Put your thinkin hat on readers. Set the date back to the opening volley of the 2012 election season in Clayberry. Back then the citizenry of the County were so fed up with the sitting Top Badge, they had but one question for whomever got the Top Badge position.  That one questions was: If Miles Slack is elected Sheriff, will he promise to NEVER hire the Poopster as a Deputy. That question was on everybody's mine.
  In an early Feb letter published in The Communicator, Miles Slack promised, made clear, if elected, he would not hire his boss, Poopy Holcomb, in any capacity.
  That published letter so infuriated the wittle round Top Badge, on Feb 29 2012, he removed Slack from his Chief Deputy position. Under West Virginia law, no regular Deputy can run for office. Only, a Chief Deputy is allowed for such run for office.
  As you can read in the above letter, Poopy either wanted Slack to quite his run for Sheriff or go back to being a lowly Back Shirt, bowing to Holcomb's thumb.

  On the same day Holcomb's letter was signed, Miles Slack fired back with his own rebuttal. The reply said in a clear way, he would not resign from the 2012 election campaign. Mentioning that losing his job would be a financial nightmare, he would press on.
  When the public read Slack's reply, sympathy came his way and getting elected was assured. Something about that public disclosure stuff had exactly opposite affect on what Holcomb wanted accomplished.
  Nasty campaign trickery is common in Clayberry. This is just more example of our ways of old from dimly lit leaders. If you think those backdoor practices are a thing of the past, you would be wrong.
  AW