Hospital Closures Turning Delco Into 3rd World — We caught Delaware County (Pa) Council Chairwoman Monica Taylor on the news last night, March 7, looking upset and horrified about Delco’s rapidly increasing spiral into 3rdworlddom with the imminent closure of three major hospitals.
The hospitals — Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Springfield and Taylor — are owned by Prospect Medical Holdings of California.
“We had six hospitals in Delaware County and now, due to Prospect, we may only have two hospitals left,” she said.
Two hospitals for 576,830 persons is pretty third worldish.
Why are they closing? Regulations, impractical mandates and perhaps a little corporate looting.
A competent government would not have let this happen.
Delaware County’s government is not competent.
But at least we now have a neato health department that gives out condoms and has electric vehicles.
And it only (LOL) costs $19 million.
Change is needed fast.
Not that we advocate corporate welfare but $19 million would have saved those hospitals.
Delco Precinct Consolidation Plan Makes Elections Less Secure — The great Greg Stenstrom let us know last week that the twisted plot to consolidate Delaware County’s (Pa) precincts to make vote fraud more convenient is being contested in the courts.
The case is Kocher et al v. Delaware County Board of Elections and is being heard in Delco Common Pleas Court.
The case number is CV-2025-000528.
The Delaware County Board of Elections wants to consolidate 104 of 428 precincts diluting local control and increasing highly untrustworthy centralization.
Director of Elections James Allen says this will save Delco $100,000.
Seriously, that’s chicken feed to the crowd that just jacked the taxes up 24 percent.
Paul Rumley writing in Broad And Liberty points out that three items alone in Delco’s budget specific to elections total $4.3 million.
Aging White Crowd Defends Democrat Corruption — About 150 persons milled before the Delaware County Courthouse starting noon, today, Feb. 17, to hear local Democrat leaders defend the massive waste and corruption being revealed by the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE.
The milling persons were about 99 percent white and skewed heavily to the Woodstock generation.
Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon harshly criticized Elon Musk’s wealth.
Oh, Mary Gay, if only you weren’t married to the guy that runs Ballard Spahr, you might be half believable that you cared about the working class.
You don’t though, else you would be joining Elon in trying to return the money the government class has been stealing from the working class for the last several decades.
Several speakers gave a shout-out to Gov. Josh Shapiro for being the face of their corrupt party.
One Republican in the crowd shouted out Ellen Greenberg in response.
Let’s just be glad that they didn’t drop acid and take off their clothes as they might have done 56 years ago.The only thing that could have made it whiter was yacht musicJust like Donald Trump, Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk and Bobby Kennedy Jr., Sharon Devaney is a former Democrat. She is running for County Council.
Delco Feels The Pain As Tax Bills Arrive— Delaware County, Pa. residents have likely gotten this year’s county tax bill this week.
Those who have been following “student council” that has been governing us were prepared for the pain.
We hope those unaware of this quintet of clowns has been up to are royally P.O.’d and ready to fight this election year.
Well, quartet of clowns maybe as Richard Womack voted against the inflated budget and 23.8 percent tax hike.
Delaware County, your taxes are way up. But your services are way down — count the number of hospitals here compared to six years ago when the Republicans ran things — and life is a lot more expensive.
How is County Council dealing with the problem?
They’ve created a neato budget task force. Rather making the tough calls regarding services and spending, Council is trying to shift blame to a bunch of unpaid volunteers.
People please wake up.
Here’s the neato pix Delco Council put on its Facebook page of the “budget task force” that doesn’t exist yet.
Olivia Taylor Not Guilty — Olivia Taylor, the Upper Darby grandmother who spent a year of persecution for daring to point out that numerous Upper Darby council members owed tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes, has been found not guilty by Judge Dominic F. Pileggi.
The law was meant to protect churches and funerals. It’s a third degree misdemeanor.
A bench trial was Monday, Jan. 27.
District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer’s office presented its evidence which was basically video from a cop cam showing her arrest.
Her lawyer presented her evidence which was a more complete video that included what she said at her meeting, along with documents showing the council members tax delinquencies.
She said that her lawyer, Scott Sigman, told her yesterday, Jan. 30, that Pileggi called him and said that he was finding her not guilty.
She says she is planning a civil rights lawsuit against Upper Darby and yeah, her rights were violated.
Olivia says is also planning to run for Upper Darby Council.
She has our full endorsement.
Olivia Taylor with the court docket identifying her as “white”. Yeah, the idiots actually tried this.
Below is my full public statement presented before Delaware County Council Jan. 22, 2025. A video link is attached.
My name is Ulysses Butch Slaughter. I’m the producer of the new film False Allegations 411.
I currently reside in Aston.
My true home is actually located at 411 Old Forge Road in Media. I haven’t been in my home since August 4, 2021. Along with my children, I was evicted by State Police after my ex-wife, Pauline Thompson, a Penn State Brandywine professor, filed a false allegation of abuse. The video of our eviction has been viewed more than 10-million times across various social media platforms.
It took about four (4) hours for my ex-wife to successfully file her false claim and have us evicted. It has taken us nearly four years to correct her destructive claims. Part of that correction will be explored through a civil trial in April 2025. Other parts are being explored through the United States Armed Forces and state education institutions.
I will contact each of you and request time to discuss the issue of false allegations of abuse.
At the age of 12, I listened as my father shot and killed my mother, Clarice. I became the chief witness against my father who persistently perpetrated physical abuse in our home. I know domestic violence and have been an advocate against that sickness my entire adult life.
I know domestic abuse BUT` I also know domestic deception.
Over the last three and a half years I’ve been disgustingly enlightened about how lawyers in this very county encourage their clients to use false allegations of abuse. This illegal tactic is called “The Silver Bullet.”
A false allegation is an accusation that is made in bad faith with the intention of harming the accused person. False allegations are a severe form of domestic abuse that can harm a person’s mental health, damage one’s social standing and career, and even lead to a wrongful conviction.
I want to add that the filing of a false allegation of abuse is not simply a technical or legal action. It is a life-threatening action. It is a sign that your life is literally in danger.
Pennsylvania already has laws in place to address falsification of police reports and lying under oath. But the laws are not being strictly enforced.
On August 12, 2021 I successfully defended myself during a preliminary PFA hearing. A representative from The Domestic Abuse Project of Delaware County sat near my ex-wife. I contacted the agency and asked why? I was not guilty. One of their representatives said “we support whoever shows up first.” I asked what happens if you find out later that the accuser is actually the abuser? They had no answer.
What if the State Police found out that an accuser has a history of making false allegations?
What if our judges knew? What would the penalty be?
I know domestic abuse and I also know domestic deception.
I am asking Council to help men, women and children across this great county to defend against the deception of false allegations of abuse. I look forward to speaking with you.
Ten Thousand Villages Closing Shops — We took a walk through Media, Pa., today, Jan. 23, and stopped in at Ten Thousand Villages on State Street to learn that all the retail locations will be closed by March 31.
Everything will be online.
It seems short-sighted. We suspect most purchases were impulse buys and that many used excursions to the stores as an excuse to get outside and away from virtual worlds
And they did provide local jobs.
Providing jobs is what company’s mission is, right?
Hopefully, someone i the bean -counting department wakes up.
Sometimes the simplest question ends up being the most complicated to discover an answer to. When one does a Duck Duck Go search for Swarthmore Democratic Committee, three locations pop up. One is a website and the other two lead to the same Facebook page.
Neither lists any of the alleged 21 Swarthmore Democratic Committee members although it does say Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet which is a Latin phrase that is used as placeholder text in publishing.
Womack Dissents As Delco Passes Crushing Tax Hike — Delaware County (Pa) Council, last night, Dec. 11, passed its budget with its crushing and expected 23.8 percent tax hike on property owners.
This means that the average homeowner will paying $184.69 more to fund things like a DEI department and a mismanaged prison.
The vote was 4-1. The courageous dissenter was Councilman Richard Womack.
Council has been baldly lying about the need for the explosive hike. It claimed it was due to inflation and that the previous Republican administration had not raised taxes for a dozen years.
Media GOP Chairman Michael Straw, at the budget’s first reading, Dec. 4, pointed out that the expensive Health Department, DEI Department, free yoga classes and a vending machine with condoms were all choices. None were mandates.
Council majority treats spending — and government in general — as though they were still spoiled, rich, private college students with daddy’s dough always there for them, and that while consequences didn’t matter, peer approval certainly did.
Prison More Expensive And Dangerous Under Delco Control — George W. Hill Prison is a major reason for Delaware County’s (Pa.) looming 23.8 percent tax hike and was a subject at the Dec. 4, Council meeting.
The county took over the prison from GEO Group in April 2022 and hired Laura Williams as warden.
The choice was puzzling as her previous job had been as as chief deputy warden at Allegheny County Jail where she was the subject of numerous complaints, and she only started her career in corrections in 2014 as a substance abuse counselor.
Anyway, since the county took over and her tenure started, Hill has been a place of turmoil and a money pit.
Delco is now spending $13 million more for George W. Hill Prison despite having a third fewer inmates.
Inmates have died horrific deaths and those tasked with watching them are demoralized.
Last night, Kimberly Brown of Colwyn, an outspoken caseworker at the facility, said the turnover is unreal and the county doesn’t care.
Several major positions are unfilled. She said the majority of inmates are not from Delco.
She said it’s freezing in the jail and bathrooms barely work due to low water pressure.
Ms. Brown often appears before Council. She says every time she speaks she is called into administration and grilled by a lawyer.
Also speaking was Al Johnson of Morton, a correctional service officer at Hill. He confirmed Ms. Brown’s claim that retaliation is routinely practiced against whistleblowers and that he has been subject to it.
This did not stop him from criticizing Ms. Williams, however. He said contract negotiations with her went nowhere for two-and-a-half years until County Executive Director Barbara O’Malley became involved. He said in about five months about three-quarters of the issues have been settled, thanks to her.
Maybe the most concerning thing in Johnson’s three minutes — see here starting at 3:25 — was an implication that Ms. Williams was in an inappropriate relationship with Councilman Kevin Madden.
Madden is Council’s prison liasion.
“Do you know (Warden Williams) recently had us sign papers to let you know who’s involved in a relationship?” Johnson said. “So after two and a half years after the county has come in now they’re worried about who is in a relationship with who. So I’m wondering if Mr. Madden and the Warden got that same paper. I’m wondering if the deputy warden got that paper as well.”
He said Council has given the Warden has “full immunity to do whatever she wants around here.”
“But we’re suffering. We are stressed beyond stressed and we are getting no relief from leadership,” shouted Johnson. “As a matter of fact she is tightening the noose harder around our neck. When are you guys going to get involved with this situation and say enough is enough.”
A similar point was made by Tevin Dix of Haverford, a few speakers earlier. While Dix’s comments appear to have been cut from the official video, they can be found on Facebook.
