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ELECT Pankey 2002
Who is Marvalene Pankey?
ELECTION REFORM, JUDICIAL AND PRISON REFORM ACTIVIST
WILLING TO NOW SERVE
CEDAR COUNTY CITIZENS AS COUNTY CLERK.
Marvalene Pankey is a third generation Missourian , born 8/2/1948, the daughter of Gilbert and Nada (Lee) Pankey (both parents are deceased). * See below for Cedar County families in her ancestry. A native of Cedar County she has spent most of her life in the southwest Missouri area, but has also lived in central Missouri, the Kansas City area, Tulsa, Dallas, Decatur and Arlington Heights.
FORMAL EDUCATION
-- Master of Arts, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma; BSEd, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri; Paralegal Certificate with Honors, Southern Career Institute, Boca Raton, Florida; Real Estate Broker Training, Career Education Systems, Kansas City, Missouri; numerous other education; training/experience in management, sales, government, social issues, law, research, public corruption investigations.PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
--Missouri real estate broker; public school teaching experience for a total of over 8 years and 3 plus years supervising other teachers in public school settings or teaching the mentally handicapped in a state facility. Additional teaching experience at the junior college level for two years. She has also taught seminars and conducted workshops on a variety of topics. She has been an associate member of the Ohio State Bar Association.In addition, Marvalene Pankey has worked as a manager of a retail store on the busy Branson, Mo. tourist strip. She has also worked a variety of part time jobs ranging from finding computer errors for Sun Oil to stuffing envelopes for the Teamsters to the tax division of the Mo. Department of Revenue to selling advertising. She has worked in personnel management for a Joplin area manufacturing company. And has a total of at least 15 years experience in supervising personnel, business management, and working within a budget.
From 1996 to the present she has worked as an independent contractor, merchandiser and product demonstrator for ProDemCo., Inc. of Springfield, Missouri. She also has worked for a similar company since 2001, Talk-It-Up
. And in 2002 was recruited by Mid America and Mass Connections for similar promotions. She also does investigations, research, and consultations and creates web sites on a free lance basis.POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE
--1964-1966-Marvalene Pankey was selected by El Dorado Springs R-2 Schools, El Dorado Springs, Missouri as a youth advisor to U.S. Congressman, Durward G. Hall. She was told being part of the 7th Congressional District Youth Advisory Council earned her a place in history as it was one of, if not the, first such groups in the nation, and her name was placed on permanent display somewhere in Washington DC.Mid-1980s-1993--she did considerable research regarding Missouri courts and particularly how youth were treated in the system. She devoted considerable time to exposing miscarriages of justice, including Stacy Simpson, Johnny Lee Wilson, and Jason Ivy. Stacy was sent to adult prison accused of murdering her mother at age 14, case was overturned by a federal judge in 1990 based on a petition prepared by Marvalene Pankey. Stacy was acquitted by jury in February, 1993. Marvalene was the only person known to have ever presented the Johnny Lee Wilson case to the federal courts and it was her persistent insistence that finally convinced his supporters to present his case to the late Governor Carnahan. The Governor gave Johnny, who is mentally retarded, and another man had confessed to the murder, a pardon in September, 1995. She helped Jason Ivy obtain court appointed counsel and helped with the selection of his points on appeal. Jason, who was sent to Mo. adult prison at the age of 15, for the murder of his step sister, had his case also overturned by a federal judge, April, 1998. Unfortunately Jason was coerced into another plea bargain in 1999 and remains in prison for what even law enforcement termed an accident.
She takes the credit for having helped remove Johnny and Stacy's circuit judge, L. Thomas Elliston, from the bench. During his sentencing to federal prison, a humbled Bill Webster, who had been attorney general during the imprisonment of Stacy and Johnny apologized to Ms. Pankey for his not listening to her attempts to have him correct their cases. The federal prosecutor on the Webster case 'off the record' thanked her for her assistance with the prosecution and agreed with her analysis that Missouri public corruption was bigger than the Greylord cases. She was also recognized by the Missouri Conmmission on Removal, Retirement and Discipline of Judges for having provided information that helped force the resignation of Greene County Circuit Judge, Thos. McGuire from the bench. In 1994 she told long term Mo. House Speaker Bob Griffin he was being removed. By 1996 Griffin was out as speaker in he eventually pled guilty to federal charges of corruption after Marvalene Pankey filed a paper to prevent his likely fixing a second jury after he had skated past one jury.
From the fall of 1994-early, 1997 Marvalene Pankey did extensive research on Missouri elections and the potential for and evidence of vote fraud. In 1998 she insisted the Cedar County Commissioners change companies for election materials, including tabulation software. By 1999 she had succeeded in getting the Mo. Secretary of State to warn all election authorities that the company handling vote tabulation in at least 57 counties had not properly registered to do business in Mo. for over 14 years and avoiding franchise taxes. Cedar County and some other jurisdictions changed from Henry M. Adkins and Son, Inc. and the secretary of state made them pay some of the back taxes.
In 1996 she sought the Democrat Party nomination for Missouri SOS. Although she had never been active in party politics before and spent less than $500, she was granted 7 per cent of the statewide vote.
In 1997 she unofficially helped prevent the State of Oklahoma from placing Joe or Shannon Agofsky on death row. Their bizarre case where current U.S. Attorney, John Ashcroft's friend and associate, Joe Rayl and FBI agents created a scam involving the purported murder of banker, Dan Short, had resulted in them already in federal prison for the same crime and evidence the body alleged to be Short's was actually that of an African American.
In 1998 Marvalene Pankey ran for Missouri Senate, 28th District, on the U.S. Taxpayers (now Constitution) Party. Again she spent less than $500, was denied support by the invalid state party 'leadership', and was mostly ignored or smeared by the media, but she was granted 12.89 per cent of the vote.
In April, 1998 she served as paralegal for the last twelve days of Glenn Sweet's death penalty case. She prepared the packets and gave the presentation to the governor's legal team that resulted in a special investigation of the case the last weekend. Although she and the attorney failed to stop the execution, legal manuevering and some of the motions filed are believed to have stopped Missouri executions for quite sometime afterwards due to the lack of jurisdiction of the place of executions. Two weeks after Sweet was executed the missing link was mailed to her that she believes would have resulted in stay of execution. Sweet had allowed himself to take the fall for a drug deal gone sour and the murder from within the Mo. Highway Patrol under the John Ashcroft as Mo. Governor administration. She had given the presentation for the Mo. Governor's office, but did not have the statement that created the element of doubt and could have likely proven Sweet innocent of murder.
January 7, 2000 Marvalene Pankey was asked by Missouri Secretary of State, Bekki Cook, and retired Jackson County, Missouri Circuit Judge, Laurence Smith, to outline and help develop Missouri Citizenship Centers for each public and private library in the state and other community locations. When fully developed these centers would have had a web site at the heart along with considerable hard copy information bringing citizens closer to self governance.
December, 2000 she was elected state chairperson for The Reform Party of Missouri. She was reaffirmed as state chair in June, 2001. In 2002 she helped organize Statesmanship Party, Inc.
Raised in a traditional Republican home, and originally a fan of Eisenhower and Nixon, Marvalene Pankey began to be enlightened and refused to shake President Nixon's hand at the dedication of an Oklahoma waterway, days before his resignation. The President paused and angrily questioned why he was being snubbed. The memory of that incident continues to remind Marvalene Pankey that one rejected greeting, one voice crying in the wilderness, one vote might make a difference in keeping a state sovereign.
Marvalene Pankey is a mixture of the best of all the political parties and what they have traditionally stood for.
Anyone who knows Pankey is aware, and past Vote-Smart and other surveys clearly show, she has strong positions on most issues. Again she is a mixture of what some would call conservative and liberal views---if all views are averaged she fits the common sense, moderate progressive views, but does not like those labels any more than she wants to be known as an extremist or far right wing. She believes in common sense, practical solutions that are often forgotten amidst the rhetoric and search for a label. She is pro life, for less taxes, against one world government, pro second amendment (as well as all other constitutional rights), against war and other use of violence, for alternatives to prison for non violent crimes, and in general for accountable, simplified, common sense government.
Former Mo. Secretary of State, Bekki Cook, has called Marvalene Pankey 'extremely talented', one who 'insists on honesty and morality' and who has been 'most wonderful help' on the Missouri Citizenship Centers project. And former Mo. Secretary of State, Judi Moriarty-Ebers has described Marvalene Pankey as "always looking out for others", "putting God first", "who stands up for what she believes in and knows is right".
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CEDAR COUNTY ANCESTORS and family
---As noted above Marvalene is the daughter of Gilbert and Nada(Lee) Pankey. Her sister is Mildred Lorene Marshall and she has a deceased brother, Dwain Pankey. Her grandparents were Ed and Etta (Eaves) Pankey and Jobie and Mattie (Kneedler) Lee. She's the niece of Shelby and Fern Masters, Ted and Ethel Lee, Roy and Gladys Lee, Francis and Myrtle Eason, Cecil and Violet Beason, Eulice and Martha Pankey, Sid and Muriel Pankey, Harry and Vera Cargill, Harley and Viva Turner. All with the exception of Lorene Marshall and Fern Masters are deceased. She has seven nieces and nephews---Roger and Sharon Berning, Randy and Carolyn Marshall, Mark and Sheila Frieze, Lindell and Kris Marshall, Mike and Sharyl Wynes, Tim and Sharla Stonebraker, Jeff and Shana Newman. The grandparents of Marvalene's maternal grandmother came from Germany and the mother of her maternal grandfather was probably a full Choctaw Native American. Her paternal grandfather's family came to Mo. in a covered wagon while Ed was an infant. They were of French and English mixed descent.
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