SHAUBERGER SAYS YOU MUST BE FOR PATTERSON

Eddie Shauberger is predicting that big money, smarter politics, new revelations (election time) evidence of corruption” from his Outsider associates, and North/West Liberty County voters will make Henry Patterson a shoe-in to win re-election as Liberty County Sheriff.

Eddie, a former Liberty County resident, is confident that his experience in Liberty County politics makes him an expert at analyzing and influencing the potential sheriff’s race between current sheriff Henry Patterson and challenger Bobby Rader. When he talks about this race he boasts almost as if the votes have already been counted as he talks about several wealthy backers making sure Patterson will have all the money he needs to present his case for re-election and his campaigns opposition research of Bobby Rader.

Eddie’s confident expressions of a sure victory are almost always followed by alluding to investigations of Rader by part of Patterson’s re-election team (the infamous Outsiders). He has said they will unload on Bobby Rader as soon as Rader declares his candidacy. I have asked to see or hear about the damning information they imply they have, but no smoking gun has been presented. Rather than provide a reason for me to change my mind about Rader, they are holding it for election time.

For some reason Eddie has become very angry because I don’t support his choice for sheriff. In fact, since I failed to support Patterson, Eddie has admitted the Outsiders have “investigated” me and that I am now I am “dirty”. In fact, he has gone much further than that and ranted and raved and included what seems like an endless barrage of calling my wife all kinds of names. This man who when accused of multiple felonies turned around and found absolutely no one, BUT ME, willing to speak publicly in his defense is mad at me and attacking my family because of a sheriff’s race.

Ironically Eddie is on record saying that he and the Outsiders will use politics and public accusations to defame Rader and me. I say ironically because my public defense of Eddie has always been, and still is, that if it weren’t for politics, the case involving his company would never have been in a criminal court. Eddie’s business associates were stealing from the company and his actions were borne from their forging checks and sucking money out of the company and making it difficult for him to pay employees and other debts. I sympathized with his position and, along with Ray Akins, was drawn into taking some public condemnation on his behalf (Ray was drawn into much more than just public condemnation, but that is another story I won’t cover here and now). So it is ironic that Eddie is now going to use politics and spin and innuendo to try and do his own version of the same thing to me (because of a sheriff’s race I had little interest in until his crazy behavior).

I don’t really understand what is going on with him these days, but Eddie is making plenty of bold predictions. He seems sure that Patterson will be the first in a long line of Outsider political victories and includes defeating all three judges in the courthouse in the 2014 election cycle. His overconfidence is staggering. His big talk about Patterson is not just based on big money, he adds to his self assurance as he consistently declares that the north part of Liberty County will vote for his man Patterson. I never have been that confident that people will blindly vote for the person that lives nearest them, but he is.

Strangely absent from his analysis, Eddie really doesn’t refer much to Patterson’s accomplishments in his first three years. Nor does Eddie spend any time rebutting criticism that Patterson never seems to speak for himself and that many people say they never see or hear Patterson. Accusations that Patterson has long regular breakfasts with his buddies and that he not only gets off to late starts, he is known to head home early (around 3:00 PM) most days, seem unimportant to Eddie. He seems to have a deep abiding faith that people from the Cleveland area will always support anyone over someone from the South/East part of the county.

Eddie tops off his rationale of why Patterson is unbeatable by pointing out how much more he knows way more about politics than me. What a strange comment. I didn’t know we were in competition, but I guess he is. I really haven’t been involved in politics to get a position or make money or because I needed connections in the courthouse or to go around and say I was smarter than everyone else, like me or not, most people know I got involved to make sure that conservatives in the Republican party would one day be at least competitive. But, from what I can tell, I guess Eddie and his buddies have “investigated” me and right here before the election they say they are going to show how “dirty” I am and then “wrap me around Rader’s neck”. Funny thing about it, they also indicated all of the “investigating” would go away if Rader would “seek any job but the sheriff’s job”. (extortion?)

So who really cares about what Eddie says or what I say… no one, or next to no one. But I do care what he says, or his little friends say, about Bobby Rader. They may be able to take a few of the thousands of the decisions Rader has made as a judge or a lawman and twists them like many political campaigns do, but I think people know Rader and they will care about that kind of thing being done to one of our hardest working public servants. Unfortunately for these Outsiders, people know Rader and he is well liked and people know how he runs the people’s business and they keep electing him.

I not only care about what Eddie says about Rader in the future, I also care about what he has already said about my wife Tracy Pegues. I have stuck with my original goals despite some public criticism of my motivations or my views. I have worked with others for fifteen years to offer Liberty County voters options besides whoever the Democrats nominated. Some may hate me for something I have said or done along the way, but no one on the other side has attacked my family. No one but the man I have called friend and that I have sat next to in criminal court. As the sheriff’s race approached Eddie started unleashing all kinds of vile comments about my wife Tracy… that is over the top. Somebody may say Pegues deserves what he gets, but that should be Richard Pegues, not Tracy. It reminds me of when Eddie’s wife was attacked by people out in Hardin. The similarities are many including the attackers knew Cindy Shauberger was very sick when the attacks were being made – Ray Akins and myself fought the relentless attack by the democrats on Cindy Shauberger. Tracy has been facing life threatening physical problems and will undergo surgery soon. What’s Eddie’s comment about this? “Richard is just trying to get sympathy”. That was not his attitude when Cindy was attacked. Eddie! This is just a sheriff’s race; please leave my family out of it.

I don’t know where loud inappropriate cursing and calling my wife ugly names fits in their campaign strategy, but I am hoping Eddie and his team focus on helping Patterson and leaving Tracy’s name out of their mouths. Eddie has told his family and the church he pastors down in Oak Island to stop looking at Liberty Dispatch now that he sees his and the Outsider’s strategy of acting like they are the ones being attacked will not keep us from posting the truth. What has gone on in the background off of the internet has been merciless and we are preparing ourselves and our readers for their scorched earth election season revelations.

My apologies for so much talk about myself, but my friend Eddie decided weeks ago that he was going to make me either support Patterson or get out of politics. I will do neither Eddie. As several of us tried to tell you before your last state rep race, you should do the latter.

LD Contributor, Richard Pegues

Liberty Dispatch Contributors

To Liberty Dispatch Readers:

There have been some "spoof emails" circulating concerning the contributors to Liberty Dispatch.

For the record, there are quite a few contributors to Liberty Dispatch. In particular, Ray Akins is a contributor and has no desire whatsoever to discontinue as a contributor to Liberty Dispatch.

There are no particular owners of Liberty Dispatch, only blog contributors as a public forum.

Any other information out there should be considered a lie and wishful thinking by the corrupt.

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ARRESTING PLANTS INSTEAD OF CRIMINALS

Time out! Hold the phone. All of the positive reports generated by press releases from the Sheriff’s Department have some political friends of Sheriff Patterson riding high on cloud nine, but even though I am sure to be criticized by his re-election machine, I have got questions about the last two busts.

First before I ask the questions, I want to make a few things clear to the readers of Liberty Dispatch. About fifteen years ago I was invited to my first Republican meeting and I discovered that the group of people running the Republican Party in this county back then did not care about running candidates. So for fifteen years I have worked with whoever would work with me to make democracy work by restoring a two party system. I believed, along with others, that the lack of competition had created an environment ripe for corruption in our local government. It never has been a personal vendetta and I have received far more criticism than I have given.

I have been invited to write my opinion on here and appreciate that anyone would even care what it is, but in some ways I am no different than any of the conservatives expressing opinions in the media. My opinion is my opinion and what anyone else says is their opinion.

I know Sheriff Henry Patterson and since I have been invited to express my political opinion on this website, I am not bashful to express my opinion of the job Henry is doing as Sheriff and the Sheriff’s race . As I have said before I even like Henry, but he is holding an elected position and I believe and hope there will be a better candidate running for sheriff in this next election cycle. As I have written before part of my criticism of Henry is that he has allowed these people called the Outsiders to have far too much influence in the department my tax dollars pay for. But there is much much more to criticize.

Let’s take the recent marijuana busts. At first I cheered news that large pot fields had been discovered and would be destroyed. I never spent a second thinking about how much credit the Sheriff should get for the department following up on tips and seizing all of the illegal plants. I knew it was an election year and that Henry had a bunch of people that were for him last time that would like to see him replaced this time, but I just figured this kind of timely busts is one of the advantages of incumbency.

I thought these busts were a feather in Sheriff Patterson’s cap until a friend in law enforcement pointed out what should have happened. If Henry’s public relations people want to give him credit for arresting a whole field of pot plants, then he should also get credit for allowing a whole gang of pot growing dope dealers to escape arrests.

If Henry Patterson’s people want to send press releases out detailing how they protected the plants throughout the night that is fine. I salute our sheriff’s department and the work they do. But I don’t know why voters would return Henry Patterson to office because his men followed tips and found all of this pot and then Henry failed to set up a situation so everyone involved in this operation would be arrested.

Why didn’t Henry set up cameras and arrest the dope dealers (along with the dope)? It appears these tips were looked at in terms of political gain rather than in terms of what law enforcement elsewhere regularly does with a case like this. Did we not want to catch the criminals?

I like you Henry, but I believe we have to do better than this or the criminals win.

Richard Pegues
Contributor

SOMETHING WE WILL ALL AGREE ON

His name you know by now is Clifford Fuddy William/s and he is proud enough to be from somewhere other than Liberty County that he has named his very secretive gang “The Outsiders”. But he seems to be anything but an outsider when it comes to the Liberty County Sheriff Department. He has not only been seen on numerous occasions with our County Sheriff, Henry Patterson, but he allegedly has been working for him for months in and out of the sheriff's department.

Liberty Dispatch knows what we know about Williams and his political team because we applied the axiom of Sun Tsu in his book referred to in politics by so many called “The Art of War”. LD applied the idea of keeping your enemies close from the very minute we were aware these people were in this county and setting up shop. We even allowed them to post a few of the stories Robert Valdez wrote about Clifford Fuddy Williams' unlicensed Private Investigation work. We learned a great deal of things about this group from two of the associates of The Outsiders. These two were perfect for what we needed because neither are very good at keeping secrets. So we have cataloged quite a bit of information – some from Robert Valdez and most from a new member that should have the nickname “Chatter Box” or “Loose Lips” or if you’re an Outsider, perhaps something a bit more negative.

In many conversations with these people, the one thing that stood out was that no public official and no media mentioned had a future here in Liberty County if they were successful EXCEPT FOR HENRY PATTERSON. So from the very beginning our readers should surmise we were at odds with these people’s goals since we publicly supported many of our current public officials. The purpose of our relationship with these people was to learn as much as we could before it became obvious to them we were collecting information.

We are holding much of that information, but believe it is in everyone in this counties best interest for questions to be asked of them. Even people that do not like this website, media, Democrats, and people that consider themselves our enemies – they should all take note. These Outsiders want to force you out of the public arena.

But who are these people? I don’t just mean their names. I mean where are they from and where do they work and why are they here? Do they have criminal records? Are they licensed to do the investigations they did months ago and continue to do? Were they or Williams licensed to do Investigations work at the sheriff's office against Joe Warren, Royce Wheeler, John Joslin and others??? The “detailed” and “factual” investigations they have done – do they still claim to have done those investigations while working closely with (and for) Henry Patterson?

And what does Henry Patterson have to say about these people and his relationship to them? It should not be long before everyone has an opportunity to understand why we should all agree we don’t want the sheriff’s department using our taxpayer money to be co-oped by anyone, but especially not these people.

Prayer Works...

Liberty Dispatch wants to thank all of the people who have been praying for Tracy Pegues, the wife of one of our contributors. Tracy’s Mom died of cancer at age 47, and because of Tracy’s family history and past test results, doctors check Tracy every year.

When this year’s initial test results came back showing Tracy had a tumor, people that knew about it began to pray. Since that time results from a blood test have lowered the likelihood of cancer, but because of her family history, doctors have decided surgery sooner rather than later is best under her circumstances.

Tracy Pegues is 51 years old. Her surgery will be in the next few weeks. The Pegues family want to thank everyone who is praying for Tracy.