreigner - identical to Islamic practice. Thereafter, outside our Christian tradition, usury was forbidden by Aristotle and Mahomet, and within it by St. Thomas Aquinas and Dante. When Virgil takes Dante on his tour of Hell, the poet looks on the shades of usurers seated with the Sodomites on the burning sand. An old commentator observed that the Sodomites and usurers are classed together because Sodomites ‘make sterile those natural instincts which should result in fertility’, while usurers ‘make fertile what by its nature is sterile’, that is, they make money ‘breed’ when it should not.” < http://martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/dec2008/dante-usury-hell.html >
The ancient law in Exodus that forbids the charging of interest on a loan to a fellow Israelite was breached when the Israelites came in contact with a wider world.
Thus, in Deuteronomy, interest was permitted when dealing with a foreigner - identical to Islamic practice. Thereafter, outside our Christian tradition, usury was forbidden by Aristotle and Mahomet, and within it by St. Thomas Aquinas and Dante. When Virgil takes Dante on his tour of Hell, the poet looks on the shades of usurers seated with the Sodomites on the burning sand. An old commentator observed that the Sodomites and usurers are classed together because Sodomites ‘make sterile those natural instincts which should result in fertility’, while usurers ‘make fertile what by its nature is sterile’, that is, they make money ‘breed’ when it should not.” < http://martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/dec2008/dante-usury-hell.html >
Our County Records
shows that Commission Candidate, Norman Lee
Alderman (Rep-SD), fought against the GREED of Phil Cain, the PDA
& the GVEDC and won when he was a former commissioner! And Commission Candidate, Patti Heinemann (Dem-ND), also knows firsthand when she brought new ideas,
cottage-sewing-employment, and a sewing-enterprise to Durbin, before the same
PPS shut it down for fear of economic competition! Now Norman &
Patti are working as a TEAM & if ELECTED will make a Positive Difference
for this county starting in January 2015 at the first meeting of the new county
commission!
NOW LOOK
AT THIS RECENT SCENARIO
The PPS has had a dream since 1986
to build an ‘earthen-dam’
on the Greenbrier River about 3 miles north of Marlinton, flood the valley from
there to just south of Cass, wipe-out 174 farms, cut down all the trees &
enrich themselves as set forth in a special report written for them in 1987 by
K.W. Poore Associates, Richmond, Virginia.
That report created the GREENBRIER VALLEY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (GVEDC), on which Phil Cain has his
dirty fingerprints, as well as the GREENBRIER
INVESTMENT CORPORATION (GIC), on which Joel Callison finds his dirty handprints! When the Denmar State
Hospital became such a
scandal, both Phil Cain & Joel Callison jumped from the PDA to the GVEDC
and have remained there for the past two decades so far.
Those within Marlinton
calling for a ‘dam’ were opposed by
two – three times as many others outside of Marlinton that DID NOT WANT A DAM – nevertheless the question of feasibility lingered for the past three
decades to the point that the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers finally said that
building a dam would NOT be feasible since the cost would exceed $150-Million
for an area (Marlinton) worth less than $10-Million (before the FIRE)! It’s all about COST-TO-BENEFIT-RATIO! Nevertheless, the State Legislature set aside
about $8-Million should a ‘floodplain-wall’
around Marlinton ever be undertaken!
Such a plan would destroy 40% of the current buildings (prior to the
fire) since the ‘Wall’ would be 15’ –
17’ high, 14’ across at the top & 60’ – 70’ wide at the base! The dirt was to come from the saddle in the mountain
behind Stillwell Park as a new opening for Knapps
Creek. BUT the dirt is mostly SHALE and thus not
feasible!
So the $8-Million just sat there
until last summer when the State Legislature took it back to cover the
short-falls for various state-government-agencies – but
left $500,000 in place to assist Marlinton pursuant to its FIRE! Yeah, that’s what was intended UNTIL our very
own Phil Cain & the GVEDC found out, GOT HOLD OF THE FUNDS – and
redirected the $500,000 to Boxley in Mill Point for their stone-quarry
expansion! You all remember
Ike Morris of Boxley, don’t you? Isn’t
he the same one that wanted to BLOW-UP BROWN’S MOUNTAIN in Minnehaha to mine
dangerous ‘Silica’? Oh, but his best buddy, Walt Helmick, now has
a water bottling facility in the same area – following the same suggestion raised
in the 2002 commission campaign! And
since WATER
TRUMPS DIRT – Morris took over the Mill Point stone-quarry from former
State Senator Mike Ross and Boxley is now expanding
thanks to Phil Cain, David Fleming & William Beard, Jr. – all happy members
of the GVEDC, – as for the folks in Marlinton – WELL, what can we
say: ‘Money trumps Poverty every time when its in the hands of the
GVEDC – for themselves, of course!’
We here at The POCAHONTAS CRIER only have one
question, “Was
Bill Beard, as a member of the GVEDC, made a member of the board of Phil Cain’s
Pendleton Bank, BEFORE or AFTER the $500,000 was given to Boxley instead of going
to Marlinton?” After all,
both Fleming & Beard, Jr. are board members of the GVEDC, along with Phil
Cain & Joel Callison and some other erstwhile & ersatz residents of
this county! Come to think of it, let’s
take a look at the current crop of candidates for county commission:
For the Northern
District:
♥ PATTI
HEINEMANN > has a Masters Degree in Public Administration,
experienced, and has set forth 15 POINTS, as Steps, to restore Pocahontas
County to Progress
& Prosperity – including making
Bottling Pure Water the #1 Business for
Pocahontas County for all those with Natural Spring Water on their land
– and first & foremost, FIRE THE PCSWA, END ALL
LAWSUITS, EXPUNGE ALL JUDGMENTS & LIENS, & EXEMPT all persons on
a ‘fixed-income’ as allowed by State
Law! And as for Snowshoe Mountain Inc.
(SMI), let them pay for their own new sewer-treatment-facility since they created
the problem, keep all the profits, and give little back as ‘minimum-wages’!
● DAVID FLEMING
> In six-years what has he done for this
county? NOTHING but peripheral
window-dressing, nothing of substance! He has never mentioned a word about the massive &
illegal lawsuits filed by the county solid waste authority upon hundreds of
county landowners! But he has
DECEIVED us all as to where he actually lives – in the Central District – not
in the Northern District as required by law!
And like father, like son, after David divorced his wife & three
children, he moved in with Tom Shipley in the Central District – then Fleming
filed FALSE CHARGES against Norman Lee Alderman, editor of The POCAHONTAS COMMENTATOR, after
Norman inquired at a public meeting as to an actual address & telephone
number since NOT EVEN THE COUNTY CLERK had any record
as to how to get in touch with Fleming; let alone all those within Green
Bank angered over Fleming agreeing IN SECRET to give the GVEDC public-land so
the GVEDC could give it to Jacob Meck in a ‘99
year lease’ that placed ALL LIABILITY upon the Citizens of this county
– and then have Meck not pay any property-taxes for his seven business fronts! Fleming claims he ‘enjoys listening’ yet ignored over 300 signatures opposing his
giveaway of public-land to the GVEDC!
Last, but not least, as
a member of the GVEDC, Fleming
along with Bill Beard voted to give the
$500,000 of state-funds allocated to Marlinton following the FIRE, instead to
Boxley at Mill Point! Yet another ‘dumb-idea’, while on the commission,
Fleming & Bill Beard voted to GRANT A WAIVER to the Marlinton City Council
so they could GRANT A WAIVER to allow a local business destroyed in the FIRE to
BUILD AGAIN WITHIN THE FLOODPLAIN, instead of
above the ‘floodplain-mark’, as
required by law, and now EVERYONE in Marlinton will
have to pay HIGHER INSURANCE RATES!
How’s that for listening to Folks with an ‘open ear’ as Fleming claims?
● DAVID
McLAUGHLIN > A small
farmer who would like young-couples to rent farms from Senior Citizens, but then does not explain how monthly rent can be paid
whether growing crops or raising livestock while waiting until the one month at
‘Harvest Time’ – as if a small
farm can make one year of expenses in one month! As to other issues, he has only copied
what others have either posted or said on public forums. In private discussions, po’-David is ‘clueless’ as to the Duties & Responsibilities
of being a county commissioner!
● KENNETH ‘BUSTER’ VARNER > Claims
to already have ‘MULTIPLE-JOBS’,
logging, construction, restaurant & several franchise businesses, etc.! Currently a member
of the Chamber of Commerce that supported six-open-pits to hold upwards to 50,000
gallons EACH of raw-human-toxic-sewage plus a ‘tank farm’ with 100,000 gallon storage tanks – right across the road from the Green Bank Senior Center &
Community Medical Center! Then
claims he wants to ‘protect our Health
& Safety’! He also wants US-Citizen-Taxpayers
to build a new sewer treatment plant for Snowshoe – even though Snowshoe
Mountain Inc. (SMI) ships over $50-Million out of this county each year in
profits! Is
that why the Slaty Fork folks are receiving ‘sewer-bill-estimates’
in excess of $300 per/month tied in with SMI & Durbin?
Buster claims to be a ‘Past Master of
Masonic Lodge #124’, plus a ‘Shriner’ at the same time claiming to be a
member of a ‘Christian Church’! Isn’t each degree in Masonry a different ‘priesthood’ in the ancient fertility
cults, and are not those in the ‘Eastern
Star’ the ‘Daughters of Isis’ of ancient Egyptian mythology? We wonder what Jesus would do!
Lastly, Buster was a member of the
POCAHONTAS COUNTY SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY (PCSWA)
and Buster voted to SUE HUNDREDS of his neighbors
for not paying what the PCSWA calls a ‘mandatory assessment green-box fee’ – whether
you use it or not – contrary to existing State Laws – and the PCSWA refuses to
exempt folks on a ‘fixed-income’ for
fear of losing money although MANDATED BY STATE LAW! Does this sound like a person that would put
THE COMMON GOOD before his own SELF-INTERESTS or those of SPECIAL INTERESTS if
he could make a buck or two? We didn’t think so
either!
For the Southern
District:
● WILLIAM S. ‘BILL’ BEARD, JR. > A Cattle
farmer fortunate enough to have a contract with a corporate meat packing
company – thus has a market outside of the Marlinton livestock auction. While on the county
commission Bill has never inquired as to why as much as one-third (1/3) of
all property-owners in this county are being sued by the PCSWA, county
solid waste authority!
As a member of the GVEDC, like
Fleming, Bill too voted to give the funds allocated to
Marlinton instead to Boxley at Mill Point – as if Boxley needed the
funds as much as Marlinton! Like Fleming, Bill also voted to GRANT A WAIVER to
Marlinton so Marlinton City Council could GRANT A WAIVER to the owner of one of
the stores destroyed in the fire TO BUILD AGAIN WITHIN
THE FLOODPLAIN – and thereby RAISE THE INSURANCE RATES FOR EVERYONE ELSE IN
MARLINTON! And then we wonder why
this county is steeped in Poverty &
Pauperism! Following the 1996 Flood,
FEMA offered funds to relocate the entire town to higher ground – but guess who
objected the most? Yep, the same ‘titular-head’
of the ‘Poverty
Preservation Society’ and then look at the miserable shape that
Marlinton is in now – compared to Lewisburg or Elkins – Ah, but the GVEDC needs
a new ‘parking-lot’
– in Greenbrier County!
♥ SHAY HUFFMAN
> Comes as a candidate with 40+ years
in Community Service as a Nurse & Midwife who has delivered hundreds of
babies to the women of this county! Where are those children now?
Don’t ask, since most have moved away for a job that pays a little more
than ‘minimum -wages’! Really, who wants to work at Snowshoe for ‘life’ since no one really retires from
there anyway – some even got terminated in their last month before retirement,
remember? Besides SMI is the lowest
paying ‘resort’ in the whole ‘Resort Industry’ – and just wait until ‘magnanimous -Donald Trump’ takes over! Meanwhile, Shay, like Norman & Patti, has
more than any other candidate, offered plenty of Common Sense solutions to the
problems facing this county at this time!
And Shay has placed a great deal of emphasis upon Seniors & Children
Causes – especially since the ‘Radical Republicans’ in the State Legislature
did away with ‘Meals-on-Wheels’
for shut-in Senior Citizens!
● SARAH
(BURT-KINDERMAN) RILEY > A ‘Real-Harvard-Drama-Queen’
and then some, having claimed to have ‘conquered’
Harvard in Drama! Perhaps she should be
in stage & theater after all for her self-adulation at the public events
during this campaign. Her claim to fame
is being, along with her mother, an ‘executive director’ of the High Rocks compound
that caters to a handful of young- women only, at any given time, yet has received over $275,000 from the county commission for
the past six-years under Fleming – and over $155,000 in 2013 & 2014
combined thanks to Fleming & Beard – yet the High Rocks compound also
claims to have a budget in excess of $750K from various groups & ‘limousine-liberals’ who like such novelties
& fantasies!
However, short on details, Sarah’s
proposed polices are simple clichés, rhetorical, and non-existent while
continually calling for a ‘wait & see’ procrastination – taking no stand has
become her position! Since
the High Rocks compound gets FEDERAL GRANT FUNDS – Sarah may soon find out that
she is in violation of the HATCH ACT which forbids anyone working for
any NGO that receives federal funds from engaging in ‘politics’ – and that may also include her father, Gibbs Kinderman,
who reportedly has been making phone calls on her behalf, but not giving his
name – albeit his ‘voice’ is recognizable from his time at radio station, WVMR! If indeed she’s in violation of the Hatch
Act, then Sarah’s boasted career of using the four-year term on the county
commission as a ‘stepping-stone’ to
the WV House of Delegates, and beyond, may be doubtful indeed! Perhaps she should become a ‘stand-up-comic’ at the Marlinton ‘Opera-House’…as an added ‘tourist
attraction’ for the county!
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In closing, as this campaign for
county commission comes to a close for the PRIMARY ELECTION – the Choices we make to restore a Moral & Righteous local
government is more crucial now than ever before since this is the first time in
our lifetime that we can elect TWO CANDIDATES at the same time and thereby
directly effect the direction of this county beginning in January 2015!
Of all the
candidates, only TWO, NORMAN LEE ALDERMAN (Rep-SD) and PATTI HEINEMANN (Dem-ND) have as early as January
2014 set forth 15 POINTS, as Steps, to bring this county OUT OF Poverty & Pauperism and BACK INTO Progress & Prosperity!
The fight for SOCIAL JUSTICE is never-ending – and those that fight
are always ‘Brothers-in-Arms’!
May Our Creator Bless your Choices according to what is
deserving for Righteousness Sake!
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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