The LuLac Edition #4,220, February 7th, 2020

ROMNEY’S PROFILE IN COURAGE

One man, one human being stood up to the robots in the Republican party who voted in a bloc to support a treasonous and crooked President. History will judge the impotent Republican party for holding a sham trial, running away from the facts and supporting the misconduct of this sorry excuse for a President.
Mitt Romney was a Profile In Courage. The others, cowardly and impotent “leaders” who prize their own political preservation over a fraud.
History and the voters will judge all of them. All except Romney, despite the attacks from the Trump sons, Sonny and Fredo will be found wanting. 
That's what happens when you put a madman before country. Thry proved they are nothing but CHICKEN SHIT 

THE STATE OF THE UNION

The feud between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump -- that escalated memorably at Tuesday's State of the Union address -- continued Wednesday amid an impending Senate vote to acquit the president, with Pelosi saying she "felt very liberated" when she ripped up his speech even before he'd finished speaking.
After 134 days of impeachment drama, Pelosi told her caucus members that Democrats watched Trump "shred the truth right in front of us, tear up the truth," according to a Democratic aide who attended a closed-door meeting in the Capitol basement.
While Republicans say Pelosi’s performance “dishonored the House,” Pelosi contended that Trump “disrespected the chamber” and used it “as a backdrop for a reality show” for a speech “that had no connection with reality.”
“I felt very liberated last night. If that is what he is going to do, if that is what he is going to say as he’s taking away disability benefits from people on Social Security, or he is dismantling Medicaid, or he is in court trying to undo the pre-existing condition. The list goes on and on,” Pelosi, D-Calif., told her fellow House Democrats. “I tried to find one page I could spare that didn’t have a lie on it.”
The backlash from the Trump ites was crazed. For a group of people who supports a liar, cheat, a treasonous President, they certainly get their little itty bitty feelings hurt when one person disrespects their lying thug cowardly leader! (ABC, LuLac)

TRUMP’S CLASSLESS SUPERBOWL INTERVIEW

During a time when the entire nation had chance to see a real President try to unite us, old Diaper Don became Frank Castanza. Grievances, bitching attacking enemies. A very small man with a very big stage. Once more HE FAILED as a President.

BLACK SCRANTON HOLDS CEREMONY

For the first time, the Pan-African flag flies at City Hall.

The Black Scranton Project hosted an inaugural Pan-African flag-raising ceremony Saturday to kick off a February exhibit of the hidden Black history of Scranton in recognition of Black History Month.
The exhibit at the Artists for Art (AFA) Gallery features artifacts and works by local artists highlighting the Black community’s historic contributions to life in Scranton and Northeast Pennsylvania. The month-long exhibit includes work by local artists Jorge Ariza, Alessio Ayuninjam and Travis Prince.
Black Scranton founder Glynis Johns urged the crowd of about 75 people who attended the flag raising to also check out the art exhibit.
“Take some time during this month to learn a new story, learn a new face. There’s so many incredible Black and Brown people who are doing so much for the world and for the country,” Johns said. “I was really excited that I could spread this message.”
Other speakers said the city needs to do more to increase minority hiring in the school district and city government.
Scranton School District seventh-grade teacher Robert McCleod, who is in his ninth year with the SSD after teaching for 10 years in Wilkes-Barre, said he is one of two Black faculty members in the SSD.
“I am one-half of the Black faculty in the (Scranton) school district,” McCleod told the crowd. “Half. You’re looking at half.”
Mayor Paige Gebhardt Cognetti said that soon after she won election, she and Johns spoke about raising the Pan-African flag on Feb. 1 on the flagpole in front of City Hall and flying it throughout the month of February.
“This is the beginning of what I hope in Scranton is really putting our money where our mouth is,” Cognetti said. “We can talk all we want about diversity and celebrating our diversity and people of color, we can do that or actually do something.”
Cognetti, a former member of the Scranton School Board, recalled being inspired by McCleod going to school board meetings and “stepping up and saying, ‘we’ve go to do something, we’ve got to get more teachers of color.’ ”
Ronald Felton President of the NAACP Wilkes Barre branch 2306 attended the event along with Executive Committee members Flora Jenkins and Peggy Felton.

Ronald L Felton, President, Wilkes-Barre NAACP and Glynis M Johns, Founder, Black Scranton Project

REP. CARTWRIGHT PREVAILS IN FIGHT TO INCREASE FEDERAL FUNDING FOR STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS, SAVING MONEY FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES

Congressman Matt Cartwright (Photo: LuLac archives)

House and Senate leaders today reached an agreement on two fiscal year 2020 federal spending packages, one of which includes funding secured by Rep. Cartwright to offset the costs of improving stormwater infrastructure in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
This increased funding doubles the money available for sediment removal grants and programs to control polluted stormwater runoff in the Chesapeake Bay watershed region, which includes parts of Pennsylvania’s Eighth Congressional District. It will help cities and municipalities in Northeastern Pennsylvania meet a federal mandate to restore the Chesapeake Bay while requiring fewer local funds. This will help reduce stormwater fees paid by residents on their sewer bills.
As a member of the Appropriations Committee, Rep. Cartwright fought successfully for these funds to be included in the fiscal year 2020 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies budget bill, which passed the House in June. He then worked to guarantee that the funds remained in the final spending deal as his House colleagues negotiated with the U.S. Senate.
“Northeastern Pennsylvanians work hard to make a living and provide for their families. The Federal Government needs to help pay for major projects like this,” said Rep. Cartwright. “These new resources will help bring down stormwater fees over time and reduce the burden on working people. I was proud to fight hard for this funding so that Eighth District residents can keep more of their hard-earned savings.”
Specifically, Rep. Cartwright doubled the total money available for grants that can go to communities in Northeastern Pennsylvania, from $12 million in fiscal year 2019 to $24 million for fiscal year 2020.
This federal money will help clean up our region's waterways so our kids have safe, clean water to drink. Local governments can use these grants to address pollution problems or aging and faulty sewer and stormwater systems. In the past, cities such as Wilkes-Barre have used these grants to improve stormwater management and reduce pollution released into the Susquehanna River.

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 PREVIEW

ECTV'S Public Affairs program "PREVIEW" welcomes Sarah Piccini of the Lackawanna Historical Society during the week of February 10th to unveil plans for exhibit on Women's Suffrage and area women who played a big part in the movement.
PREVIEW is seen 3 times daily on Comcast channel 19 and on the electric city television YouTube page.

BUDDY RUMCHEK

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

BOBBY V’S DOO WOP SOCK HOP

SUNDAY NIGHTS!

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The 1980 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York......In Vanuatu, followers of John Frum's cargo cult on the island of Tanna declare secession as the nation of Tafea……A total solar eclipse is seen in North Africa and West Asia. It was the 50th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 130 and forty years ago the number one song in LuLac”. and America was “On the Radio" by Donna Summer.