Edwards Buys Van Outside Of Hurricane

When? OVER 5 YEARS AGO!
Out-Of-State Publisher Prints Another Deceptive Story




The Mayor of Hurricane, Scott D. Edwards has been regularly harassed by Mark Halburn for years. However, PutnamLIES.com has confirmed that Halburn's latest story is completely deceptive and misleading.

Halburn, who likes to lecture others on ethics and "doing the right thing" does not ever "practice what he preaches."

Hallburn writes, "Our camera took these pictures of one of Mayor Edwards' Netranom Communications vans parked outside his Virginia Street office. As you can see by the closup (sic), the Chevrolet Astro Van was not purchased at Hurricane Chevrolet. Instead, it was purchased at Joe Holland Chevrolet, in South Charleston. That means the City of Hurricane did not benefit from the revenue generated by this sale."

So what? The last time we looked, this is still America where consumers have the freedom to shop wherever they want and buy whatever they want. Just because he is the Mayor doesn't obligate him to only buying from Hurricane merchants.
Joe Holland pays West Virginia taxes. Maybe the salesman lives in Hurricane. We don't know. And frankly, we don't care. He can spend his money how he wants.



Edwards replied to Halburn,
"What I do at Netranom is none of your business, but, since you have nothing better to do, I have purchased many vehicles from Joe Holland Chevrolet for both business and personal use and will continue to do so as we have established a wonderful business relationship over the years. You should consider establishing good relationships with people and businesses instead of being an absolute a$$ to everyone you meet."

Mayor Edwards obviously made a business decision to buy elsewhere from a dealer where he has had a long time sales relationship, rather than with a dealership in Hurricane. Maybe he got a better deal. We don't know.
That's just being a smart businessman, unlike Halburn who, despite being 50 years old, has never held a full-time job for more than a year and filed for bankruptcy in 2004.

Halburn didn't buy a car from a Hurricane dealership either. Fords, Chryslers and Chevrolets are apparently beneath him.
He didn't even buy an American car, choosing instead to buy a cheap Korean sub-compact from a dealership in Huntington..

You know what the worst thing is about his story?
It's not even news.

PutnamLIES.com called Mayor Edwards this afternoon and asked him one question: Was the van pictured purchased recently?
Mayor Edwards replied, "Oh no, definitely not purchased recently. I bought it at least 5 or 6 years ago – maybe longer. The Astro Van has been discontinued for a while now."

As a matter of fact the Astro Van hasn't been made since 2005.

Hallburn is once again deceiving his 29 readers by reporting something that happened over five years ago like it happened yesterday.

Which brings us to the picture.

Let's look at the metadata embedded into the picture.



See where it says Date/time original? That's when the picture was actually taken.
What's that say?
That's right.
March 14 2010.
He took this picture OVER TWO FUCKING YEARS AGO!

Halburn claims his readers were clamoring to know why Edwards bought the van in another county. We claim this is just more harassment by Halburn to satisfy his childish vendetta against Edwards.

Halburn, who is not a West Virginia resident and publishes his hate blog PutnumLive.com from South Carolina, has apparently run out of news releases to plagiarize. He is now reporting non-stories that happened years ago and doesn't bother to inform his readers of that fact. This is what passes for news on PutnumLive.com.

You may recall that Halburn's second ex-wife recently divorced him and threw him out of her house. He was forced to flee the state due to PutnamLIES.com's exposure of his actions.

UPDATE:
In a effort to deflect criticism for his deceptive reporting, Halburn is claiming PutnamLIES.com manipulated the metadata from his picture. We stand by our reporting. We have altered nothing. The information is embedded in the pictures on his site.
On April 26th, Halburn added a second van picture claiming it was taken "a few weeks ago". Yeah, if you consider December 4, 2011 a few weeks ago. Once again it's an old picture. This one's only a 4 month old picture of a 6 year old van. Nice try, Halburn.
Just another reason why Mark Hallburn and PutnumLive.com have ZERO credibility!

Viva Las Vegas, Baby!

The editorial staff of PutnamEYES.com is attending a professional conference in Las Vegas this week. We'll be working late every night on many important matters.

As always, there will be no travel feature unless the pool isn't working.

Update:
Early morning environmental seminar.

I just adore a penthouse view.


"No "IFs" "ANDs' or...."
From last night's Women's Health seminar.


From the Chance and Probability seminar.

Police Called To Grace Drive

First on PutnamLIES.com...
Halburn Returns With A Vengeance

On Tuesday night, March 27, Hurricane police were called to the home of the second ex-wife of Mark Halburn.

Apparently Halburn had returned from the dumpster he sleeps in in South Carolina and showed up at her door and caused a scene.
Halburn is in the middle of a messy divorce. So messy in fact, that no judge in Putnam County will hear the case. It has been assigned to Judge Mike Kelly in Kanawha County.
Halburn was not taken into custody.

Obviously in the three weeks he has been in South Carolina he never found a job, or if he did he's already been fired from it, if he can take off at the beginning of a week and drive over 420 miles and 7 hours just to harass his second ex-wife.

We predict more of this type of behavior in the future.

This is not Halburn's first brush with the law. He has been arrested on numerous charges ranging from trespassing to felony strong arm robbery. He has escaped several more by fleeing the scene before he was taken into custody.

Halburn is a large obese man, and his court ordered mental evaluation suggests that he has the propensity for aggressive behavior and that any threats made by him should be taken seriously and dealt with appropriately.PutnamLIES.com holds no animosity for his second ex-wife. Nobody wishes any harm or ill will to her or her son. The only time she needs to worry is when Mark Halburn is in town.
We know she was put in an extremely difficult position. We applaud her for doing the right thing and getting herself and her child away from this sociopath.
She and her son have our sympathy. We invite her to contact us and tell her story.

We warn his second ex-wife to keep her son away from this animal. He's exactly the type to take a child for visitation and disappear. He should see the child under supervised visitation only.
We also warn her that the most dangerous time for a woman going through a divorce is just before it becomes final.
So just keep it up fatboy. Just remember that West Virginia is a castle doctrine state.

Top 10 Reasons The Flood Insurance Story is Bullshit

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FEMA Requires Flood Insurance
Winfield Resident Bitches About Paying

Crusading out-of-state douchebag Mark Hallburn is
playing his tiny violin to accompany Winfield homeowner Kenneth T. "Buddy" Davidson's whining about being required to carry flood insurance for his home.

Halburn gets it wrong right from the start when he writes:
"As you can see from the Google Earth image, Davidson's home is down the Kanawha River from the locks, just east of Winfield High School."

Wrong again, lumpy. Davidson's house is UPSTREAM from the locks. A fact you might know if you actually lived in West Virginia.

I don’t know where to start with this one…I’ll just take ‘em in order with a Top 10 list.

1. The homeowner is a little less than 3 miles by river upstream of the Winfield Lock, 2.25 miles as the crow flies; not “a block”.





2. If you live near a lock, by definition you live near a river. Wouldn’t any sane person living near a river be concerned about flooding? It’s not like it’s never happened before in West Virginia.

3. The letter is from his lien holder, not FEMA. FEMA only requires flood insurance if you have a federally backed mortgage loan – if you own your home you are not required by the government to have flood insurance.

4. Taxpayers are subsidizing his loan, why can’t they protect their investment from risk in a high risk area?

5. Being that close to a river means the risk of flooding is high; probably higher than his risk of fire. Yet no one complains about paying for fire insurance.

6. Navigation structures DO NOT offer any flood reduction measures; they only maintain a pool for navigation.

7. If there were any flood storage at a lock (again, there isn’t) he is UPSTREAM of the lock where the water would be stored, INCREASING his risk of flooding.

8. When this property floods, you can be assured the homeowner would be demanding a federal bailout from the same FEMA he is complaining about.

9. When this house was bought, the flood risk was apparent to any casual observer. Crying to legitimate media apparently didn’t work so the owner is definitely trying an “alternative” source.

10. The Publisher only said that he called FEMA; more information is needed about where he called, what number, what time he called, etc., etc. He’s been known to make late night calls and act surprised and indignant that no one answered him.

Putnam County places the assessed value of "Buddy's" home at $85,440. Which means the appraised value is $142,400.



It took us all of 5 minutes to find this flood zone map. You could have gotten off your dead ass and done the same thing before buying the house, "Buddy".
Flood insurance on a home of that value is less than a hundred bucks a month.
If that extra C note is going to break you, you've got no business being in that house in the first place. Quit your whining and pay up, pal.

As for you, Halburn, you don't even live in West Virginia. Why should anyone care what you think?
When are you going to stop playing reporter and go away?

Not Edwards' Job To Run Hurricane Marketplace

Mayor Has No Responsibility To Help Strugging Retail Center

The Hurricane Marketplace opened in March of 2007 after
the Putnam County Development Authority sold the land to developer Tricor International Corporation and they completed construction

Through the years, Hurricane Marketplace has filled many of its storefronts with poorly capitalized, poorly managed locally owned businesses. Many of those small businesses have come and gone.



None of this is Mayor Scott Edwards' fault.
It is not Scott Edwards' job to solve the problem of vacancies there. 
He's the mayor not a real estate agent.

Out-of state hate blog publisher Mark Halburn says Edwards doesn't have a plan, that he's flip-flopping and leaving the shopping center on its own. The fact is Edwards doesn't need a plan. It's not his job.

Neither is it the job of the PCDA. It has done its job. They sold the land to Tricor who built the Hurricane Marketplace. 

It's now the developer's job to attract tenants. Why aren't you harassing them?

Here's a thought. How much is the rent at Hurricane Market Place? Most likely it is overpriced in this economy. Maybe potential merchants feel the rents are too high. The size of the store fronts vacant there would represent a small business or mall type store. Those stores are not opening right now. Potential customers do not have the disposable income until the economy rebounds.

Why aren't you harassing Tricor? They manage the property.
It's not the Mayor's problem to solve. Do you not understand this? How much government do you want? Do you just want government to do everything for you? Maybe you haven't noticed, but the economy is SHOT! There is no recovery taking place. Unemployment numbers are cooked through little tricks like not including people unemployed for more than 12 months. Real unemployment is closer to 15% or better and it's sky high for 18-35 year olds who lack experience, regardless of education level.

The only thing government CAN and SHOULD be able to do is lure business by creating an environment that stimulates growth, the rest is up to a number of other variables. Entitleists like you are the reason that America is in the shape it is in today.  
You are dumber than a bag of hammers.

Why is it that you always have complaints, but never a single viable, realistic solution? Moron.

Halburn has moved out of the state, but continues to harass Mayor Edwards via text. It's OK for him to send texts to Mayor Edwards with inane ideas, but when Mayor Edwards sends Halburn texts Halburn calls them "harassment text messages."

When PutnamLIES.com asked Mayor Edwards about any plans he told us, "I have no plans for the Marketplace because it is a private business. Private businesses make their own decisions on who they rent to, how much the rent is, etc. As the Mayor, I do what I am supposed to do. If Halburn is such a brilliant businessman, why didn't he buy it and rent it cheap or whatever he thought he should do to get it rented? He never paid his B&O taxes the entire time he lived here anyway. Halburn should simply not worry about what the owners of Hurricane Marketplace do or how they conduct their business. He doesn't even live here anymore. His opinion doesn't matter at all."

Halburn also admits that he comes from a long line of drunks and mental defectives. He doesn't trust himself to stop once he starts drinking. As you can see from his appearance he obviously has no self control.

Halburn says more businesses mean more B&O taxes for the city. That's funny considering Halburn NEVER paid one dime of B&O taxes to the City of Hurricane in his entire residence here, despite having his office in and running his business from his second ex-wife's house.

Halburn then makes more ludicrous suggestions on how to run the business and the town.



He continues to beat the dead horse of having the PCDA to donate its land above Dollar Tree for a park. Except as PutnamLIES.com has pointed out previously, this takes commercial property off the tax rolls forever.
Which means the taxpayers lose twice.

If it wasn't his idea and the PCDA did something like that, he'd criticize them for throwing the public's money away by giving away a piece of property that was to be used for development.

 

Halburn then gets to his solution for everything. Buy his second ex-wife's property.

Then he starts on us. "A "trash blog" that some say is funded by Edwards calls the empty storefronts a "national problem" caused by the recession. This isn't true. In Ashland, Kentucky, Barboursville, Nitro, Princeton, South Point, Ohio, and South Ridge, retail stores next to Walmarts have filled the shopping centers and are doing great levels of business. Hurricane stands alone with this problem."

Some say this site is funded by Edwards? Some say? YOU say. If you have any evidence of that, prove it. Show us your evidence.
There is none, except what exists in your own fevered imagination.
You've made the same allegation in the past except then it was Joe Haynes that was doing the funding. Which is it? Joe or Scott? Or both?

How about neither?
Because that's what the real truth is. We get absolutely no money from anybody to do this. It costs nothing for us to run this site. Nothing.
Maybe someone called "Wendy James" from "People Against Cyber Bullies" told you that she was able to find the site registered to some name we made up in Hurricane and she was researching bank transfers. That was bullshit, because that was us too. You got taken in again, you cocksucker.

You're just angry that we helped your second ex-wife see exactly what kind of beast you really are and she threw you out.
How many of those shopping centers have had local businesses open stores there in the last 5 years? Then you say Hurricane is the only place that has this problem.

You're delusional Halburn. This problem has nothing to do with Scott Edwards or the PCDA, shithead. This problem IS national. With your boy Obama running the economy into the toilet, malls across the country have vacant storefronts. Almost double the vacancy rate of 6 years ago. The economy is in the shitter.
Why don't you admit what your REAL agenda is?
You hope it will make the value of your second ex-wife's property increase .
Before the Walmart was built, and without authority to do so, you refused an offer for that property thinking you could hold out for more money. You were wrong and now she's stuck with a piece of land no one wants.

Your vendetta against Edwards and the PCDA stems from this.

Your only concern with the vacancy rate is that it lessens the non-existant demand for your second ex-wife's property.
If the vacancy rate was 0%, you'd be complaining about the excessive noise all of the traffic generated.
The ONLY reason you want to see more development is to make your second ex-wife's property more valuable in hopes of getting a cut from a big profit. Period.
Remember the church and the video gaming club that called you about locating there last April? Look at what date it was. April 1! Did you seriously think that was real? It was us, and you printed it, dummy!
How about that Denny's that you assured your (29) readers that was to be built? How's the breakfast there?
Oh yeah. That's right. It hasn't been built.

This isn't about stupid politicians. It's about one stupid, self centered, entitleist and that's Mark Hallburn.

Perhaps if YOU were not constantly reporting such negative stories about Hurricane more companies would be more willing to locate here.

A guy that can't find or hold a real job has no right to tell anyone how to run their business.
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WE WIN!

MARK HALBURN IS GONE!

Even though Halburn has left the state, he doesn't have a job in North or South Carolina. He claims he will work on PutnumLive.com from down south.

No matter, PutnamLIES.com will be here one day longer than his cluttered hate blog.

Get The Fuck Out Of Town!

Monday, 2:30 PM Update:
One Set Of Flip Flops In The Snow

It's 30 degrees, the wind is blowing, it's snowing and Shitbag is wearing shorts and sandals.
He nearly busted his ass twice on the U-haul ramp.

We'll have updates when they are available.

Monday, 7:30 PM Update:
Mark Halburn has finally fled West Virginia. He stopped at City Hall tonight (in the moving van) and told City Manager Ben Newhouse he was "out of here". And during the City Council meeting, he texted Mayor Scott Edwards with "adios". He was then seen heading towards Charleston in his U-Haul. Exactly as PutnamLIES.com predicted. Slinking away in the night like a whipped dog.
It's time to celebrate in Hurricane!

Tuesday 9:45 PM Update: 
West Virginia police agencies have received calls from an officer with the South Carolina Capitol Police asking questions about Halburn. It appears that he has been harassing the shit out of all kinds of people at the SC Capitol. They were told what we have all been through dealing with the moron over the past 5 years. The WV officer also offered his condolences to the State of SC.

PutnamLIES.com can confirm that the State of South Carolina, the State of North Carolina, the State of North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission AND the US Department of Homeland Security have all visited here searching for information about Mark Halburn.