WCHS TV viewers
remember Kallie Cart as the reporter who stood up to Freedom Industries
CEO, Gary Southern, during the
Aquapocalypse but a group of St. Albans residents are beginning to know her as
the reporter who, on 8 April 2009, reported on the disappearance of an entire
city political party. Cart reported that St. Albans has become a single-party
town with only the Citizens Party placing mayoral and council candidates on the
ballot due to the inactivity of the Peoples Party which didn’t even have an
executive committee rendering the party unable to conduct any of the normal
business required to be a functioning party.
Seven years later the Peoples Party is, once again, inactive
so one Facebook group - St. Albans Peoples Party Reactivation Group - has placed Kallie Cart’s 2009 news story in
the “files” section of the group and is using it as a conversation-starter
about the disadvantages of being a
single-party town.
An email from the St. Albans city recorder, Veronica
Westfall, confirms that the Peoples Party is inactive and cannot put candidates
on the ballot until it re-activates.
The St. Albans Peoples Party Reactivation Group has also
placed a document in its “files” section that explains the steps the inactive
party must take to reactivate the party.
