IDK, My BFF Spike Maynard???

“A couple dozen e-mails” between state Supreme Court Chief Justice Spike Maynard and Don Blankenship exist, a Supreme Court official testified Wednesday.

That Supreme Court official was Steve Canterbury, who was Spike Maynard’s campaign director in 1996, and all but Spike’s de facto campaign director this year (from his desk in the State Capitol, mind you).

So when Canterbury says “a couple dozen,” you can be pretty sure that that just means dozens, dude. Dozens of emails between Chief Justice Spike Maynard, and an individual who happens to have had a 40 million dollar case pending before him.

I’m not going to say that I dropped the ball, but. Back in October, I wrote (yet another) post where I expressed how I tend to spontaneously vomit whenever I think about the multi-million dollar smear job Don Blankenship used to install the patently oafish Brent Benjamin on the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. I called the post “IDK, My BFF Don Blankenship?”

But then a funny thing happened.

Thanks to a few brave souls, I began to learn — remember, really — that Spike Maynard literally is Don Blankenship’s BFF. They’ve been friends since childhood. People at the Court talk about how Blankenship calls his office daily, and if Maynard isn’t there, he said “that’s okay, I’ll call his cellphone.” During secret court conferences, Maynard would leave to talk to Don and get his approval on his vote. Then he’ll come back in the room and say, “yeah, it’s okay, I can vote that way,” or “no way, there’s no way I can do that.” He’s even been known to say “my constituents didn’t sent me here to do that.

Mike Garrison might have been my white whale, but I’m here to tell you that Spike Maynard loosing his reelection will have a much more significant effect on the whole of West Virginia. For reasons I doubt you understand.

Spike is was the most corrupt justice on the most political supreme court in the United States. But thanks to the voters, he’ll soon have to surf for internet porn on his own dime, and on his own computer, just like the rest of us.

Profiles in Surbage

I would like to draw attention to the hypocrisy Don Surber demonstrates when he chides Angelina Jolie for banning Fox News from the premier of her movie A Mighty Heart when Don himself has banned nearly all negative commenters from his glorified myspace page blog.

Also according to Don, by demanding that reporters not ask her about her personal life, Angelina was, and I quote, “Desecrating Daniel Pearl.” Yeah. Because Don obviously knows that if Daniel Pearl hadn’t been murdered, he would have really wanted to ask Angelina about her & Brad’s smokin’ sex life. How dare she desecrate Danny like that.

Crossposted to the Surbinator.

See, I Told You Bill Charnock was a Corrupt, Lying Douche

I wanted to let things die down little before doing my “See, I Told You Bill Charnock Was a Corrupt, Lying Douche” post. I’m complicated like that.

To recap, after a long investigation he first denied the existence of, Kanawha County Prosecutor and spoiled brat extraordinaire Bill Charnock resigned to escape indictment.

This, after months of trash-talking and lying to the public about how it was all just some sort of politically driven witch-hunt, man. Oh, innocent until proven guilty for sure. But the fact that he ran his mouth like a school yard bully — only to quit his job and leave the state like a little pussy boy rather than face any of those so-called “bogus” charges speaks volumes.

Obviously, what pisses me off about guys like this is that they’re always the the very first to visit the harshest of judgments upon others — but because they’re born with a silver spoon in their ass, they’ll never have to face consequences for anything. Not yet anyway. Hey Daddy! Tell me about the time you resigned in shame to escape corruption charges!

At least none of my family members have ever had to resign in shame to avoid an indictment.

Everybody Hates William

I sure hope you’ve been following this.

If you’re wondering what awful name, a name “too crude to actually post up here or even link to the definition” that Jim McKay’s wife called William Stewart, there it is.

Seeing how this……is a jack nut, it makes one think that it’s Stewart who has the dirty mind.

But his teeth sure are clean!

Charnock, still rockin’ the spoiled rich kid thing…

So did anyone see the article the other day about the rumored investigation into Kanawha County Prosecutor Bill Charnock?

I can’t find the link to the story, but what really jumped out was Charnock’s carefully worded “denial” that there’s any sort of investigation going on: “I do not recall…” and “I have no reason to believe” are magic words that should have a pretty clear meaning to, uh…first year law students, anyone who’s seen All the President’s Men, and regular viewers of Law and Order.

That’s not a denial at all. Rumors of Charnock being investigated for all sorts of things continue to build momentum, and he just added to it.

The other thing that stood out was Charnock’s characterization of this as “petty partisan crap”–like he’s some maverick republican outsider, and not a member of a powerful and connected Charleston family.

Seriously, could this guy do any more to sound like a sanctimonious and spoiled little brat?

OH, SNAP! Charnockgate begins…OR…Drinking and driving is bad, unless your daddy is rich and named Charnock.

Scott Finn of the Gaz comes forth with a story I’ve heard rumors about for a long time. It seems that when Kanawha County Prosecutor Bill Charnock was at his old job at the state Prosecuting Attorneys Institute, they played it fast & loose with grant dollars.

When they realized employee Fred Giggenbach wasn’t spending enough time on work related to the grant, Giggenbach “amended” his old time sheets to show he spent 352 hours on approved cases rather than the whopping 85 hours he had previously indicated.

Sayeth the Gazz, “When asked about the timesheets Sunday, Charnock said, “Fred Giggenbach did nothing wrong. It’s that simple.”

Good call.

Honestly, I’m not fond of Charnock because he’s another Charleston trust fund baby. He’s also ridiculously hard on people arrested for DUI. No pleading to a lesser charge, and no home confinement, ever. You will be spending 24 hours in jail.

Which is totally ironic, seeing how how Bill Charnock was once arrested for DUI himself. Supposedly all courthouse records of this episode have vanished, but a search of the Gazz archives brings up this little nugget:

Publication: THE CHARLESTON GAZETTE
Published: 08/10/1992
Page: P4A
Byline: FANNY SEILER

…William J. Charnock, son of former Charleston city attorney John Charnock, was charged with drunken driving on July 17 after he had an accident on his way home in Charleston. The 23-year-old Charnock is working this summer as an intern in the Kanawha County prosecutor’s office. His father said William Charnock, a law school student, took a breathalizer test and has legal representation. John Charnock was on vacation when the accident occurred…

My old college roommate was arrested for a DUI. He spent a night in jail, plead down to reckless driving, gave up his license for what seemed like forever, and 5 years later, he still has to jump through hoops because of the mistake he made 5 years ago.

My roommate’s Dad (still) works at Walmart. Bill Charnock’s Dad is a connected Charleston attorney. I see how it works.