When I'm not busy investigating bigoted Jim Crow Officials inclined to lending a blind eye and ear to the plight of Creoles and poor down here in post Katrina "Dixie", I run a small hotdog cart business on the behalf and benefit of the American Creole Indian Nation of the 1803 Lousiana Purchase Territories.
CORRUPT OFFICIAL AUDIO TAPES RESIDE HERE!!!!!!
It is within this particular context that I have had the outright misfortune to come to know both Pulaski County Justice Robert Batton, a part-time city judge for Jacksonville, Arkansas and his "black sheep" son, "Barbecue Boy" John Batton.
John Batton decided to open a bbq business out of a catering trailer down here in the Rivermarket District of Little Rock. Arkansas, located within Pulaski County Arkansas where this gangster judge presides. Just prior to opening up his business just A stones throw away from my Willy Dog USA hot dog cart. John Batton brags profusly about how his daddy is a big time judge. Needless to say, I started taking his bragging seriously when all of the sudden, I found myself deluged by suspicious activities. For instance, Barbecue boy, John Batton, loved to brag about how his daddy, the gangster judge Robert Batton, is real cozy with Best Parking.
Best Parking REALLY does control some of the ONLY parking downtown. He boasted about how he used his gangster daddy's influence to get the "Pizza Man" kicked off of a parking spot located on Best parking property that he has enjoyed using for two years prior to there even being a bbq boy in the Little Rock River Market. He proudly admits to also calling the Health Dept. on Pizza Man, hoping to get the Pizza Man cased-up.
Oh, there is much more to come, Especially after bbq boy sent me an internet text message the other day, threatening the life of my Creole mother in TN.
You can bet that the FBI has his home I.P. address. Funny that the threat came just 24 hrs. after the Jacksonville Police Dept. spent 7 hours studying this blog site. hmmm.
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Ean Bordeuax, pro per
Creole Interests Reporter
Citizen Complainant
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In the mean time read how the Creole Indian Nation is NOT alone in exposing this family's disdain of public rights.
Here is an article written by the Arkansas leader:
Who voted for name change?
.+++ Original members of Jacksonville Centennial had no say in handing over their nonprofit charter to a private club that has been serving alcohol for years and now offers adult entertainment.
By RICK KRON
Leader staff writer
.+++ In 1989, Jacksonville Realtor James Peacock was served papers stating he was the agent of record for Barney's Barn, Inc. "No way in hell,” was his response, but it turned out he was. Peacock was the agent of record for the nonprofit group Jacksonville Centennial when it was formed in 1970 to celebrate the city's 100th birthday. During a meeting on May 30, 1981, the organization voted to change its name to Barney's Barn, but the group never changed the agent of record until 1989.
.+++ "Now it makes sense,” Peacock said, after an article ran last week in The Leader describing how the Jacksonville Centennial group was used as the vehicle that allowed Barney's Barn to open and serve alcohol and go through multiple name changes to now be known as Peaches, a gentlemen's club.
.+++"I'm not in any way associated with Peaches. I wasn't even invited to the 1981 meeting, and if I was, I sure would not have allowed our group to be renamed Barney's Barn,” said Peacock. Local optometrist Dr. Joe Collins, another Jacksonville Centennial member, also wants to know who was at the meeting.
.+++ "I never received a notice about a meeting and I never received notice I was dropped as a member. How could there be a meeting if none of the original board members were there?” Collins asked. "No one would have voted to have a club or serve liquor.”
.+++ "We put the group together for one purpose,” Collins said, "to cover those who volunteered their time for our parade, working on floats and other activities for the city's 100th birthday. It was for liability and nothing else.”
.+++ Collins said that after the city celebration there were no more meetings. "I don't know what happened to the entity. I know I attended no meetings after the year was over,” he said. But somehow the organization stayed alive.
.+++ A document filed with the state's Alcohol Beverage Control board and the secretary of state's office states, "At a meeting of the membership (or board of directors) which was held on May 30, 1981 in the City of Jacksonville, the Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation as herein was (were) offered and adopted. That the following Article(s) of the Articles of Incorporation were amended to read as follows:
.+++ "Article First: The name of this corporation shall be Barney's Barn, Inc.”
.+++ The document was signed in blue pen by current District Judge Robert Batton as president of the Jacksonville Centennial group.
.+++ "When did he become president? We didn't vote him in,” said both Peacock and Collins. The document was also signed by the group's secretary, JoAnn Martindill Vance of Cabot. She is the sister of Dennis Martindill, who owned and operated Barney's Barn, Splash, Tramps, Tramps II and now Peaches. The actual minutes showing who was in attendance or who voted is not on file with the ABC or the secretary of state's office.
.+++ Once the Jacksonville Centen-nial group voted to rename itself Barney's Barn, Inc., it then applied for a private club permit less than one month later.
.+++ The original application filed with the ABC board on June 25, 1981 listed the club filing for the permit as Barney's Barn, Inc. It also states that Barney's Barn, Inc. was first organized Mar. 2, 1970, the date Jacksonville Centennial was originally incorporated.
.+++ The application lists all the officers of the no-profit group of Barney's Barn, Inc., which included Dennis Martindill as president and Vance as the only other officer .
.+++ What happened to Batton?
.+++ Undated articles of incorporation filed with the application still called the nonprofit group Jacksonville Centennial and stated that the board of directors "shall not be less than 16 members, exclusive of any officer of the corporation who may be ex-officio members of the board of directors.”
.+++ Even though the articles state the board will have 16 members, the private club permit request filed with ABC lists only two: Martindill and Vance.
.+++ The decision to apply for a private club permit was made at a special meeting of the board of directors at 501 W. Main St., on June 1, 1981, according to minutes filed with the ap-plication re-quest. According to the minutes, Martindill acted as chairman and Vance acted as secretary. According to the minutes, a motion was made and seconded to authorize Martindill to apply for a private club permit to operate under the name of Barney's Barn. The minutes were signed by the nonprofit group's president, Martindill, and the group's secretary Vance. The ABC held a hearing on Martindill's request on July 27, 1981, and three days later ruled in favor of the request. According to the report of the hearing, "There appeared at the hearing of the applicant, Dennis Martindill, accompanied by his attorney, Mackie Pierce. No person appeared in opposition to the application.”
.+++ Pierce is now a circuit judge and said due to ethical considerations he could make no comment.
.+++ He is also Martindill's attorney of record for two name changes for the business. Pierce filed for a change of trade name on Nov. 8, 1984, asking the ABC for permission to change the club's name from Barney's Barn to Tramps. Then again in February 1997, requesting a name change from Tramps to Splash. Through all the business name changes, the name of the nonprofit group remained Barney's Barn, Inc.
.+++ Judge Batton said last week that he was not president of Jacksonville Centennial and if he signed anything it was for a client. But his signature does appear as president of the nonprofit group on the May 30, 1981 document approving the nonprofit group's name from Jacksonville Centenn-ial, Inc. to Barney's Barn, Inc.
.+++ Martindill is in the hospital and unavailable for comment.
.+++ Of the original 16 board members of Jacksonville Centennial, only five are apparently still alive and in the area.
.+++ Both Collins and Peacock made it clear they had nothing to do with the nonprofit name change and would not have allowed it. "A private club was never the intent of our group,” Collins said.
.+++ Attorney Ben Rice was an original member of Jacksonville Centennial and filed the original articles of incorporation. "I certainly don't recall being involved in the name change,” Rice said, "And I am not an attorney for Dennis Martindill.”
.+++ The other two original members still in the area, Ted Freeman and Johnny Shields, didn't return phone calls.
.+++ Milton Lueken, an ABC attorney, says apparently no law was broken in the process of changing Jacksonville Centennial's name to Barney's Barn. He explained that clubs or businesses wanting to sell or serve alcohol would often obtain a nonprofit corporation. Most recently, Chili's met with a nonprofit group known as the Low Country Social Club, which agreed to change its name to Chili's-Hwy. 67 Club and then applied for a private club permit to operate a Chili's restaurant in Jacksonville.
.+++ That application was approved under the condition that Chili's build the restaurant within a year.
