The LuLac Edition #4,427, October 29th, 2020
BIDEN COMES TO LUZERNE COUNTY
Former Vice President Joe Biden came to Dallas last Saturday.
Representative Matt Cartwright and the former Vice President personify Democratic and American common values.
For anyone who didn’t see the event, here the link to you tube from the Citizens’ Voice. >TAX RECORDS SHOW TRUMP HAD OVER $270 MILLION IN DEBT FORGIVEN AFTER FAILING TO REPAY LENDERS
President Donald Trump has had more than $270 million in debt forgiven since 2010 after he failed to repay his lenders for a Chicago skyscraper development. This is a guy who sold himself as a successful businessman. He’s a deadbeat who stiffs his vendors and can’t pay his bills!
TRUMP MUSES ABOUT A POSSIBLE BIDEN ASSASSINATION
During one of his rallies, Diaper Don mused out loud about the fact that maybe a short time into his term as president (if elected) Joe Biden would be shot. Assassinated. It was disgusting and was meant to paint Biden’s running mate as a threat to the county. What kind of mind does this creature have? I think his comments should be regarded as an incendiary threat to his opponent. There are enough Trump crazies out there that would be more than happy to make their lord and savior Donald Trump’s wishes to come true. Trump needs to go. In a big monumental way.
FORMER U.S. ATTORNEYS APPOINTED BY REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS ENDORSE JOE BIDEN
A group of former U.S. attorneys appointed by Republican presidents are endorsing Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden, citing what they described as politicization of the Justice Department under President Donald Trump.
The president has clearly conveyed that he expects his Justice Department appointees and prosecutors to serve his personal and political interests in the handling of certain cases – such as the investigations into foreign election interference and the prosecution of his political associates – and has taken action against those who have stood up for the interests of justice," according to a statement from 20 U.S. attorneys who were appointed by Republican presidents, including George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon and Dwight Eisenhower.
The Justice Department, under Trump and Attorney General
William Barr, has intervened in the high-profile prosecutions of the
president's allies, drawing criticisms from former Justice Department employees
who saw the actions as unprecedented intrusions of the agency's independence to
advance Trump's political interests. (USA Today, LuLac)
THE DOUBLE DEATH KNELL
President Donald Trump’s push for a second poll-defying victory is relying on a hallmark of his first -- raucous campaign rallies that Trump sees as a crucial sign of voter enthusiasm but that pollsters say may only be cementing his defeat.
Trump held three rallies Monday, all in Pennsylvania, with three more scheduled Tuesday and as many as five or six a day expected by the weekend. The rallies befit the showman with roots in reality television: blaring music, slick production, video montages, warm-up speeches, Air Force One as a backdrop and the president himself as the headline attraction. Attendees erupt in screams and cheers at his arrival, and local Republicans say it’s unlike any political event they’ve seen.
But the rallies’ impact is far from clear. Republicans say they harvest data from attendees and fire up their base, while Democrats say they get a spike in donations and volunteers, too, and wonder if Trump is merely preaching to the choir.
CARTWRIGHT ANNOUNCES $5,360 TO WILKES-BARRE HOUSING AUTHORITY TO SUPPORT HOUSING PROGRAMS
U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright announced that the Wilkes-Barre Housing Authority received $5,360 through the U.S. Housing and Urban Development’s Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Program CARES Act Supplemental HAP Funding Allocation.
The Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Program funding comes as a part of the CARES Act and is granted to Public Housing Authorities (PHA) to assist Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) properties in preventing, preparing for, and responding to coronavirus.
“Housing programs provide a lifeline to many families across Northeastern Pennsylvania. Now more than ever, as we ask folks to do their part to prevent the spread of COVID-19, everyone deserves a safe, stable place to call home,” said Rep. Cartwright, a member of the House Appropriations Committee. “I will continue to be an advocate for funding to support housing security for all Americans as we continue to navigate the coronavirus pandemic together.”
CARTWRIGHT ENDORSEMENT BY TIMES SHAMROCK
Because President Donald Trump carried what is now the 8th Congressional District by about 9.5 percentage points in 2016, Republicans have viewed incumbent U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright as vulnerable.
District voters rejected that perception in 2018 by giving Cartwright an easy victory over well-financed Republican John Chrin. This year, Republicans believe their prospects are better because Trump is back on the ticket and Republican voters have nominated a candidate, Jim Bognet, who has attached himself to Trump’s hip.
For the good of Northeast Pennsylvania, voters would be wise to re-elect the Moosic Democrat for a fifth term.
Cartwright began his career in the minority but now is a member of the majority, and the House is likely to remain under Democratic control.
In January, he would be in line to become one of the “12 cardinals” of the House — the chairmen of the dozen House Appropriations Committee subcommittees that determine every dollar of federal spending. He likely would become chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Science, Justice and Related Agencies, which oversees more than $70 billion in federal appropriations.
That is serious clout for the region. Regardless what one thinks of Congress or how it operates, it would be folly for the region to forgo that clout for a first-term back-bencher from the minority party.
Cartwright also has a sound record on many matters that are crucial to the region, especially preserving access to health care, Social Security and Medicare.
Bognet has placed himself in the odd position of a Republican condemning affluence, contending that Cartwright’s ownership of a small airplane and a vacation home make him out of touch with Northeast Pennsylvanians.
Bognet, however, who lived outside NEPA for 25 years before returning two years ago, clearly is not deeply conversant with the district — at least our part of it — and several crucial issues.
In an interview, for example, he seemed to have no sense of the danger posed to heavily populated parts of Luzerne and Lackawanna counties by allowing daily shipments by truck or rail of 4 million gallons of explosive liquefied natural gas from a processing plant in Bradford County to an export terminal in New Jersey. To Bognet, the natural gas industry must be protected first, rather than his would-be constituents who might be in its path.
And Bognet did not realize that Pennsylvania’s government could not restrict hundreds of millions of tons of garbage shipped here from other states unless Congress authorizes it to do so.
Cartwright has introduced a bill to provide the states with regulatory authority over garbage imports. And he advocates LNG shipments by pipeline rather than by rail or truck.
Cartwright is a Democrat who votes that way on most social issues, but his focus is the pragmatic aspect of governance for the welfare of his district. He has worked well across the aisle, to the degree that it’s possible in this era of polarization.
Bognet is an ideologue, of which there are already are too many in Congress, and would be an agent of that polarization.
Cartwright is the better choice for NEPA, which needs pragmatic government more than it needs ideology.
COVID CASES AMONG THE VERY YOUNG
President Trump says that cases with young people are rare. He says that young people bounce back quickly. But young people can transfer a case to a grandparent or an adult. In Pennsylvania The Department of Health is providing weekly data on the number of statewide cases of COVID-19 among 5 to 18-year-olds.
Throughout the pandemic, there have been 13,345 total cases of COVID-19 among 5 to 18-year-olds. Of that total, 1,183 occurred between October 16 – October 22. For the week of October 9 – October 15, there were 991 cases of COVID-19 among 5 to 18-year-olds.
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