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GOP Chairs Had Debate Night Bash — Here’s some of the crowd that attended the Donald Trump debate party, last night, June 27, sponsored by Swarthmore GOP Chairman Rob Jordan and Media GOP Chairman Michael Straw. Political candidates who showed up included Kathy Buckley who is seeking the 168 District seat in the Pennsylvania House and 5th District Congressional Candidate Alfe Goodwin (not pictured).
Delco Dems Hiding Information? — We just got this little tidbit from someone with connections to the Delaware County (Pa) Courthouse.
Make of it what you will.
It would be helpful for citizens to know that since Dems have taken over courthouse, the way cases are handled has altered. Info which was once freely available has become unavailable.
Montco Adds 94 New County Jobs — Montgomery County, yesterday, June 27, approved 94 new positions with the highest salary at $151,148.80 for an interim director of Health and Human Services.
Republican Thomas DiBello,, who is Montgomery County’s mandated minority commissioner, said it was the last time he will vote for expanding the payroll until the county starts finding ways to save money.
David Morgan of Ambler noted in public comments that taxes in the county have risen 34 percent in the last few years.
Vice Chairman Neil Makhija said the county is still understaffed.
Morgan would later describe abortion as not a “reproductive right” but a failure of reproduction, which inspired a snippy bit of anger from Chairwoman Jamila H. Winder who basically said a woman can do what she wants with her body.
The Marquis de Sade would agree.
And whatever was Montco’s vax policy a short time back?
Also in public comments, Jenny Reimenschneider, whose mother, Elsie, is one of the victims of Montco’s guardianship program, again brought up the elder abuse in which Montco is complicit. Elsie has been forced into captivity, Ms. Reimenschneider said.
She said that Elsie lives in isolation and is a broken woman.
The judge and attorney who put her there are still getting paid, she said.
Day care providers Zakiyyah Boone, Christina Lynch and Kim Follette (phonetic) thanked the county for a $500,000 to hire substitutes. They said, however, the money would have been better used for raises for hard-to-keep staff.
If taxes were lower, they’d have more money for raises and the staff wouldn’t need as much. Just sayin’
A slab of asphalt in Foy Park in Lower Frederick Township caused much discussion. The 7-acre tract had been deeded as open space but the township put in a playground and basketball court in 2005 along with an asphalt pad for a skate park. The county found out and stopped the skate park but let them keep the basketball court and playground.
The township then recently thought it would be good to put a “traffic garden” on the pad. This would be just adding paint. A traffic garden is an image of streets and buildings. It supposedly helps children learn traffic laws and safety.
The county was fine with it until it realized that the asphalt was in a floodway. They decided that Lower Frederick can paint the traffic garden on the basketball court but it has to remove the other asphalt.
Somewhere King Solomon is laughing his butt off.
Makhija praised “Pride Month” at the meeting’s start. He also condemned the Supreme Court ruling that said that bump stocks could not be banned by presidential decree but required a law.
Bump stocks are devices that let semi-automatic firearms fire rapidly.
The Trump Administration banned them after Stephen Paddock allegedly used them, Oct. 1, 2017, to kill 58 people and injure 500 at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas. He caused this carnage firing about a thousand 5.56 caliber rounds from 500 yards away.
Bump stocks are considered to be wasters of ammunition.
But we don’t want to put conspiracy theories in anyone’s head.
And when are we going to get a “Gluttony Month?”
It seems that would be more fun.
Follow it with “Sloth Month.”
Every month is Avarice Month, of course, in places where taxes are rising 34 percent.
Finally, it was announced that Please, Please, Please by Quakertown native Sabrina Carpenter has hit number 1.
The Board says it will play it at future meeting. One even suggested having her come in and sing it.
Montco Adds 94 New County Jobs
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
Ludwig van Beethoven
DiBello Pushes Poll Watcher Freedom At Montco Counting Center; Dems Seem OK With It — Republican Thomas DiBello,, who is Montgomery County’s mandated minority commissioner, suggested at today’s, June 27, meeting of the county Election Board that poll watchers get free access to the entire central ballot processing center.
He noted that the reasons for the existing limitations were a legacy of Covid and no longer necessary.
County Election Director Frank Dean agreed as did Commissioner Vice Chairman Neil Makhija.
Mush suspicion would disappear if Montgomery County went through with this. Delaware County should take note.
DiBello also asked if it were possible for cellular signal jammers to be placed in the building. He said the signals are rampant. Dean said he would look into the feasibility and would also investigate DiBello’s concern regarding the possibility of the scanners being hackable with cellular devices along with his suggestion to livestream the ballot drop box cameras.
Dean also addressed questions posed by Jim Mollick of Worcester regarding the process of purging voter roles. He said a person can only be purged when a death is reported or by a state approved methods concerning the voter moving.
Mollick, during public comments, addressed a challenge by Chairwoman Jamila H. Winder to find vote fraud. Mollick noted that the state prohibits voters to use a Post Office box to register.
“Here is 50,” Mollick said. “Actually it is the same PO box.”
Mollick also said that he found five persons who moved from the county and are still on voting rolls. This includes one who moved to New York yet still votes in Montco.
Barbara Furman, a judge of elections in New Hanover, said it is impossible to determine chain of custody in the existing system and suggested that having the mail-in ballots be counted at the precinct would increase security.
Marleen Laska said it’s illegal for non-citizens to vote but many don’t realize it as they are told otherwise. She said the county should put signs declaring only US citizens may vote. This is not an unreasonable suggestion.
Sandra Levine said that Montgomery Township did not have the proper ballots for the machines at an election and that many voters could not wait and were in effect disenfranchised.
Adrian Seltzer, a judge of elections, said that Montgomery Township could have offered provisional ballots or allowed the ballots be placed manually in the dropbox to be counted later. She defended Montco’s system of elections.
Scott Emmet advocated handcounting the ballots.
Issues with right-to-know requests were also a subject as they had been at the preceding commissioners meeting.
Jean White said she has submitted 14 right-to-knows with the county new open records officer Joshua Wertheimer with little effect. Many involved seeking information about the voting process and she was told to subject them voter services, which she did, again without much luck.
Free clue: Fighting right-to-know request does not — repeat does not — ease suspicions.
Hearing On Sending Arthur Back To Prison Continued; County Doing What It Can To Stop Mother And Child Reunion — A hearing on revoking Arthur Herring’s bail was continued until July 2 because complainant David Jaskowiak couldn’t appear at the one held, yesterday, June 26 before Bucks County President Judge Raymond F. McHugh
Arthur was arrested, April 27, for picketing Jaskowiak’s home in New Britain. He was charged with two counts of harassment and sent to Bucks County Prison on $100,000 bail.
Arthur is homeless.
After five weeks in the county lockup, McHugh lowered the bail to 10 percent of $10,000 and Arthur’s friends were able to free him.
Bail reduction requests are allowed after 30 days. Arthur says it was granted because he explained he was only picketing on a public sidewalk and not saying anything.
Jaskowiak is the lawyer appointed by Montgomery County as attorney for Arthur’s mother.
His mom has been under court-mandated guardianship since May 2021. See this story.
Arthur feels the county is slowly siphoning off his mother’s estate without her permission. This is reason enough for anger but far worse, though, is how they are preventing mother and son from seeing each other.
Arthur and his mom haven’t been together since December. Arthur blames Jaskowiak.
McHugh, as conditions of bail, directed Arthur to get a psychiatric evaluation, apply for a public defender and not have contact with Jaskowiak.
Getting the psych evaluation was harder than it sounded but Arthur managed. He applied for a public defender but met him for the first time yesterday. Public defenders are swamped let us note. The fellow, by the way, seems like a pretty decent lawyer.
Arthur, unfortunately, sent an email to the court-appointed guardian of the estate — whose salary is coming from the estate — informing him that their mail to him was being sent to an incorrect address. He cc’d Jaskowiak as had been his custom. Jaskowiak contacted police who contacted the judge who called a hearing about revoking bail
Arthur’s mom is 99 years old and Arthur is 70. If he goes to prison he may never see his mom again.
It’s one thing to keep a parent from an abusive child but if mom wants to see child and child wants to see mom, and the system lets a petty tyrant stop that, the system is evil.
Arthur protesting at a Montco Commissioners meeting
Immigrants Warn Of Illegal Immigrants — Immigrants Dasha Pruett, from Russia, and Charley Gerow, from Brazil, spoke of the dangers facing their adopted nation, last night, June 26, as did long-time Chester County Sheriff Bunny Welsh.
The event was the Save Our Couty Rally Re-Electe President Trump at the Ellis Preserve Ballrooom in Newtown Square.
The most frightening revelation came from Charlie Alexander, who detailed how he concluded that the government of Delaware County, Pa. was facilitating the mass importation of illegals.
Charlie said he was told by friends involved with the county that the shuttered Springfield and Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Upper Darby were going to be use to house illegal immigrants. Charlie made inquires. Friendly responses devolved into stonewalling, then attacks.
He investigated further and learned that HIAS Pennsylvania is helping illegals find sanctuary in Delaware County, Pa.
HIAS Pennsylvania is an NGO or “non-government organization.”
He says he understands that the buildings at the former Don Guanella School in Marple were to be used to house illegals and that remains the case despite vehement denials from the county.
Jihadist graffiti has been found in them, he says.
Dasha had earlier pointed out that just 200,000 bad guys can turn America into a tyranny and that more than 10 million illegals have come across the border during the Biden administration.
You doubt human trafficking is occurring? This was just posted X. Pennsylvania is among the top, if not the top, human trafficking state.
Immigrants Warn Of Illegal Immigrants
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Inflation is taxation without legislation.
Milton Friedman
20 New Pennsylvania Republicans Courtesy Of Right For Bucks — Right for Bucks held a registration rally, Sunday, at The Trump Store in Bensalem, Pa.
The group’s hard work snagged at least 20 new Republicans.
Kudos Andy Meehan.
Today’s Boston Not JFK’s
By Joe Guzzardi
Journalists who cover the immigration beat have a maxim: “Never say you’ve been witness to every conceivable violation of immigration law; you’ll soon be proven wrong.” In her relatively short two-and-a-half-year period as Boston’s mayor, Michelle Wu has, with her outrageous anti-public safety positions, alienated large swaths of her constituents and established a new low for wokeness, a dubious distinction considering how extreme political correctness has devastated the country. Like the nation’s other uber-progressive mayors, New York’s Alvin Bragg and Chicago’s Richard Johnson, Wu has brought a once great and historic city into chaos. Wu supports decriminalizing shoplifting, larceny, disorderly conduct, receiving stolen property, driving with a suspended license, breaking and entering with property damage, wanton and malicious destruction of property, threats, a minor in possession of alcohol, marijuana possession, and possession with intent to distribute. Another way to consider Wu’s goal is that she champions legalizing shoplifting, larceny, etc.
Wu, a Taiwanese immigrants’ daughter, is a Chicago native who moved to Boston to attend Harvard University and then Harvard Law School. At Harvard Law, Wu became Elizabeth Warren’s protégé and a campaign assistant in her former professor’s successful 2012 U.S. senate bid. Growing up in Chicago, Wu was a big league Senator Barack Obama aficionado; her affiliation with Warren added the final touches to Wu’s radicalization.
In 2013, Bostonians elected Wu to the City Council. By 2018, she had easily ascended to City Council president. When the 2021 mayoral election rolled around, Wu was an established Boston darling. After filling out Progressive Massachusetts’ “2021 Boston Mayoral Candidate Questionnaire,” the Boston electorate had no doubts about Wu’s soft-on-crime agenda. Progressive Massachusetts’ identifies as an organization that “intends to transform Massachusetts into a bold laboratory for progressive state initiatives.”
A sampling of the questions and Wu’s answers: Q. Do you support shuttering the Boston Police gang database? A. Yes; Q. Do you support…the do-not-prosecute list that includes robbery and other crimes currently subject to prosecution? A. Yes. In the questionnaire, Wu also outlined her other progressive ideas including giving illegal aliens voting privileges in local elections. Despite Wu’s well-known radical agenda, she ran virtually unopposed; Wu coasted to victory.
Bostonians cannot be surprised then when Wu kept her promise to radicalize their city. Wu has been ripped over her tone-deaf and frivolous plan to give kids as young as 11 and illegal aliens voting rights when it comes time to decide how millions of dollars in public funds are doled out. The city’s new proposed participatory budget voting process, which will go into effect in July, gives ordinary Bostonians the ability to decide how a portion of the city’s budget will be spent, the Boston Herald reported. Last month, during a committee hearing reviewing Wu’s fiscal year 2025 budget, City Councilor Ed Flynn, a Democrat, slammed the mayor’s proposed new process, specifically the involvement of children and illegal aliens. Flynn also aired his grievances in a letter to the Office of Participatory Budgeting’s director, Renato Castelo, in which he flagged his “unequivocal and vehement opposition” to the looming process. “During this time of great fiscal uncertainty — with a study warning that remote work policies and the city’s declining commercial property values may cost us $500 million in revenue annually, as well as a subsequent proposal to also tax commercial property at a higher rate — now more than ever, it is critical that we show the taxpayers of Boston that we take our financial responsibilities seriously,” Flynn wrote. “Allowing children [and illegal aliens] to decide the usage of taxpayer dollars would do just the opposite, and be viewed as tone-deaf, unserious and wholly inappropriate by my constituents.” Boston reportedly has 672,000 residents with 28.2% being foreign-born, according to the city website.
The Boston Policy Institute confirmed Flynn’s grim outlook on Wu’s potentially crushing problems. In its analysis, BPI concluded that Boston is likely to face a cumulative revenue shortfall of more than $1 billion in the next five years, and with no clear prospect for recovery, budgetary deficits could persist for decades, triggering a long-term decline in public services and economic vitality. Boston has few ways to compensate for lost tax revenue. Massachusetts precludes cities from introducing local sales and income taxes; fully offsetting the decline in commercial real estate would require a 25 percent to 30 percent increase in residential property taxes.
The illegal alien population that Wu is eager to grant voting privileges has taken over Boston’s predominantly black Roxbury neighborhood. Thanks to President Joe Biden’s open border agenda and Wu’s collaboration, Roxbury has lost its community recreation center. Roxbury is nearly 57 percent black, almost 30 percent Latino, and only six percent white; its $30,654 median income is less than Boston’s $52,433. More illegal alien arrivals and therefore more Boston citizen displacement goes on every hour of every day. “We [Boston] continue to see migrants at the airport. They come to Logan [Airport] a number of ways. They also arrive at Logan at all hours,” a Massport representative told Boston 25 News. The numbers of migrants being housed at Logan often spike to more than 100. Envision the mess Boston will be after illegal immigrants cast votes that will, with Wu’s blessing, determine the city’s financial future.
For now, Wu’s push to legalize dozens of previously punishable crimes, as well as promoting voting privileges for illegal aliens and sixth graders put her in undisputed first place for the mayor who has consistently proven that she has no regard for Bostonians’ personal safety. Wu’s other and more compelling problem is that violating 8 U.S. Code § 1324 – “Bringing in and harboring certain aliens,” is a felony. Wu is clearly guilty of harboring, not that anyone in the Department of Justice cares. In anticipation of the 2025 election, Wu’s critics have launched a “Save Our City” campaign. The scuttlebutt about who, if anyone, would be willing to face Wu has already started. Some speculate that Wu’s greatest challenge may come from the left, a move toward governance that Boston could not survive in any form that John F. Kennedy could recognize.
Joe Guzzardi is an Institute for Sound Public Policy analyst. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org
Today’s Boston Not JFK’s