The LuLac Edition #2879, April 18th, 2015

ATTORNEY JOSEPH SAPORITO JR. SWORN IN AS FEDERAL DISTRICT MAGISTRATE

(Photos: Lauren Taylor, Facebook).

This week was a big one for Pittston Attorney and native Joseph Saporito. Saporito was sworn in as a Federal District Magistrate. The term is for eight years and Saporito brings years of legal experience in both the civil and criminal field.
Just so you know, a FDM handles pretrial items concerning civil and criminal matters. Saporito will do this on behalf of the District Judges. Also if is he involved in a case and both parties want to reach an agreement, they may consent for a Magistrate like Saporito to decide the matter in Civil cases.
The affable and very competent Pittston attorney was chosen in November by a panel of Federal District Judges and reportedly bested four other candidates. He will primarily work out of the Rosenn Court house in Wilkes Barre.
We were invited to the big event but work prohibited our attendance. But I understand it was a grand event.
Saporito might have become a Luzern County Judge if there was a semblance of a Republican party in the County. The new FDM is a graduate of the Scranton Preparatory School, Villanova University and the Dickinson School of Law and has been practicing law since 1985. We wish him the very best in this exciting new chapter in his legal career.

WOYCHIK IN FOR DISTRICT MAGISTRATE 11-1-02

 Justin Woychik, candidate for District Justice. (Photo: Woychik campaign).

The race to succeed District Magistrate Martin Kane is heating up. Kane’s son Jared has thrown his hat in the ring as well as Tom Malloy. Both have had a lot of signage in the district.
Justin Woychik of Wilkes Barre is also making a run. Like Tom Wardle in the 11-03-08 District, Woychik is really focusing in on his experience as a member of a local police department.
Woychik brings practical experience as a Pennsylvania State Constable and EMT . He is a former Police Officer with Wilkes-Barre Township, a Lifelong resident of Wilkes-Barre
And • Graduate: Bishop Hoban High School , King’s College ~ B.S. Computers and Information Systems and is currently working on his M.S. (In Process) Health Care Administration.
For more information go to his website at www.woychikforjudge.com

PENNSYLVANIA STATE TROOPERS ASSOCIATION ENDORSES TODD EAGEN

Thursday the Pennsylvania State Troopers Association (PSTA) endorsed Scranton attorney Todd Eagen for the state's Commonwealth Court.
In giving their endorsement, PSTA President Joseph Kovel said, "Representing more than 8,000 active and retired State Troopers, the PSTA seeks to endorse candidates who have the best interest of Pennsylvania and its law enforcement community at heart. Clearly, Todd's extensive experience representing members of the Pennsylvania State Troopers Association along with other labor organizations in various areas of litigation, including the courts, is cause for our endorsement."
In receiving the endorsement, Mr. Eagen, a Democrat from Lackawanna County said, "I am honored to have the endorsement of the Pennsylvania State Troopers Association. They put their lives on the line every day for the people of Pennsylvania. As their commitment to our Commonwealth has been longstanding and unmovable, I am especially proud to have their approval and assistance.”
Todd Eagen has already been endorsed by the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, the Pennsylvania State Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police, the Keystone Progress PAC, the Bucks, Chester, Lackawanna and Luzerne County Democratic committees. He is expecting even more prominent endorsements as the campaign progresses.

THOMAS LUKASEWICZ MAKING TRACKS IN COMMISSIONER’S RACE

Tom Lukasewicz, another Democratic candidate for Commissioner in the Lac. (Photo: Tom Lukasewicz for Commissioner Facebook page).

This week incumbents Lackawanna County Commissioners Jim Wansacz and Pat “The Statesman” O’Malley have statred running TV ads touting their candidacy. One of their opponents is doing a of grass roots campaigning utilizing the hot issues of both the Keystone Landfill and the gas powered plant in Jessup. That candidate is Tom Lukasewicz.
He is really hammering the current Commissioners for refusing to address both those issues. If you saw the ad, the Commissioners are taking credit for saving baseball in the Lac as well as a plethora of other issues. But nary a word about the big hot issues regarding Keystone and Jessup. 
Here’s why this is important.  In any race for Commissioner, especially a Democratic primary, the Mid Valley has always played a major role. To ignore a candidate like Lukasewicz and his issues would be foolhardy.
Lukasewicz has been serving for 22 years on Throop Borough Council with 16 years as the Borough President. Sources tell me he’ll be up on TV soon.

MEDIA MATTERS

CORBETT AND TARONE

Starting Monday WILK’s schedule will change slightly. Steve Corbett still starts at 3pm but will end his program at 6. L.A. Tarone who was doing a 7 to 9 block now starts an hour earlier. WILK is one of the very few if not the only talk radio station in the country with four local talk shows. The time periods add a symmetry to the lineup of three hour blocks from 6am to midnight. Now if they can get rid of that guy Clyde and “Ground Zero” things would be damn near perfect.