REMINDER: Fruitland Election Is Tomorrow

Many folks are planning to get out and vote in the Fruitland election this year-- a lot is at stake, and the citizens are stirred up.

A reminder-- the election is on MONDAY, October 4th, not on Tuesday!

Sometimes people forget, because so many elections are on Tuesdays, but the city charter dictates that the election is to be held on the first Monday in October.

The polls will be open from 7 AM till 8 PM at Fruitland City Hall on East Main Street.

Tull Supports The Following Fruitland Candidates

First, my thanks to the citizens of Fruitland for allowing me to serve the City the last four years as your "hands on" number one volunteer job councilman.

Now, the issue at hand is the replacements for the retiring three councilmen who were dedicated to the responsibilities on behalf of the City. I attended the candidate's forum, reviewed their qualifications, and personally interviewed them, in order to make my choices for the three open seats.

My choices will, in my opinion, represent the City in the same manner that I have for the last four years. All three will make the time available to do the City's business, have a high level of integrity, will vote for what is best for Fruitland, have business and legal experience, have knowledge of the rules and laws that govern a municipal government, and fully understand the issues facing Fruitland, a City that has grown in a short period of time from a two million dollar budget to over six million plus the necessary loans.

Darlene "Dodie" Kerr, Charles "Chuck" Nichols and Richard "Lee" Outen are my choices and I suggest should be your choice for the next Fruitland City Council.

As I stated four years ago, regardless of your choice, please vote Monday, October 4, as one of over 2,500 registered voters in our great City. Note: If anyone wishes to discuss the above, please feel free to contact me at 410-749-3557. Thank You

Sincerely,

Retiring Councilman, Richard F. Tull

A Picture Is Worth 10,000 Votes

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I say this picture is worth 10,000 votes. Jennifer and Tommy Foxwell came to meet and support Wicomico States Attorney Candidate Matt Maciarello today at a fundraiser he held a Schumaker Park. We'll deliver more pictures tomorrow of this event.

A little more than 9 months ago, thousands of people gathered at the Shorebords Stadium to help search for little Sarah Foxwell. On that very day, Sarah became Wicomico County's Child. Behind the scenes and over all these months, Davis Ruark and his Staff have been working with the Foxwell Family, especially their 7 year old Daughter. That child has found a comfort zone with Davis and his Staff. It was a very wise decision for Matt to ask Davis to stay on this case and bring justice to the Foxwell Family, should Matt be elected at the next States Attorney for Wicomico County.

To think that Seth Mitchell wants to handle this case without Davis Ruark is about as cold and selfish as any human being can imagine. To me, it clearly shows the lack of sensitivity within this case. Matt committed to Teamwork while Seth Mitchell committed to Me, Me, Me, I, I, I. There is no Me and I in Teamwork Seth, that's why you cannot gain the trust and respect from the many thousands of people who searched for Sarah on Christmas Day.

Let's also never forget that Seth Mitchell represented Thomas Leggs in what I believe were 20 charges against him. It is highly questionable whether or not Seth Mitchell can even participate in the Leggs murder trial because of a conflict of interest.

Matt Maciarello will be the next States Attorney for Wicomico County.

WBI Press Release

INCIDENT: Attempted Murder DATE: 10/3/10 LOCATION: 700 Block of Olivia Street, Salisbury, Maryland. NARRATIVE: On 10/3/10 at approximately 0128 hours Deputies from the Wicomico County Sheriffs Office and Detectives from the Wicomico Bureau of Investigation (WBI) responded to the 700 Block of Olivia Street for a report of shooting victim. The initial investigation showed that the victim was walking on Olivia Street when a vehicle approached him and fired multiple gun shots, one of which struck the victim in the upper thigh area. The victim was transported to PRMC where he was treated and released. Officers from the Fruitland Police Department located the suspect vehicle. Three suspects were in the vehicle and are currently being charged. The investigation continues. Anyone with additional information is asked to call WBI at 410-548-4891 or if you wish to remain anonymous and possibly qualify for a reward, call Crime Solvers at 410-548-1776

VICTIMS: Tyrone Greene

Breon Lamar Ayers B/M, 21 YOA, Nelsonia, VA
Tyquon Demetrius Robins B/M, 18 YOA, Nelsonia, VA
Ronrecus Lestie Strand B/M 21 YOA, Nelsonia, VA

CHARGES: Attempted Murder and related charges
DISPOSITION: Pending charges
INVESTIGATING DETECTIVE Detective Robert Wilson
RELEASTING AUTHORITY Sgt C. Wendlandt, Wicomico Sheriff’s Office Wicomico Bureau of Investigation
DATE: 10/3/10
TIME: 0745

SEARCH CONTINUES FOR SUSPECTS IN WESTMINSTER HOMICIDE

(WESTMINSTER, MD) – Maryland State Police homicide investigators are continuing their investigation into the apparent murder of a Westminster man who was found dead in his apartment early today.

The victim is identified as Steven R. Hobson , 40, of the unit-block of Main Street, Westminster, Md. Hobson’s body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy.

Shortly before 2:30 a.m. today, Westminster Police responded to a 911 call from a building in the unit-block of East Main Street. When officers arrived, they found the victim in an apartment in the residential and commercial building. The victim’s shirt and pants had what appeared to be blood on them. Responding medics pronounced the victim dead at the scene.

Westminster Police Department Chief Jeff Spaulding contacted Maryland State Police and requested the investigation be conducted by the State Police Homicide Unit. Westminster Police officers and detectives are assisting with the investigation, as are investigators from the State Police Westminster Barrack Criminal Investigation Section.

The preliminary investigation indicates the victim had been stabbed. Police believe the assault occurred early this morning. Investigators spent the day interviewing residents in the 13 other apartments in the building and following up on leads. They are also reviewing evidence obtained during processing of the scene by Maryland State Police crime scene technicians.

Police believe Hobson was unemployed and lived alone in the apartment. A motive for the murder remains unclear.

No one has been charged at this time. Anyone with information about this crime, or who may have seen the victim last night or early today is urged to contact Maryland State Police at 410-386-3000 or Westminster Police at 410-848-4646.

Help Fight The Largest Tax Hike In American History

The big government policies of the Obama Administration and Congress have virtually bankrupted our treasury, and yet they still don’t seem to get it! Our leaders have prioritized monumental spending legislation involving health care “reform” and unprecedented financial regulation, but they continue to delay action on the expiring 2001 and 2003 tax cuts – a relief package that provides Americans with some element of hope in an otherwise abysmal economy.

    

If you don’t want to see your bill increase by roughly $1,540 each year (or potentially much more!), you must contact your Representative today! Click Here to tell them to support an extension of all current tax rates.

    

If Congress fails to act, the 2001 and 2003 taxpayer relief laws will automatically expire at the end of the year. The 10 percent bracket will disappear, the three middle tax brackets will rise by three percentage points, the top marginal income tax rate will rise from 35 percent to 39.6 percent, the capital gains and dividend taxes will rise from top rates of 15 percent each to 20 percent and 39.6 percent, and the death tax (non-existent for 2010) will jump back to a 55 percent rate and $1 million exemption.

    

In short, these tax cuts benefit all Americans, not a select few, and their expiration would generate an anti-stimulus that severely hurts families, businesses, and any prospects for economic recovery. In fact, NTU recently led an open letter to Congress, signed by 313 economists from across the nation, advocating an extension of all current tax rates on income and investments. There is simply no other option if we are to shrink unemployment and bounce back from the prevailing fiscal crisis.

    

Raising taxes is never wise policy, but it would be fiscally suicidal in this economy.

Do You Support Choice?

Wright Brothers

Salisbury News fan on location at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill  Devil Hills, North Carolina, October 2, 2010.

Harris Responds to Misleading Kratovil Ad

An ad supporting Frank Kratovil claimed that Andy Harris wants to implement a 23% national sales tax.  Depending on how generous you’re feeling, the Democrats are either misleading or outright lying.
Harris’ response?  Something that is factual:

from Delmarva Dealings

Left Handed

Matt Maciarello Fundraiser TODAY

Let ALL The Competition Eat Their Hearts Out!

"Joe,

My brother and I wanted to thank you for helping us get the word out about our wood pellets. We have had a huge volume of calls and emails since advertising on your site, and since your post today I have been
answering the phone all day!!!  In fact we scheduled out trucks to pick up another 20 tons first thing on Monday morning to keep up with demand."

Thanks again!

Andy

Editors Notes: I personally received one phone call from a friend stating he was going to order 250 bags TODAY. I ran into other people, (including one candidate) tonight that said they were going to place an order as well.

Salisbury News advertising works Folks, no doubt about it. Remember, when you do place an ad with Salisbury News, 100% on that money goes to local non profit organizations. Your not only helping to support a local Eastern Shore Business, your helping these business help to pay it forward to help our local communities.

Now, a SMART company would be wise to start advertising here to sell pellet stoves, HELLO! A good sales person can stand on a street corner and sell pencil's. A GREAT sales person is the  individual standing across the street selling pencil sharpeners. Wake Up Survival Products, Tractor Supply and any other business that sells pellet stoves.

If you'd like to run an ad on Salisbury News, contact me at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com. Our rates are very simple. $100.00 a month for a business card size ad. Join our family of advertisers who enjoy "Paying It Forward" TODAY.

MISSING PERSON

DATE & TIME: 09/10/2010 @ 2115 hours
Case # 10-216
LOCATION: 9036 Peerless Road Bishopville, Worcester County, Maryland
CRIME: Missing Person

VICTIM: Charles Allen Jerread W/M 11-18-50 5-08 140 Hazel Eyes , Black/ Gray Hair, black/ gray beard. Last seen wearing gray pants and a blue plaid flannel shirt.

NARRATIVE: On September 28, 2010 the victim’s wife reported him as a missing person to the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office. A report was taken and the victim was entered into the National Crime Computer Database. The victim was last observed on September 17th behind their residence on Peerless Road. The victim had consumed a large amount of alcohol and prescription drugs. He had been staying in the wooded portion of the property for approximately three days. The victim is also an insulin dependent diabetic. Due to these factors, the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation was called to continue the investigation and to locate the missing person.

No one has seen or heard from the victim since September 17th. Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Charles Allen Jarread please contact Corporal Johnson of the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation at (410) 352-3476 or (443) 783-0441 or the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office at (410)632-1111.

Bloggers Gaming The System

Ever since Salisbury News announced we were going to start selling advertising, other local Bloggers have come out of the woodwork. One in particular erased all of their extremely nasty history and even changed their domain address so you couldn't see all the nasty things they had said about innocent women and children. Clearly they knew businesses would have nothing to do with their past.

However, once you change your domain name and start fresh, companies like Alexa, (who rate Websites) have no previous history so the new website address would start off with a very low rating. Remember, lower is better on Alexa. However, we knew it would be a very short period of time before Alexa would recognize that this website wouldn't have the traffic to keep their ratings low, so how do you fix that problem?

Well, it turns out, several local Bloggers have placed some code to their websites to make it look as if they're receiving a LOT more hits than ever before. What they have done is, if you go to one of their Sites and just sit there for a few minutes, then go to the top of your screen where it has the http:// address and click on the down arrow, all of a sudden you'll see their address up there multiple times, yet you only went there once!

This new code keeps refreshing their page over and over again, making it look like you keep going back over and over again. Cleaver, but a complete lie. You're welcome to look at Salisbury News any time you like and see that will NOT happen. Our numbers are real and we do NOT game the system/Internet. When we tell people what we're doing every day/month/year, these are real and factual numbers.

Another local Blogger recently delivered an article asking for people to advertise on his Site, yet he also gave some heavy duty misleading numbers. The numbers he gave was for one week. Heck, we do those kind of numbers in one hour, let alone an entire week.

However, the big question is, why would someone waste their money advertising on a Website that gets 95% less hits than Salisbury News and then realize that 95% of those people going to that other Site already go to Salisbury News anyway. Maybe it would be worth your money if they only charged $1.00 a month for their ads, right?

Nevertheless, these people are constantly lying and tricking people. Some make claims that they are selling ads, yet it's absolutely not true. They place ads up there to copy what we're doing here because, (as usual) they're trying to make it look like they're somebody. We have spoken to those people who have ads placed on this other Site and they swear they never asked for the ad, they have never paid for any of their ads, yet they're afraid to ask this particular person to take their ad down because they're afraid they will pull another John Phoebus on them. In other words, they'll go on a personal attack against them.

One candidate said, "It’s a vicious rumor!  I’ve authorized no ad for Taylor’s site.  No one’s even asked me to buy one."

One other example of such was a recent group of messages this same Blogger sent to candidate Bob Culver. He had asked Bob, I know you want to place an ad on my site. Bob responded very politely that he was not interested in placing an ad, yet stated he'd be happy to sit down to a cup of coffee and discuss it more. This Blogger responded, "this is going to come back and bite you in the ass".

Its sad that some Bloggers get their feelings hurt because certain individuals choose not to have any part of their personal attacks on innocent women, children and even candidates. Because so many people will never forget what some Bloggers are capable of, just because they wipe out their history and start over again doesn't mean they're not capable of attacking again, hence Bob Culver, John Phoebus and several others.

Always remember Folks that you can go up to the top of the page and hit that down arrow to see who's gaming the system. If you want to deal with cheaters and get nothing for your money, that's your choice. Salisbury News delivers, period. Oh sure, we knew years ago how the system could be gamed. We had several companies offer to do this for Salisbury News but we refused to participate. I had stated then, when we start advertising I want to deliver results. I did not want to become a global Blog getting hits in from around the U.S. because this wouldn't be fair on our advertisers.

Now that this is getting exposed, I would expect they will make immediate changes to that code to have it removed. Then again, their attention span may not be strong enough to read this entire Post and they may be dumb enough to leave it up. In the mean time, you'll know what's going on. Salisbury News has been ranked the #1 Most Influential Political Blog in the state of Maryland for 4 years straight. We didn't get that honor by gaming the system. We got it because we earned it.