Media Dem Incumbents Face Challenge From Environmental Activists
By Bob Small
It’s very rare that I find myself writing about one of my old “protest buddies,” and as one of them is now running for public office, I had to seize this opportunity.
In the Borough of Media, three of the incumbent Borough Council members are running again.
I find it curious that the candidates are not listed in any of the following three web sites.
www.mediademocrats.com Media Democrats
https://www.delcodems.com Home – Delco
https://www.facebook.com › delcodems
However, the current Borough Council members are listed at this web site:
Borough Council | Media Borough, PA,
The New Vision Democrats are running three candidates: Dell Jackson, Jen Malkoun, and Terry Rumsey. See their ten-point platform here:
Dell Jackson is a Penn State graduate working in property maintenance.
“The candidates who are eligible for re-election have a combined 55 years of service on Borough Council,” he says.
Jen Malkoun is the Delaware County Director of Programs and Partnerships with Greener Partners.
A graduate of Goucher College, Jen recently joined the Blooming Glen Farm crew as assistant farm manager.
“When we lack diversity — whether in the natural world, or in the lived experiences of our community members — it is to our own disadvantage,” she said.
Terry Rumsey is the founder and president of Green Seeds.
Terry and his wife, Robin Lasersohn, have been proponents for “green space” activism in Media, and are founding members of Friends of Glen Providence Park and Keep Media Green.
“Today the slogan ‘Everybody’s Hometown’ feels superficial to me. I am tired of watching developers cut down trees in our urban forest to build McMansions for the wealthy,”Terry said. “I am tired of watching predatory real estate speculators ‘flip’ houses once lived in by working- and middle-class families to reap stunning profits.”
Back in the 1980’s, Terry and I worked against US intervention in Central America as part of Delco Pledge of Resistance.
Our activism included civil disobedience at the Upland Peace Camp.
Terry was also the co-owner of the late lamented Jumping Cow Coffeehouse at the Swarthmore train station, As poetry director of the coffeehouse, I scheduled anti-Apartheid activist and poet Dennis Brutus, among others. We worked together well then.
I was a lifelong Dem and thought I always would be. But I now vote (though often reluctantly) a straight Republican ticket, and that reason is the ENVIRONMENT!
I do not abide hypocrisy and everything about the Dems’ OVER-IMMIGRATION is hypocritical, not to mention in violations of the views of earlier Dems like Black Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, Cesar Chavez and Coretta Scott King, ALL of whom strongly opposed ANY increase in immigration, fearing it would harm resident poor. (Duh!)
There was also that long line from BOTH parties who opposed it because we are already the 3rd most populated nation, and the more people, the greater the environmental challenges, with me here, hastening to add, that IS NOT THE U.S. BIRTH RATE, it (currently) is immigration, which drives upwards of 93 percent of our EXPLODING POPULATION.
Now my real rub with the NO LONGER ENVIRONMENTALLY AWARE DEMS: They all blather on about “green initiatives,” even as they work–at the behest of Bernie Sanders and Wall Street tycoons–to gut every immigration law they can and to send immigration further through the roof.
I have a simple formula illustrate why THAT is proof the Dems no longer CARE about the environment: Just one American has an 18 metric ton carbon footprint (though, substantively, I worry far more about other footprints, such as cities spreading like cancers across fragile lands). In contrast, China has a PER CAPITA carbon footprint of only about 6 metric tons, India (the 3rd carbon giant) is at a pathetic 2 metric tons per capita. But note, our per capita carbon footprint–though media pretend otherwise–makes us a carbon equivalent of China!
If Biden doesn’t know that, he’s more sleazy and senile than I currently believe, but it’s proof. YOU CANNOT PRETEND TO CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT AS YOU EXPLODE THE U.S. POPULATION, though Big 6 Media conspiring with you (a CORRUPT DEMOCRATIC PARTY) to hide what you’re doing, helps.