Lisa Esler Ridley Support

Lisa Esler Ridley SupportLisa Esler supporters spent two hours today, July 18, on MacDade Boulevard in Ridley from Monta Vista Avenue through Route 420. There were lots of honks of support and thumbs up from drivers with one man shouting Lisa, Lisa, Lisa as he drove into the Home Depot parking lot.

While her opponent in the 161st Pennsylvania State House special election has the support of the county and state Republicans, along with organized labor, which is spurning the official Dem in the race, and Mrs. Esler is but a wife, mother, grandmother, certified optician, and a school board director, this will be a contest.

And the GOP machine knows it. They are  ignoring the official Democrat and aiming all guns at that instrument of change that is Lisa Esler.

The election is Aug. 4.

Lisa Esler Ridley Support

 

Paul Mullen Salary Is Sweet

Paul Mullen Salary Is Sweet
Paul Mullen (right) trying to get liberal Democrat Joe Sestak elected U.S. senator.

Paul Mullen, who is running as a Republican in the Aug. 4 special election for the vacant 161st District Pennsylvania House seat, makes more than $130,000 per year as business manager of Local 654 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

Why did the Republican Party pick Mullen who has spent the last five years working hard to get liberal Democrats elected to state and federal office? Why is extreme liberal Democrat John Kane supporting him this election?

Those are certainly good questions to mull.

An even better one is will Mullen quit his easy and lucrative job as IBEW business manager if he should manage to win the race, which we grant is anything but certain.

Pennsylvania  legislators are, after all, paid very nicely with the understanding that they are doing a full-time job. It seems rather hard to believe that someone can handle two such important well-paying jobs at the same time.

So will Mullen quit as IBEW business manager? Somebody should ask him but nobody seems to be able to find him.

His Republican opponent , Lisa Esler, has said she will quit her full-time job as an optician if elected. Further, she will not take the state pension. Further, she will work to cut the pay and perks of being a state legislator.

Unless you happen to be a special interest living high on the hog by milking the public cow, the smart vote in the 161st District on Aug. 4 is writing in Lisa Esler.

And on a related matter, Mullen is claiming he is no longer president of the Delaware County council of the AFL-CIO. Somebody better tell the AFL-CIO to fix their website.

Paul Mullen Salary Is Sweet