The LuLac Edition #2538, October 15th, 2013

IT'S CAMPAIGN TIME!!!!!!

County Council candidate on the GOP side, Paul DeFabo. (Photo: PBS.org)

MEET DeFABO NIGHT

A meet-and-greet for Luzerne County Council candidate Paul DeFabo will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the North End Tavern, 553 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre.

Linda McClosky Houck, candidate for re-election to Luzerne County Council responding to a question on the campaign trail. (Photo: Gort 42).

McCLOSKY HOUCK EVENT

Linda McClosky Houck, candidate for re-election to Luzerne County Council Wednesday, Oct 16 6 to 8 PM Holy Family Church hall 574 Bennett Street Luzerne
Directions: Wyoming Avenue in Kingston to West Bennett St. Continue 1 mile on Bennett St into Luzerne, continue through stoplight at Main St intersection. Church is 500 feet beyond, on the left.

The big 4, Eileen Sorokas, Renee Ciaruffoli-Taffera, Richard Hefron and Michael Giamber. (Photo: LuLac archives).

AND ON THE SAME NIGHT........

Luzerne County council candidate Renee Ciaruffoli-Taffera and her team of political candidates Eileen Sorokas, Mike Giamber and Richard Hefron will hold an event from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Fiddlers Green Irish Pub, State Street, Larksville.

Luzerne County Council candidate Eileen Sorokas. (Photo: LuLac archives). 

SOROKAS MEET-AND-GREET

Bob and Joan Pipech will host a meet-and-greet for Luzerne County council candidate Eileen M. Sorokas and the political candidates of Mountain Top from 4 to 7 p.m. on Sunday at Januzzi's Pizza, Route 309, Mountain Top.

Luzerne County Councilman Harry Haas. (Photo: LuLac archives).

HAAS EVENT

Please Join Us…

Coffee & Dessert

with

Harry Haas

Thursday, Oct. 17, 6-7:30 p.m.

The Café, Route 315, Plains Township

Donation $20

Tickets will be available at the door.

GOP Scranton Mayoral candidate Jim Mulligan's sign.

MULLIGAN ON THE MARCH 

The Mulligan for Mayor campaign sent this release last week regarding their foe in the Mayor's race, Democrat Bill Courtwright. Scranton mayoral candidate Bill Courtright appeared on The David Madeira Show where he admitted he is not doing his job as tax collector.At the beginning of his interview, Courtright proudly says that he has cleaned up the Scranton tax office.have it pretty much straightened out (the Scranton tax office)." (SOURCE: The David Madeira Show, http://thedavidmadeirashow.com/2013/10/ep-328-hour-2-courtright-makes-his-case-for-mayor/, 21:55)However, under Courtright's leadership, his own employee was charged with dipping her hand into the taxpayer cash drawer."A call from a bank helped tip off the Scranton Single Tax Office that one of their employees dipped her hands into the taxpayers' cash register unnoticed, according to arrest papers. Michelle Finnerty, a former Scranton Single Tax Office employee, allegedly took a $2,357.87 cash payment from an unidentified taxpayer for property taxes in February 2011, deposited only $506.92, and pocketed the rest - $1,850.95, according to arrest papers filed by chief of detectives for the Lackawanna County district attorney's office Joseph Jordan." (SOURCE: "Scranton Single Tax Office Employee Charged With Dipping Into Taxpayer Cash Drawer," The Scranton Times-Tribune, August 7, 2012)Adding insult to injury, after stealing from the taxpayers in his office, Courtright even rewarded Ms. Finnerty by allowing her to collect unemployment benefits. And when pushed for how he would raise Scranton's revenue base, Courtright admitted that he hasn't done his job as tax collector."We have a lot of properties that there is no taxes... as tax collector I can tell ya they're not being paid." (SOURCE: The David Madeira Show, http://thedavidmadeirashow.com/2013/10/ep-328-hour-2-courtright-makes-his-case-for-mayor/, 34:55)So not only is Courtright unable to keep his own employees from stealing taxpayer dollars, he's unable to collect taxes. As Bill Courtright's own words prove, Scranton cannot afford Bill Courtright.