Liberty ISD employee angry at Liberty ISD and their legal representation.
"Mayo Request: Liberty
ISD trustee Ron Mayo has filed a Freedom of Information request with
the school district for whom he serves. That FOI is dated two days after
Ron and Tracy Mayo withdrew their legal action against the district
over punishment meted out to their son following a fight at Liberty High
School. KSHN reported the Mayo family sought a restraining order in the
253rd District
Court against the school. district to keep their son from having to take
end-of-course exams. In an interview after the Mayos withdrew their
legal action, Ron Mayo expressed anger toward LISD Assistant
Superintendent and Legal Counsel Randy Gunter. Mr. Mayo also said he was
angry that the district spent money to fight his family’s legal
challenge. However, it’s noteworthy that the Mayos asked for their legal
fees to be paid by LISD in that action. Based on a tip from a listener,
we filed a Freedom of Information request to obtain a copy of Mayo’s
documents. In Ron Mayo’s Freedom of Information request, he seeks
detailed employment and financial information on Randy Gunter and copies
of payments to the law firm that represented the district against the
Mayo family’s legal challenge."
Courtesy KSHN
Courtesy KSHN
Liberty County Wins Again
Over and
over again we have read about the sharp knives that are out aimed at
backstabbing the first Republican Liberty County Judge in over a century. And
over and over again the end result of County Judge Craig McNair’s decisions has
been a great plus for this county.
The most
recent action by Judge McNair that put a target on his back would be considered
routine by most county judges in Texas. He requested bids for the county’s emergency
management service. The knives came out immediately just like they did when
Judge McNair made a similar move with the jail contract.
No doubt
some of the negative onslaught was from people who sincerely desire to keep
business local. Liberty Dispatch and its readers can certainly understand that
sentiment. Local companies providing local jobs can be a boost to the economy
and we like to think our neighbors benefit when local businesses do well.
But there
are exceptions to the idea that local businesses benefit the local economy. If
the local businesses are not competitive it could cost the local economy by
billing taxpayers more than the taxes generated by local jobs. Judge McNair
wanted a win/win situation. Last week he was vindicated again as all of the
bellyaching was silenced when the local EMS lowered its price 15% but also
received an expanded contract.
Just like
there is no doubt some people hoped the county would stay with the local EMS
company, some were hoping this Judge McNair could be painted to be an
ineffective elected official who should be voted out of office. People that are
yellow dog Democrats and people that have been behind the scenes running things
the way they want them have been hunting for an issue to show the voters they
made a mistake when they elected Craig McNair have been shut up again.
And soon
undoubtedly they will come again and say, “People work with us here.”
They will ask us to forget all the shots they have taken at McNair and all of
the right decisions he has made that they would have done something
differently. The smoke-filled backrooms are working overtime to try and get the
voters to put one more of their type politician in office.
More than a "Little" cover-up.
If you haven’t heard, the lack of
action by former District Attorney Mike Little and his sales pitch that
citizens of Liberty County can depend on federal prosecutors has allowed two of
the most well known crimes in our Liberty County history go unpunished, while
charges against political enemies are trumped up and prosecuted by the DA’s
office.
Mike Little allowed the statute of
limitations to expire on the Beasoliel mail theft case without exercising any
power he had as the man we have paid a couple of million dollars over the years
to be the prosecutor of Liberty county justice. Well that is not quite true –
he did exercise his power of “prosecutorial discretion” (and what some legal experts have called "obstruction of justice") as he sat on his hands
and never brought one charge in a case(s) that anyone who reads local media
probably felt was going to result in some butts landing in prison.
The FBI agent assigned to the case said
it should be an easy case for “Your local District Attorney” but the fact the
courthouse mailroom was not an official federal post office left the feds out
of it. But Mike Little not only failed to act on behalf of the citizens of this
county, some speculate he helped stop the 2012 Liberty County grand jury in its
tracks.
Last, but surely not least, Mike Little
behaved much the same in the infamous FEMA fraud case. It is now said to be
dead in the water. Why? – Some might ask… But the answer to that question is
only complicated when trying to guess what the federal prosecutors are
thinking. It is not complicated when considering what local prosecutors could
have (and should have) done.
But just for a minute let’s throw a new
thought out there about the FEMA fraud case. We have a new District Attorney
and we have new allegations against one of the commissioners that served with
former County Judge Phil Fitzgerald. Newly elected D.A. Logan Pickett has at
his disposal (click here- clear evidence Todd Fontenot private vehicle repairs as paid by Liberty County taxpayers) that former county commissioner Todd Fontenot
illegally charged repairs for his personal vehicle to the county. Why not take
a shot in the dark and offer Fontenot a deal. If he has evidence to re-energize
the FEMA case, a plea deal could be in the works.
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| Melvin Hunt and (hand on hip) Todd Fontenot, Courtesy Advocate |
Dear Liberty Dispatch,
I
would like to respond to people who have wondered what was Eddie
Shauberger like as a preacher or pastor. He was known to residents in Oak Island as Pastor Eddie and he always had something going on.
When we heard stories about Pastor Eddie’s legal problems in Liberty County
we just heard his version of what happened. Most people probably
thought very little about it at first or at least until they arrested
him one day in the middle of a church service.
People have to understand that Oak Island
was devastated by the hurricane and Pastor Eddie stayed here and
managed all of the groups that came in and worked. He became a local
hero and when different newspapers and television stations interviewed
him, he was able to get more and more money and and more and more free
workers to help this community.
When
stories emerged about Pastor Eddie being handed large amounts of cash
in the aftermath of the storm, nobody really cared. He was the man
pushing to rebuild the church and it was not our money. Much of the
money was from grateful Vietnamese fishermen, so how were we suppose to
be accountable?
Some
of the money that vanished was in a $30,000 deal with some traveling
carpenters. They did a little work and then poof, they were gone and so
was the money. There was so much money and so much help it was difficult
to keep up with it and our church leaders counted on Pastor Eddie.
When
Pastor Eddie and the music pastor had a falling out, almost everyone
sided with the head man and the Pagels left and started to build their
own church. All of us believed when it is the pastor versus someone he
hired, there is not much choice in who to follow.
When
the Oak Island community heard Pastor Eddie’s wife, Cindy, left for San
Antonio with their child, most of us thought it was a temporary
arrangement and too personal to ask about. Some thought it was strange
someone as nice and caring as Cindy left here and never communicated
with all those who loved her so much. She was Pastor Eddie’s rock. He
never was the same after she left and she never contacted any of us after she left with their youngest adopted daughter. We knew something was wrong, then the child sexual assault charges against Pastor Eddie.
Most
people had left the church and the church was struggling financially by
the time Pastor Eddie started acting weird about his insurance and all
of his prescriptions and his salary. The board made the decision to do
as he ask and lower his salary and raise his expense account. It sounded
strange but according to Pastor Eddie a lower salary qualified him for
benefits from the government. It wasn’t the board’s money so I guess
they decided to help out. I always felt like the church board helping Pastor Eddie cheat insurance was wrong but I had no input and couldn't stop it, that's why I was relieved when I heard Eddie was leaving. Eddie has left the church in bankrupt condidtion, he managed to take every penny he could out of the church before he left.
In closing when people ask me about what it was like to be around Pastor Eddie I have one thing to compare it to. A hurricane.
THANK YOU, JEFF NATIONS
It may be popular in some circles to ridicule the idea that
corporal punishment is an effective, acceptable, and even sometimes necessary
action by parents and schools who care about their children, but it is not
openly ridiculed in my church.
For those who were shocked and acted like sharks in bloody
water when they discovered Nottingham Principal Jeff Nations still paddles
students, some of us are disappointed this form of punishment is under utilized
by parents and our schools. We salute Mr. Nations. Children do not behave as
well in school as they use to and our society seems to throw in the towel and
allow the threat of lawsuits is prevalent in determining school policies rather
than the use common sense. Mr. Nations seems to use common sense and what works
best.
“Spare the rod and spoil the child” is no more outdated than
the rest of the wisdom God shared with us in the book of Proverbs. He made us
and I am sure He shakes His head in near disbelief when some say paddling
children teaches the young “hitting is acceptable.”
If administered properly corporeal punishment should teach
children there are immediate consequences for some behavior. Paddling a student
should teach them there are specific circumstances when hitting someone is
acceptable.
Liberals cannot have it both ways. They cannot say we are
wiser than previous generations and then say children nowadays are not wise
enough to understand what us older folks clearly understood – paddling in
schools does not give license for people to hit each other. Who doesn’t get
that?
By the way, the theory that we are brighter than those who
came before us was blown this week when a study that was released indicated we
have lost 14 points of our average IQ in recent times.
Unfortunately, with all of the media coverage, it may be
tough for Dayton to continue to keep policies that are tried and true. Since
the beginning of time, different people have had different bruising tolerances
and in other districts it has not even taken one bruised child for school
boards to take a defensive position and outlaw corporal punishment. Perhaps the
local school boards around here need to know how thankful those of us who are
Bible-believing church goers appreciate them leading with courage.
Once it was determined allegations of abuse was proved to
false, the majority should have no reservations in standing with a principal
that has principles. Mr. Nations, you are not only innocent, you are to be
commended. Thank you.
CHILD SEX ASSAULT SERIES Part #4 LCSO report on Edward Ross Shauberger's sexual assault of his daughters.
The question may seem too silly for some
or it could sound too philosophical for others. But the answer to a question
like that reveals something important to many of us. To a conservative,
bible-believing Christian the answer is simple. God made the chicken and the
chicken laid the egg. In response, a person that doesn’t believe the bible may
say, “Prove it.” A non-believer may say the chicken or the egg, but whichever
they say, Christians should enjoy saying, “Prove it” when the shoe is on the
other foot.
Liberty
Dispatch has spent some time recently laying out the truth with some of the
details about Edward Ross Shauberger and Mike Little. We know who the chickens
are and we know they have hoped to use their power and positions to continue
the type of criminal behavior we have seen on occasion for years from our
public officials.
Asking the order of things like which
came first the chicken or the egg is often a useful question when sorting out
guilt or innocence. With that in mind I want to remind readers that when our
friend and fellow conservative Ray Akins moved to Liberty, he came here with
clean hands and a clean heart. People he did not know attacked him with no
provocation. He was blindsided. “The chicken” came first in this case. Or
should I say chickens?
Before Ray mowed his grass for the first
time former District Attorney Mike Little’s office was assisting local liberal
blogger Allen Youngblood as they used county assets and Hugh Bishop, Little’s
then D.A.R.E. officer, to do a background check on Ray. And from all we can
surmise the information that Ray Akins was a diehard Republican who had
professional investigation skills was passed on to the people in the appraisal
district. The appraisal district then proceeded to illegally invade his
mailbox. It is a verifiable fact. The chickens came first. They were caught on
camera and captured on computer.
When the new resident confronted Mr.
Little, he did not apologize or deny, he threatened Ray. Since that threat
(over seven years ago), Ray has continued being a Republican activist here like
he has everywhere he has lived and he has fought hard to help clean up Liberty
County. Little’s threat and the invasion of Akin’s privacy and the misuse of
public assets simply identified the former D.A. as a dangerous and conniving
politician – part of what needed cleaning up.
As was said earlier, Ray didn’t know
anyone here. He was sent by then Republican VP Charlotte Kramer to meet with prior Liberty County Republican
Chairman Richard Pegues and Edward Ross Shauberger a Republican who had run for
several offices that was thought to be someone who could educate him on the who
is who in Liberty County. Many years ago Shauberger went to school with Allen
Youngblood and worked with Mike Little as he studied for a para-legal degree.
Early on Shauberger helped Ray to form a very negative opinion of both men and
many others.
In another “which came first the chicken
or the egg” situation, Shauberger licked his chops for the political season to
end so he could use his new found friendship with Ray to get financial and
other professional help on a business problem he had. All documentation and
persuasion proves Shauberger is the chicken in this case too. His decisions and his deception sucked
Ray into a nasty fight between people who were cheating and stealing from each
other in business. It also led to both chickens in this article, Little and
Shauberger hatching quite an egg.
The old friends from years earlier,
Little and Shauberger each found they both had something the other wanted. And
the plan was hatched. Who else knew how diabolical this was as they worked to
use the judicial system to get revenge for a powerful politician and to bury a
scandalous story on a local businessman – is yet to be determined? Ray Akins
was their target. To cut to the chase, Little held up the Liberty Police
Department’s rape of minors cases they had on Shauberger and Shauberger agreed
to testify against Ray. Together the egg that came from their union so far has cost
Ray almost everything he has in legal fees and other expenses.
Mike Little, now that part of his secret
plan has become public- well he is hoping to keep all accusers at bay and
postpone any trial on Shauberger. If the courts have any sense of justice,
Shauberger’s child rape accusers have waited for their day in court the longest
and they will have their day in court as soon as possible. Second batter up,
charges against Shauberger in his business dealings should be next. He owns the
company and he is the decision maker. Little should not be allowed to throw the
big fish back so he can go after a small fish just because he hates someone.
Ray is just one more victim of a deceptive and unscrupulous list of unsavory
characters – including all of the people in Shauberger’s business and Mike
Little.
Then, after these trials, if the facts
warrant – Ray will want his day in court. But even then Little has tried to rig
the court. When Little recused himself and created a legal document, “he”
appointed a pro tem. The person who says he needs out of a case because of a
conflict of interest can not be the same person that “chooses” the pro tem.
Otherwise, he can choose someone who he hopes to be “just as prejudicial”. The
Judge in this case should appoint a pro tem and it should not be the person
Mike Little chose nor should it be anyone in his office after years of this
case swirling around the ADA’s heads.
But the case against Ray should be
dropped. He was just being a good egg helping out someone he believed was his
friend with his best interest at heart. His advice was based off of the
information Charlotte Kramer and Shauberger provided. The information was wrong
because Shauberger lied.
As explained in earlier articles (see
our- CHILD SEX ASSAULT SERIES), the story has now revealed a complex, new, and
previously unknown twist. Shauberger had an ulterior motive in all this
beyond his business dealings, it was to create enough stink and attack everyone
who could put him in Jail for his sexual assault of his daughters. He knew the
evidence was sitting in the Liberty Police Station and the only thing keeping
him from being arrested was Mike Little.
Little and anyone helping him may
downplay, ignore, or even lie about the police wanting to prosecute this case,
but the grand jury heard the case – a case where a young lady waited 11 years
for a response to her original complaint – and they voted. A group of twelve
ordinary citizens of Liberty County voted to give the young ladies who came
forward their day in court.
Mike Little should not be allowed to
persecute his political enemies at such a cost. Sacrificing justice for at
least three women and letting all of the main players and decision makers off is
not the kind of deal a D.A. should make and it does not speak well of the kind
of man that was appointed Liberty’ city judge. A bad egg…
THE SMELL OF AN ODOR OF A REAL CONSPIRACY
At the end of 2013 the legal community and perhaps some people who were in hot water got a real eye opener from the Liberty County
courthouse. News that the grand jury for the second half of 2013 had
been dismissed without explanation was the first time most people had
ever heard of such a thing. A few weeks later a press conference with
local media looked like it would yield some kind of explanation to the
public, but the silence has been deafening since then.
But silence does not prevent us from reviewing two key facts that could help us smell the odor of what transpired.
First, in order to refresh memories, please recall that a pro-tem had been
appointed to the case. That act in itself lets readers know the District
Attorney at that time, Mike Little, was the subject of possible
criminal indictment if the grand jury deemed its investigation warranted
such an action.
Second,
a possible key to the origin of the awful smell of the dismissal of this
grand jury is the fact that Mike Little contacted the grand
jurors via mail and discussed possible investigation scenarios. The
District Attorney was not allowed to communicate with the grand jury in this manner. (Please note: In Little’s communication he reveals that he
was aware of at least three of the witnesses that appeared before the
grand jury because they were in the hallway waiting to be interviewed.
He names the witnesses and what cases he believes their testimony was
related to.)
Third,
according to witnesses in that same hallway, the new pro-tem made his
first appearance and the grand jury was dismissed that day without hearing
any of the witnesses. Also according to witnesses, the next grand jury meeting
attended by the pro-tem was not much different. No witnesses were
heard by the pro-tem. And then, as we all know was reported, soon
thereafter it was reported that this grand jury would not meet any more.
So, with Mike Little violating grand jury rules and communicating with that
grand jury and with the pro-tem never having heard one witness, on what
facts did the pro-tem beseech a judge to dismiss the jury? Who did he
get his information from? Was it Mike Little?
“Oh, no, it will not stink,” some may say. People who believe all of the
alleged conspiracies about Liberty County politicians are just a bunch
of nut balls conjuring up crimes that have never been committed – well,
what they have read so far could still have them rolling their eyes. But
read on. This tampering with a grand jury allegation has so much odor to it
doubters may have a different reaction.
The
pro-tem in this case is former assistant federal prosecutor Larry
Eastepp. No effort at this time has been made to discover his possible
connections to anyone in this county, but for those who think nothing is
unusual so far …… how about this: Eastepp, according to Liberty County
Auditor Harold Seay, never billed the county even one nickel for his services.
Just in case readers don’t know – that is very unusual. Eastepp also
arranged to have all the events surrounding this grand jury sealed so no
one can find out what happened or why it happened.
Eastepp did all of this just in time according to some. One of the cases Little
pointed to can no long be brought before a grand jury because the statute of limitations
has run. Little was aware of the statute, and, if he was right about the
grand jury pursuing the Beausoliel case, as District Attorney it was his
responsibility to rescue the case from a dormant AG’s office. If he was
right about the citizens of Liberty County wanting to pursue this, what reason would he have to allow it die?
Folks, this has the strong odor of a real conspiracy.
Also see:
BREAKING NEWS: Dismissed grand jury seeks answers Members want to know why Liberty County panel was disbanded early
GIVE ME 'SHELTER'
Some decisions leaders make will
be criticized no matter which way they go. That is clearly the case with the
decisions that had to be made about a storm shelter in Liberty County. Liberty
Dispatch has received a few complaints and after investigating the facts
believes County Judge Craig McNair has done what is best for Liberty County.
Below readers can read why we think the decisions were correct about the
shelter and readers can decide for themselves.
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First let’s look at the recent
construction of a county storm shelter and decide if building it now was best
for Liberty County, then we will look at the problems this administration
inherited and why they scrapped the previous administration’s original idea.
The reader needs to consider what they wanted our elected leaders to do when
the federal government (FEMA) offered to fully fund a storm shelter for Liberty
County. Should we have declined the help or should we welcome federal money
that buys a storm shelter with excellent parking and land adjacent to the
county jail? If we decline the help, we have none of these benefits while other
counties build storm shelters to protect their citizens. While conservatives
will immediately recognize FEMA money as taxpayer money, they might still
recognize Liberty County had a very real and practical decision to make. If we
say the economy is too slow to accept this help and a storm hits and kills some
of our neighbors, how will the decision to refuse funds be viewed?
County Judge Craig McNair decided
to accept the building. Knowing the restrictions on the use of the building
would expire in 10 years. He also decided to build the building in an area
adjacent to other county buildings in the hopes of consolidating and making the
workings of the county more efficient in time.
Liberty Dispatch has tried to
monitor the opposition to this plan along with reading the few complaints we
have received. The majority of the complaints center around the wrongheaded
thought that there was some kind of rationale to go forward with what the
previous administration had started. Unfortunately, former County Judge Phil
Fitzgerald, former Commissioner Todd Fontenot and others jumped into the deal
to buy the old Walmart building without delving into the cost involved in
renovating. Rumors of purposefully overpaying and plans to hire their friends
to work on it abound at the time. Regardless, it was determined to be cost
ineffective to even attempt to remodel the cheaply built Walmart building even
if bid properly. The building would then be a nightmare to insure. Craig McNair
is trying to clean up this ill conceived non-starter by selling the building
and getting it back on the tax rolls. There really is no wisdom in considering
other options when you hear all of the facts.
So after evaluating the situation
we again have to point out there is no shelter from the storm for a leader and
decision make as he chooses a direction for the county to go. Some have a
legitimate point that Liberty County should have refused to take the feds up on
their offer because of the principle of the thing – not wanting to spend
taxpayer money in tough times for things we have done without for years. Some
may be ill informed about the route Fitzgerald was headed, but that was a dead
end. And some may agree with LD in thinking a well-built shelter could save
lives in the future and the decision that was made was a good one.
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