Here is what we have posted in our new “Liberty County did you know?” area:
DA Candidate- Logan Pickett law license: 11/2006
DA Candidate- Karen McNair law license: 08/1982
The facts are... Pickett is just getting started. Even the sixty-something months since he graduated were not all dedicated to anything near like what he would do as district attorney. Only since Michael Mark resigned a few months ago did Pickett begin to get a little practice at trying criminal cases in the prosecutor’s office. He is as green as it gets. DA Candidate Karen McNair has been practicing law since about the same year Logan Pickett was born.
Almost four years ago, Democrat voters decided to ignore the facts and give Barack Obama a chance to be President. Many of us believe he was the least qualified and least likely politician to be successful in our lifetime (and maybe in history), but he was elected nevertheless. And this country has suffered because they elected someone the Democratic establishment packaged and made look irresistible. Most Liberty County voters voted against Obama because of his lack of experience and there is great hope that these same voters will go to the primary and do the same thing and help elect Karen McNair. She is ready and he is not. But whoever gets the most votes wins the position. So please vote Tuesday May 29th.
LIFE IS FULL OF POLITICS
Schools, Churches, Political Parties, Etc.
When I was young my Father explained to me what people meant when they used the word “politics”. According to him, politics was the art or science of guiding or influencing people. He told me politics was not a positive word or a negative word, it was just a fact of life. Politics, according to him, was everywhere people are trying to get something done.
Liberty Dispatch periodically will get comments sent in that are never posted because of how different the politics of institutions like school and church are than the politics LD’s main focus concentrates on. Some of the comments about schools or people running the schools in either the administration or on the school board are very worthwhile and legitimate topics for community conversation, but the politics surrounding “art or science of guiding or influencing” the education of our young people is usually an entirely different world from the politics involving full time paid elected officials.
The realization of the importance of educating young people and the current data on how it is done most effectively has caused LD to shy away from posting people’s critical analysis or most anything else about our schools. Current professional development in the area of mid management and superintendent level training tends to point to the “synergetic” leadership style as the one that is most likely to transform a community into the most it can be. That recommended style of leadership, synergism in public education, is something LD wants to promote, not hinder. Synergism’s effectiveness is undeniable when it is truly achieved. A school system that is truly practicing synergy is working together so well that it squeezes more out of all of those involved than it would seem possible. It promotes maximum participation by all and it can yield results that sometimes make social scientist compare it to making 1 + 1 = 3. It requires strong leaders that are professionals at listening and who are experts at diplomacy. Synergy is not a top down dictatorial method of leadership. In a school setting, it is an inclusive dynamic way of bringing in all of the resources and ideas of a community to make the school the best it can be.
MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN LIBERTY COUNTY’S FUTURE
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MAY 29, 2012 PRIMARY ELECTION
MAIN EARLY VOTING LOCATIONS - DATE & TIMES:
Liberty County Courthouse
Ground Floor
1923 Sam Houston
Liberty, TX 77575
Monday. May 14 - Friday. May 18 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 20, 2012 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Monday. May 21 - Friday. May 25 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
PERMANENT BRANCH VOTING PLACES - DATES & TIMES:
County Clerks Office
Cleveland Annex
304 Campbell
Cleveland, TX 77327
Cleveland Annex
Monday, May 14 - Friday. May 18 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 20, 2012 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Monday, May 21 - Friday. May 25 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
TEMPORARY BRANCH VOTING PLACES - DATES & TIMES:
Dayton Annex
1300 West Clayton
Dayton, TX 77535
Monday, May 14 - Friday. May 18 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Monday, May 21 - Friday. May 25 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m
Hardin Community Center
414 CR 2010
Hardin, TX 77561
Monday, May 14 - Friday. May 18 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Monday, May 21 - Friday. May 25 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m
Early Voting By Mail
Application may be accepted in person beginning March 30,2012 through May 13,2012. After this date applications must be mailed.
DA CANDIDATE PICKETT AND ADA WARREN BROKE ELECTIONEERING LAWS
One of the worst things about good ole boy politics is the “passing of the torch” that goes on in a system dominated by people covering each others rear ends. In Liberty County over 100 years of Democrats winning every public office made it easy for some of the shady Democrats to hand pick their replacement when they grew tired of holding office. It made it easy for them to use their office and its power to defeat their opponent. In the history of Liberty County Democrats, Republicans did not have a chance. The power of incumbency and the Democrats relationship to the liberal media left no cracks for Republicans to break through; they could not win – until Bobby Rader won his JP race over a decade ago.
In fact, there is only one countywide office left that has a continuous uninterrupted string of “torch passing”. That is the District Attorney’s office. And Mike Little is doing all he can to coerce the voters to choose the least experienced District Attorney in Liberty County history. He has even got Logan Pickett running as a Republican.
Two Assistant District Attorneys under Little have even had to officially been told to “cool it” as far as illegally campaigning in the courthouse. After numerous complaints by jurors, a courthouse wide letter went out to specifically address that campaigning in the courthouse would not be tolerated. The assistant district attorneys are Logan Pickett and Joe Warren. They were told to either cease or desist their electioneering to juries or they would risk facing the consequences.
Rather than honor the intent of the law, Pickett and Warren when confronted simply changed their modus operandi. Instead of openly campaigning to their near captive audiences, they now take the when the largest number of citizens/voters are compelled to be in court to recite their resume’s. There can be anywhere from 80 to 200 people sitting through the process of jury selection… and Pickett and Joe Warren have recently started taking up those people’s time with personal speeches about their qualifications and their family etc. – effectively campaigning to potential jurors.
Originally it was surmised that Joe Warren must feel a desperate need to help Pickett win to insure his position in the D.A.’s office to be doing this kind of thing. Recently however, Liberty Dispatch has been informed that Warren may have twice as much reason to risk a citation for illegal electioneering as originally thought. Sources indicate Warren intends to run against County Court-at-Law Judge Tommy Chambers in 2014.
As for Mike Little’s oversight of the behavior of his men, Liberty Dispatch has found no evidence that he has disciplined, or even disapproved of either Logan Picket or Joe Warren for their behavior. In fact, Little has engaged in his own deceptive and some say illegal practices. He is inflating Pickett’s resume’ by sending out press releases that and try make the least experienced and least successful prosecutor in his office sound like a world champion lawyer.
The good ole boy system is on its last leg. This community should not have to endure ambitious misguided lawyers abusing their privileges and breaking campaigning laws.
This community should not have to suffer through campaign spin to read about what is happening in our courts. This county does not belong to the “torch passers”, we are not stupid. Our opportunity has arrived and we will vote for the most experienced candidate with the most integrity in order to insure our courts are purged from the political games we have seen in the past.
Editor’s note: In one of his campaign speeches to potential jurors, Joe Warren revealed his intentions to file a lawsuit against the county related to Sheriff Patterson arresting him earlier in the year. A grand jury passed on indicting Joe Warren for charges brought by Sheriff Henry Patterson. Any judgment won by Warren in court against the county would be paid for with taxpayer money.
In fact, there is only one countywide office left that has a continuous uninterrupted string of “torch passing”. That is the District Attorney’s office. And Mike Little is doing all he can to coerce the voters to choose the least experienced District Attorney in Liberty County history. He has even got Logan Pickett running as a Republican.
Two Assistant District Attorneys under Little have even had to officially been told to “cool it” as far as illegally campaigning in the courthouse. After numerous complaints by jurors, a courthouse wide letter went out to specifically address that campaigning in the courthouse would not be tolerated. The assistant district attorneys are Logan Pickett and Joe Warren. They were told to either cease or desist their electioneering to juries or they would risk facing the consequences.
Rather than honor the intent of the law, Pickett and Warren when confronted simply changed their modus operandi. Instead of openly campaigning to their near captive audiences, they now take the when the largest number of citizens/voters are compelled to be in court to recite their resume’s. There can be anywhere from 80 to 200 people sitting through the process of jury selection… and Pickett and Joe Warren have recently started taking up those people’s time with personal speeches about their qualifications and their family etc. – effectively campaigning to potential jurors.
Originally it was surmised that Joe Warren must feel a desperate need to help Pickett win to insure his position in the D.A.’s office to be doing this kind of thing. Recently however, Liberty Dispatch has been informed that Warren may have twice as much reason to risk a citation for illegal electioneering as originally thought. Sources indicate Warren intends to run against County Court-at-Law Judge Tommy Chambers in 2014.
As for Mike Little’s oversight of the behavior of his men, Liberty Dispatch has found no evidence that he has disciplined, or even disapproved of either Logan Picket or Joe Warren for their behavior. In fact, Little has engaged in his own deceptive and some say illegal practices. He is inflating Pickett’s resume’ by sending out press releases that and try make the least experienced and least successful prosecutor in his office sound like a world champion lawyer.
The good ole boy system is on its last leg. This community should not have to endure ambitious misguided lawyers abusing their privileges and breaking campaigning laws.
This community should not have to suffer through campaign spin to read about what is happening in our courts. This county does not belong to the “torch passers”, we are not stupid. Our opportunity has arrived and we will vote for the most experienced candidate with the most integrity in order to insure our courts are purged from the political games we have seen in the past.
Editor’s note: In one of his campaign speeches to potential jurors, Joe Warren revealed his intentions to file a lawsuit against the county related to Sheriff Patterson arresting him earlier in the year. A grand jury passed on indicting Joe Warren for charges brought by Sheriff Henry Patterson. Any judgment won by Warren in court against the county would be paid for with taxpayer money.
REPRINT OF A RECENT LETTER TO THE EDITOR FROM SHERIFF HENRY PATTERSON
The recently revealed information that shows beyond all doubt that District Attorney Mike Little and Sheriff Henry Patterson failed to act on criminal acts committed by County Judge Phil Fitzgerald could be more than dereliction of duty. It could result in charges against both men. It is serious business and the public deserves to have all of the information on this matter. Henry Patterson must not have very good legal advice because he has responded via a letter to the The Advocate editor and, if it does anything, it seems to dig a deeper hole for Patterson.There may never be one charge filed against either of these men, but citizens who have complained about this kind of good ole boy trade-offs can now point to this FEMA scandal to say why Patterson and Little and their hand-picked compadres need to be driven away from positions of trusts in our government. Here is a reprint of the letter Henry Patterson sent to the Cleveland Advocate.
Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2012 5:08 pm | Updated: 9:13 pm, Thu Apr 26, 2012. Cleveland Advocate.
Dear editor,
"Last week, the Dayton News and Cleveland Advocate newspapers printed two articles regarding: (1) a meeting in late January or early February of 2009 between Constable Royce Wheeler, former sheriff’s deputy Philip “Chip” Fairchild, District Attorney Mike Little, and myself, which also included some of my staff as well as some of Mr. Little’s employees, and (2) a meeting that I had with then County Judge Phil Fitzgerald and District Attorney Mike Little on Feb. 17, 2009."
Here we go, here comes some classic Henry Patterson lying bullshit...
"During the first meeting with Constable Wheeler and Deputy Fairchild, they made certain allegations of misconduct on the part of Judge Fitzgerald associated with the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. Wheeler and Fairchild claimed to have known about this alleged misconduct for approximately four months, but for their own reasons, they failed to take any action during that time period even though, as police officers, they had the power and duty to arrest an individual when they had probable cause to believe that individual was violating the law."
"During this meeting, Wheeler and Fairchild presented no offense reports, no witness statements, no photographs or video recordings, no documentation whatsoever in support of their allegations against Judge Fitzgerald."
"Being veteran police officers, they should have known that the district attorney would not file charges without documentation in support of their allegations, especially in light of the fact that some of the circumstances they claimed to have witnessed had changed in the four and a half months since Hurricane Ike."
"In spite of the lack of documentation, I did not ignore their claims. I assigned Fairchild and another deputy the task of locating evidence in support of the claims he and Wheeler had made. Within a couple of weeks after the meeting with Wheeler and Fairchild, the district attorney and I decided to confront Judge Fitzgerald with the allegations made against him regarding the generator, and the results of that meeting are reflected in the letter mentioned in the newspaper articles last week that I sent to Judge Fitzgerald at his request."
Henry Patterson
Sheriff
Liberty County, Texas
Below you will find our comments on his “Letter to the Editor” marked in red.
Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2012 5:08 pm | Updated: 9:13 pm, Thu Apr 26, 2012. Cleveland Advocate.
Dear editor,
"Last week, the Dayton News and Cleveland Advocate newspapers printed two articles regarding: (1) a meeting in late January or early February of 2009 between Constable Royce Wheeler, former sheriff’s deputy Philip “Chip” Fairchild, District Attorney Mike Little, and myself, which also included some of my staff as well as some of Mr. Little’s employees, and (2) a meeting that I had with then County Judge Phil Fitzgerald and District Attorney Mike Little on Feb. 17, 2009."
Here we go, here comes some classic Henry Patterson lying bullshit...
"During the first meeting with Constable Wheeler and Deputy Fairchild, they made certain allegations of misconduct on the part of Judge Fitzgerald associated with the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. Wheeler and Fairchild claimed to have known about this alleged misconduct for approximately four months, but for their own reasons, they failed to take any action during that time period even though, as police officers, they had the power and duty to arrest an individual when they had probable cause to believe that individual was violating the law."
They failed to take action because Liberty County DA Mike Little told them to wait till you were in office first. One of the officers involved was Chip Fairchild and worked FOR YOU Henry Patterson. You should have told him to go out and make the arrest. Instead you were too busy trying to find a reason to fire him and his wife Terry Fairchild. You eventually got your way and fired both the Fairchilds and obstructed the Fitzgerald investigation/indictments.
"During this meeting, Wheeler and Fairchild presented no offense reports, no witness statements, no photographs or video recordings, no documentation whatsoever in support of their allegations against Judge Fitzgerald."
That is a bald faced lie from you Mr. Patterson, they didn’t have every investigation document in their file there at the meeting but they had enough direct information, pictures and evidence from months past ready for a grand jury- and you knew it. They had started working on the case back in November 2008. You shut the investigation down!
"Being veteran police officers, they should have known that the district attorney would not file charges without documentation in support of their allegations, especially in light of the fact that some of the circumstances they claimed to have witnessed had changed in the four and a half months since Hurricane Ike."
More lies, you were briefed on the investigation and evidence when you came into the Sheriff's Office after the election. You helped set up the meeting in question through Texas Ranger Frank Huff, then you made a deal with Huff to give up your friend Harry Kelly to save your own bacon.
Again, you lie through the use of your smoke screen. They had the evidence and you knew it according to ALL involved. Plus, one of the main focuses and lead agencies was YOUR OFFICE; the file was in your office. DA Mike Little knew of the allegations and evidence before you even took office. Everyone considered you the lynchpin for moving forward, YOU stopped the investigation by your firing of the lead investigator Chip Fairchild who was working for YOU… The investigation and charges against Fitzgerald were HINDERED – SELECTIVE – TAMPERED WITH – AND OBSTRUCTED by you.
"In spite of the lack of documentation, I did not ignore their claims. I assigned Fairchild and another deputy the task of locating evidence in support of the claims he and Wheeler had made. Within a couple of weeks after the meeting with Wheeler and Fairchild, the district attorney and I decided to confront Judge Fitzgerald with the allegations made against him regarding the generator, and the results of that meeting are reflected in the letter mentioned in the newspaper articles last week that I sent to Judge Fitzgerald at his request."
Chip Fairchild and Royce Wheeler are some of the best investigators in Liberty County and had a complete file started back in 2008. You clearly shut down the investigation as a payoff to Frank Huff so that you would not be indicted with your friend Harry Kelly who you threw way under the bus. You and those around you seem to have a habit of throwing your friends under the bus to save your own rears.
NOTE: Shame on you Henry Patterson for being so corrupt and cowardly. The only one who failed here is you Henry Patterson, man up!
Henry Patterson
Sheriff
Liberty County, Texas
HENRY PATTERSON LIES, LITTLE POINTS FINGER
New information forwarded to Liberty Dispatch indicates Liberty County Sheriff Henry Patterson continues to lie and cover up what he knew and when he knew it concerning the most infamous FEMA fraud case in county history. Now Patterson could face charges of misleading federal prosecutors in the FEMA case by sending in a letter to the editor to The Cleveland Advocate blaming his lack of action on the incompetence of men working under him- AGAIN.
New information reveals Constable Wheeler and Sheriff’s Deputy Chip Fairchild met with District Attorney Mike Little in ‘November 2008’. They showed him pictures and tag numbers of County Judge Phil Fitzgerald's equipment and FEMA equipment. This information is in direct contradiction with Patterson’s contention that Wheeler and Fairchild had no evidence. Unless Patterson was trying a deceptive Clinton-like parsing of words, he is just bald face lying about there being no evidence at the meeting he attended early in 2009. If he is doing his version of wagging his finger at The Cleveland Advocate and saying he “never had sex with that women, Monica Lewinsky, and then he may be prepared to argue he was saying that Wheeler and Fairchild did not have the evidence with them at that very moment. In that case, some would argue that like Clinton, Patterson’s statement could technically be true because the evidence could have been in the car or elsewhere. Or perhaps he is desperate enough to argue when he told these two men there was no evidence it was because they had only showed evidence to Little. Then he would be asking us all to believe two veteran lawmen did not respond to Patterson’s need for evidence by simply showing him what they already collected. Impossible to believe, but the Patterson’s lies leave him no other choices.
New information also indicates Little told these two lawmen to wait until the new sheriff came in and then they could show him the evidence. Little, a long time Democrat, didn’t want the outgoing defeated Democrat Sheriff (Greg Arthur) to have to deal with such a hot issue. He wanted to toss this hot potato to Patterson - the man who had run as a Democrat and lost and then run again and was now promoted to be “first Republican sheriff in over 100 years.” He figured by deferring to the new sheriff, he had a planted a potential poison pill that might be used later. Little had given Patterson a choice to crucify Fitzgerald and he had washed his hands of the matter. As we all know now, he used a similar tactic when he talked Wes Hinch into joining him in a joint press release to announce both had decided not to go after all of the abuse of FEMA funds Phil Fitzgerald subsequently.
Maybe Little thought that the poison pill he planted may help Democrats when he or his hand-picked replacement- Logan Pickett ran for office in 2012. When the new sheriff refused to pursue the case it pulled Patterson into what appears to be Little’s indoctrination of him into the good ole boy club. How ironic! After Patterson had run as a Democrat for sheriff in 2004 and lost, he went to local Republican activists and vowed if they helped elect him, he would dismantle the good ole boy system of swapping off favors and looking the other way on certain crimes. Now, with him neck deep (along with his best friend Harry Kelly) and under the microscope of the federal investigation of stolen guns from the Cleveland Police Department being sold to a nearby gun dealer – Patterson found himself needing all of the help he could get to simmer down the heat on him.
It is no wonder why Patterson, despite having his “special crimes unit”, has nothing to show in four years to say he has even begun to dismantle the good ole boy system he talked about before he ran in 2008. And adding to the irony, Little decided to keep all of this quiet and let Patterson’s own record of nearly four years of incompetence and poor leadership defeat his bid for re-election. Since DA Mike Little had not used the scandal to poo poo the local Republican Party, Little advised his hand-picked replacement, Logan Pickett, to run Republican.
It is difficult to predict what charges, if any, might be filed against Patterson and Little for their obstruction, hindering and selection prosecution with their deception and lies as the federal case on FEMA fraud in Liberty County continues. But if Patterson’s Outsider friends led by perjurer and convicted criminal Eddie Shauberger continue trying to play up the imperfections and problems of some of the opposition’s messengers, this could get really serious for a sheriff who is likely to be voted out of office in about thirty days. Professional top of the line investigators will not be distracted by the irrelevant election time mudslinging against Patterson’s opponents or clever spin that tries to take their focus off of adding to what they already have.
Patterson and Little should simply tell the truth rather than compound their legal problems. How many times have we witnessed the cover up being the undoing and the source of successful prosecution in these kinds of sorted affairs?
New information reveals Constable Wheeler and Sheriff’s Deputy Chip Fairchild met with District Attorney Mike Little in ‘November 2008’. They showed him pictures and tag numbers of County Judge Phil Fitzgerald's equipment and FEMA equipment. This information is in direct contradiction with Patterson’s contention that Wheeler and Fairchild had no evidence. Unless Patterson was trying a deceptive Clinton-like parsing of words, he is just bald face lying about there being no evidence at the meeting he attended early in 2009. If he is doing his version of wagging his finger at The Cleveland Advocate and saying he “never had sex with that women, Monica Lewinsky, and then he may be prepared to argue he was saying that Wheeler and Fairchild did not have the evidence with them at that very moment. In that case, some would argue that like Clinton, Patterson’s statement could technically be true because the evidence could have been in the car or elsewhere. Or perhaps he is desperate enough to argue when he told these two men there was no evidence it was because they had only showed evidence to Little. Then he would be asking us all to believe two veteran lawmen did not respond to Patterson’s need for evidence by simply showing him what they already collected. Impossible to believe, but the Patterson’s lies leave him no other choices.
New information also indicates Little told these two lawmen to wait until the new sheriff came in and then they could show him the evidence. Little, a long time Democrat, didn’t want the outgoing defeated Democrat Sheriff (Greg Arthur) to have to deal with such a hot issue. He wanted to toss this hot potato to Patterson - the man who had run as a Democrat and lost and then run again and was now promoted to be “first Republican sheriff in over 100 years.” He figured by deferring to the new sheriff, he had a planted a potential poison pill that might be used later. Little had given Patterson a choice to crucify Fitzgerald and he had washed his hands of the matter. As we all know now, he used a similar tactic when he talked Wes Hinch into joining him in a joint press release to announce both had decided not to go after all of the abuse of FEMA funds Phil Fitzgerald subsequently.
Maybe Little thought that the poison pill he planted may help Democrats when he or his hand-picked replacement- Logan Pickett ran for office in 2012. When the new sheriff refused to pursue the case it pulled Patterson into what appears to be Little’s indoctrination of him into the good ole boy club. How ironic! After Patterson had run as a Democrat for sheriff in 2004 and lost, he went to local Republican activists and vowed if they helped elect him, he would dismantle the good ole boy system of swapping off favors and looking the other way on certain crimes. Now, with him neck deep (along with his best friend Harry Kelly) and under the microscope of the federal investigation of stolen guns from the Cleveland Police Department being sold to a nearby gun dealer – Patterson found himself needing all of the help he could get to simmer down the heat on him.
It is no wonder why Patterson, despite having his “special crimes unit”, has nothing to show in four years to say he has even begun to dismantle the good ole boy system he talked about before he ran in 2008. And adding to the irony, Little decided to keep all of this quiet and let Patterson’s own record of nearly four years of incompetence and poor leadership defeat his bid for re-election. Since DA Mike Little had not used the scandal to poo poo the local Republican Party, Little advised his hand-picked replacement, Logan Pickett, to run Republican.
It is difficult to predict what charges, if any, might be filed against Patterson and Little for their obstruction, hindering and selection prosecution with their deception and lies as the federal case on FEMA fraud in Liberty County continues. But if Patterson’s Outsider friends led by perjurer and convicted criminal Eddie Shauberger continue trying to play up the imperfections and problems of some of the opposition’s messengers, this could get really serious for a sheriff who is likely to be voted out of office in about thirty days. Professional top of the line investigators will not be distracted by the irrelevant election time mudslinging against Patterson’s opponents or clever spin that tries to take their focus off of adding to what they already have.
Patterson and Little should simply tell the truth rather than compound their legal problems. How many times have we witnessed the cover up being the undoing and the source of successful prosecution in these kinds of sorted affairs?
SHERIFF PATTERSON TURNS TO CRIMINALS FOR SUPPORT RATHER THAN ANSWER FOR HIS CRIMES
Like many of the people law enforcement deal with on an almost daily basis, Sheriff Patterson (and/or his campaign consultants from out of the county) are turning to the blame game rather taking responsibility for his alleged criminal acts and/or payoffs.
Liberty Dispatch is encouraged to hear that Patterson’s people didn’t include Bobby Rader in its latest round of defending the incumbent Sheriff. After revelations by The Cleveland Advocate that Patterson and District Attorney Mike Little gave a pass to early evidence that former County Judge Phil Fitzgerald was misallocating FEMA assets, these people lashed out at Rader and blamed quite a few others that had nothing to do with Patterson screwing up. Patterson’s criminal campaign guru, Eddie Shauberger a/k/a “Chatterbox”, told Liberty Dispatch any of us supporting Rader for Sheriff would regret it because his associates (a/k/a The Outsiders) were going to “cover Rader in mud”.
We are under no illusion that these people will not start slinging their mud in the last thirty days of this campaign, but at least they had a moment of clarity and realized blaming Rader for Patterson giving Fitzgerald a pass lacked credibility. Shauberger has bragged that the Patterson campaign has all of the money it needs to paint their opponent in such a poor light few will vote for him. So even though we all dodged it this time, we expect flyers and mailers and phone banks to be unleashed by Patterson’s people soon. He has a well known reputation for active politicking and drowning us all in erroneous press releases while being a very inactive leader within his own department.
Once again however, Patterson expressed no apology to taxpayers who expect him to pursue justice according to the rule of law rather than sit quietly when someone rich and powerful and well connected appears to have committed a felony. Maybe it was because he himself had committed multiple felonies? A simple “Looking back, I wish I would have insisted that the District Attorney and I would have handled this differently,” would be a good start, but that would be an admission. But almost anything we suggest would have been better than what he said. After all, saying there was no evidence is ridiculous in light of the current federal investigation. And saying the people under you could have pursued charges against the County Judge even when the D.A. and the Sheriff discouraged it is not believable even to people who have been loyal Patterson supporters in the past.
But true to the strategy of Patterson’s campaign spinmeister, indicted “serial grand perjurer” Eddie Shauberger, his campaign is projecting their usual motivations on Ray Akins in an effort to shut Liberty Dispatch up or discredit us. None of us at Liberty Dispatch or any of our legal counsel can even make up a story of how Mr. Akins supporting Rader helps Mr. Akins in any form or fashion. But consistent with the way his criminal mind works, Shauberger is on record insisting helping Sheriff Patterson will help him. Even though Rader has no power to effect what Shauberger and his associates did in his private business and Rader is honest as the day is long, Shauberger has said he will do anything to get Patterson elected. On the other hand, Mr. Akins’s rightfully says his decision on who he supports for Sheriff is based on competence and his motivations can easily be seen all through the last twenty years of his life – he has worked consistently and with great sacrifice for over two decades as a Republican activist to elect the best conservative candidates who will be public servants while in office.
Along with promising to further demonize Liberty Dispatch and Ray Akins, Shauberger and company vowed over a year ago to “do whatever it takes to get Vanessa Brashier fired from The Advocate”. "We are going to get that bitch," Shauberger has said repeatedly.
Patterson’s own efforts (via a letter to the editor he wrote to The Advocate) to try and dismiss the importance of the revelation of evidence that shows he had an opportunity to stop Fitzgerald’s “FEMA activity” soon after Hurricane Ike, is damning. Maybe rather than focus on what Ms. Brashier and her staff write in The Advocate, Patterson himself should not send in a letter to the editor that proves what the paper contends without the paper's rebuttal or further commentary. His letter should have expressed regret to the citizens of this county that he didn't handle things differently, instead we all get to read his tortured account and wonder if he thinks everyone in the county is stupid.
In addition to Patterson’s “damage control” efforts, Liberty Dispatch has learned, true to their threats, Shauberger and Patterson’s strong arm political hit team have sent letter(s) trying to get the owners of The Advocate to fire Brashier. Apparently, they want to shut up the media (and the feds), so their own feeble attempts and political (black) mail aimed at Patterson’s opponent can be invented and unchallenged by anyone with the ability to present the truth to the voters.
Henry Patterson is still trying to leave the lack of charges and an early investigation of Phil Fitzgerald on the plate of Mike Little, Wes Hinch and some of the best law enforcement people we have in Liberty County. Did Henry Patterson make a deal with Fitzgerald to hide Fitzgerald’s crimes and his own alleged illegal and criminal acts related to witness and evidence tampering, official misconduct- elected official, hindering an investigation, making false police reports and obstruction of justice (and alleged payoffs)? Clearly, there is no evidence that Patterson's promise to come in and clean up the good ole boy system in this county has been fulfilled. But there are many questions about his own involvement in the same type of good ole boy trade-offs.
Lastly readers should be reminded that Henry Patterson sold out his friend Harry Kelly and forced him to take a rap that Henry Patterson should have been rightfully indicted for and now he wants Mike Little to take the rap just like he did with poor Harry Kelly. We all know how Henry Patterson turned to the “cult criminal element” called “The Outsiders”. Along with “The Outsiders”- Eddie Shauberger who is Henry Patterson’s criminal campaign adviser is learning crimes from Henry Patterson almost as fast as Patterson is learning criminal perjury from Eddie Shauberger, long recognized a conman and crook in Liberty County for the past two decades.
Henry Patterson has been a total embarrassment to Liberty County. No wonder he is rarely seen by most people. When he is gone, Liberty County and the Republican Party can breathe a big sigh of relief- in a new and joyous dawning…
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