In a post below, I pointed out that the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals is getting sued by the Associated Press over the meaning of the Freedom of Information Act.
Basically, the Court is arguing that Chief Justice Elliott “Spike” Maynard is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, so the Court doesn’t have to produce any intelligible records about Spike to the Associated Press. At the same time, the Court is freely releasing records about Justice Larry Starcher to conservative news outlets that have apparently made identical FOIA requests.
Now, if that alone doesn’t tick you off, this should.
The Court is using our taxpaying dollars to hire five — that’s right, five — lawyers from three law firms to conceal evidence of Spike’s interaction with Don Blankenship. As a press release from the Court says:
I also want to announce today that Robert P. Fitzsimmons and Robert J. Fitzsimmons of Fitzsimmons Law Offices, Daniel J. Guida of Guida Law Offices, and Bill Wilmouth and Ancil Ramey of the law firm of Steptoe and Johnson have been selected to protect these important interests of the judiciary. Please direct any questions to them.
May 12, 2008 at 7:58 pm
By the way…all those attorneys and/or their families and firms all contributed heavily to Maynard’s campaign…what a shock.
May 12, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Hugh! Get the fuck back to work. Your ass has bills to pay.
Larry and T. Rodd are gonna hit up a dime bag as election results roll in tomorrow night. Meet at 8 p.m. at the same spot where the photos were dropped and bring your own bong and adult beverage.
Also, don’t bring that bitch you brought last time.
May 12, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Newsflash, Tony.
Hugh is having trouble working these days. See, some guy who we’ll call “Don” lied to Hugh and said he could help Hugh if Hugh told him how Hugh did business. Hugh did that. Then this guy “Don” did a whole bunch of wacky antics with money, and one thing led to another, and one day “Don” had destroyed Hugh’s business.
Now Hugh and all the families who worked for and relied on Hugh are looking for work.
You might think this guy, who we’ll call “Don,” was a bad person who should be punished. A group of people in Boone County — we’ll call them “the jury” — agreed.
But three people in Charleston were better friends with “Don” than they were with Hugh and his employees. And so they said it wouldn’t be nice for “Don” to lose his job too.
And that’s why Hugh is playing on his computer at 7:58 p.m. instead of working to dig up coal and keep the lights on.
Which raises the question, Tony: what are you doing sitting in your mom’s basement playing on the computer tonight? Don’t you have a job at McDonald’s to go to or something?
May 12, 2008 at 9:14 pm
By the way, Tony:
The person who posts on this blog as “T.Rodd” is no friend of Larry’s.
Not unless you think Larry would hang out with the only employee of Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse.
May 12, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Now Bo, we shouldn’t hold Tony’s obsession with cocks against him. I mean if I was trying to come up with defenses for Spike Maynard and his ilk I would probably have to resort to incoherent rants about cocks, bitches and dicks too. Well, either that or it’s been a long time since he’s managed to scrap up enough money to pay Spike for a dirty sanchez. We all know how close to Tony’s heart the slogan “I Like Spike” truly is. (In fact he’s the one that’s been going around town and replacing the “like’ with a big fat heart on all the campaign signs.)
Never fear Tony. After tomorrow you will have plenty of opportunities to spend quality time with Spike since he’ll have lots of free time and be desperate for funds, esp. since he won’t be able to pimp his judicial services to the highest bidder any more. No more nights crying into your pillow because Spike ran off with Don on another exotic vacation. You will finally be the bride after tomorrow!!!
May 13, 2008 at 6:24 am
Tony, it’s obvious that you spend way too much time watching MTV Cribs and doing a really bad Eminem imitation. Maybe you should focus on getting your GED, then things should fall into place. You gave yourself away at the Mickey D’s drivethrough when I heard “You want fries with that, Bitch?”
May 13, 2008 at 9:58 am
Just like to report several people saw called me this morning to say they saw Spike glad handling people down at the polling station in Charleston. Which made me question why he isn’t in Mingo Co. voting? (I mean when I looked at his unmarked name on my ballot it did say Maynard – Mingo County) But even if he has managed to finagle making his legit polling station in Charleston, he certainly shouldn’t be lingering there after voting. (Several people who went at different times called me and all saw Spike trying to chat people up at the station).
Either way I wish I could start off everyday voting Spike off the bench. I’m also glad to see his scared shitless enough to spend quality time breaking election laws down at polling stations in order to beg for just a few more votes.
May 13, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Are you telling me Todd Rodd doesn’t work for Larry Starcher? I bet Todd got convicted again and Larry fired Todd in favor of that black girl that works for him now, which he is probably banging. Larry probably would like black chocolate.
May 13, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Let me be real honest here…I collect a trust fund check and make donations to politicians that are gonna help me.
I could really care less about you bitches and your sorry ass jobs.