The LuLac Edition #4,046, April 4th, 2019

NAACP BRANCH #2306 SPRINGS INTO ACTION

Constance Wynn, Executive Committee, Flora Jenkins, Secretary, Peggy A. Felton, Executive Committee Standing L-R: Larry Singleton, Treasurer, Melissa Rivers, 3rd VP, Bill Browne, 2nd VP, David S. Yonki, 1st VP, Ronald L. Felton, President, and Mayor Tony George.

On the 51rst anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Junior, the new leadership of the Wilkes Barre branch took their oaths of office. Mayor Tony George, who officiated said, “It is fitting to have the new officers and Executive Committee members of the NAACP organization take their oaths of office on this particular date. They say past is prelude. That is why we are happy to work with this branch to build a stronger and more vibrant community carrying on the work of Dr. King who always believed in a better future for all”.
Elections and an Executive committee were held previously to fill the leadership posts. The team for this program year is:
Ronald L. Felton previously served as President for nine terms for a total of eighteen years. Served two years as Assistant Secretary and another year as 1st Vice President and currently serves as Eastern Sectional Director of the NAACP PA State Conference.
David S. Yonki has spent his career in Media, Consumer Services and now works for the Wilkes-Barre Health Department. He is a graduate of King’s College, a Political Analyst for WBRE/WYOU TV. and a member of the President John F. Kennedy Knights of Columbus Council #372 in Pittston. A three year member, David’ was elected First Vice President.
Bill Browne served as a former Executive Committee Member and is a graduate of LCCC and Misericordia University and is the Second Vice President.
Melissa Rivers is an American Intercontinental University graduate and a new member of the NAACP Wilkes-Barre Branch #2306. Rivers will serve as the Third Vice President.
Flora Jenkins served as Secretary and membership chairperson and several years on the Executive Committee.
Larry Singleton previously served as President, Treasurer, and 1st Vice President for seventeen years and is currently Assistant Treasurer for the NAACP PA State Conference. Singleton is the Treasurer.
Peggy A. Felton served as Freedom Fund chairperson for several years. As membership chairperson and has served on the Executive Committee for twenty-four years. Serving as Youth Advisor for the NAACP Wilkes-Barre Youth Council #28AM and currently serves as Youth Advisor for the NAACP PA State Conference.
Rhonda Rabbitt is the Dean of Education at Wilkes University where she oversees programs at the bachelor, master, and doctoral degree levels. Regardless of degree level, the school is committed to the mission to provide opportunities for each child to live into his or her full potential, both locally and globally. This mission is best accomplished in collaboration with our Pk-12 schools and community organizations with a similar mission.
Constance Wynn served as President and has served as historian of the branch through the eyes of family involvement.
The branch will hold monthly General membership meetings on the second Tuesday of the month starting at 6:30pm followed by the Executive Committee meeting at 7:15PM. at Breiseth Hall, Room 106, on the campus of Wilkes University.

TRUMP GOES AFTER BIDEN

The President decided to go after former Vice President Joe Biden for the complaints he had from women. Biden was accused of kissing someone on the back of the head. Trump immediately threw volleys at the former Veep and tut tutted his disapproval.
Really Diaper Don? 23 women accused you. Some are suing you. YOU even paid hush money to some women you were boinking because you were afraid of having it come out before the election. Your personal Attorney Michael Cohen is going to jail and we still have the Southern District of New York to hear from.
Your transference will only work with 35% of your base who is just as amoral as you.
But calling out Biden? Diaper Don, keep your crap inside of the Depends guy. Because what you smell isn’t Biden but YOU!

HOUSE RESOLUTION CONDEMNS TRUMP PUSH TO DISMANTLE OBAMACARE

Representative Colin Allred (Photo: AP)

The House on Wednesday approved a non-binding resolution to condemn the Trump administration's support for a lawsuit that would overturn Obamacare.
Lawmakers approved the symbolic measure sponsored by freshman Rep. Colin Allred, of Texas, in a 240-186 vote. The GOP-controlled Senate is not expected to take it up.
The move comes in response to the administration's announcement last week that it would back the full dismantling of the 2010 health care law. The Justice Department had said in a filing with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that a lower court judge's ruling should be affirmed and the entire law invalidated.
On the House floor Tuesday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said that Republicans are trying to "strike down every last provision of the ACA" including protections for pre-existing conditions, Medicaid expansion, Medicare solvency and bans on lifetime and annual limits.
Pelosi said the resolution gave Republicans a chance "to go on the record once more. Either they'll vote for protecting their constituents' health care or they will vote for taking it away. With this vote, we will see their values and their intentions."
Ahead of the House vote, President Donald Trump claimed on Twitter that he had never planned to deliver a health care plan in time for a measure to make it through Congress before the current session ends.
"I was never planning a vote prior to the 2020 Election on the wonderful HealthCare package (LIES) that some very talented people are now developing for me (WHO??) & the Republican Party. It will be on full display during the Election as a much better & less expensive alternative to ObamaCare". (LIES) (LuLac, AOL News)

BOB CASEY’S RECORD ON GUN VIOLENCE 

Senator Bob Casey (Photo: LuLac archives)

After the New Zealand shootings, actions were taken by their government to make gun rights sensible. Here, after numerous shootings that included children, people in church as well as 6 year olds, we’ve done nothing. Here’s where Senator Bob Casey stands on this issue.
With an average of 520 gun homicides every year in Pennsylvania, Senator Casey is committed to making our communities safer. Every American should feel free to study or work or worship where they please without feeling the threat of gun violence. We can and we must act now to pass commonsense gun safety reforms.
>Senator Casey sponsored the Disarm Hate Act, which would prohibit access to firearms by those convicted of violent misdemeanor hate crimes. Anyone who has proven they will commit violent crimes based on bias should not have access to guns.
•Senator Casey cosponsored the Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act. Current law prohibits those with criminal records for domestic violence against “intimate partners” from obtaining firearms. This legislation would expand the definition of “intimate partner” to include unmarried dating partners who do not live together or share a child. It also adds those with misdemeanor stalking convictions to the list of those prohibited from obtaining firearms.
•Senator Casey supports expanding background checks. He cosponsored the Background Check Expansion Act to ensure that individuals purchasing firearms through private sellers, online or at gun shows are required to go through the same background check as individuals purchasing guns from federally licensed dealers. He also cosponsored the Background Check Completion Act, which closes the so-called “Charleston loophole” by requiring background checks to be completed regardless of how long they take. Under current law, if a check takes longer than three business days the sale may go through. This loophole allowed Dylan Roof, who killed nine people at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, to acquire his firearm.
•Senator Casey cosponsored legislation to authorize the Centers for Disease Control to research gun violence and gun safety measures.
•Senator Casey cosponsored the Assault Weapons Ban, which would reinstate and update the assault weapons ban that was in place from 1994 to 2004. The bill bans the sale, manufacture, transfer and importation of 205 military-style assault weapons; bans assault weapons with detachable ammunition magazines or military characteristics; and bans magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
•Senator Casey cosponsored the SECURE Firearm Storage Act, which would help prevent gun thefts and the use of unlicensed firearms in the commission of violent crimes by requiring federally licensed firearms dealers to take common-sense steps to secure and track their inventory.
•Senator Casey cosponsored the Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act. This bill would prohibit access to firearms by those on the Terrorist Watchlist. Anyone who is deemed too dangerous to fly on an airplane is also too dangerous to own firearms

MEDIA MATTERS

WALN TV

BOLD GOLD COMMUNITY FORUM

This week's guest will be Scranton City Councilman Wayne Evans. 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

Electric City Television has been attempting to resolve problems with its server, the unit that uploads ECTV programs to the Comcast Cable system. ECTV Live has two programs pending for airing as soon as those issues are resolved. 

 One with Eileen Miller on Defensive Driving. 

 Month and one with Mary Garm of the Lackawanna Library system on the library's upcoming speaker's forum and updates on the library's services to the community. Both programs will be available on ECTV's YouTube page and will be on air on Comcast channel 19 as soon as possible!
ECTV Live is seen three times daily on Comcast channel 19 (61 in some areas) and can be viewed on your personal device on the electric city television YouTube page.

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!”

BOBBY V’S DOO WOP SOCK HOP

SUNDAY NIGHTS!

1969

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At Houston, NASA Engineer Max Faget showed 20 colleagues a small balsa wood and paper model with "straight, stubby wings and a shark-like nose" and told them. "We're going to build America's next spacecraft. It’s going to launch like a spacecraft; it’s going to land like a plane." Faget, the director of engineering and development at the Manned Space Center, was introducing the assembled group to a planned reusable spacecraft, the American Space Shuttle….The 9th National Congress of the Communist Party of China opened in Beijing, with 1,512 delegates appearing for 24 days of meetings. Lin Biao, the Vice-Chairman of the Party, Vice-Premier of China and Defense Minister, delivered the opening address and was accepted later in the Congress as the official successor to Chairman Mao Zedong. The Congress was the first in almost 14 years….Meeting in the town of Stevenson, Washington, the Board of County Commissioners of Skamania County voted to enact county ordinance Number 69-01, making either an April Fool's Day joke or the first official recognition by any government agency of the possibility of the existence of "Bigfoot".[6] Whether intended as humorous or not, the ordinance was published in the April 4 and April 11 issues of the weekly Skamania County Pioneer, a requirement under state law, and was amended again in 1984. The text of the 1969 enactment noted "evidence to indicate the possible existence" in the county of an ape-like creature, a large number of "purported recent sightings" and "an influx of scientific investigators as well as casual hunters, many armed with lethal weapons", and was passed to discourage "laxity in the use of firearms" that posed a threat to "persons living or traveling within the boundaries of Skamania County", and made slaying of the creature described as "SasThe Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, "apparently bowing to a Soviet ultimatum", reluctantly announced strict censorship of the Czechoslovakian news media, and the government's Ministry of the Interior issued new regulations. The CTK government news agency issued a statement saying that punishment awaited any newspaper or broadcast report that did not "proceed in harmony with the interests of the domestic and foreign policy of the State", and that the government "expressed its regret and apologies" to the USSR for instances where a mood of "anti-Soviet hysteria" had been created by the press.quatch", "Yeti" or "Bigfoot" a felony punishable by a $10,000 fine and/or five years imprisonment…..Popular, but controversial, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was abruptly canceled by the CBS television network. CBS President Robert Wood explained that the show's two producers, Dick Smothers and Tommy Smothers, "consistently had failed to deliver tapes" of their programs in time for CBS executives and local TV stations to review the content, and added that it was "abundantly clear" that the brothers were "unwilling to accept the criteria of taste established by the network's program practices department…Here’s variation on many themes of the show theme…

In Pittsburgh Mayor Joseph Barr announces no new taxes even with a massive infrastructure project…..in Scranton Mayor Jim Walsh says that he is confident he’ll win re-election in the fall and fifty years ago today the number one song in America and LuLac land was "It's Your Thing"  byThe Isley Brothers.