The LuLac Edition #4, 663, January 6th, 2022

 

INSURRECTION DAY 

January 6th 1pm, one year ago today was the start of the insurrection  instigated by Donald Trump. To this day his minions try to say it was only a protest. To remind us all, here's what happened on that day and YOU TELL ME if this was peaceful or not. 

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MEANWHILE BIDEN DIDN'T NAME NAMES BUT SURE KICKED ASS!  

 

 

U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND VOWS TO GO AFTER ALL JAN. 6 PERPETRATORS ‘AT ANY LEVEL’

The Justice Department “remains committed to holding all January 6th perpetrators, at any level, accountable under law,” Attorney General Merrick Garland vowed in a speech ahead of Thursday’s anniversary of the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol.

In remarks Wednesday to the Justice Department staff, Garland said that “those who assaulted officers or damaged the Capitol face greater charges. Those who conspired with others to obstruct the vote count also face greater charges.” Garland didn’t mention former President Donald Trump or anyone else by name on Wednesday. But he said the department will pursue those responsible “whether they were present that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy. We will follow the facts wherever they lead.”

Justice Department leaders are facing increasing pressure, especially from Democratic activists and lawmakers, to investigate and charge all those responsible for conspiring to stop Congress from certifying the election of President Joe Biden on Jan. 6 and for encouraging the insurrection that day. That includes possible action against Trump and his advisers.

 

CROWDED GOP FIELD LARGEST SINCE 1978

More than a dozen Republican candidates for governor were expected to appear on stage for the first time Wednesday in a question-and-answer session sponsored by conservative groups and a statewide business association.

One candidate, former U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, declined to attend the evening event at Dickinson College in Carlisle, saying he will not participate in forums or debates — other than a Feb. 4 event sponsored by the state Republican Party — until candidates have qualified to be on the ballot.

Thirteen candidates were expected to appear to answer questions from representatives of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry and conservative website Broad and Liberty.

In 1978 there were at least the same number running in the GOP primary.

Dick Thornburgh and William Scranton won the crowded primary for Governor and Lt. Governor and ultimately won election in '78. 

 

TRUMP FAMILY STARTS AIRING DIRTY LAUNDRY TO FIGHT OFF SUBPOENAS

With their backs pressed against the wall by two simultaneous tax-dodging investigations in New York, the Trump dynasty is starting to hit back.

On Monday afternoon, copies of subpoenas and details about the investigation were exposed in court documents filed by attorneys for former President Donald Trump and his adult kids—Don Jr. and Ivanka. The trio are trying to avoid being forced to testify under oath in a civil investigation, saying their statements will simply be used in a parallel criminal investigation that could threaten them with prison time.

“The [office of the attorney general] is engaged in a criminal investigation that has an active Grand Jury. It cannot issue subpoenas for testimony under the guise of a civil investigation that will immediately become available—to its own… criminal investigation,” they said in a court filing.

Earlier in the day, court documents were made public showing that New York Attorney General Letitia James had set her sights on the former president and his two children for refusing to cooperate with her civil probe into potential tax dodging and bank fraud. Although these kinds of investigations tend to be quiet matters until a formal lawsuit is filed—or both sides reach a settlement—this is starting to become an airing of dirty laundry.

As such, the Trump family has used this as an opportunity to start exposing details about the AG’s investigation.

There is another ongoing grand jury in New York looking into criminal matters related to the Trump Organization, proving that the investigation didn’t stop with the indictment of company chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg last summer. And it’s now clear that New York state investigators want the former president to turn over information about the Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago, his forested Seven Springs Estate north of New York City, and donations made to land conservation causes that could lower his tax bill.

Investigators also want copies of communications Trump had with Forbes magazine about his wealth and any financial documents he submitted to “insurance underwriters or insurance brokers” valuing his assets. The AG’s office wanted Ivanka to sit down for a deposition on Monday, followed by Don Jr. on Tuesday, and former President Trump on Friday. All these details were revealed in copies of the subpoenas, which were posted in court by the Trumps.

In response, AG James issued a statement Monday night saying, “For more than two years, members of the Trump family and the Trump Organization have continually sought to delay and impede our investigation into Donald Trump and the Trump Organization, but despite their names, they must play by the same rules as everyone else.”

Attorneys for the Trumps argue that the New York attorney general is trying to get the Trumps to testify about their wildly varying real estate values in a way that would let investigators use that information in the AG’s current criminal investigation into the Trump Organization, which it’s conducting alongside the Manhattan district attorney.

That accusation hinges on the idea that, in New York, a person who testifies before a grand jury in a criminal case receives immunity from what they reveal, so they’re protected from facing criminal charges. The Trumps say the AG is trying to get information out of them—without the benefit of immunity—by trying to “circumvent the grand jury procedural safeguards of our judicial system.”

“The subpoenas are an obvious improper tend-run around the rules,” said the Trumps’ court filing, which described the AG’s actions as an attempt to “co-mingle” the investigations. “The fact is that the [attorney general’s office] is one, singular agency running a criminal investigation. It may claim to split itself into two to avoid complying with grand jury practice, but this it cannot do.”

In the filing, the Trumps also accused the AG’s office of leaking to reporters that Trump was asked to show up for a deposition on Jan. 7. Last month, The Washington Post broke news that investigators wanted the former president to show up and answer questions at their office in New York City.

“To their credit, [AG] attorneys on this matter apologized to counsel for Mr. Trump. The leak was clearly made from the administration of the [attorney general’s office,”] Trump family attorneys said in one footnote.

The Trumps want the state court judge overseeing the case to eliminate the subpoenas, or at least hold off on enforcing them until the joint AG-DA criminal investigation is over.  Soon the rats are going t be jumping ship.

The request in court was signed by four lawyers representing the Trumps. The former president is being represented by Ronald P. Fischetti, who made a career defending mobsters, and Alina Habba, who recently helped him file a federal lawsuit against James. Trump is also being represented by Michael T. van der Veen, who oddly sued Trump—and later defended him during his presidential impeachment. Don Jr. and Ivanka, who are Trump Organization executives, are being represented by company lawyer Alan S. Futerfas.  (LuLac, The Guardian, AP)

 

WOLF ADMINISTRATION SUPPORTS SMALL, DIVERSE, VETERAN BUSINESSES WITH RECORD-SETTING $856 MILLION CONTRACT SPEND IN 2020-2021

Governor Tom Wolf (LuLac archives)

Governor Tom Wolf announced that the Wolf Administration built on its commitment to support small, diverse and veteran-owned businesses in Pennsylvania with nearly $856 million in state contract spending for fiscal year 2020-2021. The Bureau of Diversity, Inclusion and Small Business Opportunities (BDISBO) detailed the record-setting contract spend – a 30 percent increase from the previous year’s total – in the Bureau’s 2021 Annual Report.

“I am excited to share that for the first time in the history of the commonwealth, more than 20 percent of our total state contracting spend went to small, diverse and veteran businesses,” Governor Wolf said. “This is a true milestone for our efforts to improve diversity, equity, inclusion and fairness in state contracting, and builds on our work throughout this administration to provide opportunities for small, diverse and veteran-owned businesses to succeed.”

In 2020-2021, the commonwealth contract spend was up 15 percent to $4.2 billion from $3.7 billion the previous year. Along with that increase in total spend, spending with small businesses, small diverse businesses, and veteran business enterprises rose to nearly $856 million or 20.25 percent of total expenditures. Spending with small diverse businesses saw the biggest percentage increase from 9.63 percent up to 11.72 percent.

In 2020-2021, the Small Business Reserve program delivered $43 million in spend to small businesses over 668 contracting opportunities. The Small Diverse Business (SDB) and Veteran Business Enterprise (VBE) Goal setting programs, which were launched in the previous year, resulted in significant gains. The SDB Goal setting program was used by the commonwealth on 340 projects with an estimated project value totaling $1.7 billion, and the VBE program saw an increase of $4 million in spend with veteran-owned businesses. In addition, 100 new firms became self-certified to do business with the commonwealth.

“Since 2015, the commonwealth has spent more than $3.5 billion with small, diverse and veteran businesses,” Pennsylvania Department of General Services Secretary Curt Topper said. “The growth of our programs and progress we’ve made has been the direct result of a committed and dedicated effort to create opportunity and equity for our small, diverse and veteran business communities. Now is the time when we must continue the dedication and commitment to ensure the continuation of this success in the years ahead.”

In 2021, Gov. Wolf and Sec. Topper also called on legislators, business owners and members of the public to support Senate Bill 900, ground-breaking, bipartisan legislation introduced in the Pennsylvania Senate to guarantee the future of BDISBO-administered programs. Senate Bill 900 would ensure that the successful programs and policies established during the last seven years will remain in place well into the future. Currently more than 5,000 small, diverse and veteran-owned businesses in Pennsylvania benefit from programs administered by BDISBO.

“This fall I was proud to stand with a bipartisan group of legislators to introduce Senate Bill 900,” said Gov. Wolf. “Now, I call on the Republican leaders in the General Assembly to pass Senate Bill 900 and send it to my desk. Small, diverse and veteran businesses in Pennsylvania deserve the security that this legislation will provide.”

Governor Wolf established the BDISBO in 2015 to create a more diverse, inclusive and fair state contracting environment for small businesses, veteran-owned businesses and small diverse businesses – businesses owned by minorities, women, service-disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities and members of the LGBT community.

Visit the Bureau of Diversity, Inclusion, and Small Business Opportunity for more detailed information on the new policies and programs as well as the Wolf Administration’s efforts to diversify state contracting and opportunities for small and diverse businesses.

 

CASEY ANNOUNCES $70 MILLION FOR PA AIRPORTS

FUNDING IS A RESULT OF THE BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL PASSED INTO LAW LAST MONTH

LULAC LAND GETS $3, 204,700 DOLLARS

Senator Bob Casey (Photo: LuLac archives)

U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) announced more than $70 million in funding for 62 airports in Pennsylvania. The funding comes from the Airport Infrastructure Grants in the recently passed bipartisan infrastructure bill. More funding for Pennsylvania airports is expected in years to come.

“Our commonwealth’s airports connect us to each other and the rest of the world,” said Senator Casey. “These investments will help stimulate local economies and create jobs across Pennsylvania. I’m proud to say this is just the beginning of infrastructure funding coming to Pennsylvania—over the next few years, we can expect billions of dollars more that will strengthen our communities and our economy.”

The following Pennsylvania airports will receive Airport Infrastructure Grant funding in Fiscal Year 2022 as a result of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act:

Hazleton              Hazleton Regional            HZL         $159,000

Wilkes-Barre      Wilkes-Barre Wyoming Valley    WBW     $159,000

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton  Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International       AVP       $2,470,000

 

 CARTWRIGHT TOUTS JOB ACT

Congressman Matt Cartwright (Photo: LuLac archives)   

Left to right: Charlie Medico – Medico Industries, Inc.; Bernie McGurl – Executive Director, Lackawanna River Conservation Association; Bob Durkin – President & CEO, Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce; Rep. Cartwright; R. John Dawes (back)  – Executive Director, Foundation for PA Watersheds; Lindsey Griffin – Executive Vice-President & CEO, Greater Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce; Bobby Hughes – Executive Director, EPCAMR; Michael Hewitt – EPCAMR.

U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright was joined by local partners following the enactment of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to begin discussions on efforts to reclaim and clean up abandoned mine lands (AML) in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which was signed into law on November 15, 2021 with Rep. Cartwright’s support, will create good-paying American jobs, heal scarred land and clean polluted water. It includes $21 billion for addressing Legacy Pollution and will clean up brownfield and superfund sites, reclaim abandoned mine lands and plug orphan oil and gas wells.

Pennsylvania has more unreclaimed abandoned mine land acreage than any other state in the country and represents 40.7% of the country’s reclamation costs. Funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will support the reclamation of AML sites in Pennsylvania with nearly $3.8 billion coming directly to the Commonwealth. An estimate of each state’s recipient amount can be viewed HERE.

“With these funds, we will be able to reclaim our land and water from mine run-off, protect and create jobs and grow our economy. And to do it, we need our public and private partners to be talking to these three folks and their peers who are familiar with the work and who know our needs,” said Rep. Cartwright. “We need municipal and county leaders and landowners to get involved. We need them to help identify places for remediation or ask if they have a mine running under them and how they can give these environmental remediation efforts access.”

Rep. Cartwright also noted that the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will improve the environment by reducing the air and water pollution caused by AML sites and the effort to protect the people, homes, businesses and infrastructure currently at risk. He highlighted the economic development activities that are likely to result from the reclamation efforts and the impact it will have on Northeastern Pennsylvania’s growing economy.

Rep. Cartwright was joined today by Bobby Hughes, Executive Director of the Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation (EPCAMR), along with other advocates. EPCAMR has long been engaged in advocacy to clean up the AML sites in Northeastern Pennsylvania and welcomes the funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

"EPCAMR is interested in continuing to develop positive relationships and open dialogue with private landowners and entities across NE PA that may or may not be aware that their land and associated mine water pollution from AMD could be eligible for funding under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. No shovels will get put into the ground or funds put on the table without the consent of the landowner where these historic problem areas and features are located in our coalfield communities." said Bobby Hughes, Executive Director, Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation (EPCAMR). "We want to help facilitate access agreements, conduct water quality and flow monitoring, connect landowners with private companies interested in reclamation and mine water cleanup, advocate for clean energy alternative projects such as solar or mine pool geothermal projects, ensure that any liability concerns are addressed and resolved, navigate potential funding sources, and work with them to restore our watersheds impacted by past mining practices. We will continue to advocate for opportunists to create job opportunities and economic development through infrastructure investments in clean water from polluted abandoned mine drainage (AMD) and reuse of these abandoned mine lands for manufacturing and mixed use industrial or commercial development, in addition to warehouse distribution centers.

 MEDIA MATTERS 

 

INSURRECTION DAY NEWS

NPR MORNING EDITION

Former Old Forge School Board President Frank Scavo got top billing this morning in an NPR story about the rioters on Capitol Hill last year. The Justice Department reporters broke the fake patriots into three segmens. The tourists, he attackers an the planners. Scavo was labeled a tourist but one who got caught up in lies. A guy named Rodriguez who used a taser gun on a policeman was crying like a baby to the FBI whimpering “I thought I was going to be awesome”.

Meanwhile Rump who told them he’d be there with hem is playing hi fat ass off on the golf course while these guys FBI interviews are being played to the world. 

 

WILK WHINERS

On WILK this  afternoon  the cry babies were out in full measure  deflecting from the real story and attacking Biden, Harris, and Pelosi. They talked about The Summer of Love, and other nonsense and all the afternoon host could do was agree with them. Shameful that very few on WILK ever push back! 

It’s hard enough to hear the squealing pig John from nowhere on WILK but when the ratings tank from 9am to 6pm, they’ll se how Trump ass kissers brought their number down. Anything Trump touches turns to shit.

For John from Nowhere.

 WALN TV

 

BOLD GOLD COMMUNITY FORUM

 

 This week's guest is Marisa Burke, author of "Checking the Score".

You'll hear the program Sunday at 6 on 94.3 The Talker; 6:30 on 1400 am The Mothership and 7:30 am on 105 The River.

BOBBY V’S DOO WOP SOCK HOP

SUNDAY NIGHTS!

 1975

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Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell, former presidential Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman were found guilty by a jury of 9 women and 3 men, on charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal. Robert C. Mardian, a fourth defendant, was found guilty on one count of conspiracy……..Euroqean-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC), as known well for geological and landscape observe and survey center in Europe and worldwide, founded in Strasbourg, France.[citation needed………..In college football, the previously-undefeated Alabama Crimson Tide, ranked #1 in the UPI poll and #2 by the AP, lost to #9 Notre Dame, 13–11, in the Orange Bowl, giving Irish coach Ara Parseghian a victory in his final game.[3] The #5 USC Trojans, going for a 2-point conversion rather than kicking an extra point, defeated #3 Ohio State (#2 in UPI), 18–17, to win the Rose Bowl before a crowd of 106,000.Oklahoma University, ranked #1 by the AP, and was ineligible for a bowl and for a ranking in the UPI Coaches' Poll, while #4 Michigan was not invited to a bowl…… The University of Oklahoma Sooners were given the number 1 ranking in the final AP sportswriters poll of the 1974 college football season, and a share of the unofficial national college football championship. The Sooners had been the only undefeated and untied team, but had been ineligible for postseason play, and were not included in the UPI coaches' poll. The USC Trojans, #1 in UPI, were 2nd in the AP poll……In the largest return in history of U.S. government land to an American Indian tribe, 250 square miles of the Grand Canyon National Monument were deeded back to the Havasupai people with the signing of a bill by President Ford. The 400 members of the tribe had been limited to a reservation of only 518 acres, less than one square mile, at the bottom of Havasu Canyon, since 1882. The legislation also enlarged the National Park by adding 687,000 acres to bring its total size to 1,875 square miles…….

Milton Cross, 77, announcer since 1931 for the weekly radio broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera. Cross, known to his fans as "Mr. Opera", was preparing for the next day's show when he collapsed at his home…… 

The game show Wheel of Fortune, created by Merv Griffin and inspired by the children's game "Hangman", premiered on NBC at 10:30 am Eastern time. The original hosts were Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford, who would be replaced in 1982 by Pat Sajak and Vanna White, respectively……After the sale of gold was legalized in the United States, for the first time since 1933, on December 31, the U.S. Treasury conducted its first auction of a part of its gold reserves, setting aside an unprecedented 2,000,000 ounces for sale, in individual 400 ounce gold bricks, valued at $70,000 apiece based on the European market price of $175 an ounce. The first sealed bid that was opened was for $156 an ounce by the investment firm of Austern and Paul…….AM America, which would later be replaced by Good Morning America, made its television debut on ABC at 7:00 am Eastern time. Intended to compete against the Today show and The CBS Morning News, the news series was hosted by Bill Beutel, with co-hosts Stephanie Edwards and Peter Jennings……..Another World, an afternoon soap opera airing on NBC since 1964 as a 30-minute show, expanded to 60 minutes. It was the first ongoing attempt of a U.S. serial to air in a time slot of that length, and would be the beginning of a wave of other soaps expanding to 60-minute lengths. The last long-running 30-minute serial to expand to 60 minutes would be The Young and the Restless in 1980……………..and this week in 1975 the number one sing in LuLac land and America was “Rhinestone Cowboy, “ Glen Campbell.