Nov 18 2022
"CIRCUIT CLERK With long time Circuit Clerk Mike Asbury deciding to sit this one out, it will be a whole new ballgame in the Court system. We have two newbees to chose from
Clarissa Hanshaw has worked in that govt office for many years and most likely knows the basics. The learning curve should be moderate if Clarissa is the winner.
Her challenger is a guy we know as Hiram Lewis (R). On the ballot he's had a name change to Bucky Lewis. This guy is well known to Clayberry but in a controversial way. More recently Lewis was back in the news with alleged animal cruelty charges being lodges against him.
Under most circumstances, getting charged with anything major, that would be enough to sideline any candidate. But, keep in mind, at one point and without any GOP support, he nearly toppled the long standing incumbent W Va Attorney General Darrell McGraw. Lewis came within 1/2 of one percentage point beating the highly regarded AG. In 2018, in a statewide election he did quite well, comin in in the middle of the pack (22,000+ votes) to be a Supreme Court Robe.
Don't count Hiram, now Bucky Lewis (R), out as a challenger on Nov 8th."
That article is still posted over on the 2022 General Election write up.
In an email labeled cease and desist publishing and misleading information came this:
Mr. Waddell,
It has come to my attention that you have linked a story to my name that appears on a separate website that contains false and defamatory information relating to me and alleged animal cruelty charges from Clay County. Please be advised that the article is full of false and defamatory material and remove the link immediately.
The bogus and made up charges have been summarily dismissed because they were bogus and made up by actors who intended to maliciously defame and destroy my reputation and/or character. Although the damage has been done because it appears that you published this defamatory, false and misleading information prior to the 2022 General Election and failed to include the fact that the charges were dismissed, I am requesting that you 1.) inform your readers that the charges were dismissed; 2.) remove any and all links to stories relating to the false and misleading charges; 3.) disclose to me, the accurate number of unique visitors you had to your website, www.clayberry.org since October 28, 2022, to the present, including any and all demographic information that you have such as location of IP addresses, Clay County hits, etc.: and, 4.) remove any comments that are false and misleading regarding any “name change”.
Please regard this notice as your only notice to remove the false, misleading and/or defaming material and/or links thereto.
Facts regarding alleged name change:
If you look at historical election results or the name my friends and family call me, you will see clearly that my nickname from birth to the present has always been “Buck” or “Bucky”. I have a had an issue with including my names on the ballot in the past because my actual name that I want to put on the ballot both names so that people who know me as Hiram and the people who know me as “Bucky” will know who they are voting for. The ballot does not allow enough letters to include my full name: “Hiram C. “Bucky” Lewis, IV”. So over the years dating back to the first time I ran for office in the State of West Virginia, I have struggled to attempt to use both names. Specifically in 2002, I used Bucky. And as you should know, in 2016 when I ran for Circuit Judge I used “Buck”. I have consistently gone back and forth with Hiram and Bucky over the years because of the limitations of the ballot. So it is extremely misleading to characterize the fact that wanted to go by H.C. “Bucky” Lewis, IV, during this election as a name change. I went by “Bucky” because most of my friends and family call me and know me as “Bucky” and the voters should know me by the same name that my friends and family call me. The only reason I ever went by Hiram was due to my first year of law school when the professors would call on people, they used the official roll and nicknames were not on the official roll. You could interject and request they call you by your nickname, but the overall sense was not to stand out among the crowd or draw attention to yourself. So I didn’t request that they call me “Bucky”.
Thank you for your assistance with this matter.
Sincerely,
Hiram C. “Bucky” Lewis, IV
Well, we're glad to hear from Mr Lewis.
About any online search shows more than a couple of websites with his info. Anybody with a modern cell phone can do the same searches that we did before the last election. In an attempt to provide a more well balanced glimpse of Lewis, here's a random sampling of what's available to anybody and everybody...
Ballotpedia.org is a well respected election portal. Here's the link to that site which includes the coverage from 2016 when Judge Jack Alsop put the whammy on Hiram Lewis. Oh by the way, back then the lad was going by Hiram.
Seems Mr Lewis is concerned that we picked the wrong website as a source. Here's a nationwide site "Voice for Us On the Animals Side", with a much clearer picture on Lewis when animal cruelty charges became public.
Here's another topic, this one from JUSTIA, a collection portal of court decisions where the West Virginia Supreme Court said that Lewis's claims are "totally devoid of any merit." Now that can't make him look to good!
Back in 2007, on his own blogspot, after running for W Va Attorney General, he reported to the world: Hi, my name is Hiram Lewis and I am running for West Virginia Attorney General. Where was Bucky back then?
If you head over to the mug shot page and type in Hiram Lewis IV, back when Lewis was calling Central Regional Jail home,.. so much for his concern on public image.
The Charleston Gazette does a pretty good job with reporting . From the Gazette in 2021 here's an informative write up on Lewis being charged with witness intimidation.
We've spent quite a bit of time this morning doing the above listed research. There's plenty more available but we've wasted enough space and your time.
Scrub the web clean of anything that Lewis doesn't like? That's done in Russia and other places. We don't do that readers.
We know Hiram and have for a number of years. Our opinion and other Clayonians of him is well founded and certainly led to his recent coming up short on votes during the General Election.
The truth is just that.
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