AAAA ACT ABC Cover Letter

“Pleadings”

Campaign in Opposition to Reelection of Justice Elliott
“Spike” Maynard to West Virginia Supreme Court

“Recall Spike”


Members of the State Bar:

Lawyers statewide have an affirmative duty under the Rules of Professional Conduct to clean up their profession.

Recently, West Virginia has made national headlines over the Rich Rodriguez fiasco, the Heather Bresch scandal and the Maynard/Blankenship debacle in Monaco on the French Riviera.

The embarrassment over these public affairs is directly attributable to members of the State Bar abusing the public trust for professional gain.

The ABC NIGHTLINE segment linked here vividly displays the national perception of public corruption sweeping our state. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcJkbAxd27k&feature=related

Likewise, the ACT Foundation TV spot depicts an almost farcical display of judicial arrogance unknown to our jurisprudence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfJLXjfnN2k.

Justice Maynard only recognized his outrageous conflict of interest after he was caught red-handed, and red-faced, in his entangled personal relationship with Don Blankenship, the CEO of Massey Coal, on vacation together on the French Riviera.

Who does not know of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal articles lambasting West Virginia for the sad—indeed tragic-- state of its judicial affairs.

You may all think it’s “silly” and “politics”, but Justice Maynard’s gallivanting around Monaco with a litigant appearing before him in court directly reflects on the entire membership of the State Bar.

You all know it “stinks to high heavens”.

Do something positive for your profession by recalling Spike Maynard. He no longer deserves to hold the seat of Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.






“Pleadings” is an online newsletter published by the Headwater Recreational Trust, Inc., and its sole owner, Michael C. Farber, as part of its “Campaign in Opposition to the Reelection of Elliott Maynard to the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.” The Campaign is funded as an “independent expenditure” without authorization or coordination with any candidate or political action committee in the 2008 Primary Election.