12 JANUARY 2015, Vol.2, No.1 > ANYBODY BUT ‘RETA THE RODENT’!
The
POCAHONTAS CRIER
‘When the Righteous succeed the
people rejoice,
But when the bad govern, men groan!’
– Proverbs 29:2
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ANYBODY BUT ‘RETA THE RODENT’!
In two days, on 14 January 2015,
the ersatz state Republican Party will be announcing just who it wants to be Clerk
of the State Senate, and as expected every
self-serving-RAT within the Republican Party has been lining up to get that
position to the tune of $80,000.00+ a year in taxpayers funds as a salary! Not to be undone, Randolph County businessman
and current State Senator covering Pocahontas County is none other than
millionaire Clark Barnes who as a State Senator receives a salary between $20K
- $25K per/year – for TWO MONTHS of work – so getting the post of ‘Senate Clerk’
means that he will make FOUR TIMES in one year what he
makes in four years as a State Senator – and since the next election is
two years away, that means EIGHT TIMES the yearly
salary as a PART-TIME-LEGISLATOR!
Don’t bother asking just WHAT
dear-ole-Clark has done for We Folks here in Pocahontas County for the past ten
(10) years that he’s been a State Senator – let’s just say that he has made
sure that his own personal business-interests have come first & foremost
and been well taken care of just like his predecessor, Mike Ross! Remember Mike’s stone quarries and endless road
repair, ad nauseam! And let’s not
forget dear-ole Mike buying up the tax-receipts and mineral-rights of as many
of his constituents at every opportunity he could get! To say that the Republican Party has become
the party of the SELF-SERVING is an understatement from the Congress right on
down to the local precinct these days! Folks like Dwight D. Eisenhower would turn over in his grave
IF HE ONLY KNEW what the Republican Party has become and how low it has sunk in
corruption!
Meanwhile the Senatorial District
of Clark Barnes consisting of the 11th Senate District comprises
part of Grant County, Nicholas, Pendleton, Pocahontas,
Randolph, Upshur and Webster counties.
On 03 January 2015, in the event that Clark is chosen to become Senate
Clerk, the Republican county committees for the 11th Senate District
held a meeting to choose a replacement to finish out the term of Clark as State Senator.
BUT THEY HAVE KEPT THEIR CHOICE A SECRET
– which we will never know – in the event that Clark Barnes is not chosen by
the other State Senators! But laud-behold,
out from under her rock came former Pocahontas
County commissioner, Reta
‘The Rat’ Griffeth, along with recent
county commission candidate, Charles Wilfong, to ‘offer themselves for public self-service’!
Now some may ask just WHY we would
refer to dear-ole Reta as ‘the rodent’
and ‘the rat’, and if so then those
folks must not have either a telephone or a computer in their home for if they
did have at least these two modern electronic devices – then they too would know just how TERRIBLE FRONTIER
COMMUNICATIONS is within Pocahontas County! While ‘Reta
The Rat’ was warming her derrière
on the Pocahontas County commission she saw fit to give Frontier Communications a ten-year MONOPOLY over all communications
within this county and the service we receive for the
costs we pay is just plain HORRIBLE & CORRUPT! First of all each household with a
landline-telephone on the wall or an end-table is paying TWICE THE MONTHLY RATE
as paid in other counties! WHY? Because we have such a small population, Frontier claims it has to double our
costs – in spite of the hundreds-of-millions, near BILLION, it has received in federal grant money! And second, since
we don’t have CELL PHONE or BROADBAND service here in this county – the
INSULT TO INJURY IS FOUR-TIMES AS BAD as the lack-of-service that Frontier does provide! Oh, but not to worry – SELF-SERVING RETA was
able to obtain the title of an ‘executive’ with Frontier and receives a yearly
salary of at least SEVEN-TIMES that of the average MINIMUM WAGE WORKER at SNOWSHOE
or SILVER CREEK!
On 14 January 2015, the State
Senators will make their final choice for Senate Clerk, and if Clark Barnes is
not selected, then we may never know who the various county Republican Party
committees actually chose – but IF Clark is chosen – then LET US ALL HOPE &
PRAY THAT IT AIN’T ‘RETA THE SELF-SERVING
RAT’ who will replace him in the State Senate! It would only be a short matter of time before she once again
placed her SELF-INTEREST BEFORE THE COMMON GOOD OF ALL THE PEOPLE! We can only hope that the rumor
circulating within Randolph County is that they NEVER want to see anyone from
Pocahontas County elected over them ever again since they had their full &
then some with the likes of Walt Helmick!
For that matter, many of us here in Pocahontas County
can agree with them – one Helmick is enough for three-life-times & then
some!
Meanwhile, in the U.S. Congress
the Republican Party is paying back its DEBT to the KOCH BROTHERS by passing
the dreaded Keystone XL-Pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico in Texas that is set to pump the DIRTIEST OF ALL OIL SLUG across the
whole of America and poses the GREATEST THREAT to the ENVIRONMENT ever to face
this county! With a little
prayer, maybe, just maybe Obama will VETO this insane idea that will benefit
only the Koch Brothers to the tune of $100-BILLION each! The Koch Brothers
paid $4-BILLION to finance EVERY REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN for Congress,
that’s both those for the House of Representatives and those for the U.S.
Senate!
It is the
first time in U.S.
History that one corporation was able to BUY UP THE ENTIRE CONGRESS IN ONE
ELECTION!
Now we all will be forced to sit
back and watch just how BAD things will become as the ‘new-Kleptocracy’ takes
over!
The last time we had a Congress
this CORRUPT was following the War of Northern Aggression, aka, War Between the
States, and the so-called ‘Reconstruction Era’ in which Northern Carpetbaggers and Southern Scalawags joined together to rape,
pillage & plunder the remaining resources of the Confederate States of
America! It took another 12 – 15 years
of Guerrilla-Warfare to drive the Yankee
Blue-bellies out of the Confederate States – and where did the Yankee Blue-bellies go then? They went to the American Plains and began
the Extermination of the Native American Indian Tribes to steal the Land &
Natural Resources of the Indians! And
ever since that has been accomplished – the Yankee
Blue-bellies have been at war in one foreign nation after another again
stealing as much Natural Resources as possible!
BUT HEY – it all starts here locally with folks the likes of ‘Reta the Rat’ always wanting to put HERSELF BEFORE THE GREATER GOOD of
all the rest! Ah, but we
have the Promise of Our Common Creator that…
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER…EVERYONE
WILL REAP WHAT THEY HAVE SOWN…
& then some!
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