The LuLac Edition #4,145, October 10th, 2019

NAACP CANDIDATE'S FORUM THURSDAY OCTOBER 17th 

NAACP WILKES-BARRE BANQUET COMING UP 

HARRY HAAS TO RUN FOR CARTWIGHT SEAT

Who's this guy with Harry Haas? Maybe it's a case of "That was then and this is now" (Caption: Matt Engel)   (Photo: LuLac archives) 

Longtime County Council mrmber Harry Haas has said he will run for the 8th Congressional District seat held by Congressman Matt Carttwright. Haas has been on County Council since its inception and has won an election every time out. A school teacher, he has won across the board garnering support from both parties.
Sounds good on paper but as Haas (who I know and like) will find out, Matt Cartwright has built a reputation as a reasonable middle of the road Congressman who has a smooth running operation dealing with Constituency service. A string of opponents from as far back as 2012 have not been able to come close to beating him. He beat a female business owner who is a right winger, a race car drive and businessman, a Coroner and a millionaire. Haas while likeable will just be the next victim the GOP leads to slaughter. Plus, running in 2020, Haas will face the same issues that John Chrin (the 2018 opponent) faced trying to defend the actions of one Donald J. Trump.

MEANWHILE AS FAR AS MONEY GOES….

CONGRESSMAN MATT CARTWRIGHT’S COH TOPS $1 MILLION

Congressmen Matt Cartwright (Photo: LuLac archives) 

Congressman Matt Cartwright (PA08) reports over $1 million cash-on-hand after 3rd quarter fundraising haul.
“I am incredibly grateful for our campaign’s supporters who know I am fighting to protect social security, provide affordable healthcare, fully fund veterans' programs, and create good paying jobs for the hardworking families of Northeastern Pennsylvania,” said Congressman Cartwright.
Congressman Matt Cartwright was named the 4th most effective House Democrat in Congress by the Center for Effective Lawmaking and his constituents know that he is fighting every day to move the 8th congressional district’s priorities across the finish line.

CASEY STATEMENT ON TRUMP DECISION TO ABANDON KURDISH ALLIES: THIS WILL MAKE OUR NATION LESS SAFE

Senator Bob Casey (Photo: LuLac archives) 

U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) is releasing a statement on the Trump Administration’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria:
“Kurdish forces have been a steadfast U.S. ally and President Trump has shamefully betrayed them. Thousands of Kurds died in the fight against ISIS only to be abandoned by President Trump, whose fascination with authoritarian dictators, like Erdogan, seems to control U.S. foreign policy. Turning our back on the Kurdish people in their time of need will make our nation less safe. Potential allies will no longer trust our government. President Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops from Syria also underscores the problematic nature of his continuing involvement in his business, the Trump Organization. Since President Trump has not fully divested from his private business, our nation is left to wonder whether the fact that the Trump Organization has dealings in Turkey impacted his decision.”

MEDIA MATTERS

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ECTV LIVE

ECTV Live host David DeCosmo welcomes regional Red Cross Director Bill Goldsworthy to the program during the week of October 14th. In addition to sharing some life saving suggestions Bill will explain why there's a "For Sale sign" in front of the agency's Scranton headquarters!

ECTV Live is seen 3 times daily on Comcast channel 19 and is shared on the electric city television YouTube page or viewing on your laptop or tablet.

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Want to hear some great parodies on the news? Tune in to WILK Radio at 6:20 and 8:20 AM on Mondays. As Ralph Cramden used to say, “It’s a laugh riot!”

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SUNDAY NIGHTS!

1969

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October 9–12 are known as Days of Rage: In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in to control demonstrations involving the radical Weathermen, in connection with the "Chicago Eight" Trial………The Zodiac Killer murders Taxi cab driver Paul Stine in San Francisco, California…….Vietnam War: Hundreds of thousands of people take part in antiwar demonstrations across the United States called by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam……………………………. 

The rights to employ St. Louis Cardinals center fielder Curt Flood were traded to the Philadelphia Phillies as part of an exchange involving seven players Flood, however, didn't want to leave St. Louis, where he had built a profitable business as a portrait painter. He announced first that he intended to retire from baseball  but soon became the first player to challenge the nearly century long practice of teams trading players without the players' consent. Before the 1970 season was to begin, Flood would file an antitrust lawsuit that, while ultimately unsuccessful, would lead the way for the players to strike successfully for the right to free agency…… 

Don Hoak, 41, former third baseman and managerial candidate of baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates, died of a heart attack shortly after losing out on the manageril race. Hoak collapsed while driving his car, after giving chase to three young men who had stolen his brother-in-law's automobile………… On the advice of National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, U.S. President Richard Nixon issued secret orders to the Joint Chiefs of Staff to commence "Operation Giant Lance", the sending of bombers armed with nuclear weapons toward Moscow in an effort to convince the Soviet leaders that he was not reluctant to launch a nuclear war in an effort to end the ongoing Vietnam War. A squadron of 18 B-52 bombers, each carrying nuclear bombs, would be sent out on October 27. "The mission was so secretive", a historian would write in 2008 after the orders had been declassified, "that even senior military officers following the orders — including the SAC commander himself — were not informed of its true purpose."  The cable from General Earle Wheeler, the JCS Chairman, to eight commanders, began with the words "We have been directed by higher authority to institute a series of actions during the period 130000Z — 250000Z Oct, to test our military readiness in selected areas world-wide to respond to possible confrontation by the Soviet Union…………. For the third day in a row, the USSR launched men into space as Vladimir Shatalov and Aleksei Yeliseyev were sent up on Soyuz 8. In addition to marking the first time that seven people had been in space at the same time, the mission of Soyuz 6, 7 and 8 became clear with the apparent plan for the three spacecraft to be linked up to form the first long-term space station to orbit the Earth [30] On October 16, Soyuz 6 returned to Earth, followed the next day by Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8 after the failure of the mission……. In one of the first major acts of in the United States of the animal rights movement, activists broke into the Bio-Research Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts and released 3,000 hamsters that had been used in disease research. A spokesman for the Institute said that the act had ruined years of research into medical problems, in that none of the hamsters could be matched up with their testing record….and fifty years ago this week the number one song in LuLac land and America was "Hot Fun in the Summertime" by Sly & the Family Stone which was released curiously in the fall season.