The LuLac Edition #3932, November 16th, 2018

CASEY FOR PRESIDENT? 

I always thought Bob Casey wanted to be Governor. My speculation was that Casey, elected in 2006 would serve two terms in the Senate and run for Governor in 2018. But Tom Wolf’s defeat of Tom Corbett threw that out the window.
Casey, re-elected by a large margin said in an NBC interview that he might be thinking about running for President saying that he would appeal to working class voters.
The comment was met with some derision. But as the character Jonesy from the old Daniels and Webster program would say, “Don’t Laugh”. Here’s why:
1. Casey is an adult with no drama. Clean as a whistle.
2. Some say he’s boring. Well America seems to have an adverse reaction to Presidents in an alternating fashion. After Nixon/Ford, America picked Jimmy Carter who said he’d never lie to us. After the George W. Bush terms, America picked President Obama. We left country for urban. Casey’s demeanor just might be the anecdote needed for America after Trump.
3. Casey is pro life. Democrats say they need to be more inclusive. How much more inclusive can that get. The last pro life on a national Democratic ticket was Sargent Shriver in 1972.
Casey does nothing by accident or gaffe. Watch him.

BETO’S BUBBLE AND THIS CONGRESSMAN TO PRESIDENT THING

Beto O'Rourke, James Garfield,20th President, Abraham Lincoln in the 1840s and George and Barbara Bush in the mid 1960s.  (Photos: wikipedia, history.com., George Bush Library, UPI) 

After Beto O’Rourke lost his race for Senate in Texas there was talk about him running for President. He is charismatic and did indeed capture the imagination of Democrats all across the United States. But in a field of more than twenty candidates, great and small, famous and unknown poised to run, talking up Beto is just an exercise in speculation at this point.
But people are making comparisons saying a Congressman can become President. True The examples being used are George H.W. Bush and Abraham Lincoln. The thought process they seem to be using is each went from Congress to the White House. It is true that both did hold a term or two in Congress but neither made a giant leap to the White House. Therefore the comparisons are flawed.
The only person who did that was James Garfield, Republican of Ohio who went from Congress to The White House in 1880. Lincoln was elected to one term in 1846 as a member of the Whig party. But it was a short run since he got on the wrong side of people who supported President Polk and opposed The Mexican American War. He lost in 1848. In the interim he practiced law and ran for the Senate in 1858 against Stephen Douglas. The two barnstormed through Illinois with the great debates. Two years later, the two faced off for the office of President and Lincoln prevailed. But Lincoln after serving one term waited 12 years to get to the White House.
The example of George H.W. Bush follows a time line just as indirect.
The elder Bush ran for Congress in 1964 and lost in the Johnson landslide. He came back in 1966 to win a seat and was quite content there until he was talked into running for the Senate in 1970 against Lloyd Bensten. These were the day when the Dems were still king in Texas. Bensten, himself a candidate for President in 1976 and then became Michael Dukakis’ running mate crushed H.W. 
Bush after being defeated served in the Nixon administration as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. He loved the job but was prevailed upon by Nixon in 1973, as the Watergate Scandal was erupting, to become chairman of the Republican National Committee. In this post, he stood by Nixon until August 1974, when he joined a growing chorus of voices calling on the President to resign.
Bush wanted to be Ford’s Veep but that was not to be. Later in 1974, Ford, who had nominated Nelson Rockefeller as his vice president, named a disappointed Bush chief of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing—which was then the senior U.S. representative in China, because relations between the two countries did not permit the exchange of ambassadors. He served in this capacity until he was asked to head the Central Intelligence Agency in 1976. As CIA director, Bush took steps to ensure that the agency’s activities did not exceed congressional authorization. When Jimmy Carter took office in 1977, Bush resigned and returned to Texas, where in 1979 he announced his candidacy for president.
Bush fought Ronald Reagan hard and even criticized his economics as Voodo. But Reagan picked him as his Vice President and then finally in 1988 some 28 years after leaving Congress Bush became President.
If by some miracle Beto O’Rourke does become President in 2020, he will only emulate Garfield’s path and neither those of Lincoln or George H.W. Bush.

UNGRACIOUS ACTIONS

After the election the mocking continued from President Donald Trump. Trump called out Congress people who didn’t ask him to campaign for them. His actions were unsurprising and showed a new level of low that has permeated the Trump Presidency.
He did not visit a Veteran’s cemetery in France as did Ronald Reagan and other Presidents. He mocked the French President for his comments and then pouted as World Leaders took center stage.
At least he’s consistent in his pettiness and ignorance.

FERRANCE STEPS DOWN AS LUZERNE COUNTY GOP CHAIR

Ron Ferrance has stepped down as Chair of the Luzerne County Republican party. Ferrance succeeded Bill Urbanski in 2016. Ferrance was front and center at a recent Trump rally this summer and was a booster of the local GOP.
There were issues of disagreement reported here but there was no doubt that Ferrance thought he was working in the best interests of what he believed in.
Even though we disagreed with some moves, he was always gracious and kind to us when I attended GOP events. We wish him the best.

RON FELTON TAKES REIGNS OF NAACP AGAIN

Ben Hoon, me and Ron Felton (Photo: Scott Cannon, Video Innovations, Plymouth, Pa. 2018)
This announcement came from Ronald Felton regarding the local chapter of the NAACP. Once again, I'm stepping back into the seat of NAACP Wilkes-Barre Branch #2306 as President in ‘2019. I do this with the intent of grooming someone within the next two years to serve as my replacement. I'm running unopposed.
This will be my tenth term for a total of twenty years. I do this out of my love and commitment to the NAACP mission. This is why I'm a lifetime member of the NAACP Wilkes-Barre Branch #2306. Because I believe so strongly in what the organization stands for and I have the confidence it won't let me down or stray away from its mission. This is why I encourage everyone who believes in the mission of the NAACP to become a lifetime member. This will also assist the organization in being a valuable presence in our community.
So, our goal for the next two years is to sign up fifty lifetime members. That will help sustain its presence for many decades.
Now, if you're unable to become a lifetime member become a regular member and show your support. Let the City of Wilkes-Barre know that the NAACP is a force to be reckoned with. Our goal for the next two years is to increase our membership by one hundred percent.
The City of Wilkes-Barre has roughly 40,000 residents. My goal is to have NAACP membership reflect one percent (400) of that. I need your help
I'm asking for your help so that I can better serve you. For a small branch Wilkes-Barre had become very well known throughout the State of Pennsylvania with representatives from the adult branch and youth council serving on the NAACP PA State Conference.
I will continue to serve as Eastern Sectional Director through 2019 and will then retire from the NAACP PA State Conference.
The youth are our future leaders and we need to provide them with the organizational and leadership skills to continue to move us forward.
The NAACP is and has been since its original founding in 1909 a multi-racial organization.
Attached, is a membership form. Please complete and mail to: NAACP Wilkes-Barre Branch #2306, P.O. Box 2460, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18703

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1960

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Wilt Chamberlain, of the Philadelphia Warriors, set the NBA record for number of rebounds (55) in a game, which has remained unbroken for nearly fifty years, but his team lost 132–129 to the visiting Boston Celtics, who were led by Bill Russell. Chamberlain's 55 rebounds broke Russell's record of 51, set on February 8, 1959 by Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics. Chamberlain (23,924) and Russell (21,620) remain first and second on the all time rebound list.

Clark Gable, American film star, 59, of a heart attack, a few days after completing his last film, The Misfits with Marilyn Monroe.

African-American singer and actor Sammy Davis, Jr. married white Swedish actress May Britt at a time when interracial marriage was uncommon, and, in some states, illegal. The resulting fallout would effectively end Britt's film career. The couple would have a daughter in 1961, and would adopt two sons, before separating in 1967 and divorcing in 1968. The uncensored, Penguin Books edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover went on sale in England and Wales, eight days after a London jury had concluded that it was not obscene, and became an instant bestseller.
Rumors persist that the Soviet Union covered up the deaths of cosmonauts killed in the early days of its space program. Russian journalist Yaroslav Golovanov, the Fortean Times writes, "has claimed that on 10 November 1960, a cosmonaut called Byelokonyev died on board a spaceship in orbit." No evidence has been found to corroborate Golovanov's statesmen…in Pennsylvania Danny Murtaugh is coming back as Manager of the World Champion Pirates, in Luzerne County Dan Flood gets ready to work with a new Democratic President and fifty eight years ago the number one song in LuLac land and America was “Don't Be Cruel” by Bill Black's Combo.