The LuLac Edition #5, 596, March 10th, 2026
JANUARY 6 COMMEMORATIVE
PLAQUE APPEARS IN CAPITOL
AFTER YEARS OF DELAY
Speaker Mike Johnson is to blame for the delay in placement of a plaque recognizing the storming of the Capitol on January 6th. plaque honoring the heroism of police officers during the January 6, 2021, attack by a mob supportive of President Donald Trump has quietly been installed at the US Capitol after years of delay.
The installation of the plaque early Saturday morning, which was first reported by The Washington Post, did not feature a formal ceremony or remarks. It came years after it was required by federal law to be installed by 2023.
Since Trump’s return to office, the president and his Republican allies have either ignored the January 6 riot or recast the day’s events and diminished the level of violence that occurred. In one of the first acts of his second term, Trump pardoned over 1,000 rioters who were charged in connection to the attack. t year, two police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 sued the Architect of the Capitol to have a memorial be installed.
In the lawsuit, Harry Dunn, formerly of the US Capitol Police, and DC Metropolitan Police officer Daniel Hodges slammed Trump’s allies in Congress and beyond for attempting to recast the events of January 6 and accused them of “rewriting” history.
According to their lawsuit, the law directs that the plaque be placed “on the western front” of the Capitol.
The plaque has been placed at the end of a hallway, just inside an entrance on the West Front of the Capitol, which is not open to the public. (MS, LuLac)
CONFUSION IN
THE 120th
Two weeks back there was a report on the West Side (the 120th district) that 30 Two weeks back there was a report on the West Side (the 120th district) that 30 voters were told that two candidates running for State Representative were in two different districts. The 30 or some voters that signed the petitions were not your average voters. Some were savvy enough to see that there was something amiss here.
We are told that complaints were filed with the state party and a resolution with the voters was taken care of. The two candidates running, Fern Leard and Johanna Bryh Smith are running in the same district to face off against incumbent Rachel Pugh.
Here’s the issue. Things get heated in a campaign. But you can’t mess with petitions. It reminds me of a scene from one of my favorite movies of all time starring Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson and Dallas Pa. native Lee Tracy.
Tracy played an ex President, Robertson played the part of an ambitious U.S. Senator, In one scene Hochsteader, the ex President says to Robertson the Senator, President Art Hockstader: Y'know, it's not that I object to your being a bastard, don't get me wrong there. It's your being such a stupid bastard that I object to.”
Be competitive all you want in a campaign, but don’t be stupid.
WHO ARE THE “REAL” DEMOCRATS?
There seems to be a lot of discussion going around as to who are the real Democrats. People seem to be treating this as something new for the Democrats. It’s not. There have ben factions and splits in the party as long as I’ve been alive.
Currently this splinter began last year when the Dem Executive Committee, emboldened by a near sweep of the county Council races decided to dispatch then Chair Tom Shubilla from his position months before his term ran out. Then the Executive committee led by new Council members decided to sanction Fern Laird for breaking a party rule by having her picture taken with a Republican law enforcement officer. Both were doing community work.
HOLY SHIT! A law enforcement resident in a district where you need all voters of any stripe.
Well these guys picked on the wrong person. Little did the know that Fern Leard had a loyal infrastructure. A built in loyalty that began disenchanted with the high handed dispatch of Shubilla and the “trial” of Leard. So they formed their own group. That group the independent Democratic Coalition of NEPA has been holding very successful petition signings. The traditional team held two events. Other candidates had their own.
Two things happened.
1. Petitions got signed at multiple events despite the philosophical differences.
2. Everybody who signed them were real Democrats.
There’s an element in the Democratic party that thinks history began on the day they first voted. The Democrats won elections even if the party was split. The old timers knew that in the General if a skunk was a Dem, you held your nose and voted him in. The GOP MAGAs taught that lesson well but for the wrong agendas.
Here’s what all Dems need to know. The county registration:
The latest figures:
REPUBLICANS 91, 936
DEMOCRATS 84,038
7898 Rs ahead of Ds.
INDEPENDENTS 30, 634
Dems…………..you’re behind in registration. You didn’t win county council because you were swell people. IT WASN’T ABOUT YOU!
The way I look at it, you have 38 352 people to convince in the general. You need EVERY Democrat on deck to persuade enough to truly send a message. You can’t afford to throw a person out for a picture with a Republican or some outside organizer manning your ship.
The papers are pretty much signed. Now we’re on to the primary. They will be disagreements but there should be one rule. THERE ARE REAL DEMOCRATS EVERYWHERE…and to suggest otherwise is a foolish and selfish thing.
EDITOR’S NOTE: I have contributed money to both factions this spring. Why? They’re ALL DEMOCRATS, real, not imagined in a pique of ego.
GRAHAM STILL
A LAP DOG
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