DA Says Taxpayers Saving Money On Prison Despite 24% Budget Hike — Delaware County (Pa) District Attorney, last night, Oct. 16, boasted to County Council that George W. Hill Prison has a third of the inmates as it did before the Dems took over Delco’s government.
Kimberly Brown of Colwyn, a case worker at the facility, again took issue during public comments with how the jail was being run.
She said a misleading report is being spread regarding a report of a fire at Hill. She said an inmate pulled a fire alarm causing an incident. Ms. Brown said the staffing shortage is severe and there has been no fire drill since Laura Williams took over as warden on Jan. 31, 2022.
Ms. Brown said employees are quitting.
So Jack, with 66 percent fewer prisoners and a smaller staff why are the taxpayers paying 24 percent more for the facility, and how exactly do you think they are saving money?
Ms. Brown, frighteningly, said she has been under investigation since May by authorities at Hill for speaking out at council.
She’s not the only one saying she’s getting repercussions for daring to expose problems. See Sharon Devaney’s comments in this story and see what Janet Rousse (phonetic) says in the next one.
Jack Stollsteimer
DA Says Taxpayers Saving Money On Prison Despite 24% Budget Hike
GOP Candidate Demands Delco Machines Be Quarantined And Investigated — Congressional candidate Alfe Goodwin of Drexel Hill told County Council last night, Oct. 16, that Delaware County, Pa is violating state and federal rules regarding voting machine testing.
A injunction was filed Oct. 11 to quarantine the 18 machines tested in September to protect the chain of custody. She said they must be given to the FBI for investigation.
The remaining 838 precinct machines must then be tested to see if they have the same problems, she said.
The problems are that the tested machines are not in the configuration verified by either the federal Election Assistance Commission or the Pennsylvania Department of State.
She further said that the “trusted build” performed in September was done on only 2 percent of the machines. One must be done all all 856 precinct machines for an election to be valid.
It would violate the law for these machines to be used Nov. 5.
Ms. Goodwin is the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania’s 5th Congressional District. She called for her Democrat opponent, incumbent Mary Gay Scanlon, to join her in demanding the law be followed.
The 5th District consists of all of Delaware County along with parts of Philadelphia, Montgomery and Chester counties.
The case filed to enjoin the use of the machines is CV 2024008838.
That election doubts are widespread is entirely the fault of certain government bodies including Delaware County Council.
This group fights rulings by the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records to release election documents. They refuse to give poll watchers the expected access at the central ballot counting center.
Now, they have reached the point where congressional candidates are calling foul.
There is no innocent explanation for Council’s behavior.
Also last night, Charlie Alexander of Marple said he was told by police that people have been seen dropping 10 or 15 ballots in election dropboxes. Donna Yarnell of Marple said Delco has more dropboxes than any other county in the state.
This is true.
Councilwoman Christine Reuther boasted at meeting’s start about Delco’s 36 drop boxes. This is more than either Philadelphia or Allegheny counties which are much larger and include major cities.
Kathy from Haverford said that half the solar cameras supposedly providing security on the boxes don’t work.
Kathy also questioned the pop-up satellite voter services offices put up by the county and noted that Councilman Kevin Madden has yet to address his business connections to the BlueCrest ballot sorters used by the county.
Tom Flocco of Upper Providence encouraged all to watch the documentary Big Con which featured video of suspicious actions during Delaware County elections.
Bill from Upper Darby reminded all holding an oath of office that following orders is not an excuse.
“We will have our republic back,” he said.
At the beginning of the meeting, Ms. Reuther said that the county has received 27,000 ballots so far with 20,000 coming by mail, 4,000 being left at the Courthouse and 3,550 coming from community dropboxes.
Alfe Goodwin with GOP Senate nominee Dave McCormick
GOP Candidate Demands Delco Machines Be Quarantined And Investigated
Sanctuary Claims Continue Despite Delco Denial — Executive Director Barbara O’Malley told County Council, last night, Oct. 16, that allegations that Delaware County, Pa. was a sanctuary for illegals were objectively false.
The allegations stem from at least 2016 and are based on claims that the county declined detainers for illegals sought by ICE.
Mrs. O’Malley said a thorough investigation was made with Delco’s George W. Hill Prison and with ICE . The county was in perfect compliance with ICE, she said.
The public forum, however, brought forth persuasive rebuttals.
Marple residents Charlie Alexander and Gary Ryder said that mattresses suspected to be used by illegals are most definitely on the floors of the former Don Guanella building at the county’s Delco Woods park. Ryder said Marple Police specifically told him they are ordered to stand down and free the suspects when they discover the lawbreakers are illegals.
And Sharon Devaney of Ardmore again pointed out the 2017 accident that left her crippled and nearly killed her daughter. No charges were filed against the driver of the striking car — despite her breaking several laws — solely because she was an illegal.
Sharon also said that since she has begun speaking out at council meetings, her bank account has been hacked and looted; her car payments have been tampered; and she received a notice from a debt service that she had died.
Defending Council were two women, one of whom said that illegals couldn’t be staying in the Don Guanella buildings because they would be reported if they were.
We suspect she was missing certain implications in the discussion.
More stories from last night are coming, including a public statement about voting machines by congressional candidate Alfe Goodwin.
Delaware County has 11 members of the Pennsylvania House and all but one –Craig Williams (R-160) — are Democrat Seven are female, three are male.
All are up for re-election
Running unopposed are PA 159 Carol Kazeem (D-159), Gina H. Curry (D-164), Regina D. Young (D-185) and Joanna E. McClinton (D-191).
Williams 160th District consists of parts of Chester and Delaware counties. It has been held by Republicans since 1979.
Williams has held holds the office since 2020. He won re-election in 2022 beating Catherin Spahr with 52.4 percent of the vote.
Williams received his JD degree from the University of Florida,and has an L.L.M. From Columbia University School of Law. He was a USMC 2nd lieutenant during the Persian Gulf War.
He has been a assistant US Attorney. He has run for US Congress (2008) but lost to the Admiral (Joe Sestak). More recently he lost rather resoundingly to Dave Sunday for the attorney general nomination. He lives in Glen Mills with his wife Jennifer, and their four children.
His opponent is Democrat Elizabeth Moro who has been endorsed by Gov. Shapiro. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Western Michigan University with degrees in political science, political policy, and women’s sudies. She lives in Chadds Ford, Pa with her husband Vince, where they raise sheep and bees. They have four adult children.
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Trump Pleases Tired Crowd By Postponing Politics For Music In Pa. — Last night’s (Oct. 14) Trump Town Hall at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, Pa. will be legendary.
The venue maximum 5,000 crowd — some who can come from as far away as Indiana – packed the poorly ventilated, poorly concessioned facility after standing under the October sun for up to six hours.
When doors finally opened almost an hour behind scheduled about half found they had to continue standing.
The crowd had expected to hear The Donald take questions from audience members then give the expected answers with his trademark wry humor and exaggeration.
After taking a few and recognizing a Gold Star family in attendance, one of the crowd collapsed in a side bleacher. Trump put matters on hold and expressed concern. He obviously feared the worst. He asked that Ave Maria be played on the sound system. The man was carried from his seat and placed on a stretcher. As he was wheeled away, he recovered enough to raise his fist bringing forth loud cheers.
As Trump prepared to take the next question from moderator South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a person collapsed in the bleachers on the other side. Trump again stopped matters as care was rendered.
Trump then harshly criticized the venue. Ignoring concerns from Secret Service, he ordered the roll-up doors used to truck in vendor displays opened, which greatly improved ventilation.
He then stopped the town hall and played music for the rest of the night to the crowd’s ecstatic delight. Most stayed until Trump finally stepped down from the stage, which was about an hour after the music started. His selection ranged from Pavarotti to Jeff Buckley to Sinéad O’Connor to, of course, The Village People. He ended with November Rain by Guns n’ Roses.
Newswise, long-time Democrat Peter Deutsch, who served more than 20 years as a Florida congressman took the podium to give an enthusiastic endorsement of Trump.
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Trump Pleases Tired Crowd By Postponing Politics For Music In Pa.
Celebrate Columbus, Ignore Zinn –Let us today, this Columbus Day ignore Howard Zinn, who was after all a very bad historian, and celebrate the guy who, for all intents and purposes, discovered America.
Vinland, after all, never really took.
Howard Zinn was a socialist who wrote “A People’s History of the United States” which used to be able to be read for free at a site, appropriately enough regarding Zinn, called HistoryIsAWeapon.com. It no longer seems to be available there, however.
Zinn claims that America has always been ruled by oppressors — the 1 percenters who own a third of the wealth and keep control by fermenting dissent among the 99 percent who are the rest of us — and starts his claim with Columbus who he says committed genocide on the residents of the West Indies.
It seems to be the theme pushed by the hipster crowd in the twenty-teens.
Well, the truth is the Spanish were pretty rough on the native peoples of the Caribbean, something we know from Spanish sources, but the cruelty was obviously not done at the direction of Spanish authorities as steps were taken to stop it when complaints reached them. Further, the native peoples of the Caribbean were not without their flaws either. The name for the Caribbean comes from the Carib tribe, from whence we also get the word cannibal.
And while Columbus was far from perfect he does not appear to be the gratuitously cruel tyrant Zinn and our hipster friends claim him to be. In Columbus’ own words this is what he says about the Lucayan peoples of the Bahamas who Zinn et al alleges he mutilated and slaughtered: “They are very gentle and without knowledge of what is evil; nor do they murder or steal… . Your Highness may believe that in all the world there can be no better people … they have the sweetest talk in the world, and are always laughing.”
It seems the revisionists are getting their signals crossed, which is understandable as Zinn is a rather bad historian.
America is a place that allowed tens of millions of Europeans and Asians to escape the feudalism that infected their homelands and her discovery only deserves to be celebrated. Even Africans should celebrate. Slavery existed in Africa — it wasn’t Europeans doing the slave catching — before the trans-Atlantic slave trade and it was only after the founding of the United States did the push begin to end it. Pennsylvania was one of the first recognized governments in in history, to ban slavery which happened in 1780 in the middle of the Revolutionary War.
Hipsters ironically want a day named for Bishop Bartolomé de las Casas and there is a point to that as the Bishop is one of history’s good guys. On the other hand, he was the one who suggested that the labor lost due to the death of Indians be replaced by Africans and some credit him with the start of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
History is a bit more nuanced than Zinn and the hipster crowd make it out to be.
One more bit of irony: Zinn’s work was popularized by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck who grew up near Zinn and were family friends. Damon and Affleck are now part of the one-percenter crowd. They have yet to give most of their money to the rest of us, and certainly have not led any crusades to end the tax breaks for performing artists who receive mega millions per film.
