The LuLac Edition #4, 880, December 29th, ,2022

TOP TEN LOCAL STORIES  

1.       LUZERNE COUNTY MAJORITY TAKES OFFICE:   The Luzerne County Council is under the control of the Republican party. With 10 votes you would think the group would have a clue but hey proved they had no idea how to govern. Some council members who came from all borough councils thought they could just go in and change things, but they were over matched in both intellect and basic knowledge of the county code and the charter.

 

2.        WOMEN RULE IN THE COURTS: For the first time EVER, there is a majority of women on Luzerne County courts. With the elections of Tarah Toohil and Stefanie Salavantis, the court has women deciders of justice. 

 

3.       COUNTY COUNCIL BOTCHES PEDRI REPLACEMENT: On the morning of a County Council meeting, Romilda Crocamo had the votes to become the permanent manager as opposed to the acting one. However, at the meeting, bloated lying crying Brian Thornton wanted to check our new information that he said came his way. The vote was cancelled to gather “new information”. 

 

4“    NEW INFORMATION TURNS INTO NON  EXISTENT INFORMATION: What really happened was there was no new information from Lying, crying Brian Thornton. It was a ploy because the GOP sexists just couldn’t stand a competent woman being the county manager and decided to pick   Randy Robertson as County Manager. These people who tell you they are taxpayer watchdogs paid a premium to being him in. He was touted as a person who had the necessary experience for the job. Having had 4 jobs in 6 years, I can se how they came to that convoluted conclusion. 

 

5.       ROBINSON TAKES THE HELM: Robertson gets hired and goes about assessing the needs of the county as he was expected to do. Upon meeting the County Council Robinson realizes he has landed in the land of “Dumb and Dumber” once he meets a few of these “council members”.  Nonetheless, Robinson says straight out that taxes need to be raised and the Republican majority goes ape shit because the only thing they know is that high taxes are BAD!!!! Even though taxes pay for the services the county gives. Even for wasting money on an outside hire like Robinson who will surely stay for a few years.

 

6.        ROBINSON RESIGNS CITING FAMILY REASONS: Yep sure were family reasons but from the GOP Majority who put pressure on Robinson to back away from his assessment. Randy took sides against “the family” and decided to get out of Dodge ASAP. Robinson wrote a very classy goodbye essay which outlined what the county needed to do to grow. There are no reports if any kind soul took the time to read it to the Republican council members. 

 

7.       COUNTY COUNCIL DECLARES: “OUR NEXT HIRE SHOULD BE LOCAL!!!!!”  Public reaction was “You think so……you stupid bastards!!!” 

 

8.       BOOSTER SHOTS BATTLE COVID: Local health care facilities as well as Health Departments give out vaccines to fight COVID infections which thank heavens declined. 

 

9.       The city of Wilkes Barre’s Mayor Brown suggests to the NAACP that Coal Street Park should be renamed Martin Luther King Junior park. Before a crowd of 700 on Juneteenth, the park is rededicated. 

 

10.   In election news, Matt Cartwright is retained in the 8^th district besting Lying, crying Jim Bognet a second time while Dan Mueser wins in the 9^th. One wonders why his opponent never called him out on voting against the infrastructure bill  and coming to a late realization that the election wasn’t rigged but  that wasn’t my call.

Eddie Day Pashinski faced a challenge from Eryn Harvey who unlike her GOP running mates had the savvy and class to succeed. James May is still trying to say he won even though this three-time loser was beaten by Jim Haddock.

In the U.S. Senate race John Fetterman carried Luzerne County. Josh Shapiro did too but only by one percentage point proving that fixing political stupid (see numbers 3 through 7) will continue to be a full time job and be a top ten story of 2023.