The LuLac Edition #3876, September 14th, 2018

NEW NEWSMAKERS ELECTION PROGRAM BROADCASTING TODAY AND SATURDAY

NEWSMAKERS FROM YOUR LOCAL ELECTION HEADQUARTERS WILL FEATURE INTERVIEWS WITH CANDIDATES IN THE NEWLY FORMED 9TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

THIS IS THE RACE BETWEEN DEMOCRAT DENNY WOLFF AND REPUBLICAN DAN MEUSER.

AIR TIMES: FRIDAY SEPT. 14th, 11:30AM WBRE TV, SATURDAY SEPT. 16th, 11:30AM WYOU TV.

WAGNER’S # 571 RALLY IN WILKES BARRE

Scott Wagner held a rally in Wilkes Barre the other night. The campaign decided right around Labor Day to have it and the GOP faithful came out. My buddy Gort and I were there to meet and greet our GOP friends.
Wagner is authentic in his presentation. You might not agree with everything but the guy is passionate about fixing some of Pennsylvania problems.
He really laid it on the line regarding Property Tax Reform for Homeowners.
He gave a 35 minutes speech, some off the cuff and some with prepared notes that resonated with the crowd. He hit all the major GOP hot buttons but particularly asked voters to help him get to The Mansion. Wagner is down 12 points in the polls and was not happy with Dr. Terry Madonna’s polling.
That said, he revved the crowd up and there were many Wagner-Bartos signs leaving the building that night.
No candidate to me has ever worked harder trying to get his message out. This was rally #571 THIS YEAR!
I love a guy who keeps tabs like that!
Here are a few photos from the event.

The candidate addressing the crowd on Wednesday night.  

Sue Henry revving up the group about her candidacy. 

How about this guy, Justin Behrens who gave a campaign stump thumping speech. The decorated Vet was on fire with his remarks.

John Chrin candidate for Congress in the 8th was on hand. Again, know this, Chrin is targeting The Lu and the Lac in his effort.  

Wouldn't this be nice to see this guy, Frank Scavo as a State Senator who would actually vote for Property Tax Reform? Here is Frank with Senator Lisa Baker. 

This guy, State Party Chair Val DiGiorgo really went after the Dems, went through his laundry list of GOP lies about Sanctuary Cities and illegals being on welfare. He's the state Chair so I understand why he needs to do it but yikes! A great line of bull but the crowd loved it. 

DIAPER DON AND PUERTO RICO

My apologies to the Luzerne County GOP who had a nice rally the other night for Scott Wagner and the other candidates. My intention was to lay off your boy Diaper Don. Adopt the “Raccoon” strategy you so kindly refereed to on Wednesday night.
But once again your President proved to be his own worst enemy and for that matter yours. But here’s what he did yesterday with a major hurricane coming.
Diaper Don tweeted 3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000.
Then he blamed the Democrats for inflating the numbers. Look people died because this horrific administration never got enough help to the 51st state of America!
Death tolls can’t be made up. It is amazing that he creates his own fake news.

NAACP OPPOSES BRETT KAVANAUGH

Here is a missive sent by the Wilkes Barre Chapter of the NAACP regarding the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. Take a look.
Freedom Fighters, since the moment Brett Kavanaugh was nominated for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, he was tasked with proving that he would be a justice who would uphold the rights of all, and that he was a person of unimpeachable integrity.
During last week's confirmation hearings, he decidedly failed to meet those standards. Instead, here is a small sample what we witnessed:
•Kavanaugh was caught misleading the Senate five different times. He apparently used documents stolen from Democrats, lied about when he knew about warrantless wiretapping, lied about his role in Bush's torture program, and lied about his role in nomination processes for two judges.
•After testifying that Roe v. Wade is “settled as a precedent of the Supreme Court,” records revealed Kavanaugh saying essentially the opposite in 2003. “I am not sure that all legal scholars refer to Roe as the settled law of the land at the Supreme Court level since Court can always overrule its precedent, and three current Justices on the Court would do so.” There are now four current Justices who would vote to overturn Roe. If confirmed, we should expect Kavanaugh to be the fifth, damning vote.
•On the same day that Trump’s Department of Justice argued in federal court to overturn patient protections guaranteed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Kavanaugh refused to commit to protecting people with pre-existing conditions ... twice. If confirmed, we can count on his vote to undermine the ACA and take health care away from millions of people.
What we already know about Kavanaugh — from public records and a small sampling of records cherry-picked by a partisan process — shows him to be wildly extreme and out of step with the American public. If he is confirmed, Republican senators should be clear that they are on the line for every 5-4 vote to rollback rights and health care.
Call Senator Patrick J. Toomey at (202) 224-4254. Insist they publicly OPPOSE Kavanaugh's nomination.

DEM EVENT SET FOR SEPTEMBER 20th

The 121st Democrats will have a rally on September 20th at The River Grille. Main attractions will be Congressman Matt Cartwright and State Representative Eddie Day Pashinski.

FRANK SCAVO

Frank Scavo is making the rounds in his efforts to beat State Senator John Blake in the 22nd Senatorial District, Blake singlehandedly screwed the voters just a few years ago by being the deciding vote in getting the bill to the floor.
Scavo will be part of a Town Hall meeting on September 26th at The Old Forge High school highlighting Property Tax Reform. It starts at 6pm.

MEDIA MATTERS

WALN TV

BOLD GOLD COMMUNITY FORUM

Tune in Sunday morning at 6 on 94.3 The Talker; 6:30 on 1400-The Game, NEPA's Fox .Sports Radio and 106.7 fm; and at 7:30 on 105 The River.

ECTV LIVE

September is Suicide Prevention Month and ECTV Live welcomes Kathy Wallace of the regional Suicide Prevention Council to the program during the week of September 17th.
ECTV can be seen on Chnnnel 19 (61 in some areas) and is aired during the Noon, 6pm and Midnight hours each day of the week. Following Monday's Live program the show will become available on Electric City Television's YouTube channel which can be viewed on your computer.

BUDDY RUMCHEK

Want to hear some great parodies on the news? Tune in to WILK Radio at 6:40 and 8:40 AM on Mondays. As Ralph Cramden used to say, “It’s a laugh riot!”

THE FREDDIE FACTOR

Tune in every Sunday at 3pm on WILK Newsradio for The Freddy Factor. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll wonder why but in the end, it will be one hell of a good time!

BOBBY V’S DOO WOP SOCK HOP

SUNDAY NIGHTS!

1960

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For the ninth day in succession, Hurricane Donna had maximum sustained winds of at least 115 mph (185 km/h)...U.S. senators James Eastland and Thomas Dodd accused the State Department of complicity in Fidel Castro's invasion of Cuba......The 1960 Summer Olympics closed in Rome…Against the advice of his campaign staff, presidential candidate John F. Kennedy had accepted an invitation to speak to Protestant ministers in Houston on the question of whether a Roman Catholic President could operate independently of the Vatican. In a famous address, Kennedy won over his audience, commenting, "I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic." The next day, the Houston ministers described the address as "the most complete, unequivocal and reassuring statement which could be expected of any person in his position,"  Kennedy's opponent, Richard M. Nixon, a Quaker, commented that he could conceive of no circumstances which might ever require either himself or Kennedy to have a conflict between religion and the presidency….Lee Harvey Oswald's honorable discharge from the United States Marines, granted on September 11, 1959, was revised to an "undesirable discharge" (rather than a bad conduct discharge or a dishonorable discharge, which require a court martial), based on bringing "discredit to the Marine Corps through adverse newspaper publicity" since defecting to the Soviet Union] Although William B. Franke was the United States Secretary of the Navy at the time the revision was ordered, Oswald would not learn of the action until 1961, when John Connally was appointed to the position by President John F. Kennedy, and would write to Connally several times to seek a reversal. Connally would later win the office of Governor of Texas, and on November 22, 1963, Oswald would shoot both Kennedy and Connally; at least one author, James Reston Jr., would theorize that Oswald was actually trying to assassinate Governor Connally rather than President Kennedy…...Nikita Khrushchev and other Communist Bloc leaders arrived in the United States on the Soviet ocean liner Baltika, which docked at New York City at 9:20 a.m. Accompanied by János Kádár of Hungary, Todor Zhivkov of Bulgaria, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej of Romania, Khrushchev stepped off the ship to a mixture of cheers and boos, and then was driven to the Soviet consulate. Khrushchev and other leaders had arrived for the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly, and could travel to New York at any time under the terms of the United Nations Treaty. Though the United States government could not bar Khrushchev, it asked television networks to minimize coverage of the Khrushchev's visit, and restricted him from traveling outside of Manhattan and Long Island…..in Pennsylvania the pennant stretch is getting exiting with the Pirates make their the way to the World Series…in Luzerne County the amount of tax collectors is increased n fifty eight years ago the number one song in LuLac land ad America was :Mission Bell” by Donnie Brooks.