Wednesday, November 9, 2016

HALLELUYAH! THANK YOU YaHoVaH OUR CREATOR FOR THE NATIONAL VICTORY!



(#146) 10 November 2016, Vol.3, No.33 > HALLELUYAH!  THANK YOU YaHoVaH OUR CREATOR FOR THE NATIONAL VICTORY!

 

Welcome to Pocahontas County
 – the Rain Forest of America –
A place where Rainbows end!

The POCAHONTAS CRIER
‘When the Righteous succeed the people rejoice,
But when the bad govern, men groan!’ – Proverbs 29:2

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HALLELUYAH!  THANK YOU YaHoVaH Our Creator for the National VICTORY!

The results of yesterday’s General Election is truly an ANSWER TO PRAYER for those that know & believe in a CREATOR and His control of His creation – and for those that don’t believe in a Creator or The Messiah – well don’t worry about it, you may never be ‘called’ to be a ‘Christian’ or ‘called’ to be a part of the Kingdom of YaHoVaH and his promise of Eternal Life! 

According to Exodus 20, YaHoVaH Our Creator gave us The Ten Commandments to govern ourselves and our nation.  The First Four Commandments deal with our personal relationship with Our Creator, and the Last Six Commandments deal with our relationship with our fellowmen!  Every known society on the face of this earth have been given these same Ten Commandments as the basis of their society – even Communist countries that claim not to believe in any higher authority than their respective government follows the Last Six of  The Ten Commandments in order to have an orderly society and avoid theft, murder, rape, etc.!

At Mount Sinai upon leaving Egypt, Our Forefathers gathered together all the people in Exodus 19: 7 - 9, to wit: 

          “So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the
          People and set before them all the words YaHoVaH had
Commanded him to speak.  The people all responded together, ‘WE WILL DO EVERYTHING YaHoVaH HAS SAID.’  So Moses brought their answer back to YaHoVaH.

YaHoVaH said to Moses, ‘I am going to come to you in a
Dense cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with
you and will always put their trust in you.’  Then Moses told
YaHoVaH what the people had said.”  [NIV]

The Covenant was confirmed again in Exodus 24: 3 – 4, whereupon Moses presented the Ten Commandments, The Judgments, The Statutes, and The Sacrificial Ritual Ordinances to the people coming directly from YaHoVaH their Creator.  Then Moses took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people whereupon the people again said, “WE WILL DO EVERYTHING YaHoVaH HAS SAID, WE WILL OBEY.”

[NOTE:  Throughout the original Biblical texts, the Name of Our Creator appears over 7200 times as YHVH, which is pronounced in Hebrew as YaHweH, in English as YaHoVaH, in French as YaHVaH, and in German as YaHüVaH. Throughout these Notes, YHVH or YaHoVaH is used for clarification.  The meaning of YaH = The Ever-coming; HoV = The Ever-present; and VaH = The Eternal Past.

In the Old Testament, God = Elohiym = YHVH; or God = Creator as in “The Lord God Almighty” = YaHoVaH the Creator Almighty.  In the KJV “The LORD” = YHVH.  In the New Testament, God = YHVH and “the Lord” = Master as in “The Lord Jesus Christ” = The Master Jesus the Messiah / Anointed One / Redeemer.  Jesus The Messiah = YaHoVaHshua (or YaHshua) = Jesus The Ever-Coming, The Ever-Present, The Eternal Past – Redeemer!]

NOW what most folks have never been taught, and do not know these days, is that in the Bible, THE DIVINE LAW is applied 71% of the time to GOVERNMENT for Righteousness Sake to have a balanced society as peaceful & prosperous as possible, and 29% of the time for PERSONAL REDEMPTION!  That’s why you have heard VICE-PRESIDENT-ELECT MICHAEL PENCE oftentimes  repeat 2 Chronicles 7:14, as follows:

“If My People, which are called by My Name (i.e.,   Christians), shall humble themselves (not humble
the Enemy), and seek My Face (My Law & My Will),
and turn from their wicked ways (turn from their
disobedience to My Laws); then (after they do all that) will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin (transgression of My Law), and WILL HEAL THEIR LAND.”

‘Sin’ = ‘the transgression of the Law’ (1 John 3:4).  To quit our transgressions, America must turn and obey THE DIVINE LAWS = The Ten Commandments, The Judgments, & The Statutes; knowing that The Sacrificial Ritual Ordinances were nailed to the Cross as Our Savior paid the price for all our transgressions as the final sacrifice!

The Divine Laws comprise about 600 laws that became the COMMON LAWS of the European Nations and those of early America.  In 1963 the Common Laws were Codified into the Criminal Code and into the Civil Code by which we now call ourselves ‘A Nation of Laws’ to provide Equity & Justice for All!

When considering the recent election, it became clear FROM THE EXPOSURES that unfolded that Hillary & Bill Clinton represented the WORSE sort of persons to ever represent or lead this nation pursuant to all the corruption, theft, and lies told on a continuing and pathological basis to the point that no one knew when Hillary was lying or not lying from the many deceptions she portrayed endlessly!  Then came all the exposures regarding her SELLING HER POLITICAL POSITION for MONEY to Lobbyists, Foreign Powers and Special Interests to the tune of HUNDREDS-OF-MILLIONS of dollars and then using those funds  to live, travel and wheel & deal, etc.  Remember Genesis 19, the story of Sodom & Gomorrah whereby Our Creator agreed with Abraham’s brother, Lot, that for the sake of Ten Righteous persons, YaHoVaH would not destroy Sodom!

Well, when anyone looks at MICHAEL PENCE & his family and other Righteous persons within Trump’s cadre, and you see folks like Dr. Ben Carson, etc. – then you can begin to grasp that for the sake of these Righteous People – YaHoVaH not only heard their prayers of those called by His Name, but He honored them as well!  Over 82% of those calling themselves ‘Christians’ voted for Donald J. Trump & Michael Pence!  Does not the Apostle Paul tell us in Romans 10: 9 – 11, that: 

          “The word is near you, it is in your mouth and in
          your heart (i.e., innermost feelings), that is the word
          of Faith we are proclaiming.  Thus if you confess with
          your mouth, ‘YaHshua (Jesus) is  Master’, and believe
          in your heart that YaHoVaH raised him from the dead,
          you will be Saved.  For it is with your heart that you
          believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that
          you confess and are saved.  As the Scripture says,
          ‘Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”
          [NIV].

Simply put, no one can claim to be a Christian if they cannot confess that YaHshua (Jesus) is the Son of YaHoVaH Our Creator and was raised from the dead!  Thus folks are either ‘called’ or they are not!

A lady reporter for Fox News, along with her cameraman, walked down a dirt road near midnight to attend the last campaign rally being held by Donald J. Trump in which over 15,000 people were attending.  She saw thousands of people walking silently towards the open-field location and many of them had their children of all ages walking silently with them.  When the lady-reporter began to make inquiries to the parents of these children, the reporter asked, “Excuse me, but why did you bring your children to such a late-night rally?”  To which the parents repeated, time and again, no matter who she asked, “Because we wanted our children to SEE THE MAN, DONALD J. TRUMP, and share the moment with them since it will be their generation that will mostly be affected by what his presidency will mean to their lives in the future and to their country!”

This was NOT ONLY AN ELECTION – IT WAS A ‘MOVEMENT’ OF HONEST PEOPLE TAKING BACK THEIR COUNTRY IN A PEACEFUL AND ORDERLY FASHION SO AS TO KEEP THEIR FIREARMS FOR ANOTHER DAY…IF OR WHEN NECESSARY!

MAY YaHoVaH BLESS & KEEP DONALD J. TRUMP AND MICHAEL PENCE SAFE & SOUND SO THEY CAN CARRY OUT THE BUSINESS OF MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
  
For the record, the MOUNTAINEERS of WEST VIRGINIA was the First State declared by the corporate-media to declare for Trump & Pence, and along with the Sooners of Oklahoma,  West Virginia and Oklahoma became the only States in which EVERY COUNTY WAS WON BY TRUMP & PENCE.  While Wyoming gave Trump & Pence 70% of their vote, West Virginia was second highest in the nation with 69% of the total vote! 
HALLELUYAH INDEED!

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“All must admit that the reception of the teachings of the Christ (i.e., the Messiah) results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity of public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.” – President Grover Cleveland

“The reason that Christianity is the best friend of Government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart (i.e., innermost feelings).” – President Thomas Jefferson

YOU ARE NEVER WRONG…IF YOU
DO THE RIGHT THING!  Mark Twain

ONE WAY OR ANOTHER…WE ALL REAP WHAT WE HAVE SOWN…& then some!



CONFEDERATE AMERICAN PRIDE: Confederate Clip Art

“The Gray Riders are now gone, yet they remain asleep in our
 soil, and alive in our veins.  Untouched by fire, untouched by frost, they whisper within us: ‘OUR CAUSE IS NOT LOST!’”

♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦

The Pocahontas Crier is an independent, free, non-subscription, Internet News Service providing in depth reporting on important issues directly affecting the Citizens
of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, and meant for entertainment in the true ‘muckraking’ & ‘iconoclast’ tradition of questioning authority, challenging corruption, exposing impropriety and the appearance of impropriety, and offering Common Sense Alternatives for
THE GREATER COMMON GOOD BEFORE SELF…
or any Special Interests! 
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

RECOMMENDED CANDIDATES TO ELECT + 'NO' TO BALLOT ISSUES!



(#145)  01 November 2016, Vol.3, No.32 > RECOMMENDED CANDIDATES TO ELECT + ‘NO’ TO BALLOT ISSUES!

 

Welcome to Pocahontas County
 – the Rain Forest of America –
A place where Rainbows end!

The POCAHONTAS CRIER
‘When the Righteous succeed the people rejoice,
But when the bad govern, men groan!’ – Proverbs 29:2

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RECOMMENDED CANDIDATES TO ELECT + ‘NO’ TO BALLOT ISSUES!
As the very long & drawn out 2016 Election Cycle draws to a close – it has perhaps been THE MOST CONTENTIOUS election in our lifetime or history so far since an estimated 95% of the CORPORATE MEDIA allied with the CORRUPT SPECIAL INTERESTS who are the major stockholders of the corporate media and MIC (Military Industrial Complex) that have aligned themselves AGAINST Donald J. Trump who has stood against them!  The CORRUPT CARTEL has favored one of their own, Hillary Rodham Clinton who is estimated to be the MOST CORRUPT PERSON to ever run for president of this country!  It’s been absolutely amazing to see the Clintons enmeshed in four-decades of total corruption to enrich themselves while in public office by SELLING POLITICAL FAVORS FOR MONEY THAT THEY PUT DIRECTLY INTO THEIR POCKETS!  

Meanwhile DONALD J. TRUMP who became a BILLIONAIRE from building some of the most beautiful buildings & skyscrapers seen around the entire world has continued to FUND HIS OWN CAMPAIGN from the beginning unto the end of this election cycle!  Not only will Trump go down in the history books as a POLITICAL PHENOMENA, but he will also go down in history as the ONLY CANDIDATE IN AMERICAN HISTORY TO OPPOSE, CHALLENGE & THREATEN TO ELIMINATE ALL THE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. THAT HAVE CORRUPTED OUR PUBLIC OFFICIALS!  SHOULD TRUMP WIIN – THEN A LARGE DEGREE OF ‘RIGHTEOUSNESS’ CAN BE RESTORED TO THIS COUNTY PERHAPS RETURNING US TO A SIMILAR ERA OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS WHEN HONOR, INTEGRITY & MORALITY PREVAILED IN THE LEADERSHIP OF AMERICA!

Therefore the following recommendations are being made as follows for the national, state & county levels:

NATIONAL TICKET:

PRESIDENT & V.P.:  DONALD J. TRUMP &             MICHAEL R. PENCE – Republicans

House of Representatives: EVAN JENKINS - Republican

STATE TICKET:

Governor:  CHARLOTTE JEAN PRITT – MOUNTAIN

Secretary of State:  NATALIE TENNANT – Democrat

Auditor:  JOHN ‘JB’ McCLUSKEY – Republican

Treasurer:  JOHN D. PURDUE – Democrat

Commissioner of Agriculture:  KENT LEONHARDT –
                                                                Republican

Attorney General:  MICHAEL SHARLEY – Mountain

State Senator:  DENISE CAMPBELL – Democrat

House of Delegates (43rd District)…VOTE FOR TWO (2):     
ALAN BALOGH – Mountain
BILL HARTMAN – Democrat

COUNTY TICKET:

County Commissioner:  JAMIE WALKER – Republican

County Sheriff:  JEFF BARLOW – Republican

QUESTIONS:

BRUNCH BILL OPTION:     NO                                                                                                                           
 BOARD OF EDUCATION LEVY:  NO

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The scheme that the county Board of Education (BOE) has in mind for ALL OF US to pay them is on top of all the funds THAT THEY HAVE WASTED & POCKETED from the MILLIONS that they have been receiving from FEMA since the mid-1980s and mid-1990s when this county had floods that required the Marlinton Elementary School to be moved out of the flood plain!  But what did the BOE do with those funds?  They pocketed those funds as BONUSES & PAY-RAISES for themselves and paid Alice Irvine THREE (3) SALARIES instead of one as required by law!  Now there are nine (9) school administrators getting paid three (3) salaries EACH instead of only one as required by law! 

Has the BOE found the STILL MISSING FUNDS that Alice Irvine ‘LOST’ just before she ‘retired’?  Has the BOE requested the help of the FBI since those missing funds were FEDERAL FUNDS?  NO – yet the BOE comes hat-in-hand once again to We The Public when the overwhelming majority of County Citizens receive SS & SSD or are trying to live off MINIMUM WAGES instead of LIVING WAGES and the total increase expected from SS for 2017 will be LESS THAN $50 FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR!  Only a $4 per/month increase is promised by the Obama-regime in Washington, D.C. after providing NO INCREASE in the last FIVE (5) YEARS!  So who can afford such a BAD DEAL like the proposed BOE increase?  And when it comes to Medical Insurance – can anyone really afford the 50%+ INCREASE from private insurance companies to pay the remaining 20% after SS & SSD completes their respective obligations?  Again the answer is NO!   

By VOTING AGAINST THE LEVY, the State will have to open its coffers to make up the difference – and the BOE will have to REPAIR the LARGER SCHOOLS instead of TEARING DOWN THE LARGER SCHOOLS TO BUILD SMALLER ONES!  JUST WHO CAME UP WITH SUCH A DUMB IDEA TO DESTROY A 900 STUDENT SCHOOL BUILDING IN EXCHANGE FOR A 400 STUDENT SCHOOL?  GROW THE COUNTY POPULATION WITH COMMON SENSE IDEAS…OR JUST ASK ALICE WHERE SHE PUT THE MISSING MILLIONS!  LET THE BOE & SCHOOL-REGIME TAKE A 25% DECREASE IN THEIR PAY TO ADD TO THE FUNDS AVAILABL TO REPAIR WHAT WE HAVE INSTEAD OF TRYING TO FLEECE THE PUBLIC ONCE AGAIN FOR SOMETHING WE DO NOT NEED AT THIS POINT IN TIME!

The trouble with our county government is that the Magistrate Court along with the Office of the Sheriff has funded itself with FRIVOLOUS LAW SUITS against local Folks in perhaps the poorest county in the State – all the while that the THREE STOOGES on the County Commission give away funds that NONE OF US CAN AFFORD TO SEE THEM GIVE AWAY!  And now the BOE wants us to give them FUNDS WE DO NOT HAVE just because they pocketed all the funds given to them in the last TWO DECADES! 

And just look at the horrible choices for County Commissioner – it’s either reelect one of the current THREE STOOGES – or elect a profiteer who wants to enrich himself & his local cronies by IMPLEMENTING ZONING so his business can install roofs, windows, insulation, and floors, etc. – ON YOUR HOME –  AT YOUR EXPENSE – to make himself RICH AT THE EXPENSE OF THE REST OF US…JUST LIKE HIS FATHER WANTED TO DO SEVERAL MOONS AGO!  

The county belongs to us just like the country belongs to us – so just say NO to the profiteers & Special Interests who wish to keep on fleecing WE THE PEOPLE!
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“All must admit that the reception of the teachings of the Christ (i.e., the Messiah) results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity of public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.” – President Grover Cleveland

“The reason that Christianity is the best friend of Government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart (i.e., innermost feelings).” – President Thomas Jefferson

YOU ARE NEVER WRONG…IF YOU
DO THE RIGHT THING!  Mark Twain


ONE WAY OR ANOTHER…WE ALL REAP WHAT WE HAVE SOWN…& then some!

CONFEDERATE AMERICAN PRIDE: Confederate Clip Art

“The Gray Riders are now gone, yet they remain asleep in our
 soil, and alive in our veins.  Untouched by fire, untouched by frost, they whisper within us: ‘OUR CAUSE IS NOT LOST!’”

♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦

The Pocahontas Crier is an independent, free, non-subscription, Internet News Service providing in depth reporting on important issues directly affecting the Citizens
of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, and meant for entertainment in the true ‘muckraking’ & ‘iconoclast’ tradition of questioning authority, challenging corruption, exposing impropriety and the appearance of impropriety, and offering Common Sense Alternatives for
THE GREATER COMMON GOOD BEFORE SELF…
or any Special Interests! 
We fight for Social Justice on all fronts and are an integral part of The Crier Coalition of Internet News Services comprised of  The Pocahontas Commentator, The Pocahontas Crier,
Signal Fires of WV, & Rolling Thunder in association with Echoes from the Holl’r.  

Email comments & suggestions to:  

Thursday, October 27, 2016

MOUNTAIN PARTY ALTERNATIVE!



(#144)  27 October 2016, Vol.3, No.31 > MOUNTAIN PARTY ALTERNATIVE! 

 

Welcome to Pocahontas County
 – the Rain Forest of America –
A place where Rainbows end!

The POCAHONTAS CRIER
‘When the Righteous succeed the people rejoice,
But when the bad govern, men groan!’ – Proverbs 29:2

You are visiting < https://crier88.blogspot.com >

MOUNTAIN PARTY ALTERNATIVE
IN WEST VIRGINIA!
While DONALD J. TRUMP & MICHAEL PENCE are trying to DRAIN THE SWAMP OF CORRUPTION in Washington, D.C., we folks here in West Virginia have a similar dilemma faced with two candidates for governor that are not very popular due to their indiscretions, forked-tongues, and special interests that have corrupted the politics in Charleston and around the state!  And as most folks are aware, the WORST OF ALL CHOICES for Governor is JIM JUSTICE, running as a Democrat who owes TENS-OF-MILLIONS of dollars to fellow West Virginians as well as the Citizens & States within the Appalachian Region!  Just as Hillary Clinton has earned the title of CROOKED-HILLARY nationwide for her corrupt practices as Senator of New York & Secretary of State internationally as well as selling her political position for money & political favors, ad nauseam, well so has Jim Justice done the same as a coal-producer & coal-operator here in West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and elsewhere throughout the Appalachian States!

When the recent flood that hit Greenbrier County and specifically White Sulphur this past summer, Jim Justice tried to present himself as a self-styled ‘hero’ by claiming to offer his Greenbrier Hotel as a refuge for victims of the flood – when the reality of the situation was that ONLY TWELVE  (12) flood victims were allowed to stay at the Greenbrier Inn before being ‘kicked-out’ on the Fourth of July!  Meanwhile Justice claimed a huge tax-deduction for allegedly helping victims of the White Sulphur Flood!  CROOKED-JIM is as bad as they come…& then some!

Meanwhile, a TRUE TO THE HEART FRIEND OF HER FELLOW CITIZENS IS CHARLOTTE PRIT, CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR ON THE MOUNTAIN PARTY TICKET!

CHARLOTTE JEAN PRITT
FOR GO VERNOR
 


HERE IS THE PLATFORM FOR WHICH SHE STANDS…

The MOUNTAIN PARTY PLATFORM

OVERVIEW:
The West Virginia Mountain Party seeks to implement policies that will ensure West Virginia prosperity for at least seven generations.  Our activities are based on the assumption that a worthwhile West Virginia future depends on sound democratic processes, economic fairness, corporate accountability and on improving our infrastructure and environmental health.

• GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY – We are working to increase public participation at every level of government and to ensure that our public representatives are fully accountable to the people who elect them. We also work to create new types of political organizations which expand participatory democracy by directly including citizens in the decision-making process.

• SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY – We strive to consciously confront in ourselves, our organizations, and society at large, barriers such as racism and class oppression, sexism and homophobia, ageism and dis-ability, all of which act to deny fair treatment and equal justice under the law.

• ECOLOGICAL WISDOM – Because we are part of, not separate from, nature, we must live within the ecological and resource limits of our communities and planet so that future generations will benefit–not suffer from–the practices of our generation. To this end, we must practice agriculture which replenishes the soil; move to an energy efficient economy; and live in ways that respect the integrity of natural systems.

• NON-VIOLENCE – Believing it is essential that we develop effective alternatives to society’s current use of violence we are working to demilitarize, and to eliminate weapons of mass destruction, without being naive about the intentions of other governments. We recognize the need for self-defense and the defense of others who are in helpless situations. Promoting non-violent methods to oppose practices and policies with which we disagree, we will guide our actions toward lasting personal, community, and global peace.

THE MOUNTAIN PARTY SEEKS:

1. Protection of our air, water and land by promoting policies which encourage environmentally sound energy, agricultural and economic development; a halt to mountaintop removal coal mining in order to preserve precious forests and water supplies; timber regulation that reduces flooding, erosion and wildfires by eliminating clear-cutting and the destruction of old growth forests; full enforcement of current environmental protection laws, including the effective prohibition of toxic waste dumping, and the phasing out of ecologically destructive energy production while promoting renewable sources; Protection of the environment from the harm caused, or potentially caused, by exemptions from environmental protection regulations, through the lawful establishment of the plenary right for county commissions and municipal boards to individually draft, pass and require enforcement of, ordinances protecting all individuals from hazards and/or nuisances either caused, or which may potentially be caused, by corporations and individuals holding state permits under such regulatory exemption schemes, either directly or indirectly; A ban on horizontal hydro-fracking to protect the health, safety and well-being of all.

2. Promotion of political justice through election law reform including: an independent, nonpartisan election commission; full public financing of elections; free media air time and access to debates by all qualified candidates; accurate and verifiable voter rolls; enhanced voter access, and same day registration; verifiable paper trail ballots; instant runoff, and other progressive voting systems.

3. Progress toward corporate accountability through enforcing laws governing corporate crime and violence; holding executives directly liable for harm resulting from their decisions; requiring corporations to pay their fair share of taxes and be responsible neighbors; and challenging corporate person-hood.

4. Promotion of economic justice through small and community-based business organizations and activities; a living wage for all West Virginia workers; and the freedom to form unions and engage in collective bargaining.

5. Promotion of appropriate educational opportunities including small, community -based public schools with enforced time limits on busing; a realignment of state budgetary priorities to ensure that all citizens attain an educational level that will allow democracy to flourish; and provision of a civic education that encourages active participation in the democratic process that goes beyond voting.

6. Promotion of healthy lifestyles in order to decrease medical expenditures for preventable disease along with enactment of universal health care including medical, dental and prescription benefits as a right; promotion of patients’ rights and strictly enforcing rules that ensure West Virginia’s environment is protective of health.

7. Promotion of true democratic principles in government through dismantlement of oppressive political machines and replacement with politics based on citizen’s direction; reversing the privatization of government; proportional representation in the state legislature; and transparency and sunshine laws for all government functions.

8. Promotion of a progressive tax code including elimination of the sales tax on clothing and food; tax relief for small businesses and elimination of corporate welfare; and fair assessments of mineral and other natural resource holdings.

9. Mandating citizen referendums on any gambling initiatives in the state.

10. Promotion of Fair Trade, not Free Trade through opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Free Trade Area of the Americas Treaty (FTAA), World Trade Organization treaties (WTO), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and any future global trade treaties that threaten to override state and US sovereign laws with the use of secret tribunals.

*The 2016 Platform also includes the following Planks, which were ratified at this year’s convention.  However, they have not been refined by their primary movants for the purpose of smooth incorporation into the body of the Official Platform.

2016 SOCIAL JUSTICE PLANKS:

The Mountain Party endorses full equality rights for lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, trans, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) individuals. Full equality extends protections for LGBTQ individuals: against discrimination in the workplace, public accommodations, and housing; in adoption rights; protections from hate crimes; and for putting an end to school bullying.

ADDRESSING INCOME INEQUALITY AND LACK OF OPPORTUNITY:

In response to the rampant poverty and lack of opportunity we face in West Virginia, we seek:

A raise in, and the removal of exemptions for, the severance tax on all fossil fuels extracted, as well as on all natural gas traveling through pipelines in the state; an immediate $15 minimum wage pegged to the consumer price index; a public bank to fund public works projects, infrastructure improvements, and sustainable, cooperative industry, in order to put West Virginians back to work; a Universal Basic Income for all those unable to find a job or who face disability.

ADDRESSING EDUCATION IN WEST VIRGINIA:

Recognizing the “brain drain” and the strained, under-funded education system in West Virginia, we call for:

Full and complete funding of public education, from pre-school through post-secondary education; recognition of both university and trades-based education as integral to our state’s future; the democratization and control of our state’s schools by the teachers that work them, through empowering rank-and file members of teachers’ unions; and a limit to all classroom sizes.

2016 ECONOMIC JUSTICE PLANKS

THE MOUNTAIN PARTY OF WEST VIRGINIA condemns the repeal of Prevailing Wage regulations in West Virginia, and urges reenactment of this legislation by the 83rd or subsequent WV legislatures.

THE MOUNTAIN PARTY OF WEST VIRGINIA condemns the enactment of the 82nd WV Senate Bill 1, THE WORKPLACE FREEDOM ACT, and demands the repeal of this legislation by the 83rd or subsequent WV legislatures. We further endorse efforts to reform NLRB regulations to allow “card check’ voting in union representation elections under NLRB regulations.

THE MOUNTAIN PARTY OF WEST VIRGINIA calls for meaningful collective bargaining by public employees for wages, benefits and working conditions which affect them.

Further, THE MOUNTAIN PARTY OF WEST VIRGINIA affirms the rights of public employees in West Virginia to engage in peaceful job actions, including peaceful strikes and labor interruptions.
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OTHER MOUNTAIN PARTY CANDIDATES TO VOTE FOR:
  • MICHAEL SHARLEY – WV Attorney General (Morgantown)

  • ALAN BALOGH – WV House of Delegates – District 43 (Hillsboro)
ALAN BALOGH has been a long time activist for placing THE COMMON GOOD BEFORE SELF OR ANY SPECIAL INTEREST & for placing AMERICA FIRST in both national and state politics.  Alan was a candidate in 2002 & 2004 under the WEST VIRGINIA REFORM PARTY as well as serving as a member of the National Committee of the Reform Party USA representing West Virginia.  Because of his popularity, when Alan attended the 2016 State Convention of the Mountain Party, as an observer, the leadership of the Mountain Party asked Alan to join their efforts and run for public office in the House of Delegates.  By doing so, Alan now faces long-time Democrat Bill Hartman & Elkins attorney Phil Isner.

For those that know attorney Phil Isner, he requires from $3000 - $5000 or more to take on any given case.  In one such case known to The Pocahontas Crier, Isner charged over $800 to come to Marlinton the first time, then over $700 for a second hearing, and then over $600 for the third hearing – taken together @ $50 - $150 per/phone call, it does not take very long before Isner asks for another $3000 - $5000 as a ‘retainer’!   Win or loose, attorneys like Isner make a living fleecing their clients & then some!  One can only wonder how much fleecing the public will receive with Isner in the House of Delegates!

Meanwhile, ALAN BALOGH would give a person the shirt off his back were he to fine someone in need!  The difference in a person’s CODE OF HONOR may make all the difference in the world were we to have MEN & WOMEN OF CHARACTER IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE!  THEREFORE…

VOTE FOR ALAN BALOGH FOR HOUSE OF DELEGATES TO REPRESENT THIS DISTRICT!
                                                                 
Nationally…AS A SAFE ALTERNATIVE…JUST…

VOTE TRUMP & PENCE and…

LET’S MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Statewide…VOTE:

CHARLOTTE JEAN PRITT FOR GOVERNOR!

Locally…VOTE:

ALAN BALOGH FOR
HOUSE OF DELEGATES!
 

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“All must admit that the reception of the teachings of the Christ (i.e., the Messiah) results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity of public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.” – President Grover Cleveland

“The reason that Christianity is the best friend of Government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart (i.e., innermost feelings).” – President Thomas Jefferson

YOU ARE NEVER WRONG…IF YOU
DO THE RIGHT THING!  Mark Twain


ONE WAY OR ANOTHER…WE ALL REAP WHAT WE HAVE SOWN…& then some!

CONFEDERATE AMERICAN PRIDE: Confederate Clip Art

“The Gray Riders are now gone, yet they remain asleep in our
 soil, and alive in our veins.  Untouched by fire, untouched by frost, they whisper within us: ‘OUR CAUSE IS NOT LOST!’”

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The Pocahontas Crier is an independent, free, non-subscription, Internet News Service providing in depth reporting on important issues directly affecting the Citizens
of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, and meant for entertainment in the true ‘muckraking’ & ‘iconoclast’ tradition of questioning authority, challenging corruption, exposing impropriety and the appearance of impropriety, and offering Common Sense Alternatives for
THE GREATER COMMON GOOD BEFORE SELF…
or any Special Interests! 
We fight for Social Justice on all fronts and are an integral part of The Crier Coalition of Internet News Services comprised of  The Pocahontas Commentator, The Pocahontas Crier,
Signal Fires of WV, & Rolling Thunder in association with Echoes from the Holl’r.  

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