Tag: Mayor Bill Pauley

Judges Set to Decide Longtime Marmet Mayors Status

A three-judge panel is set to decide whether Marmet Mayor Bill Pauley should be removed from office.

The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the West Virginia Supreme Court ordered the hearing Wednesday. It will be held in February in Kanawha County.

Pauley faces removal after 99 residents signed a petition saying they wanted him removed.

The complaint says Pauley encouraged ineligible voters who weren’t Marmet residents to cast votes during early voting in 2013.

Pauley entered a conciliation agreement, similar to a plea bargain, with the state Ethics Commission Sept. 29 over two counts of violating the state Ethics Act for personal gain.

Pauley has been mayor of Marmet for 37 years. In November, he denied any wrongdoing to the newspaper.

He will have a chance to appeal pending the judges’ ruling.

Petitions Filed Seeking Removal of Marmet Mayor

Residents have filed a petition seeking the removal of the mayor of the town of Marmet.

The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that petitions signed by 99 voters were filed Monday in Kanawha Circuit Court.

The complaint accuses 87-year-old Mayor Bill Pauley of “official misconduct, malfeasance in office, incompetence, neglect of duty and gross immorality.” It includes a copy of an agreement Pauley made with the state Ethics Commission in September admitting that he helped ineligible voters cast ballots in the town’s 2013 elections. He was fined $2,000.

Pauley, who has been mayor for 37 years, said the bid to remove him is really being driven by a year-long dispute over how much to pay the street commissioner. He said he will fight to complete his term, which ends in 2017.

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