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Delco Sues Marple Over Park Rezoning — Charlie Alexander has let us know that Delaware County has filed its suit against Marple Township for rezoning the county’s Delco Woods park to exclusively open space.
Check out Charlie’s site for details.
Councilwoman Schaefer Questions Hunt Contract — Delaware County Council is proposing to amend a contract to Lewis M.Hunt shoveling the Chester dentist/funeral parlor owner more tax dollars to reserve three beds in a community living arrangement for county residents if needed.
It’s agenda item 9-O and is scheduled for approval today, May 15.
Councilwoman Elaine Paul Schaefer had some questions at yesterday’s work session. She wanted to know the the relationship was between Hunt and the agency supposedly doing the work. Watch it here at about 1:16 or just click on agenda 9-O.
Watch it Elaine. You keep asking questions you will end up voting for Trump.
Really.
Hey, start asking questions about Delco’s Children and Youth Services.
Divisive Elaine Paul Schaefer Of Delaware County Pa — Delaware County, Pa., Councilwoman Elaine Paul Schaefer left council’s May 1 meeting early to attend an event concerning antisemitism.
It was announced at the night’s beginning she would be leaving at 7:30, which is an hour-and-a-half after the meeting’s start.
When she arrived at her other event she reportedly told her audience: I’m very sad to say I’m late tonight because I was at a council meeting at which there was an angry mob of 150 people. And the hate speech we’re hearing now, which is probably the reason, which is directed at immigrants. It is really just characterizing our incredibly vibrant, wonderful immigrant community as just not human. It’s really hard to hear.
We actually like Elaine. We wouldn’t vote for her but we don’t think she is a bad person.
She is fibbing through her teeth, however.
She left the meeting five minutes before her announced departure time. This was four minutes before public comments.
Check out the video. She gets up at 1:25:28 and is completely gone in 10 seconds. Public comments don’t start until 1:29:30
Whatever the reason she was late, it was not due to an “angry mob.”
We strongly urge the councilwoman to realize that dishonesty — even thoughtless, unintended dishonesty — is the major cause of divisiveness.
We strongly also urge her to understand why the citizenry calls illegals “illegals.”
Illegals are those who enter America in violation of its laws.
Immigrants are not illegals. Immigrants come to the United States legally.
Refugees are not illegals. They enter the United States legally.
Joe Biden is reportedly bringing murderously antisemitic Hamas-supporting Palestinians from Gaza to the United States as refugees.
They would not be illegals.
They would be murderously antisemitic supporters of Hamas, it is true, but they wouldn’t be illegals.
Why Biden wants them here is a different subject. Perhaps the councilwoman should broach it with her group concerned about antisemitism.
Councilman Kevin Madden also left early, at 7:45, as had been announced at the meeting’s start. Perhaps he was not late to his other event and felt no need to concoct a phony excuse.
Delco Prepares Extending Solid Waste Authority Until 2074
By Sharon Devaney
Delaware County (Pa) Council, May 1, passed first readings of ordinances that would extend the Delaware County Solid Waste Authority until Jan 1, 2074. The extension is needed for the authority to incur debt said County Solicitor Jonathan Lichtenstein.
In other business, the Council passed 33 consent items including an application to the FY2r Enhanced Collaborative Model Task Force to combat Human Trafficking in the amount of $750,000 for three years from Oct. 1, 2024 through Sept. 30, 2027; and to accept $748,500 HealthChoices Reinvestment dollars from the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services for the implementation of the Integrated Clinical Services Team.
Council appointed Mathew McGlaughlin and Jamal Johnson to the Economic Development Oversight Board to a term ending March 31; Councilwoman Christine Reuther to the Economic Development Oversight Board for a term ending March 31; and Sustainability Manager Rebecca Yurkovich to serve on a temporary basis as designee to the Board of Sustainable Energy Partnership of Southeast Pa in case of the unavailability of the appointed board member and the county sustainability director.
Delco Must Act On Election Concerns — Delaware County, Pa., Council was schooled on trust, last night, May 1, when Joy Schwartz of Upper Darby pointed out the restrictions imposed by election observers at the county’s ballot counting center at the Wharf in Chester.
Mrs. Schwartz was an observer during the April 23 primary. She said observers’ were required to leave cell phones and purses in their cars, and they were confined to a pen far from the counting.
“We can see absolutely nothing,” she said.
The Wharf is where all ballots from mailboxes and dropboxes are processed. State law exempts it from the rules governing precincts. This means pollwatchers have no power or right to access.
County Council must change this.
Assuming it wants its elections to be trusted.
Carris Kocher of Concord pointed out that Delaware County has almost a quarter of Pennsylvania’s dropboxes.
This is more than Philadelphia and Pittsburgh combined.
There is little need for dropboxes. Mailboxes are accessible 24/7 and are ubiquitous. Dropboxes are a costly and unnecessary expense. They invariably create distrust, and complicate the logistics of the ballot stream pointlessly extending election night.
County Council should get rid of the dropboxes.
Barb Lewis of Radnor pointed out that the public is being kept from seeing the workings of the voting machines.
Good point. Why should the IP concerns of private corporations take precedence over election transparency? C’mon, Mr. and Ms. and Whatever Democrat. Answer that one.
Ms. Lewis wants to eliminate voting machines and return to handcounting, as did Mrs. Schwartz.
As does Scott Thomas of Marple. Thomas is a judge of elections. He says the machines are overly complicated.
Kathy from Haverford said there is plenty of proof elections are stolen. She also noted that Delco has yet to remove its restrictions from posting on its Facebook page.
If Delco addresses the reasonable concerns of the skeptics, the skepticism goes away.
Seriously, what is the big secret involving Fort Orange Press?
Delco Must Act On Election Concerns
Delco Spending $56 Million On Prison — The warden of George Hill Correctional Facility told Delaware County, Pa., Council, last night, May 1, that the prison’s budget was $56 million but it was just a peachy neat place now with teachers and nurses and such.
Delco is spending $13 million more on incarceration than in 2019. Warden Laura Williams, however, said wages are up for workers and everything is going great and they are getting rewards and honors and stuff.
Of course, not every one agrees about things going great. See here and here and here.
In fact, during public comments an African immigrant told council that he was unjustly fired as a corrections officer.
Also, Kimberly Brown of Colwyn said the raises disproportionately went to certain employees.
Also, Boothwyn tech guru Ed Trice described his “all-expense paid, 10-day vacation” at Hill, two years ago, when it was somehow thought he was involved in Flash Crash 2010. It wasn’t peachy neat.
Trice was there for other things and had not planned to speak . Ms. Williams’ presentation, though, inspired him.
There was a bald, blinding and necessary revelation in Ms. Williams’ too-long corporate spiel. It concerned the inmates at Hill with serious mental illness.
Pennsylvania has left just two long-term state mental hospitals. These are Norristown and Torrance near Pittsburgh.
Inmates with mental illness can’t move through the system until treated and these are the only places where this can be done.
The waits are long.
Councilwoman Christine Reuther said the state is spending less for mental health than it did in 2007.
In 1960, when homelessness and mass shootings were not major issues, there were three times as many incarcerated in mental hospitals than prisons in America. By Y2K, it was six times as many in prisons. The ratio has certainly gotten worse.
Delco Spending $56 Million On Prison
Ominous Warning For Delco Officials — Robert Mancini of Media told Delaware County, Pa., Council, last night, May 1, that he has filed criminal charges against one Delco official, April 23, and will be filing charges against another in two weeks.
He also said he is writing a federal complaint against one official “who is in the room” but won’t file it if this official resigns.
We await.
Citizens Again Throng Delco Council With Concerns Of Illegals — Delaware County (Pa) Council faced an angry throng for its second straight meeting, last night, May 1.
Illegals and the quasi-related plan for Delco Woods — the 213-acre Don Guanella tract in Marple now a county park — were again the flashpoints.
This time only 55 were allowed in the council meeting room . The rest — said to be over 100 — were stashed in the jury room and watched on TV.
Attendees were kept from entering the Government Center until 5:45 p.m. for the 6 p.m. meeting.
This was the first time we recall this restriction.
Delco, like most of America, is suffering the consequences of the Biden Administration’s bizarre border policy.
The Black residents of Chester are being supplanted by Guatemalans. A crime ring of New Jersey-based illegals has plagued Springfield.
By the way, Liz Piazza, who is the Republican nominee for the 165th District in the Pennsylvania House and is the subject of the the headline at the last link, was in attendance.
As was reportedly incumbent Jen O’Mara, albeit in the overflow room.
Charles Alexander of Marple, who has been at the forefront of community concerns, emotionally pointed out that human trafficking is occurring in the county. He demanded that council pass an ordinance declaring Delco to be an unsanctuary county. Alexander also demanded it pass ordinances prohibiting its use as staging ground for human trafficking, and to stop globalist non-governmental organizations like HIAS from operating freely.
He specifically blasted Councilman Kevin Madden.
Sharon Devaney, of Haverford, asked if any of the councilmember read the documentation she gave them, April 3, regarding the crippling injuries she received in 2017 when an illegal t-boned her car at Lawrence and Ellis roads.
She said that she had talked for several hours the day before with Donald Rosenberg, a national advocate for victims of crimes by illegals,but had yet to hear from any of council.
Ms. Devaney noted that she could no longer run or ride a bike because of her injuries. She said she felt uncomfortable going to the beach.
She was in tears by the end of her three minutes.
Jim Brennan of Marple was who followed Alexander.
“Everything Charlie said,” was the first words from his mouth.
He segued into the plans for Delco Woods. Rumors fly that the county wants to use its buildings for illegals, albeit it says they just want them to house the criminally insane.
Brennan wanted to know if the county had made any progress in finding an alternative site for the mental facility as they had promised.
He also asked council to remove its designation as a “sanctuary.”
Sixteen-year-old Nick D’Ambrosio spoke on behalf of Marple Civic Youth. He said he was part of the planning for Delco Woods. Nick said that the county promised the teens there would be murals, Wi-Fi and a pavilion where the buildings are. He asked that they keep the entire parcel as open space.
Kevin Coup (phonetic) asked why illegals were not listed on the meeting’s agenda. He said there is real concern about illegal alien housing among the citizenry.
“You need to have recognition of these facts,” he said.
James Small of Marple identified as “lying, cheating politicians” and mimicked the council’s denials.
He said illegals were coming into neighborhoods regardless of what the county said.
Bill from Upper Darby read Psalms 74:17 which describes how God set borders. This means borders are necessary, he said.
Council, despite it being local, can still take steps to protect its people, he said.
He said he was praying for them.
Kathy from Haverford said that 21 beds are not being used at the mental facility at Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital in Darby. That’s in the range of what council claims would be used at Delco Woods, she said.
A Radnor man said that opaque $36 million contingency expenses were the third highest county budget item and this could be being used for supporting illegals.
Media GOP leader Michael Straw expressed concern that the county would no longer be able to afford a mental health facility once Covid grants ran out.
He wanted to know why council was creating new items when it just levied a 5 percent tax hike.
Kay Dugery, the Republican nominee for the 166th District State House seat, warned of the dangers of a mental health facility in Delco Woods due its proximity to a park and to schools.
“Make one mistake and it could be catastrophic,” she said.
When it came time for council’s response, the normally outspoken Christine Reuther said she had no comments. This brought forth laughs from the audience.
Council Chairwoman Monica Taylor tried to address some of the concerns. She pledged to do better with seating the next time. Also, she said that many of the spending items listed on the agenda were state mandates and are expected to be funded by future grants.
She said that illegal immigration is not a county issue. She insisted that Delaware County is not a sanctuary county.
The sanctuary county claim is traced to the mid-teens and a declaration by Center for Immigration Studies based on Delco declining three detainers by ICE in 2014-2015.
Note the Republicans were running things at this time.
Further, some also claim Delco is a sanctuary because it agreed to participate in a refugee program in 2020 at the request of President Trump.
Perhaps the label is unfair, but Sharon Devaney was crippled by a driver here illegally.
And she notes this driver never suffered consequences.
Kathy from Haverford said last night that if a Delco resident robs Walmart, he gets sent to the “crappy, poorly run prison” but when illegals rob Walmart, they are let go.
Charlie Alexander gave council the solution.
Declare Delco to be anti-sanctuary, and prosecute to the law’s full extent illegals who commit crime. Shout to the world you are doing so.
Also, put every imaginable obstacle in front of the globalist NGOs like HISA.
This isn’t about sending county detectives to cheap hotels. Do these things and you won’t have to.
And this is no longer about Democrat vs Republican. This is about freedom and peace vs fear and misery.
Immigrants and refugees come to America with the intent to respect our laws. Illegals obviously don’t.
Without the rule of law there is only fear and misery.
Also in attendance were Alfe Goodwin, the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania’s 5th District congressional seat; and, reportedly, State Sen. Timothy P. Kearney (D-26) and Delco GOP Chairman Frank Agovino.
Council members Madden and Elaine Paul Schaefer both left early as was announced at the meeting’s start. In Ms. Schaefer’s case it was to attend an event regarding antisemitism.
Sharon Devaney and Charlie Alexander will be speaking, tonight, at United4Delco’s meeting at Gatsby’s Bar and Grill in Aston. It starts at 6. See here for details.
Citizens Again Throng Delco Council With Concerns Of Illegals
Citizens Again Throng Delco Council With Concerns Of Illegals
Howard Alexander And Olivia Taylor — At last night’s raucous Delaware County, Pa. Council meeting something set off Howard Alexander of Marple and he was escorted from the room by police.
We understand he was told to just go home and chill out.
Which is exactly how matters such as this are supposed to be handled.
But what would have happened if he had been a black woman?
Would he have been hauled to the station, strip-searched and made to stand in a cupboard for an hour before being charged with an obscure misdemeanor?
That’s what Upper Darby Council did to Olivia Taylor for doing basically the same thing.
OK, Upper Darby is calling Olivia “white” but really.
If Olivia did at the Government Center — or anywhere else — what she did in Upper Darby we are confident she would have been treated as Howard.
A more interesting question is would Howard have been treated as Olivia, if he did in Upper Darby what he did in Media?
We think maybe not.
Unless he was effectively pointing out that Upper Darby Council is filled with scofflaws and tax dodgers, and their solicitor disrespects veterans.
Then maybe yes.
Upper Darby is run by thugs.
If County Council wants to regain trust and end partisan divides, they should call their fellow Democrats on Garrett Road and tell them to make Olivia’s bogus charge go away.
And tell them to stop being thugs.
We doubt that’s going to happen, though.
Delco Council Told Unauthorized Software On Voting Machines — Delaware County (Pa) Council was told, last night, April 17, that there was unauthorized software on its Hart Verity Voting 2.7 voting system.
The software is MathNET Numerics Dll, said Robert Mancini of Upper Providence.
This is a dynamic link library for MathNET.Numerics and can be used for manipulating data, Mancini said.
He said it’s listed neither on the Pennsylvania Department of State certification of the system, nor thee U.S. Election Assistance Commission test report for Hart 2.7.
Mancinie said the machines must be immediately secured and that an investigation be conducted as to how the software appeared.
“This would include an inspection of the administrator logs due to the fact that software cannot be installed without administrator privileges and whenever the software is installed, that will show up on the administrator logs,” he said.
Secure build validation were performed on but nine of the county’s 428 precinct machines, Mancini said. These must now be done on every machine, he said.
He said a criminal complaint will be filed within two weeks against a public official in Delaware County.
His three minutes can be watched here starting at 1:08:56.
If we trusted the county, we’d chalk this up to something innocent.
As it is, this must be taken seriously and investigated.
What is the big secret with Fort Orange Press, anyway?