Too Much Dirt: 2010

A List of Who to Vote for, and Why,

in Boone County, Kentucky

And also,

A List of Who NOT to Vote for, and Why NOT,

2 November 2010

James Duvall, M. A

Director and Chief Political Analyst

Big Bone University

Nec ossa solum, sed etiam sanguinem.

Judge-Executive

You should vote for Judge Terry Roberts. Roberts has prior political experience, and though his opponent has tried to characterized him as incompentent and a proponent of high taxes, this is just Moore propaganda. No one can out-tax, and out-spend, and out-snooker the taxpayers any more than Mr. Moore. Since Mr. Roberts is an Independent he can be voted for by members of every party. He harks back to a younger, better Boone County, and has a vision of a smaller more practical government for our county.

The primary reason, in my opinion, that everyone should vote for Judge Roberts is that Judge Moore is totally crooked. He is a KACo controlled, money squandering, false compensating tax rate, free spender. We need to get this corrupt RINO and the rest of his tribe out of Boone County government. If Moore has more experience in office he does not have nearly enough experience at HONEST government. I have been compiling a list of reasons NOT to vote for Gary Moore. There are 27 items on the list so far. I plan to publish it in the next few days. I particularly hate the way he treats women who work for him.

Matt Dedden. County Commissioner

My wife first called my attention to Mr. Dedden saying she was going to vote for him because he had hand-made signs. This sounded cost-effective enough for me. (Perhaps the only thing better would have been no signs at all! But I certainly don't object.) I have met Matt Dedden, and approve his ideas and style. I recommend him as a candidate for whom you can vote with confidence.

Charlie Walton. Commissioner

He is so much better than his opponent that we can forgive him for being a career school principal.

Dictrict Judge Rick Brueggemann

This is the big race, and in some ways the most important of all. Rick is a smart hard-working guy who has already been of tremendous benefit to Boone County taxpayers in leading the fight against the Parks Tax, and further in assisting in the fight against House Bill 44, the notorious false "compensating tax rate". He not only deserves the position in his own right, his opponent is CLEARLY the wrong choice. His wife Linda Talley Smith is the Commonwealth Prosecutor and there is tremendous potential for conflicts of interest between the offices of Judge and Prosecutor. The Prosecutor should not be able to ask for a search warrant over the breakfast table. In addition all arraignments are generally brought before District Judges, and of course they are all requested by her office. This is the busiest circuit in the entire Commonwealth, and recusal would create disorder in our already overcroweded dockets. For this and other reasons you should vote for Rick Brueggemann 2 November; that way Boone County wins!

Kenny Brown. County Clerk

Kenny will create history when he is elected. He will be the first Republican to ever hold the office since 1799, the year the county was created. (No the office was not held by a Republican that year either.) Kenny is friendly, smart, hard-working, and extremely customer service oriented. This office needs some new blood, and Kenny will bring his ideas of service and integrity into Boone County government.

PVA Cindy Rich (Property Valuation Administrator)

Cindy and Kenny Brown teamed up to fight and beat the enormously expensive Parks Tax that the current administration, and the parks department tried to foust on Boone County. She has also begun the process of repealing the false compensating tax rate, which can effectively double your tax bill, while officials say the rate has gone down. I have proposed that Cindy run for Judge-Executive next term, and who would be an able successor to Judge Roberts. She will also be able to clean up the mess left by Gary, if we should be so unfortunate as to have him for four more. Vote for Cindy Rich, PVA, as a mark of appreciation, even if you don't vote for anyone else on this list!

Rand Paul. Senator

It is important to return a Republican Senator from this District. The Democrat controlled Congress is fast stampeding the country into disaster. Dr. Rand Paul will not be merely a conservative vote, he will be a leader in the fight against injustice, stupidity, greed, and the oil-spill disaster of gushing government spending sprees.

A Republican Controlled Congress is the answer to the sorry Obama. I hope they have the guts to impeach him and send him back to Kenya where he was born, along with all the other illegals.

We need Geoff. What he says makes sense. We cannot afford to lose any Republicans in Congress right now, or there might never be another election.

It is time for the people to rise up and take back the country. Let's do so while there is still a chance to do it peacefully. Any further encroachment on individual rights will require overthrow of an intolerable regime, which cannot be accomplished without the loss of much blood and treasure. Act now, or act later when the odds are against success; there is no time like the present for effective effort.

Michael Helmig. Not for Sheriff

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I do not recommend that you vote for Helmig. Mike Steward ran against him in the primary, and would have been a much better choice. Helmig is not planning to fill out his term, and he has a terrible track record. There are a number of lawsuits against him for illegal activities and a charge of misprison of felony. He paid more than $1 million to settle a lawsuit by Deputy Christine Heckel for sexual assault in his office, and this was covered up by Gary Moore's office, and only released under order under the Freedom of Information Act. Helmig should be aware that the Citizens of Boone County do not approve such behavior.

Me. James Duvall, M. A.

Boone County Soil District Conservation Supervisor.

Write-in candidate for a non-paid, non-partisan position to advise landowners on soil, water, and wildlife conservation. My slogan is: "Boone County: Too much dirt. Not enough soil."

I will do this job to the best of my ability. I recommend myself only because I am determined to save the taxpayers as much as possible. I ran for this office at the request of the Grassroots Teaparty of Boone County, and intend to consult the Teaparty and the taxpayers, and (any one else who will talk and listen) to keep everyone informed of all that this board is doing. If you don't want to vote for me I will understand, but I do suggest you vote for Roberts, Brown, Rich, Brueggemann, Rand, and Davis, Dedden, and Walton, even if you don't. This will greatly benefit you and Boone County. I think the real solution to the problem of too much garbage is to recycle Moore!

Thank you.

James Duvall, M. A.
Professor of Saline Soils, Inventor of the Bottomless Trash Can,
& Chief Engineer of the Zero Dollars Sanitation Project (ZDSP)
Big Bone University: A Think Tank, Research Institute, & Public Policy Center
Big Bone, Kentucky
Nec ossa solum, sed etiam sanguinem.Typed 28 Oct 2010.
　

Such an ugly bird a-croaking
Do I hear the creature joking,
As a question he doth roar?

"Shall Gary last another four?" —
Quoth the Raven: "Never Moore!"

(Snitched from the po(l)etical works of Eager Alien Poet)

Grassroots Teaparty of Boone County Forever!

SubStation II, Dreamstreet, Florence, KY

Theodore Roszak, that intelligent, successful, neo-fascistic Greennik, wrote the following perceptive commentary concerning the Vietnam Memorial:

The Vietnam Memorial in Washington may be, aesthetically speaking, the single most understated public monument in history. For that reason it is worth pondering its one distinctive feature. It lists all the names. Rather than presenting an idealized figure or a symbolic group over the grave of a great national agony, the wall simply lists the names. And while there are only the names, the public that comes to view the wall has from the beginning sought to bestow a personal value on these names, bringing photos, mementos, flowers, messages, standing in grieving silence before the one name that matters, reaching out to touch it, to plant a kiss. These tributes have become a part of the wall; its very featurelessness invites decoration.

The names are not there as they might be on tombstones where necessity requires it. A monument is meant to express a nation's collective sense of a great event's importance. The wall does so by stripping the event of everything that has been used for that purpose in the past: the platitudes, icons, patriotic emblems. Nothing is left but the terrible reality. The names of the dead.

Theodore Roszak, The Voice of the Earth (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), p. 263.

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