William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 11-4-15
OK Robert James: Ultraman vs Godzilla, who would win?
Why, Ultraman of course. It was actually put to the test. Haruo Nakajima who played the original Godzilla played several of Ultraman’s opponents as well. Ultraman always won.
At least against the characters Nakajima played.
The people of Pennsylvania have elected the brother of a notorious union boss to the top court along with two other Democrats. 
As of 11:08 p.m., Nov. 3, with 77. 7 percent of the vote counted Kevin Dougherty, the brother of John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty, was the top votegetter with 956,119 followed by David Wecht with 951,658 votes and Christine Donohue with 936,016 votes.
Three seats were up for election.
The Republican tallies were Judith Olson, 762,113; Michael George, 683,043 and Anne Covey, 680,607.
Independent Paul Panepinto had 126,976 votes.
The ideologue Democrats will have a 5-2 majority on the bench. Terms are for 10 years.
The Democrat ticket overwhelmed the Republicans in Philly. Their tallies in the city as of this writing were Dougherty, 198,410; Donohue, 161,267 and Wecht, 158,392 verses the Republican totals of Olson, 27,454; Clovey, 19,423; George, 19,343.
Also winning were Democrats Alice Dubow who beat Emil Giordano for Superior Court judge and Micahel Wojcik who beat Paul Lalley for Commonwealth Court judge.
Closer to home the news was better. Republicans Dominic Pileggi, Anthony Scanlon and Margaret Amoroso easily won election to Delaware County Common Pleas Court over Larry Abel and G. Lawrence Demarco. Scanlon was on both ballots.
And just as easily, Colleen P. Morrone, John P. McBlain and Michael Culp all won re-election to Delaware County Council over Richard R. Womack, Christine A. Reuther and Sharon J. Booker.
Jack Whelan was not opposed for re-election as District Attorney.
Lisa Esler, who ran a write-in campaign last summer for the vacant 161st District seat was easily re-elected to her Penn Delco School Board.
And Joe Gale, who tweaked party bosses for an unexpected Republican Primary win last May, appears to have repeated the trick winning the minority county commissioner seat. Montgomery County guarantees one seat on the board to the minority party. Democrats Josh Shapiro and Val Arkoosh easily won control of the board getting 96,838 and 88,608 votes respectively. Gale finished third with 65,428 votes while party-endorsed Steve Tolbert Jr. had 62,326.
Sen. Scott Wagner (R-28) reported on Facebook that Guy Reschenthaler flipped a vacant seat in the 37th Senate District. This would increase GOP control of the body to 31-19.
Let it be noted that with Pileggi’s victory in his judicial race a special election looms to fill his 9th District state senate seat.
And congrats to Lenore Bruno who won a squeaker in her 4th Ward Plymouth Council race.
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William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-3-15
Harpe’s Head is a crossroads in Webster County, Ky. It is named for Micajah Harpe or his head anyway. “Big” Harpe was a serial killer highway man and river priate who met his demise at that particular spot in 1799. The husband of one of his victims decapitated the villain and stuck his head in a tree. It remained there for 10 years before someone stole it.
Tomorrow, Nov. 3, is Election Day 2015 and after much soul searching I am just going to hit the button for straight Republican.
A few weeks back I basically endorsed Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Paul Panepinto, who is running as an independent for state Supreme Court.
Paul is a good man and I don’t regret a word I wrote but the Democrat ticket consists of three people who I strongly suspect are cut from the same cloth as disgraced Attorney General Kathleen Kane and one of whom is actually the brother of this guy.
While I still have my doubts about Republican Anne Covey they are just not worth making me take a chance and help cause what I am convinced would be a markedly corrupt Democrat takeover.
And it should be noted that Republicans Judith Olson and Michael George seem to be very good.
The other race of import is the Montgomery County Commissioner battle in which the party bosses are trying to do everything they can to keep Joe Gale from taking office because Joe beat one of the party’s endorsed candidates — a Planned Parenthood-supporting, well-connected businessman — in the primary.
Party leaders are spreading a bizarre tale that Joe asked to be kept off the sample ballot. Right. He wins the Republican primary and doesn’t want to be on the sample ballot. Only a leader who thinks his followers are fools would dream of making such a laughable claim.
If you are a Montgomery County voter and are given a sample ballot with the complete Republican slate, hit the party button. If, however, the sample ballot omits Joe’s name, hit the party button so you make sure you get all the judges, then uncheck the name of Steve Tolbert — the other Republican commissioner candidate — while leaving Joe’s name active.
One minority party member is guaranteed a spot on the county’s three-person Board of Commissioners. Montco GOP Chairman Mike Vereb is apparently not trying to win but merely get his apparatchik as the minority member.
He should hang his head in disgrace for that and for endangering the judicial race.
UPDATE: OK, I will confess and come clean. I ended up voting for Panepinto in lieu of Covey. I just like the guy.
Turnout was fairly high for an off-year election in my Springfield polling place and tilted to the GOP even more than usual.
I worked the polls this morning for Montco Commissioner candidate Joe Gale at the Plymouth Fire House. Joe was on the Republican sample ballot and the morning Republican poll workers were nice and as supportive of him as they were of Steve Tolbert Jr., who was the party-endorsed candidate that won in the primary.
Turnout was very heavy at the polling place for an off year election, I was told , and evenly split between the parties. Plymouth has been trending Democrat, the GOP people said.
The precinct is the site of a hot town council race as unions are spending heavily to unseat incumbent Lenore Bruno who has been opposing regulations that would restrict township work to firms using union labor. If these regulations were imposed the average resident would feel an unnecessary tax bite.
Good luck Lenore.
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William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-27-15
Evel Knievel sold insurance policies to institutionalized mental patients. He quit when his company wouldn’t promote him to vice president. This was before he became a famous daredevil.
William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-2-15
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Gov. Tom Wolf this Halloween afternoon came to Media, Pa. to try to get a Philly union boss’ brother elected to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court but was instead met with a crowd demanding he “sign the budget” and “give us books.”
The Democrat rally held on Veterans Square was probably more than half Wolf opponents. At least 100 persons attended.
One protester from Saint Dorthy’s School in Drexel Hill noted that the children have no textbooks and teachers are mimeographing lessons.
Penn Delco School Director Lisa Esler expressed anger and disgust with the governor’s political actions.
“I don’t think it’s fair or even ethical for state law to require a school district to pass a budget on time, collect our money and then hold the money hostage,” she said.
That’s what your ego has wrought Governor.
The state legislature passed $30.179 billion budget on June 30 that was a 3.6 percent increase over the previous year and would have increased education spending by $100 million.
Wolf vetoed it.
He also rejected a recent proposal to increase education spending by $400 million if he agrees to liquor privatization and pension reform.
He also has refused to use line-item veto power to make changes that he doesn’t want and, most tellingly, arrogantly refused to sign temporary spending measures.
Wherever one stands on the political spectrum one must be ashamed of this governor and his ego-driven agenda.
Attending the rally with Wolf and those seeking local office were the Dem Supreme Court ticket and U.S. Senator Bob Casey Jr. significantly adding to the embarrassment.
It should be noted that Wolf was the only speaker that got significant grief from the crowd.