The Llano Ledger
Newsletter Text V59
This Website Is Full. Starting With The December 25, 2000 Newsletter,
All Future Editions Will Be Posted In The Llano Ledger 2, Found By
Clicking http://maxpages.com/llanoledger2.
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*************October 9, 2000 Newsletter Continued************
Not surprisingly, her office is the cash cow for the County. More
troubling, credible sources have repeatedly complained of wildly
excessive fines and court costs imposed, -- often to find traffic
violations were never forwarded to the State. Again, readers should
clearly understand these are only credible allegations, not proven
fact. There is, however, a crying need for a criminal investigation to
determine the truth.
Sadly, a false affidavit sworn to in front of a corrupt "judge"
means absolutely nothing. -- An all too frequent occurrence across the
United States. Apparently, it no longer matters whether the guilty are
brought to justice, -- as long as someone, anyone, is nailed. Worse
yet, a plea bargain is often no bona fide admission of guilt. It's
often done in the interest of expediency, due to poor legal advice, or
a lack of defense funds to properly investigate. Tragically, "judges"
are far from impartial and are in fact in bed with corrupt law
enforcement. Due process? What the hell's that?
Readers are reminded of the Kingsland American Legion Oktoberfest
Food Sale & Dance to be held Saturday, October 14, 2000. Details
can be found on Information And Services. Be sure to attend and support
a truly worthy cause. Posting of next week's edition, October 16, 2000,
will begin shortly. Look for it at the bottom of the Table of Contents
on Newsletter Text V61. The visitor count stands in excess of 31,800,
-- another excellent week and true testament to the shameless
willingness of the readership to "steal" this writer's labor. You ought
to be proud of yourselves. Nothing quite like "character", is there?
Readers are advised this writer receives no renumeration from the
banner and pop-up advertising. They only pay for the website itself.
There is no personal compensation, nor are there desperately needed
funds for investigative expenses. Non-profit and outrageously unfunded
by the readership it serves due to greed, gut-wrenching fear, and the
continuing relentless intimidation of corrupt and abusive County
officials, this publication remains as always beholden to NO ONE.
Tim Chorney, Publisher
The Llano Ledger
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Publisher's Note: Since the October 2, 2000 Newsletter will be
long, involved, and cover several topics, posting has begun early. Be
sure to read the current September 25, 2000 Newsletter located on
Newsletter Text V58. This website is over 85% full. To conserve space,
the Lawson Deposition is continued in the Llano Ledger 2 and can be
found by clicking http://maxpages.com/llanoledger2. T.C. September 25,
2000.
*************October 2, 2000**************
Interestingly, the following unsolicited letter was received Saturday, September 23, 2000:
Office of the Attorney General
State of Texas
P.O. Box 12548
Austin, Tx. 78711
September 22, 2000
Mr. Tim Chorney
Route 2, Box 464A
Buchanan Dam, Tx. 72609 [78609]
Dear Mr. Chorney:
This will acknowledge receipt of your letter asking this office for
assistance in obtaining information you requested from the Llano
Memorial Healthcare System. Your letter was assigned ID#141405.
Please know that the attorney general has the statutory authority
to enforce only certain provisions of the Public Information Act solely
by means of seeking a writ of mandamus. Section 552.321 of the act
reads in pertinent part:
"A requestor or the attorney general may file suit for a writ of
mandamus compelling a governmental body to make information available
for public inspection if the governmental body refuses to request an
attorney general's decision as provided by Subchapter G or refuses to
supply public information or information that the attorney general has
determined is public information."
When a governmental body responds to a request for public
information by stating that they have no responsive information, or
that they have provided all the responsive information that is
available, we must accept their statement. In these circumstances, it
is not required that the governmental body request an Attorney General
ruling. The Office of the Attorney General has neither the resources or
the personnel to do on-site inspections of records held by another
governmental office. Therefore, based on the documents provided by the
Llano Memorial Healthcare System, we are unable to be of assistance and
are closing our file on this matter. I have enclosed the hospital's
letter for your convenience.
Please do not hesitate to contact this office if you should have any
questions regarding this letter, or if we can be of assistance on any
other open records matter.
Sincerely,
David Mendoza
Legal Assistant, Open Records Division
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In response, the following e-mail was sent September 25, 2000:
David Mendoza, Legal Assistant
Open Records Division
Austin, Tx.
Re: ID#141405
September 25, 2000
Dear Mr. Mendoza:
In response to your "canned" form letter of September 22, 2000,
kindly understand no request for assistance was made to the "Open"
Records Division in regard to ID#141405. E-mailed correspondence,
however, was sent to you and your apparently equally corrupt and inept
colleagues to inform all that LMHS stonewalling has not ceased, but in
fact increased.
This publication, however, expects no assistance from a State
bureaucracy obviously beholden to our apparently corrupt and abusive
District Attorney and County Attorney. It's equally obvious your
computer-generated form letter of September 22 was gutlessly sent to
cover your collective asses.
Why not spare the taxpayers the expense? Most pointedly, unless
there is indeed an ongoing criminal investigation unknown to this
writer and the public, the lack of action by the Attorney General in
this matter and others is indefensible. A copy of my September 20, 2000
e-mailed response to the Administrator's letter of September 18, 2000
has once again been included for your convenience. Why not read it this
time?
Equally pointedly, where is the objectivity and lack of bias from
your corrupt agency? After all, my response to Parisi's letter was
never considered by the "Open" Records Division before rendering a
ruling. Nor did anyone from your agency seek further information from
this publication. Conveniently, you took the "word" of an Administrator
who had demonstrably lied earlier about the existence of Marble Falls
Community Hospital donor records in his "open" records response dated
June 14, 2000. Evidence of the existence of the records was provided to
your agency by this publication. In fact, LMHS Foundation Treasurer
Lance Center subsequently admitted the existence of those records. Yet,
you and your apparently corrupt and inept cronies to date have done
absolutely nothing about it, or other issues since.
Why should anything improve with subsequent requests for additional
Hospital records? After all, the Administrator is quite aware there is
no price to be paid for violating the Public Information Act. -- An Act
no one is apparently willing to enforce. Should LMHS become insolvent
due to egregious waste and ongoing corruption, questions will indeed be
asked of many,-- especially "Open" Records Division officials and
others higher up in the Attorney General's Office including Mr. Cornyn
himself. After all, you've all been made aware of the tip of the
iceberg and black hole called Llano County.
The bias displayed by your agency in favor of LMHS is indeed
striking. Interesting, isn't it, how a single fax from Parisi can
generate unsolicited correspondence from your agency, when months of
e-mailed messages from this publication remain unanswered by you and
your superiors? Be advised, the Administrator has continued the
stonewalling of the sought lease, using semantics and sophistry,
necessitating yet another Open Records Request for the same document.
Finally, isn't it terribly difficult to be a lackey on the bottom
rung of an obviously corrupt State agency? Especially one in which your
superiors don't even have the courage to deal directly with the issues
involved, and apparently are only capable of responding with "canned",
computer-generated form letters? Again, thanks for the additional
fodder and, more importantly, proof positive your watchdog State agency
is indeed egregiously corrupt. My readers are certainly getting the
message.
Sincerely,
Tim Chorney, Publisher
The Llano Ledger
http://maxpages.com/llanoledger
Rt 2 Box 464A
Buchanan Dam, Tx. 78609
cc: Llano Ledger website
cc by e-mail: Senator Troy Fraser, Texas State Senate; Katherine
Minter Cary, Interim Chief, Open Records Division; June B. Harden,
Assistant Attorney General, Open Records Division; David Short,
Investigator, Open Records Division; John Cornyn, Attorney General,
State of Texas; Ernie Parisi, Administrator/CEO, LMHS.
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The following e-mail was sent to the General Services Commission Monday, September 25, 2000:
Hadassah Schloss
Open Records Administrator
General Services Commission
P.O. Box 13047
Austin, Tx. 78711-3047
Re: Llano County Judge J.P. Dodgen
Dear Ms. Schloss:
Llano County Judge J.P. Dodgen has not responded to an e-mail sent
August 21, 2000 inquiring as to whether or not the County would abide
by General Services Commission guidelines regarding copying charges.
Corrupt and abusive officials, however, have chosen instead to
eject this writer from Llano County Library System computers in a
deliberate egregious attempt to abrogate First Amendment rights.
Amazing, isn't it, the "Judge" and his cronies on the
Commissioners' Court have time to micro-manage day-to-day library
business, but conveniently none to implement required General Services
Commission copying charge guidelines?
On September 5, 2000, this writer was forced to sign under duress a
third Internet User agreement with the Llano County Library System. The
"agreement" was designed by Llano County Attorney Cheryll Mabray to
stop publication of the _The Llano Ledger, a publication that targets
and exposes corrupt and abusive Llano County officials.
Simply put, this writer has been forced off Llano County Library
computers in an outrageous attempt to thwart the First Amendment and
stifle the truth about egregiously corrupt and abusive Llano County
officials.
Upon arrival at the Llano Library at 11:00am, Tuesday, September 5,
2000, this writer was immediately asked to sign a third Internet
Registration and User Agreement. Having carefully read the paperwork, I
informed Llano Librarian Connie Hendershot the policies contained in
the documents indeed abrogate First Amendment rights.
On an unnumbered page titled "As Per Llano County Commissioners'
Court 08.28.2000 V.4, Prohibited Uses", consider the following item:
"Web pages-Creating, running, maintaining or hosting a web page or
online publication on the Web/Internet utilizing public computers at
any of the Llano County Library System's library locations."
This is a clear violation of the First Amendment. The policy was
written in a deliberate effort to shut down a non-profit,
non-commercial publication targeting egregiously corrupt and abusive
Llano County officials. This publication has been in existence since
March 29, 1999, has received in excess of 30,000 visitors, and has been
maintained from Llano County Library System computers (among other
places) for the last year and a half. County Judge J.P. Dodgen and his
cronies on the Commissioners' Court cannot refute the substance of _The
Llano Ledger.
Sadly, this is their pathetic attempt to silence extremely pointed
criticism, well-earned, well-deserved, and containing nothing but the
truth. The corrupt and abusive tyrants "running" and "owning" this
County cannot impeach the facts presented. This was their best hope of
silencing relentless determined exposure, -- and it miserably failed.
Kingsland Head Librarian Pam Downing and other librarians in the
System have apparently violated state privacy statutes regarding patron
use of Library facilities. That information was apparently unethically
used by the County Attorney to craft the second and third Internet User
Agreements forced on this writer. -- The third one leading to the
ejection. Interesting, isn't it?
Every Llano County Librarian knows damn well the new Internet User
Agreement violates First Amendment rights. To the best of my knowledge,
not one, however, had the courage to stand up and state it was wrong.
Not one. It is also quite obvious the new agreement required of all
patrons is targeted against one user, this writer.
Corrupt and abusive Llano County officials, in a cowardly effort to
protect their sorry asses, have imposed this outrageous agreement on
all, -- to get rid of one persistent thorn in the side. Apparently, the
librarians have conveniently forgotten they serve the best interests of
patrons, not their corrupt and abusive masters on the Commissioners'
Court.
A complaint has indeed been filed with the American Civil Liberties
Union. Regardless of whether or not there is a lawsuit, the ejection of
this writer from Llano County Library System computers provides further
evidence of the corrupt and abusive influence of the County "Judge" and
the Commissioners' Court. Worse yet, it has become quite clear the
Llano County Library System is no more than a shill for J.P. and the
"Boys".
In regard to the still unresolved copying charges issue, have you
received any further correspondence from the County Attorney, County
"Judge", or any other County officials? If not, would you kindly advise
as to the next steps to force the issue?
Since the "Open" Records Division is apparently beholden to the
apparently corrupt and abusive District Attorney and County Attorney,
no assistance may be expected from them in this or several other
matters still unresolved. Unless there is indeed an ongoing criminal
investigation unknown to this writer and the public, the lack of action
by the Attorney General is indefensible.
Regarding outrageous open records stonewalling by Hospital
Administrator/CEO Ernie Parisi, should Llano Memorial Healthcare System
become insolvent due to egregious waste and ongoing corruption,
questions will indeed be asked of many, -- especially "Open" Records
Division officials and others higher up in the Attorney General's
Office including Mr. Cornyn himself. After all, all have been made
aware of the tip of the iceberg and black hole called Llano County.
Sincerely,
Tim Chorney, Publisher
The Llano Ledger
http://maxpages.com/llanoledger
Rt 2 Box 464A
Buchanan Dam, Tx. 78609
cc: Llano Ledger website
cc by e-mail: Senator Troy Fraser, Texas State Senate; Llano County
Judge J.P. Dodgen; Katherine Minter Cary, Interim Chief, Open Records
Division; June B. Harden, Assistant Attorney General, Open Records
Division; David Mendoza, Legal Assistant, Open Records Division; David
Short, Investigator, Open Records Division; John Cornyn, Attorney
General, State of Texas.
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The following letter was sent to the Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET):
33rd Judicial District
Narcotics Enforcement Team
Dwight Hardin, Commander
P.O. Box 157
Marble Falls, Tx. 78654
Re: Open Records Request
September 26, 2000
Dear Commander:
This is a request for information under the Texas Public
Information Act, Ch.552, Gov't Code, Public Information. Access to
following documents is respectfully requested:
1. Arrest warrant executed Tuesday, September 12, 2000 at
approximately 3:30pm for Ismael Mirelez of 690 E. Midland, Kingsland,
Tx. 78639.
2. Search warrant executed Tuesday, September 12, 2000 at
approximately 3:30pm of premises located at 690 E. Midland, Kingsland,
Tx. 78639.
Thank you in advance for your prompt cooperation.
Sincerely,
Tim Chorney, Publisher
The Llano Ledger
http://maxpages.com/llanoledger
Rt 2 Box 464A
Buchanan Dam, Tx. 78609
cc: Llano Ledger website
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According to Lakeshore Librarian and columnist Verna Dick, Llano
Head Librarian Dian Ray has indeed been appointed Director of the Llano
County Library System. ... Cunning move, J.P.. Hat's off to you and
your cronies on the Commissioners' Court.
Finally found a "Director" willing to live and operate under your
boot, haven't you, sir? Too bad it took so long, right, "Judge"? Could
have gotten your way a hell of a lot sooner though, no? To her credit,
the former Director left a bad taste, no doubt. After all, she had the
courage to stand up to you and the "Boys", -- unlike Ms. Ray.
A complaint has indeed been filed with the American Civil Liberties
Union against Llano County Library System Director Dian Ray, County
Judge J.P. Dodgen, the Llano County Commissioners' Court, and Llano
County Attorney Cheryll Mabray for the deliberate egregious abrogation
of First Amendment rights. Regardless of whether or not there is a
lawsuit, it is quite clear the Llano County Library System is no more
than a shill for our corrupt and abusive County officials.
--Officials who have pitifully decided to micro-manage day-to-day
Library operations in an obvious attempt to protect their inept sorry
asses. Citizens, indeed, ought to be "proud". Disingenuous and phony
crowing by the Lakeshore Librarian and Kingsland Head Librarian are
further evidence of decay within the System. Readers are reminded
Kingsland Head Librarian Pam Downing unethically provided information
to Commissioners Duane Steuven and Keith Faulkner in apparent violation
of state privacy statutes protecting patrons. That information was used
by both officials to unsuccessfully pressure the former Library
Director to have this writer ejected from the System last year.
That information as well as additional information from other
Librarians was unethically used by the County Attorney to craft the
second and third Internet User "Agreements" forced on this writer. The
third "Agreement" was implemented to finally eject this patron from
Llano County Library System computers in a deliberate egregious effort
to abrogate First Amendment rights and protect corrupt and abusive
County officials from exposure. The gutless silence and willingness of
the Librarians to go along with their masters on the Commissioners'
Court are sadly indicative of a glaring lack of character and
principle. ... Then again, this is Llano County, isn't it? ... Day is
night. ... Night is day. ... Right is wrong. ... Wrong is right, and
"s--t 'don't' stink".
Posting of next week's edition, October 9, 2000, will begin
shortly. Look for it at the bottom of the Table of Contents on
Newsletter Text V60.
The visitor count stands in excess of 30,900, -- a true testament
to the shameless willingness of the readership to "steal" this writer's
labor. You ought to be proud of yourselves. Nothing quite like
"character", is there? Readers are advised this writer receives no
renumeration from the banner and pop-up advertising. They only pay for
the website itself. There is no personal compensation, nor are there
desperately needed funds for investigative expenses. Non-profit and
outrageously unfunded by the readership it serves due to greed,
gut-wrenching fear, and the continuing relentless intimidation of
corrupt and abusive Llano County officials, this publication remains as
always beholden to NO ONE.
Tim Chorney, Publisher
The Llano Ledger
Tim Chorney, Publisher
P.O. Box 997
Buchanan Dam Tx. 78609
llanoledger@mailcity.com
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