Dear Liberty Dispatch,
I never cease to be amazed at what goes on in our courthouse. I am often left with my mouth left wide open with not only how things appear and the idea of treating people equally and fair, but questioning whether something is legal or not.
Two things this week alone fall in that category and should be of interest to voters in Liberty County. The first one is the stunning violation of the election code by County Clerk Delia Sellers. A newly elected County clerk on their first day in office would know better than to pull the partisan stunt Sellers is pulling. In order to help Democrats, Sellers is allowing the Alternate Election Judge pick clerks. It seems now that Sellers’ Democratic party does not have oversight of most of the election precincts, she has become so politically driven she has re-interpreted the election code. Sellers knew clerks were chosen by the Election Judge when Democrats were the Election Judges, but now that Republicans are in charge of much of the oversight (and Sellers is a candidate on the ballot) she has decided to make up some new laws of her own. Democrat, Lee Groce does not seem to object – of course his name is on the ballot too.
The second amazing thing from the courthouse this week was District Clerk Melanie Gilmore publicly admitting that she uses her office to do favors for certain lawyers at 8:00 o’clock at night. That does not sound legal to me, but if it is, it certainly does not sound fair or even-handed. If some lawyers can have a few extra hours to get their documents filed by meeting Gilmore at the courthouse in the middle of the night and others can’t, I think that is unacceptable. The District Clerk may have been trying to brag about working long hours when she admitted this and said her job is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – but in a courthouse which has had scandal after scandal after scandal, I must wonder what all she might be doing with the district court records that she could not do in the 'light' of day.
Delia Sellers and Melanie Gilmore may be real sweet ladies, I don’t know. But I do know as a taxpayer I expect more professionalism. And I expect for things to not only be done properly and legally, but I expect them to be done with no appearance of impropriety. The integrity of our courts and our legal system is important to this community. In order to improve our system, I will vote to clean out the people who are running it and vote in new people. I have meet Donna Brown and Paulette Williams and feel like they are both smart, honest people. Now is a good time for a fresh start!
Listen to the attached public comment from Liberty County District Clerk, Melanie Gilmore.
22 comments:
I have had multiple documents Ive filed in my case via Melody Gilmore, those documents disappeared. I wondered in her late night tryst with these 'attorneys', 'they' disposed of evidence. Good riddance to this person...
We have all heard how the birds of a feather flock together. I do know that our county clerk has left during ballot counting (after polls closed)and went and issued marriage licenses for a friend and didn't charge a dime. I have also been in the county clerks office filling papers and witnessed our sweet county clerk treating her employees like they are dogs. These are the people that make her look good. Liberty County really needs a change in this office. Liberty County needs a county clerk that devotes her time to the county. A county clerk that works at least 30 hours per week and gets to work before 10am every day. After all, this is a paid elected position it is owed to the tax payers of Liberty county and employees of the county clerks office. This elected position is a full time job, not just a check. We need a county clerk that treats her employees like adults and not school kids. I would like to thank and give praise to the ladies that work in the County and District Clerks office for your hard work and the professional manner that you all display. Lets all hope and prey November 3rd change will happen.
Delia is like Jekyl and Hyde. She terrorizes the people who work underneath her (taxpayer paid employees).She makes them line up to check out before they leave for the day. She may be like that because she herself comes in late and is gone so much. Time thieves always worry that someone is doing the same thing to them.
I am concerned that an office as small as Gilmore's has had eleven people come and go in 33 months. She and Delia both must have attended Hillary's School of Grace.
Hello! Hello? Rusty Hight may "do"us, but it ain't right. The person who said that should read some of the stuff on this website about "Judge" Hight. The sad thing is I have sent in over a dozen more cases as examples of how Judge Hight is easy on criminals far too often. Delia doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as Rusty Hight.
Somebody tell Mr. Lloyd "Tookie" Kirkham he will soon have far fewer protectors in high places and if he wants to continue playing games with the peoples' government he better realize the people will have regained control of it. Kirkham has done well for himself through his ole buddies but Mike Little will not be able to help him keep what he has siphoned if he insist on being his lead dog.
I have noticed old Judge Kirkham seems to be Mike Little's hammer man on Grand Juries. If Little and Hight really need to whack somebody Kirkham will again be placed on a Grand Jury. Akins and Shauberger need to look at Kirkham's Grand Jury record. Kirkham is like one of Don Corleone's strong armers.
Every time I am around Tookie I can hear the wind whistling through his head. People on a jury should never elect someone with Tookie's intellect, or should I say lack of intellect, as their foreman. At 6 foot 6 inches when the average heighth of players he faced was almost 10 inches shorter,Kirkham made basketball look hard. Conversations with him about anything legal are like talking to a six year old. he thinks he is slick and hides his ignorance, but if he is ever charged with anything, a federal prosecutor will eat himfor lunch.
Judge Tookie! I miss him. Lawyers use to tell widows just to sit and smile at him in probate discussions because Judge tookie would give them anything they wanted because he hated to read and because of that he never knew what was going on in probate.
Delia is one of Rusty's Hight's puppets.
Speaking of puppets, has anyone seen John Christian Archer lately. Nancy Archer is around promoting Kingwood resident Ken Morrison for County Judge, but Big Daddy Archer is no where to be seen. Perhaps rumors of missing document patrols among the dynamic duo of Gilmore and Sellers has him fidgety about public appearances.
Oil and gas ownership is determined by records in the courthouse. If the records are not accurate it could be the difference in someone receiving nothing while someone else receives thousands and thousands of dollars.
The late night document filing referred to in your story could be expalined as easily as Mel helping out lazy ass last minute lawyers. we all know how pitiful most in the "profession" are around here. But willingness by a District Clerk to do something like this "emergency" help has far far more sinister possibilities than just covering one of these moronic lawyers we have in Liberty County.
Melanie Gilmore, calling Melanie Gilmore to the stand. Janet Harrelson's allegations about our courthouse look more and more accurate.
Somebody spelled Melody's name wrong and everyone just folowed suit. Nevertheless Melanie, the jail is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week too. Let's tighten up the ship down there. At least don't go bragging about this kind of stuff on the radio.
hey bill buchanan! wake up!! the woman is running the district clerk's office the same hours as a kingwood jack in the box. ask a folow up question mr.news hound! how about a simple one like "do you go down to the courthouse at 8:00 pm for any attorney that ask, or just certain attorneys? then ask her opponent, donna brown, do you plan on continuing this practice and what will your extra charge be?
You're right about Janet Harrelson's allegations of corruption in the courthouse. It's taken 8 years and many, many hours of toil, persecution and prosecution for Ray Akins, but Harrelson's allegations were true back then and they've finally come to light now. We owe that woman an apology for the treatment she received and I hope that she finally gets cleared of all this schmuck that was dumped on her in an attempt to keep the skeletons in the closet.
Bye bye bye Gilmore
Patience...Eventually the dark, insidious secrets come to light. "What doesn't come out in the wash will come out in the rinse." First heard this saying a couple years back..had no earthly idea what it meant. Now I understand the meaning entirely. Good night.
Mike Little needs to be prosecuted by the Feds and removed from office!
I am not a Delia Sellers fan, but Annette Dugat, her chief deputy, is a credit to the county.
You are right. Delia Sellers is not there half the time, but Annette is a better person to ask questions anyway. Delia couldn't even hold elections without her.
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