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Ashamed of God's Name

Brenda Curry Davis Boothe

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Oh my goodness! You have got to read this. I was at the event and I witnessed this. I heard Ms. Grimes presentation. I just went back and read the June 4th edition of the Pocahontas Times and Linda SImmons of the Pocahontas Times did omit the words "God"and "Christ" and changed it to "spiritual being". You know in my own naive little world I always thought that Pocahontas County was a pretty decent county and unlike other places, people were were true to character and integrity was a priority but after hearing about the issues at the Board of Education and now the Chamber of Commerce and the Pocahontas Times, I realize that this is not so. Welcome to Pocahontas County the Real World!!! Very disappointed!! SHAME ON YOU POCAHONTAS TIMES AND LINDA SIMMONS!!!!!! frown emoticon.

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The Tulip Queen Speaks Out About Marlinton

We've Come a Long Way Since the Boston Tea Party

Residents Speak Out Against Bridgeport Fire Fee

Posted: Aug 24, 2012 5:37 PM EDTUpdated: Sep 07, 2012 5:37 PM EDT

By Stacy Jacobson, Gilmer, Harrison and Lewis County Reporter

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Linda Smith has lived in her Harrison County home, near the Marion and Taylor County lines, for more than 40 years. Smith said her husband helped open the Boothsville Volunteer Fire Department right up the road. But now, she owes the city of Bridgeport $157, supposedly for its fire service.

"We had no idea it was coming," Smith said.

Smith isn't a Bridgeport citizen. That's part of why she doesn't want to pay the fee, she said.

Bridgeport officials said they could charge anyone in their fire department's first due response area. The county commission sided with Smith and other county residents.

"We do not believe it is appropriate for any governmental body to tax people who cannot vote for them," Commissioner Mike Romano said.

From Smith's front yard, the Bridgeport fire department is about eight miles away, while the Boothsville fire department is about two miles away. Smith said Boothsville firefighters never had trouble responding in a timely manner.

"There was a fire right up the holler here. A gentleman lost his business, house and shirt off his back. Boothsville gave him more assistance than Bridgeport did," Smith said.

The group of residents will wait to let the court decide. In November, Judge Thomas Bedell will hear a suit brought by one of the residents in Harrison County circuit court. For now, Smith will keep her checkbook closed.

"I don't feel that I owe it," she said.

No Taxation Without Representation II

Lewisburg trying to pass fire fee onto rural district

Posted: Apr 22, 2015 6:41 PM EDT

By Lindsay Oliver, WVVA Multimedia Journalist

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Map of Lewisburg fire district

LEWISBURG (WVVA) -

Lewisburg's city limits are four square miles, however the total fire district is 67 square miles. At Tuesday night's meeting, city council heard the first reading of an ordinance that would force the people outside the city within that district to start paying in.

"We receive nominal donations from people in the outlying areas, however within the four square miles within the city of Lewisburg, they're paying probably about 99.5% of the entire bill for the 67 square mile fire district," explains Fire Chief Wayne Pennington.

But those outlying people may soon have to start paying up under the proposed ordinance.

Mayor John Manchester says the city of Lewisburg has been looking at different options for how to fund the department for years. After a similar ordinance was upheld in the West Virginia Supreme Court, they decided this was their best option.

"It's very unusual for municipalities to establish rules that affect people who do not live in those corporate limits," admitted Manchester. "In this case, it's totally related to the providing of services of people who live outside there to make them pay their fair share."

Pennington says it will affect, "parts of Maxwelton, Caldwell, west of town on Route 60 out to Raders Valley Road."

Residential rates vary from $120 to $144 per year. Businesses would pay $0.14 per square foot.

Pennington says the monies generated will help a lot. "It will be about $370,000. That money will be utilized to maintain the equipment we have, aid in capitol outlay projects such as construction of a new station one." And over a few years, go from three paid firefighters to six.

Pennington says over the past few years, the fire department has helped the insurance rates go down a lot. He says they are just asking for a portion of the savings back so that rates could continue to decrease rather than revert back.

The next step is a public hearing, which will take place at the next city council meeting on May 19 at 7:30 p.m. From there the ordinance may be amended, rejected or passed on to the third and final reading.

The city council will have the final say on whether it passes.

Regarding Removal from Office of a School Board Member

§6-6-7. Procedure for removal of county, school district and municipal officers having fixed terms; appeal; grounds.
(a) Any person holding any county, school district or municipal office, including the office of a member of a board of education and the office of magistrate, the term or tenure of which office is fixed by law, whether the office be elective or appointive, except judges of the circuit courts, may be removed from such office in the manner provided in this section for official misconduct, malfeasance in office, incompetence, neglect of duty or gross immorality or for any of the causes or on any of the grounds provided by any other statute.

(b) Charges may be preferred:

(1) In the case of any county officer, member of a district board of education or magistrate, by the county commission, or other tribunal in lieu thereof, any other officer of the county, or by any number of persons other than such county officers, which number shall be the lesser of fifty or one percent of the total number of voters of the county participating in the general election next preceding the filing of such charges.

(2) In the case of any municipal officer, by the prosecuting attorney of the county wherein such municipality, or the greater portion thereof, is located, any other elected officer of the municipality, or by any number of persons other than the prosecuting attorney or other municipal elective officer of the municipality who are residents of the municipality, which number shall be the lesser of twenty-five or one percent of the total number of voters of the municipality participating in the election at which the governing body was chosen which election next preceded the filing of the petition.

(3) By the chief inspector and supervisor of public offices of the state where the person sought to be removed is entrusted by law with the collection, custody and expenditure of public moneys because of any misapplication, misappropriation or embezzlement of such moneys.

(c) The charges shall be reduced to writing in the form of a petition duly verified by at least one of the persons bringing the same, and shall be entered of record by the court, or the judge thereof in vacation, and a summons shall thereupon be issued by the clerk of such court, together with a copy of the petition, requiring the officer or person named therein to appear before the court, at the courthouse of the county where such officer resides, and answer the charges on a day to be named therein, which summons shall be served at least twenty days before the return day thereof in the manner by which a summons commencing a civil suit may be served.

The court, or judge thereof in vacation, or in the case of any multi-judge circuit, the chief judge thereof, shall, without delay forward a copy of the petition to the supreme court of appeals and shall ask for the impaneling or convening of a three-judge court consisting of three circuit judges of the state. The chief justice of the supreme court of appeals shall without delay designate and appoint three circuit judges within the state, not more than one of whom shall be from the same circuit in which the petition is filed and, in the order of such appointment, shall designate the date, time and place for the convening of such three-judge court, which date and time shall not be less than twenty days from the date of the filing of the petition.

Such three-judge court shall, without a jury, hear the charges and all evidence offered in support thereof or in opposition thereto and upon satisfactory proof of the charges shall remove any such officer or person from office and place the records, papers and property of his office in the possession of some other officer or person for safekeeping or in the possession of the person appointed as hereinafter provided to fill the office temporarily. Any final order either removing or refusing to remove any such person from office shall contain such findings of fact and conclusions of law as the three-judge court shall deem sufficient to support its decision of all issues presented to it in the matter.

(d) An appeal from an order of such three-judge court removing or refusing to remove any person from office pursuant to this section may be taken to the supreme court of appeals within thirty days from the date of entry of the order from which the appeal is taken. The supreme court of appeals shall consider and decide the appeal upon the original papers and documents, without requiring the same to be printed and shall enforce its findings by proper writ. From the date of any order of the three-judge court removing an officer under this section until the expiration of thirty days thereafter, and, if an appeal be taken, until the date of suspension of such order, if suspended by the three-judge court and if not suspended, until the final adjudication of the matter by the supreme court of appeals, the officer, commission or body having power to fill a vacancy in such office may fill the same by a temporary appointment until a final decision of the matter, and when a final decision is made by the supreme court of appeals shall fill the vacancy in the manner provided by law for such office.

Checked today with the county clerk's office:

5,342 registered voters

2,596 voted in the last election

Somebody Has a Problem with the Truth

I am including a copy of the Pocahontas Times written by the editor,  a person in whom I have a high degree of confidence. In her news article, she quotes the Fire Chief as saying that:  "He changed his opinion from his written opinion."

Mayor Joe Smith says in that article that the town attorney,  Steve Hunter had rendered an opinion on expansion of the town's fire fee to all of the Marlinton Fire Department's firs response area."

Jaynell says that "He [Hunter] changed his opinion from his written opinion.

This morning I went on a paper chase, talked to Joe Smith and asked for copies of Hunter's written opinion.  Joe said that there was no paper work and that it was all verbal.  Jaynell headlines her article,  "Frustration simmers on both sides of the proposed fire fee."  Could it be that Joe Smith, the major has no idea what is going on with the fire fee or that the editor of the Pocahontas Times misquoted the fire chief.  

SOUNDS LIKE A CORRECTION MAY BE DUE.

Is it any wonder that the Town of Marlinton is going to hell in a handbasket when they have leaders who can't tell the truth.  Now I don't know who is lying, but I'm betting that it is not Jaynell Graham.

Joe needs your vote tomorrow to push the town on over the ledge.

The First President to...

First President to be photographed smoking a joint.

First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.

First President to violate the War Powers Act.

First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

First President to spend a trillion dollars on “shovel-ready” jobs when there was no such thing as “shovel-ready” jobs.

First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.

First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.

First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.

First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.

First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.

First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.

First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.

First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).

First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.

First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.

First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.

First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.

First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

First President to go on multiple “global apology tours” and concurrent “insult our friends” tours.

First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.

First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.

First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.

First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.

First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).

First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences.”

Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.

It’s hard to comprehend all this guy has gotten away with. Any other president would have been impeached! What in God’s name is wrong with our government that they allow this guy carte blanch? It absolutely boggles the mind!\

Read more at http://patriotnewswire.com/2015/02/stop-bashing-because-heres-a-list-of-obamas-accomplishments-haters/

Old Folks

Taxation Without Representation

Editor's Note:  A couple hundred years ago the Americans would have thrown a tea party over this issue.  They believed that they had a right to vote on any tax imposed upon them--even a tax on tea.  

Now it remains to be seen if the folks who DO NOT live in Marlinton are willing to be taxed without a vote for the mayor or even one council person.  

The proposed fire fee would allow a taxation of people who cannot vote because they are not residents of the town of Marlinton.  All they get to do is pay the tax.  Therefore it is an illegal tax.

 Excerpt from the Pocahontas Times.