FLYNN AND LAKE DEBATE IN SENATORIAL 22nd
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 117th. 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)
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