John Wade Disqualified

Agnes Cooper Dennis reads a residents letter of complaint against John Wade.

Princess Anne Police Chief testifies to Election Board.

Election Board votes unanimously to disqualify John Wade.

The mystery man John Wade of, well, who knows where, was disqualified as a Candidate by the Princess Anne Election Board.

With the assistance of the Princess Anne Police and the Maryland State Police by way of the States Attorneys Office informed the Election Board that Mr. John Wade did in fact have a valid drivers license. HOWEVER, his valid license is in the state of Georgia, NOT MARYLAND!

The President of the Princess Anne Commissioners said, "We Trust But We Must Verify". Truer words couldn't be better spoken. Jay Parker stated that it was a sad day when Officials can no longer simply trust applicants.

The Police Chief came to today's meeting and testified that he had spoken with the State Police who verified Mr. Wade's drivers license was in fact from Georgia and NOT Maryland. That was enough for the three panel Election Board, Agnes Cooper Dennis, Kelly Salyers and Barbara Long to deliver a unanimous vote to disqualify John Wade as any kind of candidate for the District 1 Seat.

As many of you know, I have been working on this story for several days. I made contact with every MSM News Source in the area and every one of them refused to get involved, till today. Once they found out the Election Board was in fact taking this matter seriously, WMDT came to today's meeting and just couldn't believe this guy was even running.

Perhaps in two years Mr. or Mrs. Wade can try again AFTER getting valid drivers licenses and prove they're living in their older home in Princess Anne, rather than their home in Delmar, Maryland. You will also see this information in tomorrows Daily Times as I contacted them personally to make sure everyone is aware they shouldn't waste their votes in tomorrows election.

Second Wade Disqualified in Princess Anne Town Commission Race

John Wade, who was running a write-in candidacy for the Princess Anne Town Commission has been disqualified. The disqualification is based on Wade not being a town resident for the prescribed period of time.

More to follow ....

Berlin Village Fair

The town of Berlin is hosting its annual rite of summer, 20th annual Village Fair, sponsored by the Berlin Chamber of Commerce.

The fair will be held Saturday, June 14 from 9am - 5pm, on Main Street, downtown Berlin.

Family fun activities include:

* Over 50 arts & crafts vendors with all handmade items from the eastern shore.
* Berlin Antique Road show, starring Charline Upham. She will be handling appraisals.
* Berlin Idol Contest, starting at 9am.
* Kids amusement park rides & activities (sponsored by Taylor & Sons Amusement Co.)
* Dunking booth.
* Pony rides.
* Bathtub races, starting near the end of the day.
* Food, Food, Food.
* Music (following Idol) by Charlie Flagiello, Burger Review.
* Rick Kenny-The Lone Ranger.

If you are interested in participating for a contest, please contact Jessie Turner at the Berlin
Shoe Box at 410-641-1270.

Worcester County Sheriff Seeks YOUR HELP Finding Attempted Murder Suspect

On June 1, 2008 at approximately 11:30 PM, the Berlin Police Department responded to the Bay Street area because of a report of a stabbing. The victim was Raymont Johnson(B/M, 20 yrs old, Berlin, Maryland).

The victim, Raymont Johnson was (allegedly) stabbed by the suspect April Jackson while at her apartment. The victim was flown to PRMC where he is currently being treated for his injuries. The suspect April Jackson has fled and here whereabouts are unknown.

The investigation has been turned over to the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation. There is now an arrest warrant for April Jackson for attempted Murder and 1^st Degree Assault.Anyone with additional information regarding this matter or knows the location of the suspect (April Jackson) is encouraged to contact the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation at 410-352-3476 and speak with D/Cpl. Mitchell or the Berlin Police Department.

Challenger British Soccer Camps Return To Wicomico County

(Salisbury, MD) Wicomico County Recreation, Parks & Tourism is bringing the largest soccer camp in the United States and Canada back to Salisbury, MD. The Challenger British Soccer Camp will return on July 7-11 to the Henry S. Parker Athletic Complex. Registration for the week long camp is now open.

Challenger British Soccer Camps are open to boys and girls ages three through fourteen and all skill levels. The camp provides children with the rare opportunity to receive high-level soccer coaching from a team of international experts. Each day of camp includes individual foot skills, technical drills, tactical practices, small-sided games, coached scrimmages and a daily tournament. The Challenger coaching staff also prides itself on providing children with lessons in respect, responsibility, integrity, sportsmanship and leadership.

Registrations are accepted online at www.challengersports.com or at the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center Box Office, open Monday through Friday from 8:00am to 5:00pm. Fees range from $71 to $174 per child depending on age. Each participant will receive a Challenger soccer ball, camp shirt, award and certificate.

For more information please contact Lee Steffey at (410) 548-4900 ext. 105 or email lsteffey@wicomicocounty.org. If you would like to learn more about other upcoming programs offered by the Wicomico County Recreation, Parks and Tourism Department sign up for Recreation email alerts at www.wicomicorecandparks.org

OC Boat Race

Busy weekend for tourists at Ocean City. The boardwalk was busy. The weather was great. Traffic was not backed up.

Today's Wildlife Photo

By Buryvoter

Princess Anne Police Promote Click It Or Ticket Program

Bar Stool Economics

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that's what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until on day, the owner threw th em a curve. "Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20."Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?' They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.

And so:

The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).< BR>The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.

"I only got a dollar out of the $20,"declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man," but he got $10!"

"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I!"
"That's true!!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!"

"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!"

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not sh ow up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
University of Georgia

For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

BARRIE TO CITY RESIDENTS: I WANT MORE TAXES!

Maybe we will get her "food tax" after all -- see this:


OFFICE OF THE MAYOR

To: John R. Pick
From: Loré L. Chambers, MBA
Subject: MML – Legislative Action Requests
Date: May 29, 2008

The City of Salisbury is requesting consideration be included by MML in their
2009 Legislative Action Request as follows:

“The City of Salisbury requests that the General Assembly pass legislation in
FY 2009 to establish a study commission in FY 2010, to look into and report its
findings on municipal government revenue structures, to reduce the reliance on
property taxes.”

Attached is a resolution for City Council action to endorse the requests for
legislative action.

Please forward the attached resolution and supporting detail for inclusion on
the Council’s June 9. 2008, agenda.

Question: since when did Ms. Chambers get this authority -- why isn't this memo
from Barrie Tilghman?

The Barrie Tilghman Propaganda Show

WICO-AM, on air home of Bill Reddish and one of the few independent media sources in the Salisbury area, has finally buckled down to Salisbury Mayor Barrie Tilghman's rants. Starting today WICO is granting Tilghman her own weekly radio show.

That's right folks, Barrie Tilghman has been granted FREE radio time to provide her own views on the public airwaves. Don't expect Tilghman to discuss anything controversial. If she does, don't expect anything but the Barrieland view.

Don't expect calls from the public. Barrie doesn't like to entertain questions from the public any more than her buddy Louise Smith does.

Can a Louise & Gary Show be next?

Tune in on Mondays at 8:30AM to hear the full, unvarnished views of the Queen of Barrieland.

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TIF Question Answered On City website

Question: Where is the $14+ million that the City approved for the TIF that was supposed to pay for development of the old mall? Where is that money going? Who has that $14 million? Who is going to pay the $14 million back if we don’t have a development on that property? Who’s supposed to pay for the TIF? All the tax revenue from the commercial and the residential buildings there was supposed to pay for the TIF over a 30-year period. When does that TIF come due? When do the payments stop? Have they already started? Where is the money coming from, where is the TIF money right now, who has that $14 million and how is it going to be paid back if the development doesn’t go through?

Answer: The bonds were issued as combined tax increment financing/special taxing district bonds. The purpose of the bond issuance is to provide funds to pay for specific public improvements for the (old mall) site that are in the nature of infrastructure improvements; bond proceeds will not be applied to fund private development activities.

The bonds were issued in April 2007 in the form of draw-down bonds and sold to Salisbury Mall Associates, LLC (SMA) as the initial bond holder. While the bonds are in draw-down mode, SMA will actually transfer to the bond trustee from SMA’s own funds any "draws" on the bonds; the bond trustee will place such moneys in the project fund and then apply the moneys to project costs in accordance with requisitions approved by City officials. Other than the costs of issuance and an initial deposit to the administrative expense fund drawn down on the date the bonds were issued, no funds have been advanced against the bonds, to date. SMA, as the holder of the bonds advanced those funds at closing. Before additional draws may be made on the bonds (which will be advanced by SMA), the City’s bond counsel will have to approve the contracts for the specific infrastructure improvements or specific project costs.

No interest is due on the bonds until July 1, 2012, or any earlier conversion date, and the first date that principal is due on the bonds is July 1, 2013. SMA has until July 1, 2012 to effect a successful conversion and remarketing of the bonds to private investors. If SMA is able to effect such a successful conversion, the funds received from private investors to purchase the bonds from SMA will be deposited with the bond trustee and applied to pay costs of the conversion and remarketing, to fund a debt service reserve fund, to pay capitalized interest on the bonds (if the public improvements have not been completed) and to fund project costs. SMA is responsible for paying any such costs in excess of those covered by the conversion and remarketing proceeds.

Please be advised that the developer paid for the demolition of the old mall building and site cleanup and no funds were utilized from the special obligation bonds for those activities. Also, current legal considerations, between the developer and the builder, have no bearing on the special obligation bonds and the repayment thereof.

Money to pay debt service on the bonds will be generated through future incremental ad valorem real property tax revenues from the project, and, to the extent such revenues are insufficient, special taxes levied by the City on the project site. No funds are coming out of current tax revenue and this project is not a general burden on City taxpayers. The City has not pledged its full faith and credit or its general obligation taxing power to the payment of these bonds. The only impact to the City of Salisbury will be the reduction of incremental ad valorem real property tax revenue from the project that would normally flow to the City, until the bonds are paid in full. To the extent the owner of the property in the project site (which constitutes the tax increment development district and the geographically coincident special taxing district) fail to pay their normal ad valorem property taxes or any levied special taxes, the City has the power to foreclose on such properties, but the City is not liable for any deficiencies.

Question of the Day, Mon 6/2

I see more and more each day about gasoline thefts.
Have you had gasoline stolen from you?
Have you done anything to stop gas thieves from stealing from you?
Is your car equipped with locking gasoline lids or doors?

I want my WIC checks

Last night My wife and I went grocery shopping at Wal-mart. We used to go to Food Lion, but the costs are too high. Point is we go to Wal-mart in an attempt to save money. Ya know.....fiscal responsibility. Anyway, we are walking down the isle and a person (me anyway and I don't care who likes it) can't help but notice the extremely high percentage of Hispanic people present - if for no other reason but due to the fact that as they speak to each other you can't understand what they are saying. After making this observation, I noticed one particular woman, obviously of hispanic descent, with a shopping cart containing 10 gallons of milk. 10 gallons of milk. I thought: "how can a family possibly consume 10 gallons of milk before it goes bad?". A few seconds later I saw that she was holding several papers in her right hand. As I walked by her I noticed they were WIC checks. I brought this to the attention of my wife and she just rolled her eyes and asked me why I get all worked up about things like this. I bit my tounge and continued shopping. As we continued to wander up and down the isles I observed a couple with a small child who were shopping who were, again, obviously of Hispanic descent. In the womans right hand was what? You guessed it....WIC checks! At this point I was in disbelief. These folks were speaking spanish and I know in my heart they weren't born here. WIC checks....indeed! "My tax dollars at work", I thought. But I carried on. When we got in the check out line, two families up from us there was another Hispanic family. To my horror the woman of the family was carrying .....WIC CHECKS! The man was wearing a short sleave shirt covered in Spanish, which is his right, but moved me toward believing that these folks weren't born here.

Call me a racist if you wan't and I can't prove that these folks were illegal......but the chances of them being here legally in this area is slim.

A friend of mine recently went to a school geared toward the administrations of Law Enforcement Agencies. One of the speakers was from the Federal Govt. This speaker stated that a major reason that our govt. isn't pushing the illegal immigration issue is that most of these folks who work, pay into the Social Security System under a ficticious SS number. They continue to pay into it without any hope of collecting from it. It is simply an underhanded ploy to keep a failing system afloat.

Is this really working? Aren't they taking more out of one system (welfare, WIC, other social programs) than they are putting into another? Aren't they costing the American public more by getting sick and going to the hospital and never paying their bills thereby pushing healthcare costs up for everyone else in order to recover those losses? Or by leaving houses and apartments they rent without paying their last two months electric bills thereby increasing the costs to everyone else to recover those losses?

When we got into the car it was raining like a cow pi**ing on a flat rock. I was less than happy with my shopping experience. My wife said "I don't understand why you get so upset over these things. "They're" going to do what they want anyway. They don't care (meaning the govt.) and nothing's gonna change". I told her that it's an attitude like that which has brought us to this point. Now......call me a racist. Let's have it.

I think tomorrow I'm going to go register for WIC. We have two children still. I just may qualify. While I'm at it, I'm going to apply for welfare and get a check from them - or an "independence" card. Just think of the money I'll save since I won't have to pay for health care anymore. The govt. will pay for my housing under Section 8. I'll just put it in the backs of hardworking Americans. How....."American".

Lying Sack Of Sh!t Part II

As many of you have heard, I confronted Council Vice President Gary Comegys about his illegal parking at the Flea Market in Downtown Salisbury and he flat out denied and lied about it.

The audio clip above is my asking the man if he in fact parked there and he flat out lied and said no. After the meeting ended I confronted him again telling him I had several witnesses that would testify that he was parked in a Handicap Zone and that there was a person in a wheel chair trying to get off a Bus and could not do so because Mr. Comegys vehicle was parked at the ramp where they load and unload. His response was, "I was only there 10 minutes."

I should add, he was smiling the entire time, knowing he had just been caught in a lie. When I asked him the original question, (one reason why you can't hear him reply) he sat back in his chair away from the mic and smiled and then said NO. Bubba, Yo Nex Mare?

The Once and Future Wicomico County Department of Law

On Friday we ran a post regarding the establishment of a full time legal department in the FY 2009 Wicomico County budget. What we reported then was accurate, but more details have arrived since then.

Note: This is a long post covering a somewhat complicated topic; so please bear with me. Because it is so long you can view the entire post on Delmarva Dealings or you have the option of opening (and saving) this post as a PDF file.