[WCHSTV] MARMET, W.Va. -- A three-judge panel has voted to remove Marmet Mayor Bill Pauley from office.
The panel voted on Thursday, according to Kanawha County Commissioner Kent Carper.
Pauley faces removal after 99 residents signed a petition saying they wanted him removed.
The complaint says Pauley encouraged ineligible voters who weren't Marmet residents to cast votes during early voting in 2013.
Pauley entered a conciliation agreement, similar to a plea bargain, with the state Ethics Commission Sept. 29 over two counts of violating the state Ethics Act for personal gain.
Pauley has been mayor of Marmet for 37 years. In November, he denied any wrongdoing to the newspaper.
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I can't find any articles that name his party registration which means Democrat
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Saw the headline. Assumed the mayor was actually a marmot. Thought - must be one of the best mayors in the country. What could have happened?
Note: Was in Talkeetna last Fall. Met hizzonor. Look it up.
[NBCNEWS] Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Walter Q. Gresham ... , who struggles with perceptions of dishonesty in polls, said Thursday that she doesn't believe she has ever told a lie and vowed to do her best to be honest going forward.
Jimmy Carter ... the worst president ever. Maybe the second worst. The votes aren't all in yet... famously pledged to the American people: "I will never lie to you." Clinton didn't quite go there when asked during an interview with CBS News if she could give a similar promise.
"You're asking me to say, 'Have I ever [lied]?' I don't believe I ever have. I don't believe I ever have. I don't believe I ever will. I am going to do the best I can to level with the American people," Clinton told anchor Scott Pelley.
Clinton also faced some questions about honesty during MSNBC's Democratic town hall in Las Vegas Thursday night.
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A she-pastor preached to her choir,
"You know I ain't no kind of liar!"
"We truly believe you
And wouldn't deceive you --
Your pantsuit is no ways on fire."
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"You're asking me to say, 'Have I ever [lied]?' I don't believe I ever have. I don't believe I ever have. I don't believe I ever will. I am going to do the best I can to level with the American people."
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she doesn't believe she has ever told a lie and vowed to do her best to be honest going forward
Chuckling was heard coming out of her other head's mouth.
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"It's not a lie if you believe it" -- George Costanza
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You're asking me to say, 'Have I ever [lied]?
I cannot imagine anyone asking anyone to say,
"Have I ever?" or even asking someone to say: 'Have I ever [lied]?
My Doctor has asked me to say "Aah" but that is the closest I have come to such a strange request.
So that very statement is probably a lie!
If you suspect the January CNN piece on Saudi-Iran was no coincidence and the beltway party has big plans for Hudson Institute's Distinguished Fellow former Congressman Mike Rogers, you may just be correct.
The Justice Department's top watchdog is considering whether to review the legality of any payments that the U.S. government may have made for the release of Army Sgt. The Traitor Bowe Bergdahl and what role the FBI played in efforts to free the soldier from captivity in Pakistan, The Daily Beast has learned. Of course, the Chump, er Champ, didn't know anything about it.
The department's inspector general, Michael Horowitz, wrote a letter to a member of Congress earlier this month saying that he had opened a "preliminary inquiry" into the matter, which concerns allegations that the U.S. government paid a ransom for Bergdahl's freedom, and that in February 2014 the FBI sent a representative to the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan expecting Bergdahl to be released.
Bergdahl didn't show up and wasn't freed until May of that year, when the Obama administration traded five Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the soldier, who had deserted left his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was captured.
The Daily Beast obtained a copy of Horowitz's letter, which hasn't been previously reported. The inspector general's inquiry, which has not yet led to a full investigation, marks the latest development in the still-unfolding story of Bergdahl's capture, his time as a prisoner of the Taliban-aligned Haqqani Network, and what steps U.S. officials took to ultimately win his release.
Horowitz gave no indication when he would reach a final decision on whether to open a full investigation. He said that his office has been in touch with the FBI. Leave Hillary alone or we prosecute the FBI?
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And the FBI did that all on its lonesome? I want to see the email chain.
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Whenever I am given verbal direction by a client to do a questionable action I always send an email stating the requested action and asking for confirmation that I heard that direction correctly.
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The FBI budget has funds for foreign hostage ransoms? Riiigghht
must be getting too close to the Beest's indictment
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[THEHILL] A spokesperson for Pope Francis clarified the pontiff's criticism of Donald Trump's plan to build a border wall, saying that the remark wasn't "a personal attack."
On Thursday, the pope told news hounds on his plane that building walls "is not Christian."
But the pontiff's spokesperson said it's a comment he's made before, adding that the pope wants to avoid weighing in on American politics.
"The Pope said what we already know, if we followed his teaching and positions: we shouldn't build walls, but bridges," the spokesperson said in a statement, according to CNBC. "It's his generic view, coherent with the nature of solidarity from the gospel."
"This wasn't, in any way, a personal attack or an indication on who to vote for," the spokesperson continued. "The Pope has clearly said he didn't want to get involved in the electoral campaign in the US and also said that he said what he said on the basis of what he was told [about Trump], hence giving him the benefit of the doubt."
During a Thursday rally in South Carolina, Trump needled the pontiff for his criticism and said that he publicly questioned his faith.
"For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful. I'm proud to be a Christian and as president, I will not allow Christianity to be consistently attacked and weakened, unlike what is happening now with our current president," he said.
But at a CNN town hall later that night, the real estate mogul said he respects Pope Francis, adding that "he has a lot of personality."
"I think he said something much softer than was originally reported by the media," he said.
[CNN] Nobody wants to tangle with the Pope -- not even Donald Trump.
One of the more unlikely battles to jolt a presidential campaign emerged Thursday when Pope Francis said Trump is "not Christian" if he wants to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump, true to form, shot back that the pontiff's comments were "disgraceful."
But by Thursday evening, the GOP front-runner was doing something unusual: de-escalating a fight.
"I don't like fighting with the Pope," Trump said at a GOP town hall in South Carolina hosted by CNN. "I like his personality; I like what he represents."
Trump called the Pope a "wonderful guy" and blamed the day's drama on the press.
"I don't think this is a fight," Trump said. "I think he said something much softer than was originally reported by the media."
Trump added he would meet with the Pope "anytime he wants."
On Friday, a Vatican front man said that, although the news hound at the papal presser asked Francis specifically about Trump, the Pope's answer should be interpreted more generally.
"It didn't intend to be in any way neither a personal attack nor an indication in how to vote," the Rev. Federico Lombardi told Vatican Radio.
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This article leaves out the best rejoinder from Trump's campaign:
“If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS’s ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the Pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been President because this would not have happened,”
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Also, Trump being a Presbyterian means he's not in the Pope's Catholic flock. The pope is crossing a line between churches just like he crossed national lines.
That said everybody in and involved this terms race is quickly approaching the calmness and sanity levels of another candidate for Prez - Libertarian John McAfee of anti-virus, possible murder and drug fame. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee
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A popemobile covered with bullet proof glass, a fifty man armed security team, and a money grubbing racket that is the envy of even El Chapo ~ does not portray a lot of faith in the entity the Pope himself often refers to as his "Savior".
In my own (prejudiced ?) opinion, I consider the Pope's reckless words and actions to be an embarrassment to his church, as are Donald Trumps words an equal embarrassment to his religion and peers.
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King Pigeon filled britches with riches
From swarms of his miserable midges:
He'd save them from eagles
And ravens and seagulls
And build them invisible bridges!
No offense intended to Church, much less Dove. Just fooling around with "vestigial Roman Emperor" and out pops a tale of birds and bugs.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[NBCNEWS] Democratic presidential front-runner 
