The LuLac Edition #5, 789, October 8th, 2026

LUZERNE COUNTY DEM EVENT 

A huge crowd turned out at Kelsey’s in Kingston for the fall Democratic rally. Candidate running for State Rep were on hand as well as representatioves from the Cognetti campaign in the 8^th and an ib person Appearance by Rachel Wallace who is running against Dan Meuser in the 9^th.

Great speeches came from County Chair Megan Kocher s well as speeches from Van Scoter running in the 118^th, McGurdy in the 119^th, Jim Haddock in the 1210^th and Jessica McClay in the 121rst.
Eddie Day Pashinski gave A great talk as well as 9^th district candidate Rachel Wallace. 

Rachel Wallace the candidate in the 9th gave some information on her opponent MAGA Dan Meuser. Meuser has NEVER had a town meeting in his entire time in office, enriched himself with a stock portfolio that world make Warren Buffet blush and has voted to put 500,000 Pennsylvanians off health care.   Wallace has worked in the White House budget office and has all the stuff to be a good Congress person. 

It was as always great ton see 121st candidate Jessica McClay.  Here she is with me and Armand Cassagrande from the west side. 

Here's Bob Caruso, Johnny Kai me and fellow FB traveler Bill Hooper as the setting sun shines upon is. 

Do you seethese signs? They were put up by a Democratic volunteer who risks life and limb with his wife by doing the hard physical stuff.  Gerry Skelton is THE MAN! And at times transformed into a donkey. 

The tablesere full, the singer was singing, the food was terrific, the planning was flawless and suffice to say these Democrats were going to charge up that electoral  hill! to history. 

 

 

 

BRESNEHAN’S GARAGE BAND

LIAR SCALISE-

PIPSQUEAK JOHNSON

 

Rob Bresnehan recently hosted in two separate segregated events Steve Scalse and Mike Johnson. Both are the top two leaders of the Republican Congress that has done a job on the American middle class.

This Congress has taken away the following:

Realize that Trump’s largesse for the wealthy was made possible by killing health insurance for 12 million children and adults and cutting more than $3 million from food aid for low-income families, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

Middle-class families expected Republicans to fight for them instead of for the super-wealthy. However Trump, Johnson, Scalise, and Bresnehan are reverse Robin Hoods. Some Republicans in Congress recognized the problem, but they failed in their efforts to change the minds of the bootlicking twins of Scalise and Johnson. 

In the end, “everyday Americans” – the hard-working middle class that Trump claims to be fighting for  are losing money.

Johnson talked nonsense, calling the Democrats “crazy” and babbled something about a unicameral legislature. Again this mean little man deflected the fact that his Congress did nothing for the middle class. He then said that if Democrats were elected, Marxists and Communists would take over the Congress.

WHAT?

This scumbag even said that Paige Cognetti wanted to eliminate the Senate. Look, if this were an open forum, and not an invite only meeting, not hidden in a garage, Johnson would be laughed off the stage.

PEOPLE IN THE 8^th and 9^th DISTRICT

THEY ARE HIDING FROM YOU!

Look at this itinerary

This visit to Hazleton followed a private excursion into Luzerne County on Friday by House Republican Leader Steve Scalise.

Scalise, who campaigned twice here for Bresnahan two years ago, quietly visited a Plains Twp. gun shop in Luzerne County, according to Bresnahan’s social media.

Johnson previously visited Moosic in Lackawanna County on April 10 for a private fundraiser. He returned Aug. 19 for a fundraiser and news conference in Wilkes-Barre.

All the visits demonstrate Republicans’ concern about protecting Bresnahan, a piece of their slender House majority

Meanwhile WVIA reports that  Cognetti has said she does not favor defunding police and raised police spending as mayor and raised taxes only modestly to keep Scranton from returning to financial distress, a status she ended.

Federal and state statistics mostly show crime on the decline in Scranton, though homicides and other violent crimes have occasionally spiked during her tenure.

In a statement, Cognetti accused Johnson of running "a pro-war, anti-union, anti-AI regulation Congress that has costs soaring, endangered our service members, and gutted our health care system."

"Rob Bresnahan’s allegiance to Johnson shows us, again, that he's perfectly fine with the policies coming out of Washington that are hurting our community," Cognetti said.

"Folks in our region and throughout the nation are begging for reform. We know that billionaires and big corporations are running the show, and Johnson and Bresnahan are their willing partners," she said. "We deserve better."

TRUMP’S INCREASINGLY ALARMING BEHAVIOR WILL PROVE ‘FAKE’ POLLS ARE ON THE MONEY

DONALD TRUMP IS TRYING TO MAINTAIN HIS APPROVAL BUBBLE WITH RIGHT-LEANING POLLING SHOPS. HIS REPUBLICAN ALLIES AREN’T HAVING IT

Donald Trump remains in denial when it comes to his epic polling collapse.

In surveys from both independent and Democratic-aligned outlets, the president’s party is in trouble weeks out from Election Day. In multiple polls taken since mid-September, Trump’s personal approval rating hovers anywhere from 34 percent to 42 percent, an alarmingly low number for his allies were he at the top of the ballot and a serious problem for Republicans who don’t have the president’s name driving voters this year, as the president has frequently noted.

But Trump himself isn’t looking at those numbers, or at least he claims not to be.

In a post on Truth Social on Sunday, he complained that polls “have ALWAYS underestimated MAGA” and pointed to his approval rating in the Trumpworld pollster McLaughlin & Associates as evidence that Republicans could still pull off a midterm win.

“You won the election in 2024 with 49.8 percent of the popular vote and the latest McLaughlin Poll, taken this month, has your job approval at 49% — the exact same as your vote share. No other political figure has ever had this level of consistency in his ratings. Through the Iran War and gas price rises and falls, your job approval is the same. It never changes. And 49% is enough to win,” Trump posted, quoting political strategist Dick Morris.

In short, the president’s hope for victory in the midterms is tied to two shaky assumptions: The first being that Trump loyalist voters will turn out for Republicans in 2026 like they turned out for him in presidential election years; and second, that his numbers are accurate in a poll which differs from the RealClearPolitics polling average by 10 percentage points.

And on some level, the reality of the situation is breaking through to Trump. Even as he remains fixated on polls showing him an alternative picture, the White House is beset by Republicans on all sides who are openly fretting that the party is heading for disaster. The president’s remarks last week in Oklahoma proves as much. In Alaska, the same NYT/Siena survey put Mary Peltola up 7 points over the incumbent, Dan Sullivan, who despite what Trump says cannot attribute all of his polling problems to the other Dan Sullivan whom Democrats recruited to run on the ballot to confuse voters. If those two seats flip, alongside seats in Ohio and North Carolina that have looked dire for Republicans for months, the Democrats won’t have to pin all of their hopes on Maine, where Susan Collins still clings to a competitive base of support like a rock barnacle.

Let’s hope the at Maiune voters are smarter than buying Collins’ bullshit again. Also bringing up the specter of

 

TRUMP SAYS

RALLIES WILL

CARRY THE DAY

 

With less than a month until voters determine whether his party will retain control of the House, Senate and governorships in nearly every state, President Donald Trump appears increasingly detached from reality amid a political landscape that is growing increasingly perilous for him and his allies.

Trump is embarking on what aides are calling an all-out blitz of campaign rally appearances in support of Republican candidates in states across the country, even in places where Republicans would normally be heavily favored.

In the last week alone, he has visited Oklahoma, Alabama, Ohio, Texas and Nebraska to stump for Republicans in races that just a year ago were considered safe for the party’s chosen candidates. He says he plans to visit key battleground states including Maine and Michigan, where the GOP is hoping to retain one long-held Senate seat and flip another that has been held by a Democrat for decades.

The rallies follow the same familiar pattern he’s followed for years. He attacks whatever Democrats get the biggest reaction from crowds, vacillates between topics to the point where his remarks border on the nonsensical, and he ends every appearance by awkwardly dancing to the Village People’s well-known gay anthem, “YMCA.”

And at each, he exhorts those in attendance to “pretend” he is on the ballot next month, even though his name will never appear on one again.

 

PAIGE COGNETTI ‘S

CAREER DEBUNKED

IN ADS

It is rich that the Republicans are saying Paige Cognetti’s campaign is based on government service at the taxpayer’s expense.  First off, this is sexist. If this were a guy running, this shit would not have been brought up. They’re coming after her for being a government official. The GOP LIE MACHINE  is in full press saying she wants to give health care to the immigrants and she hates the police and wants them defunded.

THINK ABOUT IT!!!!

How the hell did she get elected as Mayor TWICE and dissing the police?

This is full on bullshit and LIES from a Republican machine that HATES women. Am I overreacting?

All the Trump Cabinet members who quit or were fired were women.

To question Cognetti’s  resume as advancing her career would never happen to a man.

Finally, every single GOP Congressman who voted to release the Epstein files should have the balls to tell the pig President to release them.

But they won’t.

Rob Bresnehan was on TV bitching about the big piece of baloney in Paige’s ad. At least Baloney smells good….the GOP LIE MACHINE with all of its lies, sarcasm and sexism doesn’t pass the smell test.

 

SHAPIRO ADMINISTRATION REMINDS PENNSYLVANIANS OF BENEFITS OF UPDATED COVID-19, FLU VACCINES AS RESPIRATORY VIRUS SEASON BEGINS

Pa. Secretary of Health Debra Bogen and Secretary of Human Services Dr. Val Arkoosh visits Hilltop Pharmacy in Pittsburgh to showcase the wide availability of the updated COVID-19 vaccine as respiratory viru

To showcase the wide availability and importance of receiving updated vaccines for COVID-19 and flu as respiratory virus season begins, Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Debra Bogen and Secretary of Human Services Dr. Val Arkoosh visited Hilltop Pharmacy in Pittsburgh today.

During the event, Secretaries Bogen and Arkoosh each received a COVID-19 vaccine.

“Vaccinations remain an essential way to protect ourselves and our neighbors. As we approach respiratory virus season, Pennsylvanians can boost their body’s defenses by getting their age-appropriate COVID-19, flu, and RSV vaccinations,” said Dr. Bogen. “With COVID-19 vaccines now available for everyone six months and older, keeping your immunizations current is the best way to shield yourself and your community from severe respiratory illness this winter. I look forward to getting my updated flu vaccination in a couple of weeks.”

 

 

MEDIA MATTERS

IT WAS ALYSON TIME 

28-22 News Alyson Price did the 4, 6, 7 and 11PM newscasts on the 8th. So when someone goes above and beyond, will we call it doing an APP?  

WVIA FM  

WALN

BOLD GOLD COMMUNITY FORUM

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.

 

THE LAURIE CADDEN SHOW

Tune in every Saturday morning at 9am for The Laurie Cadden Show on WILK FM 103.1 and AM 980 and 910. Laurie’s program has been a northeastern Pennsylvania mainstay every Saturday. Tune in to hear her insights and take on local issues as well as entertaining and informative interviews.

 

BOBBY V’S DOO WOP SUNDAY NIGHT SOCK HOP

 

BEATLE EDD’S FAB FOUR MUSIC HOUR

Tune in every week to the Home of Rock and Roll for a jam packed, unpredictable hour starting at 9am Sundays. Host Edd Raineri gives you facts and great music from the immortal Fab Four on ROCK 107.

 

THE LULAC TIME MACHINE

October 1966

WORLD SERIES

ORIOLES VS DODGERS

 

The 1966 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1966 season. The 63rd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles and National League (NL) champion (and defending World Series champion) Los Angeles Dodgers. The Orioles swept the series in four games to capture their first championship in franchise history. It was the last World Series played before MLB introduced the Commissioner's Trophy the following year. The Dodgers suffered record low scoring, accumulating just two runs over the course of the series (both of which were in the first game), the lowest number of runs ever scored by any team in a World Series.’

The 1966 series featured exceptionally low numbers of runs for all concerned, separately and jointly, and also set multiple records for other metrics related to low scoring.

The series-losing Dodgers scored just 2 runs the entire series, the lowest number of runs ever scored by one team in a World Series, a record unique to 1966. The Orioles were far from productive themselves; scoring only 13 runs, they joined with the Dodgers to log the lowest combined number of runs, 15, ever scored by both teams in a World Series, another record unique to 1966.

As for series-winning teams, just four other teams have managed to win a World Series while scoring fewer runs  than the 1966 Orioles: The 1915 Boston Red Sox and 1963 Los Angeles Dodgers (12 runs each), the 1950 New York Yankees (11 runs), and the unique record holder for fewest runs scored in a World Series by the series winner, the 1918 Boston Red Sox (9 runs).

Contributing to the series' low run count, Games 3 and 4 were both 1–0 games. The only other World Series to contain multiple 1–0 games was 1949.

The Orioles shut the Dodgers out for a World Series record 33 consecutive innings – from the fourth inning of Game 1 to the end of the series (Game 4).

Baltimore's pitching staff only allowed two earned runs and finished with a team ERA of 0.50, allowing a 4-game series low 17 hits and limiting the Dodgers to a team batting average of .142, the lowest team average in a series of any length. This topped the World Series team ERA mark of 1.00 set by the 1963 Dodgers in their 4-game sweep of the Yankees, and is second only to the unbreakable record team ERA of 0.00 set in 1905 by the New York Giants.

The Orioles produced only 10 earned runs, including only 2 over the final 2 games. Their team batting average for the series was .200. Both teams combined to hit only .171, lowest in World Series history, and both teams combined for only 41 hits, lowest ever for a 4-game series.

The Orioles scored more runs (3) in the first inning of Game 1 than the Dodgers did the whole series (2).

''

This was the last hurrah for the Dodgers of this era. In an eight-year span from 1959 to 1966, they played in four World Series, winning three of them. In addition, they finished second twice (once losing in a playoff) and fourth once. Sandy Koufax, though arguably at the peak of his career, announced his retirement following the World Series because of the chronic arthritis and bursitis in his pitching elbow. In addition, shortstop and 1962 Most Valuable Player Maury Wills was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates in December. Tommy Davis, the 1962 and 1963 NL batting champion, still not fully recovered from a severely broken ankle suffered in 1965, was traded to the New York Mets after the 1966 season. Finally, third baseman/utility man Jim Gilliam announced his retirement. The Dodgers still had decent pitching, but their offense was among the worst in the majors. They finished in eighth place in 1967 and in seventh in 1968, before a new group of young players led the team back into contention in 1969. The Dodgers would return to the World Series in 1974, but lost in five games to the Oakland Athletics, becoming the last victim of an Athletics three-peat from 1972 to 1974. They also returned to the Fall Classic in 1977 and 1978, but lost both to their archrival in the New York Yankees in six games. They would eventually win their next championship in 1981 over the Yankees in six games.

Meanwhile, Baltimore became the dominant American League team in the late 1960s and most of the 1970s, making the postseason in 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, and 1979. Injuries slowed the team down in 1967, and they finished second to the eventual World Series champion in the 103-win Detroit Tigers in 1968. They would reach the World Series three straight times afterward. Their first was in 1969, where they were shockingly upset by the New York Mets in five games. Then, they returned the following year, and defeated the Cincinnati Reds in five games for their second championship. After that, they returned in 1971, but blew a two-games-to-none series lead and lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates in seven games.

Orioles' second baseman Davey Johnson later briefly managed the Dodgers from ’99 to 2000.

The Dodgers would not successfully defend their championship from a previous until 2025 when they defeated the Blue Jays  in seven games after being two outs away from elimination in Game 7. Coincidentally, the Dodgers posted the worst batting average for a champion since the 1966 Orioles team that denied their quest of back-to-back championships 59 years earlier.

NBC broadcast the series on both television and radio. In prior years, the local announcers for both the home and away teams had split calling the play-by-play for the telecast of each World Series game; however, beginning this year and continuing through 1976, only the home-team announcer would do TV for each game, splitting play-by-play and color commentary with a neutral NBC announcer, while the visiting-team announcer would help call the radio broadcast. Thus, in 1966 NBC's Curt Gowdy (completing his first season as the network's lead baseball voice) worked the telecasts with the Dodgers' Vin Scully for the games in Los Angeles and with the Orioles' Chuck Thompson for the games in Baltimore.  Bob Prince, in turn, worked the radio broadcasts with Thompson (in Los Angeles) and Scully (in Baltimore). The Nielsen ratings were as follows: Game 1 (23.3), Game 2 (22.8), Game 3 (23.1), and Game 4 (33.4), and this week in 1966 the number one song in LuLac land and America was the classic “Cherish” by The Association.