| Kanawha County officials are contemplating action against the Town of Clendenin, because the town can't get its act together.
It's been a Keystone Kops and peanut gallery kind of place.
The county dealt a death-knell to another mismanaged municipality - Jefferson, now out of existence.
The chaotic council-mayor-police force battle continued this week with a former Clendenin police officer suing the Kanawha County town and its mayor over his dismissal.
Charles Burkhammer claims he was fired because he charged Mayor Bob Ore with obstructing a police officer.
Ore, who has maintained his leadership of the town, often supported by judicial rulings, has had dozens of run-ins with the town's feisty council members.
Burkhammer filed a wrongful termination lawsuit Monday, after a court upheld the mayor's authority to remove him.
The lawsuit contends that the firing was without just cause and that Burkhammer was denied due process.
Burkhammer obtained an arrest warrant against Ore on June Third. The former officer alleged that Ore told him not to arrest a Clendenin couple after he and another officer went the couple's home in April to serve warrants for domestic battery.
Ore fired Burkhammer on June Fifth for gross subordination.
Ore has disputed Burkhammer's account of the incident.
Burkhammer's lawsuit seeks unspecified damages, back pay and reinstatement of his job.
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