Why Kallie Cart's 2009 News Story About St. Albans Politics Is Being Shared On Social Media

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.