The LuLac Edition #410, Feb. 1rst, 2008
PHOTO INDEX: HAZLETON MAYOR LOU BARLETTA, THE LULAC 1968 LOGO AND STATE REPRESENTATIVE EDDIE DAY PASHINSKI.
HE'S ANNOUNCING!
Eddie Day Pashinski, one term State Representative from the Wilkes Barre Area is having a big meeting at the Ramada Saturday. Most believe he will be announcing for another term in the State House. Pashinski has been very visible in the district and has been a mainstay on the WYOU TV Interactive news program discussing statewide and local issues. Here are the details for the Saturday event:
Please be advised that State Representative Eddie Day Pashinski, (PA-121) will be holding an announcement at the Ramada Inn on Public Square, this Saturday morning at 10 am.
The event will feature an announcement from Rep. Pashinski regarding his future plans.
When: Saturday, February 2nd, 2008, 10 a.m.
Where: Ramada Inn, Downtown Wilkes-Barre
What: Announcement regarding future plans
Who: Supporters, family and friends of Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski.
The event will feature an announcement from Rep. Pashinski regarding his future plans.
When: Saturday, February 2nd, 2008, 10 a.m.
Where: Ramada Inn, Downtown Wilkes-Barre
What: Announcement regarding future plans
Who: Supporters, family and friends of Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski.
Conventional wisdom says Pashinski will be announcing for another term after getting off to a good start in Harrisburg.
HE MIGHT, MIGHT NOT
Lou Barletta said he might run against Paul Kanjorski but then again he might not. Then he issued a statement saying "he's not going to be pressured" into a race. Kanjorski, serving since 1984 seems not to be noticing the pronouncements from Hazleton. But the state GOP is doing its best to apply some persuasion on Mr. Barletta.
Republican Party of Pennsylvania Chairman Robert A. Gleason, Jr. is calling on the people of the 11th Congressional District to draft Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta to run for Congress.
“To clarify comments appearing in The Morning Call earlier today, Lou Barletta has at no time told me that he has made the decision to run and I was speaking on hearsay,” Gleason said. “He is a wonderful candidate and I would love to see him run in the 11th Congressional District. He is a man of great integrity, conviction, and values. Mayor Barletta has led the city of Hazleton with great courage.
“Over the past few months, I have encouraged Mayor Barletta to run on numerous occasions, and I understand and respect the fact that the Mayor wishes to make this decision with his family. However, I believe that it is important for our country to have the very best leaders representing us, and I have no doubt that Lou Barletta is that type of leader. To that end, I am encouraging all citizens in the 11th Congressional District to circulate petitions on his behalf. To help us draft Lou Barletta for Congress, please contact DraftLou@pagop.org or call 717-234-4901.
“To clarify comments appearing in The Morning Call earlier today, Lou Barletta has at no time told me that he has made the decision to run and I was speaking on hearsay,” Gleason said. “He is a wonderful candidate and I would love to see him run in the 11th Congressional District. He is a man of great integrity, conviction, and values. Mayor Barletta has led the city of Hazleton with great courage.
“Over the past few months, I have encouraged Mayor Barletta to run on numerous occasions, and I understand and respect the fact that the Mayor wishes to make this decision with his family. However, I believe that it is important for our country to have the very best leaders representing us, and I have no doubt that Lou Barletta is that type of leader. To that end, I am encouraging all citizens in the 11th Congressional District to circulate petitions on his behalf. To help us draft Lou Barletta for Congress, please contact DraftLou@pagop.org or call 717-234-4901.
It seems to me like Barletta and the statewide GOP are trying to create a "draft" to have the Mayor come down from the Mountain City and save all of us in the 11th Congressional District. They say politics is an art form and these guys, especially Gleason are painting quite a picture for a Barletta run. It should be noted that Barletta has a $150,000 debt from his last run against Kanjorski and might not want to risk losing against the Congressman in what looks like to be a Democratic year. Barletta might want to retire that debt and hold out for something bigger, like Ltn. Governor or the top job itself.
HALFSIES
Boy, I bet Crossin and Wideman never had this problem. Democratic running mates Gregory Skrepenak and Maryanne Petrilla still have $88,523 in their political coffers after winning the November election for Luzerne County Commissioners, according to the latest campaign finance reports filed Thursday. So my question is if they are at odds now, and it appears likely they'll never run again because my Courthouse sources say they're barely speaking, what's going to happen to that money? Halfsies anyone? Or maybe they can make a clean break, divide it up and one can give their half to Clinton, the other to Obama.
1968
In early February 1968 Michigan Governor George Romney was pondering his fate as a GOP Presidential contender. Michigan Gov. George Romney was a bright star in the Republican firmament in 1967, a handsome, square-jawed family man and devout Mormon who had done an excellent job as governor and before that as president of American Motors.
He had the backing of many Republican moderates, including Nelson Rockefeller, as well as more-conservative governors and party leaders. He was testing the waters early in 1967 and it quickly became apparent that Vietnam was the single issue on the minds of most voters and all of the national media.
Romney was a domestic-politics guy, he knew budgets and programs up and down, but he was not experienced in foreign policy, nor were his closest advisers.
In August 1967, more than a year before the election, Romney innocently and without thinking sealed his doom as he answered a question from a television interviewer.
Why, the interviewer asked, had he changed his views on Vietnam, from tacit support of President Lyndon Johnson's policies to a somewhat-vague opposition?
Romney asserted that on a visit with generals and diplomats in Vietnam, "... I just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get when you go over to Vietnam." He promptly forgot about a line that no one in the studio felt was important.
But it was. Five days later, an eternity in news time today, the term "brainwashed" showed up in The New York Times, opening a media onslaught basically charging that Romney was too dumb to be president. and too naïve to deal with an issue like Vietnam. Romney spent this first week in Feb. 1968 wondering what to do, he dropped out three weeks before the New Hampshire primary......On the statewide level forty years ago, Grace Sloan began circulating petitions to reclaim the state Treasurer's office in 1968 from Thomas Minehart. Minehart beat Sloan, (who first won in 1960) in a tightly contested race in 1964.......Locally Bernard O'Brien was announcing for another run as State Representative representing what is now the 121rst district........in Pittston, announcements for testing came out from the Diocese from Scranton for all grade schoolers who wanted to attend St. John's High, Scranton Prep or Central Catholic. A test to get into high school? What was the world coming to! And this week in 1968, the number 1 song in America and LuLac land was from an English group that leapfrogged over 22 songs to make it to the top slot. From a 1967 video at London's Top of the Pops, the Foundations, 40 years ago with "Baby Now That I Found You" from YOU TUBE.
posted by David Yonki @ 3:42 PM
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14 Comments:
Yonks,
Hope you are well on the road to recovery.
As an old friend often said, "There are three sides to every story." Mr DeNaples is a generous man and a thug. Its his way or the highway in business dealings and he and the "good padre" both did lie under oath. That simply cannot be overlooked!
And you cant buy your way into heaven even if the good outways
the bad, or so I believe.
Glad to see you're back in the saddle. Must've been some ugly nurses to get you out of the hospital that fast! Anyway, gotta say that I think Barletta is going to sit this one out and like you say wait for bigger fish to fry in the mode of a statewide office.
hey, if you can fool 25,000people, you can fool 2 million. LOved the Foundations, not aware they were a British group.
Pashinski has been worthless in his first term. Done little if anything. Perfect for the 121sts rep.
I heard Joe Leonardi on Corbett Friday break down why Barletta should not run. As much as I like him and would vote for him I think Leonardi\'s anaylsis hit the nail on the head. Lou should sit this one out.
Leonardi said the only people who will benfit are those that \"draft\" him into this and I have to agree. They will raise their profile and advance their career at the expense of Barletta
Hope you are well and have a good "Health Care Plan"!
IN RESPONSE
Pashinski has been worthless in his first term. Done little if anything. Perfect for the 121sts rep.
HE'S IN THE FIRST TERM. CAN YOU NAME ANYONE WHO WENT DOWN TO THAT GOVERNMENTAL, OVERLAYERED MAZE IN HARRISBURG AND CAME OUT WITH ANYTHING BIG AFTER JUST GETTING THERE? YOU THINK REILLY OR THE EYE DOC WOULD BE ANY BETTER?
Hope you are well and have a good "Health Care Plan"!
WE'LL KNOW WHEN THE CLAIMS COME IN, WON'T WE?
Pashinski has done nothing...but personally author two of the most significant pieces of legislation on the house floor this past year. His scrap metal bill will help end the pandemic of metal thefts from vacant buildings and his cell phone bill cuts down on drug dealer and terrorist communications by linking the purchaser with typically anonymous pre-paid cell phones. He also co-sponsored the expanded scope of practice bill to allow impoverished families access to dental care.
Folks wouldn't be stealing scrap metal if they weren't being put in the poorhouse by their government. Same thing for the cell phone bill. When Pashinski does something about the crooks robbing us blind in the capitol, that's when he will have accomplished something. If those two bills were the most important pieces of legislation, it's definitely time for a new Rep. All he is doing is putting poor people in prison while the wealthy continue to use their contacts to help them steal from their constituents.
If those are the two most important pieces of legislation, why does he only mention one of them in his flier that he has been mailing out?
Isn't Rep. Pashinski on the State Gaming Committee? You can't say he was very effective there... unless helping the Gaming Board keep background checks out of the hands of the State Police is considered effective, because Rep. Pashinski was instrumental in helping that blunder along.
"Pashinski was instrumental in helping that blunder along."
Actually the Gaming Oversight Committee was enacted AFTER the Gaming Commission was formed. The legislature voted to create the Gaming Commission back in 2005. The Commission created its OWN rules and procedures.
Also, Eddie took office on January 2, 2007...and Mount Airy was awarded their casino license on December 20, 2006. So, unless he used his "super citizen powers" to change the law, it had nothing to do with him.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good argument, eh?
anon 8:38 - good point on the date he took office in contrast to when the license was awarded - I stand corrected and will only blame all of the other Dems for that blunder, but it is also noted you did not refute any of the other arguments against mr. pashinski.
Anon 10:45 - If you honestly think ONE single man can change the cesspool culture of corruption in Harrisburg, you're very naive.
Look at EACH BILL he has sponsored or authored...look at his unyielding demand that the big oil and drug companies take their greedy hands out of the pockets of the average American.
Don't let the "former rock singer" fool you, he is a legit guy who WANTS to make a difference. One year since he took office, two bills authored...go see how many other freshman have two bills out of committee already...(there are none)
Hi David.
Somehow or other, our eldest daughter, Jennifer, stumbled upon the very pleasant article that you wrote on the LacLu Political letter in 2007. She shared with us (Tom's youngest son, Scott & me, Kathi, his wife) as well as our other 3 children. Our son, Thomas E. IV, posted on your blog as did I. Jennifer is the only one of our children who has any memory of Tom and it was special, I think, for them to know a bit more about their grandfather. Thank you so much for that.
Best,
Kathi Lehman
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