The LuLac Edition #5, 654, May 12th, 2086

 

FLYNN AND LAKE DEBATE IN SENATORIAL 22^nd

^{Photo: Kat Bolus} 

State Senator Marty Flynn and Jeff Lake his opponent last week at Scranton University and both stated their cases for the Democratic nomination. The opposition to Flynn was a surprise to many since he has been a mainstay at community events and has done a credible job of bringing millions of dollars into the district. Lake who has never run for elected office thought that he wasn’t. WVIA Radio’s Kat Bolus did an excellent job in covering the event and articulated each part of the debate. For a full report on it, check out this link.

https://www.wvia.org/news/local/2026-05-07/democratic-pa-senate-candidates-flynn-lake-face-off-in-spirited-debate-at-university-of-scranton

IN the meantime here are the closing statements.

Closing statements

Flynn said he’s about results.

“And delivering for my community year in and year out. I'm accessible … I'm accountable, I'm here, and I'm not going anywhere, and I work day in and day out, delivering for the people in my community, and I'll keep working day in and day out. All the noise in the world isn't going to bother me, and I'm just going to put my head down and keep fighting,” he said.

After the debate, Flynn said he stands on his record and what he’s done over the past 13 or so years in office.

“And the voters are going to get to decide they think I'm doing a good job,” he said.

Lake said it’s not a fight between him and Flynn.

“This is a fight for the voters of this district,” he said, then questioning Flynn’s record in the state legislature.

“But what the voters need to hear tonight, what the community needs to hear tonight, is who I am,” he said.

Lake said he grew up low-income and relied on social safety nets his entire life. He went back to school to become a nurse in his mid-20s, became a therapist and realized many of his patients' problems were systematic.

“That's what leads me here today, my personal experience, my professional experience, and how much I abhor the corruption that has been going on in this area for a very long time,” he said.

EDITOR’S NOTE: That last statement by Lake is almost Trump-like in the sense that he bandied the term corruption and can’t back it up. What corruption? Who got arrested? Who got charged? To some Marty Flynn’s personality is an acquired taste but you can’t beat him as a legislator. Sometimes as a political prognosticator, not so much.

 

BILL JONES

NOT SURPRISED

A year back Bill Jones who I have known as from United Way Days when Bill was a Loaned Executive for First Eastern Bank approached me at the Farmer’s Market and said he wanted to run for State Representative in the 117^th. But he was concerned about the way the district had changed philosophically and did a u turn on the MAGA road. I had mentioned that there seemed to be a 3-vote margin that got the MAGAs on track and hoped he’d reconsider. He predicted that his name as well of that of his late father’s legacy as a bi partisan Republican County Commissioner might be dragged through the mud. He was right. Check our Bill’s latest post on social media.

Long post:

Politics is nasty, and disgusting at times. I have done my very best to research the details, tell the truth, and not "spin" for political gain. I have not made it personal or engaged in any childish name calling. Still, every time my campaign posts something, I am called a liar, corrupt, or part of the swamp. It is predictable at this point and laughable.

Last week Jamie Walsh's family members and supporters were calling for a debate. I have been very willing do one one as long as it was structured, fair, and media controlled. The Sue Henry show offered to have us on. WALSH DECLINED!!!

He knows I want to question him about:

1. The campaign funding he receives from the untaxed, unregulated skill games and a political action committee that requires him to sign a pledge and vote as they expect him to. Simply this is a MONEY FOR INFLUENCE trade and it is what people despise about politics.

2. His lawsuits against Lake-Lehman and Luzerne County.  These items cost taxpayers over $125,000 in lawyer fees and more in time. He settled with Lake Lehman where no wrong doing was found and he got embarrassed by the judge's dismissal of the county lawsuit. The Judge called his suit baseless, and a waste of county money and judicial time.  Walsh's spin on these suits does not hold up.

3. His property tax plan is a big break for corporations but shifts the burden to us, especially working families and seniors... 60% increase in the personal income tax,  33% increase in the sales tax; taxing food and clothing; taxing retirement income. It is crazy.  In fact, he wants to tax FOOD AND CLOTHING  but not GUNS AND AMMO because they are more essential.  I can't make this up!

4. He voted against giving disabled Veterans property tax relief.  The House approved 193-6! He was one of the 6! He then tried  to say his vote was "recorded incorrectly. " That was not true. Members of his own caucus said he is running for political cover!

5. He hasn't delivered on his promise made in January to create regulations on Data Centers. He has been opportunistic on this issue to have voters to believe he can stop them, but there is a huge gap between his words and actions and results.  I was the first candidate to put a concrete plan out to protect residents and support municipalities. 

I know I will be accused of "bashing" him but he is avoiding a real conversation on all of these issues. 

We have 10 days to go. Help me spread the word. Thank you for your support!

Walsh has been trying to use memes of Jones with stuff that Walsh has voted against. Like veterans. Here  are two examples. The first from Walsh, the other a debilitated accurate one of Walsh. 

Meanwhile Jones got a boost when former Congressman Lou Barletta endorsed him. 

Barletta is a well-respected senior figure in the Republican party and if he is called a member of the swamp by Walsh, that’s all you need to know about his lack of integrity. 

 

 

RIP

CBS RADIO NEWS

“GOOD NIGHT

& GOOD LUCK”

Edward R Muorrow and Douglas Edwards  

 

As a young kid star struck by radio, CBS News on the old WGBI AM country station (910 on the AM dial) was one of the places that I constantly listened to. At the top of the hour, Douglas Edwards would be doing the news and you’d hear those professional tones come through the speaker. WARM might have thrown you into WARMland but CBS Radio News gave you the world. Washington, Vietnam, New Hampshire, England France, India, it was a history and geography lesson all rolled into one. There was no big intro, just a five note syllable opening that got right down to the meat of the subject.

Later on in the day, there was a half hour news roundup at noon, and 6pm. Ed Murrow’s boys from World War II manned the mics in their total unbiased coverage of the world.

Before YouTube and podcasts, before even the nightly television newscasts, millions of people found out what was happening from CBS News Radio. But later this month, after 99 years, CBS News Radio is going silent.

CBS executives have cited the changes in how people are getting their news increasingly from social media, and the "challenging economic realities."

Steve Kathan, the current (and final) anchor of the "CBS World News Roundup," discovered CBS News Radio in the 1960s, listening on a transistor radio: "And that's where I heard some of the great CBS News broadcasters," he said. "You were hearing something live. It was a live broadcast."

Before YouTube and podcasts, before even the nightly television newscasts, millions of people found out what was happening from CBS News Radio. But later this month, after 99 years, CBS News Radio is going silent.

CBS executives have cited the changes in how people are getting their news increasingly from social media, and the "challenging economic realities."

Steve Kathan, the current (and final) anchor of the "CBS World News Roundup," discovered CBS News Radio in the 1960s, listening on a transistor radio: "And that's where I heard some of the great CBS News broadcasters," he said. "You were hearing something live. It was a live broadcast."

CBS began as a radio network in 1927. But Swagler, who became the network's top radio executive (and now runs Baltimore Public Media), says that it wasn't until the year before World War II that CBS changed how news was reported – with a single broadcast. "It was March 13th, 1938. What was invented that day was the start of broadcast journalism," Swagler said.

Just the day before, Hitler and his army had marched into Austria, swallowing the country whole in what would be known as the Anschluss, or annexation. As Robert Trout reported:

"Right at this moment, Austria is no longer a nation, but is now officially a part of the German empire. The Nazis have taken over the radio, and they are out to control everything."

A then-unknown 29-year-old Edward R. Murrow happened to be in Europe, sent there by CBS chief William S. Paley to recruit voices for the radio. But when Murrow observed just how dangerous Hitler was, he and the executives back home set about broadcasting what was revolutionary for the time: a live news program with remote reports from five European cities – a technical marvel for the time – with Trout anchoring from New York. Murrow himself reported from Vienna, the first time his voice was heard by the public:

As a child growing up in Texas, Dan Rather listened to CBS News Radio. "My father and mother were very interested in what was happening in Germany," he said. "He and my mother viewed radio as the kind of magic carpet [that] would take you there."

And 10-year-old Dan traveled the world on that magic carpet. "I had rheumatic fever as a child," he said. "So, I was confined to bed. And yes, I would stay riveted to the radio because it was my constant companion."

Rather would become the anchor and managing editor of "The CBS Evening News." But he began his career in radio. He was reporting just after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy:

"The mood in Dallas is still one of very deep shock. There are many people in Dallas who sincerely and literally still have a very difficult time believing what happened here today."

Murrow had left CBS just the year before Rather arrived, but the standard he and his colleagues (dubbed "Murrow's Boys") had set remained a benchmark throughout the news division. "All of them could write well," Rather said. "You didn't work for Murrow if you couldn't write well. And this put him in conflict sometimes with the people who ran the network. They didn't think that some of the correspondents had voices for radio. I'd read, say, Charles Kuralt or a Collingwood script, I would say to myself, 'Dan, you've got to make yourself a better writer and you better do it in a hurry or you're not going to be around here.'"

"We covered the whole world" 

Before she joined CBS in 1977, "Sunday Morning" correspondent Martha Teichner was learning from CBS News Radio. "I started out in broadcasting at a country-western radio station called WJEF in Grand Rapids, Michigan," she said. "It was a CBS Radio affiliate. I used CBS Radio to teach me how to be a reporter and a broadcaster."

After hours, Teichner transcribed what she heard – and then read those scripts over the original recordings. "I would read the transcriptions to Eric Sevareid or Walter Cronkite or Douglas Edwards," she said. "And that taught me how they wrote, and it taught me how they breathed in a sentence. Like karaoke, almost. I really was learning from the best."

Those voices were her earliest broadcasting mentors: "Absolutely," she said. "All male. There weren't any women."

Charles Osgood, who died two years ago, joined CBS Radio in 1967. On his daily "Osgood File" broadcasts, Osgood turned news into poetry. Here he is describing what it meant to be a "person of the opposite sex sharing living quarters," a.k.a. POSSLQ, a term created by the U.S. Census Bureau: 

Asked how CBS News Radio should be remembered, Rather replied, "CBS Radio should be remembered for becoming a national institution" – and one that did more than deliver the news. "It, for many, many years, was part — and I would argue not a small part — of what held the country together," he said.\

It's a time to remember Edward R.  Murrow's famous sign-off: "Good night, and good luck." (CBS News, LuLac)