A couple of tidbits I ran across on the intertubes.
TL:
It would appear that the opponents of Tony George becoming mayor of Wilkes-Barre will resort to any means of preventing it!
The present administration
knows that when George becomes mayor, many of the activities of the
outgoing administration will come out for public scrutiny. There must be
a lot of things that the present administration does not want known, or
needs more time to bury.
I am confident that our district attorney will not find any willful intent in the accusations leveled at Mr. George.
I’m pretty sure that between now and the General Election more
attempts will be made in an effort to muffle the voice and choice of the
people.
Ray Arellano
CV Picture
This was on
Facebook:
STEALING OF THE WILKES BARRE MAYORAL ELECTION!
Attention all
Democrats, Republicans and Independents: The upcoming election is being
attacked, no not by outside foreign terrorists but from within our city
boundaries. A small group of people are using all means at their
disposal to highjack the upcoming mayoral election in the city of Wilkes
Barre. They are attempting to erase the candidate which you chose
through your constitutional exercise of voting with their hand picked
choice, they want to erase your choice and APPOINT a person to head this
city. They are using the courts, the DA's office and the democratic
committee to take away your right to choose the person you feel is best
suited to become the next mayor of this city. DON"T LET THEM!
Don't be fooled by the charade of certain people who claim to be doing
this out of a sense of fairness and justice, these very people
campaigned, canvased, attended fund raisers, and for some contributed
money to the person they are trying to appoint to the position of Mayor
of WB through any means possible. They may have erased their pictures
which clearly showed who they supported during the primary and erased
all connection to that candidate but some of us are not so dumb as they
would like to believe we are. A husband and wife standing together at a
campaign fundraiser wearing that candidates campaign button is not so
easily forgotten, or a woman who is friends with a relative of the
person they wish to appoint as your Mayor. They claim they are doing
this because of this outrageous all encompassing disastrous what they
call a crime and I call and most people I know call a mistake that was
corrected and unlike current office holders admitted to. I wonder were
these very people hid when tens of thousands of gallons of taxpayer
funded gasoline went missing? Oh could they have been at a council
meeting praising the man who some felt should have been charged with
something for that missing gas, of course that was "JUST A MISTAKE OF
PAPERWORK" it was taxpayers money so we can all overlook that, right?
Well the DA said yes we can overlook that, so we move on. I may not
agree with the DA on that but it was and is her decision to interpret
the law as she feels fit, so I moved on even though the missing gas cost
me my tax money. The problem these certain people are so up in arms
about is not about yours mine or anyone's tax money being squandered or
used in a way that seems wrong, it is about a private persons donation,
yes donation to a candidate for mayor, it is not public money it was
private money donated to a campaign, it cost me not one blessed penny!
I really wish these people got so engaged when it was their money and
our money being wasted and squandered, things may have turned out
differently.
Now you may say they have the right to do what they
are doing, and I guess they do, but let's be honest with ourselves do we
really think they are doing this for us? Or for that matter for
themselves? I doubt it, I mean after all I would like to think that if
the person I wanted to win the election lost I would be disappointed
but I can say without a doubt I would not stomp my feet and pound the
table like a little kid and I would move on and accept the choice of the
majority, after all for the last 12 years I have had to endure the
choice of the majority even though I still can not understand how they
voted for him 3 times, but I went forward with him as not only the mayor
of my city, but as my mayor and I hoped he did well for us, which some
things he did, so I accepted the choice of the voters. If I only knew I
could have tried to turn a mistake into a crime back then maybe I would
have sued to try and steal the election from him.
I want to be
clear, I voiced my concern to Tony George about the mistake and like the
honest upstanding man he is, he apologized , The character of a man is
not how loud he screams his accomplishments but in how honest he is
about his mistakes. To try and make anything criminal out of this more
common than you know mistake, is nothing but a political stunt. I truly
believe this to be the case, just as a truly believe that certain
individuals who hold office currently and some who sit on election
committees are doing all they can to remove Tony George from the ballot
and appoint their chosen one to office of the mayor.
I beg you
to not let this happen, we as a society can not have a future if we
allow the elected to choose who will follow them into office, we must
hold our vote close to our hearts and minds or this tactic being used
right now locally will become precedent and you will no longer have a
say in even your own vote.
We have two candidates chosen by
their peers, Tony George on the democratic ticket, and Frank Sorick on
the republican ticket. You have a choice in the general election to
elect as your next mayor either one of these fine men, but I beg you to
not allow a member of a committee or a disgruntled campaign supporter or
even the DA or Courts to take away your choice of who will represent
you in this city. If you do you will have in my opinion dishonored the
millions of Americans who before you fought for the right and the
privilege to have their vote count!
You have the choice in front of you, either man would be a good choice, an honest choice and most of all your choice!
