Halburn Runs More Fraudulent Ads
WV SOS Investigating
In Mark Halburn's world, the old saying "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" is his philosophy.
And during the election season is where he really shows his underhanded colors.
Halburn began the election season by running ads on his cluttered hate blog, PutnumLive, from the same political hacks that he usually does. Joshua and Helen Martin, both Democrats, a mother-son tag team whose only apparent qualification to hold office is being related to a dead office holder, had their ads run on PutnumLive during the primaries, apparently at no cost. Their expenditure reports show that they only paid for an after election "thank you" ad.
This time though, it looks like Mom and Junior both ponied up for their ads.
Jeff "Barbie" Eldridge only paid for a post election "thank you" ad. Josh Stowers actually did pay for his primary ads, so he's got that going for him. Neither of those two candidates' first general election expenditure forms show that they've paid for the ads Halburn is running now.
Now to this race's shenanigans.
Halburn is at the end of a very messy divorce, where he has harangued the courts and every other branch of government for the past year. Any politician that disagrees with him is going to be "punished" by him running an ad for his opponent.
Halburn followed Governor Earl Ray Tomblin to the UMW Labor Day Picnic, where Tomblin blew him off and laughed at him, which enraged Halburn.
So he began by running a Bill Maloney for Governor ad, with a "Paid For By Supporters Of Bill Maloney" disclaimer. According to the WV Secretary of State, there is no such group.
A Maloney spokesperson tells PutnamLIES.com that they did not pay for the ad and it is not authorized to run on Halburn's blog.
Halburn attended the grand opening of the Putnam County Republican Headquarters and harassed one of the judicial candidates so much that the candidate finally left.
He did the same thing when he attended a candidate forum in South Charleston with his buddies the child molester and the sleazy preacher.
Halburn went and listened to everything they said and then tried to make the candidates promise to kick Putnam County Family Court Judge William Watkins off the bench if they were elected to the Supreme Court.
He has harassed the Supreme Court and its employees endlessly since his divorce proceedings began. Halburn was previously banned from the Supreme Court after a prior harassment incident.
Supreme Court candidate Allen Loughry's ad also appears on Halburn's blog. His is allegedly paid for by a group called "People for Accountability In The Courts." Loughry's campaign confirms that they did not authorize or place the ad.
Supreme Court candidate Letitia Chafin's ad says it is paid for by "Supporters Of Court Transparency." Again, this ad is not authorized by her campaign.
We wonder though if that transparency includes mentioning her trophy husband Truman's federal indictments?
Neither of these two groups are registered with the West Virginia Secretary of State's office as required by law.
Neither are authorized by either campaign.
Could it be that they are nothing more than something that Mark Halburn has made up? PutnamLIES.com says that is exactly the case.
A source tells PutnamLIES.com that the Secretary of State is now investigating this violation of election laws.
Some speculate that Halburn runs the ads as "contributions" without the candidates' knowledge. Or that he runs the ads and sends the campaign a bill which he then hopes they pay unwittingly.
Last year during the Gubernatorial primaries, PutnamLIES.com exposed the fact that Halburn illegally ran unpaid ads for both Natalie Tennant and Betty Ireland on his opinion blog. Those ads appeared without the consent and without payment by their respective campaigns.
And that it appears to be a long standing practice of his, running over several election cycles.
This is just the kind of sleazy, underhanded, biased reporting that Hallburn has become notorious for. People have come to expect this type of unethical coverage from Mark Halburn and PutnumLive.com.
Any candidate that would run ads with Mark Halburn and PutnumLive.com is not fit to hold office.
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