Day: December 14, 2023

Delco Prison Conditions Nearing Crisis Level, Council Told — Frank Kwaning, president of the Delaware County (Pa.) Prison Employees Independent Union, gave a dire warning to County Council, Dec. 13. (2:14.30).

Membership asked him to inform the council that “things going on in the facility” are bad, he said.

“We don’t know what is being said out here and we don’t know what the council has been told,” he said. “But the reality on the ground is not as conducive as is portrayed,. You will be reading it in the news, you will be hearing it from somewhere.”

He begged the council to go to the prison to see things for themselves. He begged them to talk to the personnel.

“The morale is at the lowest level,” he said.

He thanked the council for the $3 raise they got in the latest contract but said membership is still being treated like garbage.

“On behalf of the members, we invite the council to step into the jail and conduct an investigation as to what is going on.”

He said Council better address things before things gets out of hand.

Delco Prison Conditions Nearing Crisis Level, Council Told

William Martin Retires As Delco Solicitor — William Martin, yesterday, Dec. 13, announced his retirement (1:49) as Delaware County, Pa. solicitor effective at the end of the month.

He took some cheap shots at election integrity activist in his farewell speech (1:50.50)

“One thing of which I have been proudest . . . is protecting the right to vote in Delaware County,” he said.

Seriously?

Why did you fight right-to-know requests? Why did you end the return board report?

And passing a law weakening traditional minority influence on the Election Board? You are strongly fighting to keep it. How is that protecting the right to vote?

Why aren’t you allowing specific precinct recounts as allowed by simple reading of the law? Why aren’t you allowing poll watchers to challenged ballots at the Wharf absentee ballot counting center as they would at any precinct?

By the way, the cite from the German philosopher Karl Jaspers was top-flight gaslighting . You think think skeptics and questioners are unreasonable?

Again, why did you fight right-to-know requests AFTER the state Office of Open Records ruled against you?

And are you going to collect a pension? How long did you work for Delco?

William Martin Retires As Delco Solicitor